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Restoring Workplace Trust
As trust is based on actions not words, our gut-level understanding of actual conduct and deeds determines who we conclude is trustworthy and not.
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Does Stealing Attention Violate Your Code of Conduct?
For those who oppose more rules, how about a voluntary change in culture towards less—rather than more—needless, if not mindless, communication.
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Dissecting Health Care's Unhealthy Work Environment
At some point, you have to ask yourself: Why can't health care providers get it right? In 1999, the Institute of Medicine issued a scathing report, called To Err Is Human , which said almost 100,000 people die each year because of preventable medical errors. Ten years later, a follow-up report ...
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The Rules of Professionalism: Getting Millennial Workers Onboard
Should professionalism be defined by wearing specific attire and being at work at a designated time? One thought leader says human resources should focus more on communicating the results expected and allowing flexibility in achieving those results.
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Drama Discussions a Drag for Workers and a Bother for Bosses
Of the nearly 300 corporate executives, managers and employees who took a recent survey, nearly 40 percent said sex and relationships were the most taboo workplace topic.
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New Rules for New Communications
We can't follow these all the time, but there's no better time to try to change habits than at the start of 2013.
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Business Etiquette Makes or Breaks Employee Relations
N orine Dresser, author of "Multicultural Manners: New Rules of Etiquette for a Changing Society," in Los Angeles, says: Michael, 20, warmly greets Harihar Patel, a 50-year-old co-worker with, "Good morning, Harihar." This overture rankles the older gentleman. Fernando has a surprise encounter with
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Accommodating Religions Starts at Home (A Love Story)
Employers seem to have forgotten how to accommodate, and people are quick to lay blame at the feet of companies. Yet, teaching how to accommodate starts at home.
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Political Chatter in the Workplace? It's Possible to Be Civil
It's time to recognize that talking about politics can build workplace relationships, and mutual understanding.
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Learning Needs to Be Simple Enough to Make It Stick
In the workplace, when we try to teach concepts like listening to concerns, non-retaliation or other compliance topics, we often don't match how we teach to how we learn.
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More Workers Feeling Bullied on the Job: Survey
A total of 35 percent of workers said they have felt bullied at work, compared with the 27 percent who made such a report a year ago.
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Teach Trust First
Leaders increasingly lack the skills needed to recognize and address employee discontent, which allows decisions and actions to appear unfair or potentially illegal even when they may not be.
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Gen Y Execs Shake Up Office Culture
Young, tech-savvy CEOs are transforming the workplace at New York startups.
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Tips for Talent Management in the Social Media Realm
While cash incentives are still king in the tech scene, more and more companies are turning to social media as a tool to source and recruit talent.
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Norwegian Insurance Company Monitors Workers' Bathroom Breaks
Norway's chief workplace ombudsman Bjorn Erik Thon told a media outlet that one firm required employees to wear a red bracelet during their menstrual cycles to indicate the need for more restroom visits.
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Doctors, Lawyers, Polish Online Image
Two years ago, Manhattan immigration lawyer Douglas Rosenthal created a YouTube video in which he offered tips for a Stokes interview—an interrogation to determine whether a foreign-born spouse has married a U.S. citizen simply for immigration benefits. While many viewers expressed gratitude for
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Selling Women's Shoes—a Guide to Culture Change at Work
You can't bring secret shoppers into your workplace to test how well managers and supervisors are following the rules—at least not unless you want to completely destroy workplace relationships.
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Dear Workforce What's the Answer When Employees Form Exclusive Cliques?
Get people talking together. Don't permit 'scape-goating' to damage workplace camaraderie.
