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Historical Perspective on Women's Workplace Fashion

the social elite where the yuppies of the 1980s went quite the opposite way, showing off their designer suits. Steindorf suggests ...

Corporate Expatriates and Effective Use

Molen, 2003). Further, the authors report there is a dearth of empirical evidence that address expatriate effectiveness Mol, Born ...

Reviews of Articles on Training in the Workplace

with that problem or challenge being solved by either an individual, a team within the organization, or the organization as a whol...

Effective Business Communication and its Importance

In six pages this paper examines the business importance of effective workplace communication between management and employees to ...

Workplace and Dress Codes

that "allows employers to adopt dress codes prohibiting cross-dressing in the workplace" (Anonymous, 1998, p. 23A) unless an indiv...

Drug Testing and Small Business

In nine pages this paper considers small business drug testing program strategies designed to curtail the amount of workplace drug...

Whistle Blowing in the Workplace

In ten pages this paper examines workplace whistle blowing in which there are few winners and many losers with Koch Industries and...

Violence Prevention in the Workplace

ex-employees who killed their boss doubled (pp. 43) Information from the National Safe Workplace Institute states that: "... viole...

1978's Pregnancy Discrimination Act

the duties as anyone else; to turn a woman down based upon her current maternity condition is to go against the very grain of the ...

Canadian Hospital Nursing Setting and Conflict Resolution

using this paper properly! I. INTRODUCTION Janet (an RN) and Carol (her manager) had been working together in the same Can...

Technological Change and Diversity Q and A

with various religions and to some extent, one might say that it has affected normative behavior, values and attitudes within the ...

American Corporate Sphere and Sexual Harassment

which base an employment benefit upon an exchange of sexual favors" (Mallery, 1997, p. 7). There are two distinct types of sexual...

Workplace and Opportunities for Women as Opposed to Men

court case to struggle for the freedom of all people who were otherwise discriminated against, it does stand as one of the most in...

Workplace and Humor

Humor can be used in the workplace as a management tool but it must be used judiciously (Farrell, 1998; Yarwood, 1995). It must be...

Arguing in Favor of Unionizing and Legalizing Prostitution

and there is a large underground market for it. The sex industry continues to flourish despite the laws against prostitution. ...

Handling a Workplace Ethical Quandary

son, and the thing that irritated her the most was that Kilders knew it. He had her right where he wanted her. Surely, she could g...

Laborer Impacts of Changes to the Economy

and early 20th centuries that workers began believing that they, too, had rights. Throughout the prosperous 20s and into the Depre...

Handling Disputes in the Workplace

In seven pages handling conflict generated by either an acquisition or merger is examined by discussing collectivism, change resis...

Multicultural Communication; Potential Difficulties

effective it needs to be understood by the people whom the ideas are being communicated to. There is a communication failure when ...

Comparing National Workplace Cultures of the U.S. and Japan

national culture then we can use examples which the student can expand upon. Hofstede identified five continuums which he used to ...

The Asbestos Situation

exposure is associated with a number of serious medical problems, including pleural changes (plaques, thickening and effusion) and...

Equality and Cultural Change

of this period; the 1980s concern with corporate culture as a controlling and enabling mechanism; the subsequent fashion for outso...

Productivity and the Advantages of Breaks for Employees

In five pages this paper examines how productivity in the workplace is improved through employee breaks in a discussion of motivat...

Texts on the Contemporary International Global Workplace

the important matter of the global workplace. Reich (1992) suggests that old concepts such as national product are no longer valid...

Public Sector and Challenges of Human Resources

that mandate all adults work. The old paradigm where there is a stay at home mom is no longer relevant. By and large, workers must...

Workplace Age Discrimination

protection are those who are "bona fide executives or in high policymaking positions and are at least 65 years of age, have held t...

Employee Compensation and Benefit Program Importance

programs, employee assistance programs and more are all important for the 21st century organization that truly understands and val...

Trade Unions from an Employer's Perspective

between the unions and the employers it has been argued was merely a symptom of the society in which the unions operated (Kessler-...

Workplace Creative Thinking Development

free thinking environment where former constraints do not influence workplace behaviour, which is often the case ( Handy, 1993). ...

Employee Empowerment and Workplace Motivation

another does not find motivating at all (Accel team, 2000). That is a fact of human nature. Since the 1940s, numerous theories re...