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- Quiz: New Rules of Business Etiquette
- "The Early Show" anchors field questions about networking, manners and economic reality. The answers may surprise you.
- Videos 2009-06-24
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- 5 Ways to Overhaul Your Meetings Manners
- 5 Ways to Overhaul Your Meetings MannersRE: 5 Ways to Overhaul Your Meetings Mannersgood reminders. Seems obvious, but it is rare to see all 5 in action. Thanks.RE: 5 Ways to Overhaul Your Meetings MannersSimple common courtesies which, sadly are not all that common - and I openly admit...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- In Praise of Boundaries: A Conversation with Miss Manners.(Management)
- In Praise of Boundaries: A Conversation with Miss Manners D. Coutu. 2003. Harvard business review 81 (12): 41-45. According to Judith Martin known as Miss Manners every 200 years or so "an anti-manners movement surfaces in which leaders urge us to be...
- Research articles 2004-08-01
- Eating etiquette: James Sycamore examines how table manners became polite
- Table manners are even older than tables. About 9,000 years ago, people cooked soups in pots. They dipped spoons of wood of bone into the cooking pot to eat. The first rules about eating determined who could dip into the pot first. Today some Inuit ...
- Research articles 2003-11-10
- Chicago-Based U.S. Cellular Urges Manners in Phone Usage.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Sep. 21--U.S. Cellular, concluding that wireless technology is too new to have established rules of etiquette, wants cell phone users to learn some new manners. Sep. 21--U.S. Cellular, concluding that wireless technology is too new to have established rules of etiquette, wants cell phone...
- Research articles 2000-09-24
- 5 Ways to Overhaul Your Meetings Manners
- Business meetings can be functional or frustrating, catalysts or catastrophes, inspirational or insipid. But it's not always random fate that decides which kind you'll be getting. You can help influence the tone and course of any meeting you attend by honing your meeting etiquette. Etiquette, you say?...
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Good manners WHO GIVES A DAMN?
- Where have all the manners gone? Older people think the world has never been ruder. But teenagers feel their grandparents are thinking back to a golden age that never existed. Who's right? We asked one typical London family. Grandmother Catherine Stephenson, 75 above, reckons that after having...
- Research articles 1996-04-14
- Over 90 percent say Japanese losing manners, poll finds
- TOKYO AFP — The Japanese may be famous for their politeness, but an overwhelming majority now believe bad manners are on the rise, a poll showed Friday. Crowded trains are a particular source of grief, with most Japanese unnerved that no-nos such as chatting on mobile telephones are becoming...
- Research articles 2008-03-21
- Manners? We Don't Have Those Anymore
- At the point of sale â€"- which can mean a shop, a B2B transaction, or online for both -â€" bad manners can kill repeat business. Example: A while ago a good friend of mine, a mild-mannered Irishman, was in the US. He was...
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- Got E-Mail Manners?: See These Dos And Don'ts
- Business pros now spend about two hours a day managing their e-mail, according to recent surveys. That adds up to plenty of time to get into serious trouble. Ineffective, improper and incorrect use of electronic e-mail on company computers exposes organizations to wasted time, bad press, and the possibility of...
- White papers
- Missed manners.(Brief Article)
- Rudeness and bad manners have become common in the American workplace, according to a University of Michigan researcher who found that 71 percent of workers surveyed had been insulted, demeaned, ignored, or otherwise treated discourteously by their co-workers or superiors. ...
- Research articles 2001-09-01
- Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750-1870: A Tragedy of Manners
- "LITTLE PARIS" IN SOUTH AFRICA Robert Ross. Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750-1870: A Tragedy of Manners. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. African Studies Series 98. xii + 203 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. £45.00. Cloth.The broad aim of contemporary historians of nineteenth-century South Africa has been to discern...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- Mind your manners
- MENLO PARK, Calif. AP -- Common courtesy around the office seems to have gone the way of the three-martini lunch, according to a new survey. Nearly half of 525 professionals recently polled by OfficeTeam, a Menlo Park-based staffing service, said good manners at the office have declined over the past...
- Research articles 2001-07-25
- Iconic Aussie with poor table manners faces fight for survival
- SYDNEY AFP — They are notoriously bad-tempered, they bite, scratch, fight, smell, make spine-chilling noises in the night, have disgusting table manners and defecate where they eat. Meet sarcophilus harrisii, otherwise known as the Tasmanian Devil, demonised and hunted down for much of the last two centuries, but now...
- Research articles 2005-01-25
- Hamas ready to 'change manners' after landmark Russia trip
- MOSCOW AFP — Islamist militant group Hamas admitted it had to "change its manners" after winning Palestinian elections but showed no sign of compromise with Israel as it wrapped up a landmark trip to Russia. The comments came as Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal finished the group's first formal visit...
- Research articles 2006-03-04
- Vietnam's civil servants told to mind their manners
- HANOI AFP — Communist Vietnam's public servants have been told to improve their manners, stop shouting at people and refrain from cooking in government offices, state media reported Friday. Responding to public complaints about the rudeness of some stamp-wielding bureaucrats, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has signed a new...
- Research articles 2007-09-07
- Rude awakening.(research suggests bad manners and uncivil behavior effecting performance of employees)(Brief Article)
- Rudeness and bad manners are increasingly common in American workplaces, according to a researcher at the University of Michigan. Psychologist Lilia Cortina said 71 percent of workers surveyed have been insulted, demeaned, ignored or otherwise treated discourteously by their co-workers and superiors. ...
- Research articles 2001-08-06
- State says Beijingers' manners better but not good enough
- BEIJING AFP — Beijingers are spitting and queue jumping less but their manners are still not good enough to show off to the world at this year's Olympics, according to a survey published in state press Friday. The bizarre "civic index" claims to record with minute detail the frequency...
- Research articles 2008-02-07
- Practice Your Good Manners On and Offline, Experts Say.
- By MaryBeth Matzek, The Post-Crescent, Appleton, Wis. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 23--You've got bad manners. That's the message you're sending out every day to co-workers and clients if your electronic messages are full of spelling and grammar errors, written...
- Research articles 2002-10-23
- Doctors with lax manners tend to get sued most, Vanderbilt studies show. (Vanderbilt University)
- Two studies by physicians at Nashville, TN's Vanderbilt University find that doctors with poor bedside manners are the most frequent defendants in malpractice cases. The first study found no relationship between the technical quality of medical care and the frequency of suits against a physician, while the second found that...
- Research articles 1995-02-01
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