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Implementing High Involvement Work Practices

Using two example case studies the writer looks at the way in which high involvement workplace practices may be implemented in ord...

SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE WORKPLACE

government of Ontario banned its employees from access to Facebook (Minken, 2007). Why? Two reasons: Derogatory comments about the...

MANAGING ABSENCES

hear when they pick up the phone or pull messages off their voice mail are the words "boss, Im not able to come in today because ....

Individual, Organizational and Technological Influences on the Adoption Rate of Technology in the Workplace

type and a personal cost benefit assessment. In all the categories many of the influences may be complex, often there are ...

TEAMWORK AND ITS BENEFITS

are teams used in the workplace? How are teams used in education, athletics, or the arts? What are the advantages to teamwork? Pro...

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...

The Asbestos Situation

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

UK Issues Regarding Human Resource Management

The UKs minimum wage has long existed between those who clung to the traditional economic theory as a means by which to avoid havi...

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). ...

Reasons for Preemployment Testing in the Workplace

success in the marketplace. One employer put it this way: "Even if the candidate has all the skills and is uniquely compatible wit...

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 ...

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...

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...

OSHA Approved Fire Safety Program in the Workplace

have at least two ways in which people can escape a fire. That means there must be two doors that are explicitly used for the purp...

Workers, Workplace, and the Effects of Computer Technology

1980s computers were seen as the way of the future, however, they were not yet making an impact. The BBC Acorn computer, followed ...

Crisis Communication in the Workplace

either recanted their story or the FDA found it to be a hoax. This is now a classic case of excellent business communication with...

Professional and Nonprofessional Motivating Factors

of an intended outcome (Isaac, Zerbe and Pitt, 2001). In layman terms, if an individual wanted or expected to become a physician t...

Nurses and Stress

have more opportunity to encounter difficulties involved in nursing the critically ill. "How frequently a given stressor occurs d...

United Kingdom's Ethnic Minorities and Management

concerns, we find that the unemployment rates for 1984-1995 indicate that in 1995 8% of whites were unemployed, 19% of non-whites...

Workplace Politics and Power

was little he could have done to avert the situation, short of signing his name to the report knowing that the equipment was fault...

Workplace Cultural Diversity Development

there still exists a strong sense of racial dissension. There is virtually no segment of society that is not affected by racial s...

Home, Workplace, and the Psychological Effects of Color

research difficult but within species research possible. In addition, it has been studied that the perception of color within a sp...

Workplace Violence Minimizing

scene is a fictitious one but not many would think so. The scene has been played out all too often in the last few years as workp...