This particular employee is left with less time to perform his professional tasks. This translates into a delay in the project delivery schedule. Additionally, the project delays could generate major customer dissatisfactions, or the breakage of con Continue Reading...
In most cases, threats arising from employee conduct can be effectively mitigated by explicit policies and procedures implemented by the organization. In that regard, ethical training of all employees is essential, especially with respect to sexual Continue Reading...
One has to wonder whatever happened to the notion that the customer is always right, a rallying cry of most businesses in the increasingly competitive economy, but a concept these outplacement firms appear to have the luxury of ignorning. Further, o Continue Reading...
Many of today's workers are experiencing great difficulty trying to juggle both work and family responsibilities. Because so many employees are single parents or members of dual-income families, often there is no one available at home during workin Continue Reading...
Critique: Opperman's article did a good job of introducing the topic of workplace violence. It helped defuse the myth that some workplaces are immune from workplace violence. In addition, by alluding to the term "going postal" and describing the i Continue Reading...
Only 2.1% of minimum-wage workers belong to a union, versus 12.0% of the overall working population. Nonetheless, labor unions fight passionately for a higher minimum wage (Sherk). When the minimum wage rises, it becomes more expensive to hire unsk Continue Reading...
Soliciting more suggestions about how to improve the company from employees will make workers feel as if the company has a personal investment in their output, and that they can make a valuable commitment to the overall mission of the company. Havin Continue Reading...
57, why are metrics, i.e. The choice of what to measure, fair simply because one meets or exceeds a goal? ) The sales people seem to repeatedly confuse "metrics" with "goals" (i.e. "targets"). What do you infer from this? Is there anything you need Continue Reading...
The Harvard model argues that unions provide an excellent means for getting workers' valuable opinions aired and for "shocking" management into adopting better practices (Turnbull 1991). (Flanagan & Deshpande, 1996, p. 23) Labor costs are one o Continue Reading...
Funds will be managed by Prudential Financial Services for maximum benefit to the employee (Prudential.com). Prudential offers a number of retirement products for employees to choose from and they have a proven track record for positive fund managem Continue Reading...
As a result, financial planners need to advise clients who receive these payments and make large cash investments to do so as soon as possible. The study concluded that dollar-cost averaging would be unlikely to topple the superior results of lump-s Continue Reading...
The courts have basically given businesses cart blanc with regard to the monitoring of what their employees say and do in their work email as well as on their work computers, even when they sign in to private web-based email accounts for private tra Continue Reading...
This is an important aspect as it allows those involved to see the conflict from more than just their point-of-view, which has been found to be advantageous in solving conflict situations. This valuable management skill is a very useful addition to Continue Reading...
The awareness of those assumptions, in conjunction with case elements, creates a new way of looking at case studies. One is more alert to the prejudices and other assumptions experienced by people in the work place, or even other environments. 2. W Continue Reading...
286). Employers have, since the Immigration Reform and Control Act of1986 (IRCA), been obligated to function under the laws that govern verifying applicant/employee citizenship, and which assigns costly fines to companies that do not comply with the Continue Reading...
There are many key facets to how to promote the efficient use of safety procedure within the workplace environment. Although employees need to be in charge of their own safety, management must use many different techniques to reinforce the procedur Continue Reading...
Although this is time-consuming and costly, it generally has high employee involvement and creditability, the strongest impact on behavior and performance and a positive influence on communication and goal sharing. Yet others believe that technology Continue Reading...
This even happened in Athens in 1993 when its municipal government imposed conditions of a cholesterol check. They sought to accept only those employees having acceptable level of cholesterol. Employers later had to abandon this policy due to public Continue Reading...
Deontologically, people might take a stand for personal physical privacy as an innate moral good; yet, precisely what each deontologist might define privacy to be may vary. Consequently, some deontologists might think that workplace surveillance and Continue Reading...
Conflict Management Conflict resolution, conflict management, and mediation are essential components for the success of an organization. Given the diversity of the workplace and the varying needs of individual organizations, developing an approach t Continue Reading...
This was certainly needed as technology has also evolved from time to time and the nature of labor that was being used in the 1920s or so is not the same as is the nature today. This is certainly commendable. Along with the changes in laws, the emph Continue Reading...
One study by the ePolicy Institute found that 85% of employees admit to recreational surfing at work and seventy percent of employees admitted to receiving or sending adult-oriented personal e-mails at work, while 60% admitted to exchanging e-mail t Continue Reading...
" (Unknown, Culture at Work) and finally, avoidance is the final stage of conflict resolution and is best used when issues are unimportant or conflict doesn't involve some other party. Summary Technology, global demand and consumerism have all cont Continue Reading...
For instance, New York fair employment practice is governed by the New York State Human Rights Law and bans discrimination on the basis of age, race, creed, complexion, citizenship, disability, gender inclusive of pregnancy and/or marital status. Th Continue Reading...
1. Initial IBB Preparations. 2. Preparing with constituents. 3. Opening statements. 4. Identifying issues. 5. Developing a list of standards. 6. Identifying interests on each issue. 7. Identifying options for each issue. 6. Identifying the a Continue Reading...
outsourcing from an employee and corporate perspective in an attempt to gain insight into the pros and cons of the outsourcing issue. The researcher proposes that outsourcing is morally and ethically an objectionable practice, that results in little Continue Reading...
Tiger at Home. New York: Kiplinger Books, 1998. In this age of the Internet and virtual rather than physical space, one might wonder -- who is buried underneath a barrage of magazines, documents, and papers? Barbara Hemphill would suggest quite a f Continue Reading...
Boosting Employee Morale After Downsizing Downsizing has become a significant idea in today's economy and maintaining the trust of employees when something like this takes place has also become very serious business (Brockner, Konovsky, Cooper-Schne Continue Reading...
B Personalities at work: Can't we all just get along? Imagine this scenario. It's a critical time during a particular business deal. The entire management 'team' of one company reconvenes for lunch in an isolated conference room to discuss what ha Continue Reading...
Sarbanes-Oxley Act -- it's a good thing In the wake of the horrible corporate scandals of recent years, including Enron and Arthur Anderson, it became readily apparent that some kind of regulation of ethics must be established. Indeed, any scandal i Continue Reading...
FMLA The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is an addition to the regulations applied to businesses which recognizes the changing nature of the family, and the importance of having a business environment which is supportive of the needs of the fami Continue Reading...
Privacy in the Workplace "Employee Monitoring: Is there Privacy in the Workplace?" 2003. Consumers Action Network Professionally ethical standards dictate that employees should be committed to working and performing at a professional level while in Continue Reading...
legal aspects of job-related stress in Great Britain, with the view to helping businesses in Great Britain avoid stress claims. While the article addresses issues in Great Britain, it also illuminates another way of looking at stress. The first arti Continue Reading...
Workplace Violence Violence in the workplace is an everyday event that affects employees throughout the nation. It must be addressed, clearly defined, and possible solutions presented that will eventually identify the potential aggressor and victim. Continue Reading...
Unions The statement, "the role of unions has declined inversely to the passage of social legislation," means that unions have filed to be as effective as before as the passage of social legislation fills in the need for them. Employees' unions hav Continue Reading...
Career as a Probation Officer Right for You? One of the most challenging and potentially rewarding careers in criminal justice is that of a probation officer. Probation officers are on the front line in working with and monitoring released offender Continue Reading...
At the primary level of active listening are administrative personnel, especially at hospitals, who need to direct patients to the correct physicians for their ailments. Administrative personnel at doctors' offices are also important, as these perso Continue Reading...
occupation of computer programmer reflects a number of traditional components of society in the United States. Demographically, the profession is largely made up of while males in their late thirties. As such, the profession reflects stratification Continue Reading...
The need for so many new workers will tend to help women enter fields where they have been historically under-represented since there is such a need for so many new workers. While this synergy of so many different factors is useful for workers at a Continue Reading...
Psychology The author of this report is to answer to two different psychology-related questions. The first question asks the author of this report to speak to how certain career people would tend to fit into the five factor model. The second and fin Continue Reading...
