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Hospital Employee Sues Employer After Being 'Traumatized' in Hostage Drill
In the complaint, Ourida Diktakis alleges that the hospital's administrators intentionally did not inform her or the ICU staff of the drill. She claims the hospital's actions not only 'emotionally traumatized' her and her staff, but put patients in the ICU at risk by unnecessarily detaining their
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Staffing Firm to Pay $148,000 in Pregnancy Suit
The lawsuit alleged HCS owner Charles Sisson discriminated against Roxy Leger, the company's bookkeeper, when he made offensive comments about her pregnancy and fired her because she needed to take maternity leave following the birth of her son, according to the EEOC.
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Take This Job and Love It: Financial Planners, HR Leaders Rank as Top 5 Jobs
At an average midcareer salary of $104,000, financial planners out-earn the rest of the top 10 professions. Those in HR leadership positions average just over $99,000.
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Phony Open Doors Lead to Naked Emperors
The Corporate Executive Board found that among the 12 key indicators it tracks in its “cultural diagnostic” of companies, the one that is most strongly correlated with 10-year total shareholder return is employee comfort with speaking up.
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Turning Off Email, Turning Up Productivity
Execs find the best way to promote efficiency is to minimize online distractions.
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Take Your Kids to Work? Not This Year, New York Says
For the past 20 years, the fourth Thursday in April has been an unofficial day for students to get a taste of the professional world from parents, grandparents and other adults. But this year, education officials have been unable to find another time to schedule a statewide math exam for those ...
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SEC: Financial Advisers Traded on Info Gleaned From AA Meeting
The pair allegedly learned about an upcoming insurance company merger during an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, where shares rose 64 percent.
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Worker Fired After Urinating on Co-Workers' Chairs
Police reportedly are trying to determine whether they can charge the 59-year-old information technology worker with criminal mischief, according to the Des Moines Register.
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Fighting Workplace Spam—Our Own
They pop in your inbox. You get more of them a day than you can absorb and remember.
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Summer Internships Shouldnt End Once Fall Classes Resume
… take time out of their busy schedules to do some hand-holding. This often includes passing along basic tips on business etiquette —dress code, office protocol and even such basics as not instant messaging during a meeting—things that are …
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Adding Numbers to the Leadership Equation
… country we're about to expand into, and managers headed to foreign lands benefit from a bit of training on the business etiquette there. But a lot of the services and tools surrounding international work assignments speak in generalities. They …
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Boss Basics: Is It Better to Overmanage, Undermanage, or Just Not Worry About It?
There are a lot of thankless things you get to deal with when you become a manager , and generally they are things you don't find out until after you take the job. Here's one of them, and a question that every manager has to come to terms with: How much managing does a manager actually do? In my
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Vanguard CEO to Employees: Let's Lose the Suits
Despite being more than 100 miles away from the formalities of Wall Street, Vanguard always has required its employees worldwide to dress in business attire: a jacket and tie for men and professional dress for women.
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Remembering Custer on 'Bad Management Day'
This may seem a little odd, but in my book, we should all celebrate June 25 as "Bad Management Day," a day when we ponder all the terrible management decisions made each year by so many overpaid, puffed-up egomaniacs like former Chrysler head Bob Nardelli and current Tribune CEO (and foul-mouthed
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iOn the Contrary-i Virtual Manners
… Martin -- for an article on business etiquette , and found the wholeexperience ..... not know the proper rules of business etiquette . Once I recovered fromthinking I ..... Complete Idiot’s Guide to Business Etiquette ,”(Macmillan & Company …
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Business Meeting Etiquette Where and When
… and potentially dangerous, situation for an employee. Ballard suggests companies educate employees about offsite business etiquette , and let subordinates, co-workers and bosses know they have choices in where and when to hold business meetings …
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Meeting Manners that Matter
… Pachter & Associates, Cherry Hill, NJ, January 11, 1999. Pachter is the co-author of the Prentice Hall Complete Business Etiquette Handbook . Order this book now from Amazon.com Isbn 0131569511.
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Companies Weigh the Cost of Prepping Expats
… hierarchical, and no one points out a boss’s mistake in public. Cendant arranged for private coaching in local business etiquette . On the family side, relocation specialists cope constantly with the "trailing spouse" problem, helping American …
