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The Asbestos Situation

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

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 Reich (1992) suggests that old concepts such as national product are no longer valid...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...

Career Development and Family Changes

28 percent in 1999 but that number has also jumped to more than one-third of children today (Blundo, 1999). * Women married younge...

Making Positive HR Moves

known for their six-day work weeks, they have found that by cutting back hours they are saving a significant amount of money. Mit...

Contemporary Workplace Implications of Occupational Health and Safety Training

to worker perception of workplace safety. It can be contended, therefore, that employees will either refuse to work in an environ...

Negotiation Principles

order to establish this basis of communication within the workplace as it relates to change, employers have to abandon their super...

Workplace and Abuses of the Internet

so new, companies are still coming to grips between the need to monitor employee use of the Internet and interfering with employee...

Harassment in the Workplace and Legal Issues

with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits harassment of employees based on their disabilities. The EEOC enforced these acts in additio...

Business Culture and Economy of Germany

This has not been helped with a switch to the euro, as the "euro-zone" nations have caps imposed on their budget deficits in order...

Case Study on Workplace Motivation

This is true for Anne. Here we may also argue that she has climbed up the hierarchy of needs as outlined by Maslow, but in staying...

Workplace Absenteeism Management

absenteeism, the need for management and control and will make recommendations as to how a company can save itself from the costly...

Technology's Impact on the Workplace

systems and other such devices. Enter any office and the visitor is most likely to see a computer on every desk. Technology is use...

Workplace System Design and the Value of Individual Actions and Motivation

action, and how does it apply to system design? To understand the theories which can be seen as leading to participative de...

Stress Related to Work

subconscious finds either threatening or challenging (Varhol, 2000). The bodys reaction to stress is a protective mechanism that...

Hospital Workplace, Communication, and Nursing

In seven pages this report examines the importance of workplace communication between nurses in a hospital environment. Six sourc...

Motivation and Workforce Diversity Management

If there is no fit among activities, there is no distinctive strategy and little sustainability. Management reverts to the simple...

Workplace Performance and Motivational Factors

work-related behavior, as well as its form, intensity and duration (Ambrose et al, 1999). This definition takes into account envir...

Safety and Health

also places emphasis on the role of ongoing training and self improvement. Even if we look at commercial models for the way an org...

Workplace and Discrimination

would not be employed in the inner city schools systems because he was white. Or perhaps a male African American male may not be p...

Chicago Workplaces and Emergency Evacuations

building owners/managers in Chicago are no exception. However, there is uncertainty as to how such plans would work under crisis s...