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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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Psychology And The Workplace

the shop as the tailor himself whose entire life has been vested into it; while the kids know their food, clothing and home are th...

Workplace Conflict And Personality

vulnerable to myriad personality conflicts when such an eclectic collection of people work so differently toward the same objectiv...

Islam in America's Workplace

(Lampman, 2001). Fourth is the Ramadan month-long period of fasting, which recreates the first communications between God and Muh...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Purpose of the Occupational Safety and Health Act

for example, in order for work to cease on the construction site until the problem is fixed. Clearly, it behooves the foreman to ...

Research Proposal on the Deterrent of Capital Punishment

example, a parent might threaten to spank a child and the fear of the spanking would have a deterrent effect. Thus, the child woul...

Workplace Leadership Theory

see increase their productivity and value adding contributions. The leader has to understand expectancy theory in terms of leaders...

Issues of Privacy, Workers, and the Internet

monitored if they arent doing their jobs properly, or are using Internet resources for things other than work-related tasks. Downl...

Student Supplied Case Study on Sexual Harassment

about what had happened and again refused saying she just wanted to go home. It was subsequently discovered there was a prior com...

Handling Stress and Ted Pollock's 'Mind Your Own Business'

solution to time pressures, but much of this is because the article is written in an upbeat style, flows well for rapid absorption...

Chage Management and Diversity

choice (where it can be ignored) to an obligation (which means the issue cant be ignored (HR Focus, 1993). The main reason why div...

United Kingdom Workforce Diversity Management

own racial, cultural, generational and socioeconomic circles. How to manage these factors has become a topic of management courses...

B.F. Skinner and Operant Conditioning

maintain productivity amidst the prison setting, supervisors must also maintain a strict adherence to control and authority so tha...

UK Gender Discrimination

same thing (HRM Guide Network, 2002). Nonetheless, because the gap increased by 3 percent from the previous year, it does illustra...

Marxist Perspective on Workplace Conflict

middle class can now drive BMWs through inexpensive leasing options, but the divide is still there. The middle class and lower cla...

Boeing Company and Theories of Ethics

2004). John Stuart Mills, in his book Utilitarianism, further stated that not all forms of pleasure were of equal value (Free-Defi...

Business Communications and the Importance of Writing

for creation of the perfect document 2) Good writing is the project of rewriting 3) Bad writing leads to hostility and confu...

Affinity Orientation Discrimination Issues

the business should listen to the majoritys complaints and seek to find a solution on which everyone can agree. If such agreement...