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Office Settings: Groups vs. Teams

by placing individuals with similar interests or traits together (David, 2009). For example, a room full of accountants is simply ...

Progressive Discipline

it is something every manager will face. There are many infractions that would lead to some sort of disciplinary action, even an o...

Employers Right of Surveillance over Employees

has been found to incorporate communication that may not yet have been opened or received, or those that have been deleted. The ...

WORKPLACE DIVERSITY AND JOB SATISFACTION

comes to mind is "affirmative action." Along with affirmative action comes visions of quotas and dubious hiring practices to meet ...

COSTS OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN THE WORKPLACE

the job tested positive for either alcohol or drugs. Small businesses suffer the most - another statistic from the Substanc...

GROUPS, TEAMS AND DIVERSITY

Discusses the difference between groups and teams, and points out the impact on workplace diversity on team dynamics. There are 4 ...

Women in the Workforce Pregnancy and Wage Discrimination

a consequence, one court case after another was being tried. The outcome of these cases resulted in a continuing evolution in the...

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 ...

The Ethics of Drug Testing

about the validity of such tests, and some go further to claim that constitutional rights are denied. But employers and parents of...

Employee Absenteeism as a Form of Negative Behavior

For example, if we look at the UK as an example. If we look at the figures produced by the CBI we see there is an upward trend in ...

Bullying in the Workplace

Vadim Ponorovsky. He is the owner of Paradous, a French bistro located in Manhattan (Zeldner, 2010). Ponorovsky sent an email to h...

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...

OBESITY PROGRAMS: ANALYSIS AND MEASUREMENT

by 5% each week. Longer-term goals focus on reductions in absenteeism and illness which, in turn, will lead to a reduction in insu...

Management of Workplace Stressors

attributable to stress as well (Ball, 2004). In short, it is critical for organizations to adopt a careful approach to stress ma...

Principles for Ensuring Health and Safety in a Working Environment

with different elements; together they give a good overview. The first principle is that all workers have rights, this principle...

Workplace Injuries and Daylight Savings Time

of variables. Drawing on information on mining industry accidents and injuries from the National Institute for Occupational Safety...

Access and Workplaces Experiences of Ethnic Minorities in the UK

The writer looks at the workplace experiences found in different ethnic minorities in the UK. The levels of employment are compare...

The Problems of Low Motivations Level in Employees

increased level of dissatisfaction and low morale in employees, possibly related to personal as well as work situations. In 2011...

Suggestions for Optimizing Workplace Supervision

The workplace presents several concerns as to how to best...

Reflective Learning Document - Ethics

important that al continuers are taken due to the space constrained, and by the end of two weeks there is not more room left to st...

Workplace Pornography

On occasions that Robinson objected to the practice of posting pornographic images, she was met with the argument that the men had...

Investigating a Counseling Issue: Workplace Bullying

through the action of a single bully or a group of individuals, most often directed by the actions of perspectives of a leader. "...

New Business Concept - Mobile Brake System Servicing

may also be serviced as the majority of cars and entrance barriers into the car segment, for both commercial and for domestic car ...

Violence at Work: A Problem for Nurses

In a paper of six pages, the author writes about research on the problem of workplace violence against nurses. The studies used i...

Issues in HRM - The Work Life Balance and Issues of Fairness

employers are obliged to comply for all of their employees and protect employees rights; reducing pressure from employers for empl...

Employer and Employee Ethics

vary depending on the individual and the circumstances, meaning that it can be a very subjective judgement. In examining o...