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Teaching Team Behaviors Earlier...Much Earlier: Did a person ever wonder why adults seem to struggle when assigned to a new workplace team of some kind? As organizations increase their use of teams, the "New" skills and behaviors required seem to challenge everyone. Why does a person have so much difficulty in the workplace with something...; Tags: Team management, Recruitment & Selection, workplace, team; White papers
Punishing the Unethical Employee: Last week, I talked a lot about the idea of rewarding employees for ethical behavior. Some readers agreed with my contention that ethical behavior should be considered a standard of the job, and doesn't deserve an additional cookie. Others argued that rewarding ethical behavior sends a positive message to those...; Tags: William Baker, ethical breach, ethical behavior; Blog posts 2008-04-28
Poll: Rewarding Ethical Behavior?: On Tuesday, I mentioned a white paper that outlined six steps to an ethical business culture, and took issue with the fact that one of these steps involved rewarding employees who behaved ethically. But after mulling it over some more - and a comment from my BNet colleague Geoffrey James...; Tags: William Baker; Blog posts 2008-04-24
Cognitive Asymmetry in Employee Affective Reactions to Leadership Behaviors: This paper presents the results of a qualitative study of subordinate perceptions of leaders in the workplace, and how they respond emotionally to particular leadership behaviors. The study represents an exploration of a model based on Affective Events Theory AET, which posits that effective leaders are seen to shape the...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, workplace, leadership, leader; White papers 2005-03-24
We Stop Aggression as Soon as It Starts: Hospitals are inherently stressful places, but no one should have to work in an abusive environment. When erratic behavior and the threat of physical violence become part of the clinical setting, staff RNs and nurse managers alike feel unsafe and uncomfortable, and everyone suffers. Though, equipping professionals with the skills...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Skyscape Inc., violence, environment, job; White papers 2004-10-01

Mastering Organizational Change: The central challenge of change management is altering behavior. Creating shifts in what people actually do can be more important than introducing new technologies or rolling out new strategies. An organization's culture is defined by persistent patterns of behavior; cultural change begins at the behavioral level. Fostering new behaviors is...; Tags: change management, health care, technique, strategy; White papers 2004-07-16
Recruiting Top Performers: It's Your Job: From the executive summary: ‘Hiring top performers is not easy. Top performers have different behaviors than the average candidate. Recruiting top performers does not require elaborate online assessments, grueling multi-part interviews, background checks, or even resume element verification. On the contrary, all it requires is simplicity'. The challenge lies in...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Electronic Recruiting Exchange Inc., recruiting, hiring, job; White papers 2004-03-29
Human Resource Management Influence on Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: Organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB's) are defined as work-related behaviors that are discretionary, not related to the formal organizational reward system, and, in the aggregate, promotes the effective functioning of the organization. In the past ten to fifteen years these types of behaviors have been gaining a lot of attention. The...; Tags: HRM, supervisor, Human Resources; White papers 2003-09-18
Off Duty, Out of Work: The article is about an employee engages in legal but controversial off-duty behavior and decision has to be made that whether to fire him or retain him.In such situations, HR must walk a fine line—one that varies with the facts in each specific case. Ultimately, when deciding whether to terminate...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Society for Human Resource Management, workplace, Human Resources, job; Case studies 2003-02-01
Extra-Role Behavior among Mexican Employees: The Impact of LMX, Group Acceptance, and Job Attitudes: The current field study took place within a Mexican work setting, consisting of 100 white-collar employees representing a variety of professional job categories. The study investigated the direct effect of the supervisor-employee relationship (leader-member exchange) quality and group acceptance on employees' propensity to engage in activities beyond their formal work...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Thomson Corp., job, supervisor, accounting; White papers 2003-01-01
Ethical Behavior And Social Responsibility: The corporate code of ethics consists of a set of moral principles and values that govern the behavior of the organization with respect to what is right and what is wrong. An ethical behavior is operationalized through proper implementation of the corporate code of ethics in the organization. There exist...; Tags: Business ethics, Corporate law, Leadership, Policies and procedures, John Wiley & Sons Inc., Corporate Social Responsibility, code of ethics, ethics; Presentations 2003-01-01
Modifying Employee Behavior And Motivating Employees: From the executive summary: ‘Changing behaviors has always been tough. Whether it involves an addiction; smoking, alcohol, controlled substances, a compulsion; eating, shopping, perfectionism or simple daily habits and routines. Some habits are good for people. They keep them efficient, and allow them to do regular, mundane tasks while thinking...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care; White papers 2003-01-01
Disturbing Behavior: Five Problem Personality Types And Ways You Can Modify Their Behavior To Improve Workplace Productivity: Most companies complain about lower work productivity. But, very few make an effort to find the reason for the same. The concerned company is itself responsible for lower productivity. Experts suggest that it is the employees’ behavior that influences the overall work productivity. But, it is the onus of the...; Tags: Hanley Wood, workplace; White papers 2002-11-29
Dealing With Difficult Behavior: Conflict stems from the fact that individuals differ in perspectives on issues. It also arises from difficult behavior displayed by employees of an organization. Dealing effectively with difficult behavior helps to resolve conflicts in the organization. The paper examines the dynamics of difficult behavior at the workplace and discusses methods...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Resourceful Internet Solutions Inc., workplace; White papers 2001-12-01
Hearts N' Parks?Community Mobilization Guide Introduction: The objectives of this paper is to increase the number of children and adults who engage in heart-healthy behavior and to demonstrate the impact that community park and recreation programs can have on behavior. The long-term goal is to decrease the number of people with heart disease.; Tags: Heart, Behavior, Health Care, Goal, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources; White papers 2001-06-01
The Use of Organizational Culture and Structure to Guide Strategic Behavior: An Information Processing Perspective: This article presents a descriptive model explaining the roles and relationships of organizational culture and organizational structure in guiding employee behavior toward strategic objectives. Using an information-processing view, it proposes that organizational culture and structure direct the behavior of employees through the reduction of uncertainty and equivocality. Furthermore, it propose...; Tags: organizational culture, organizational structure, training; White papers 2001-04-01
Overcoming Negativity in the Workplace: This article is about how one can overcom Negativity in the workplace. Recognizing Negativity comes from many different sources. It can come from working conditions, miscommunication or poor communication from management. But the major source of negative behavior is from behavior that results from child-like needs. The article lists ten...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, workplace; White papers 2001-02-08
A Panic-Prone Pack? The Behavior of Emerging Market Mutual Funds: This paper explores the behavior of emerging market mutual funds. An examination of the individual crises shows that, on average, funds withdrew money one month prior to the events. The paper also reveals that the funds tend to follow momentum strategies, selling past losers and buying past winners, but their...; Tags: Financial services, Marketing research, IMF, emerging market, mutual fund; White papers 2000-12-01
‘Rust in Peace’: The employee sees that work life in this new environment is more to his or her liking and that the manager has a lower tolerance for inappropriate behavior. The employee’s peers help reinforce the no more nonsense atmosphere of the new workplace and performance improves while poor behavior reduces –...; Tags: County News Online, workplace, Human Resources, training, environment, performance; White papers 2000-06-26
The HR Doctor Makes 'House Calls': With a proactive program of workplace violence prevention and intervention, the large majority of threats and acts of violence can be prevented. How? What's the treatment? Here's the HR Doctor's prescription: Learn about the inappropriate behaviors that give rise to threats and acts of violence at work, and how to...; Tags: County News Online, violence, workplace violence, Human Resources, workplace, agent; White papers 1998-12-21