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Designing a Research Framework

Cohen- Hoberman Inventory of Physical Symptoms (CHIPS) (Cohen and Hoberman 1983), this is a scale where there are the symptoms of ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Impact Of Intervention Techniques Used In Preventing Workplace Injuries And Illnesses

and disregard on the part of the employer. That Luther feared the same fatal outcome as Joe suffered is reason enough to understa...

Cameras and Surveillance in the Workplace

the restrooms and the monitoring of electronic communications. Many employers, however, believe that they are fully justified in...

Organizational Changes; Analysis and Implementation

change is when they are both used in conjunction with each other. Theory E takes the hard approach; this is the task orientated ...

Bonne, Bridges, Mueller, O'Keefe & Nichols (SWOT Analysis)

Nichols," 2008). This is a decided advantage for the corporate culture and camaraderie. * This firm contains the largest group of ...

Health Promotion in the Workplace

newspapers, such as the Chicago Tribune, announced that it would apply a "monthly surcharge of $100 to family premiums" in cases w...

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 ...

Drug Testing in the Workplace

coming up "dirty" that the cost of the process is not effective (Holding, 2006). However, one must clearly stop and consider, wi...

Teamwork, Stress and Organizational Behavior

in terms of goals and objectives (Weiss 1998). To clarify what is meant by "teams," Jon R. Katzenback and Douglas K. Smith offer t...

The Americans with Disabilities Act and the Workplace

that if employers fail to make accommodations, that litigation can occur. In 2004, Armour argues, the Equal Employment Opportunit...

Health Promotion in the Workplace

(2008) reports about stress and the military and how counseling can help. Nussbaum (2007) points out that counseling is appropriat...

The Gendered Workplace and Workforce

has been filled. Kimmel (n.d.) states that today "or a colleague of the other sex who does the same job, for the same...

The Family Friendly Workplace

and other personal items; its also likely to have an empty parking lot after hours, indicating that the employees are at home with...

Dealing with Change/Miami Valley Hospital

patient care (Hassmiller and Cozine, 2006). Some strategies proposed by RWJF for helping to decrease the tremendous workload on nu...

Identifying and Managing Workplace Conflicts

the impetus for a report on the cost-effectiveness of computerized systems that in turn are used as the basis for a change initiat...

Schultz's FIRO-B Theory And Leadership: Trait Theory - Work Environment

and how he or she is perceived by others" (Muller, 2005) that inevitably allows managers and staff alike to align perceived impres...

Addressing Job Dissatisfaction and Turnover

Becker (1967) defended the use of the concept of human capital, a concept easily applied to the modernizing and industrializing co...

Organizational Communication

decisions, and their formal authority for doing so stems from the offices they hold. At the same time, informal approaches can als...

Metamorphosis

the company machine, and he is equally impotent in terms of his position in the family. He bears the full burden of supporting the...