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- Top Seven Workplace Plays and Maneuvers
- Top Seven Workplace Plays and ManeuversNeed to sketch these in my playbookGreat ideas for the various situations. Of course, some variations will exist based on the individuals you are dealing with. But then you should at least know how you co-workers react. As a guideline, great for the interns to...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-13
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- Top Seven Workplace Plays and Maneuvers
- All office politicking relies upon a simple concept: the biggest help and the biggest hindrance to reaching your goals is other people. What's the right way to win friends and influence people? The most effective moves build alliances, sell your ideas, and solve problems. They also involve risk — so...
- Articles 2007-07-02
- Creating A Respectful Workplace: Workplace Conflict Resolution Strategies
- What is a respectful workplace? It's a place people feel good about going to everyday. It's not absent of conflict or divergent opinions. But people know how to deal with conflict. Differences between people do not rise up to cause disruptive or destructive behavior. This kind of workplace is created...
- White papers 2008-11-06
- Reducing and Managing Workplace Absenteeism
- Productivity loss due to absenteeism is a serious and growing challenge. In the United States, the annual cost to employers for time lost due to accidents is almost $100 billion, and other unscheduled worker absences costs even more. Absence management is a growing body of knowledge and experience that managers...
- Articles 2007-03-27
- The Office Politics Playbook
- You don't need dirty tricks, but you do need to know the rules. Use these techniques to get what you want in the workplace.You may not think you play office politics, but to some degree you have no choice. The real question is: are you doing it well? Whatever you...
- Articles 2008-02-19
- Sound engineering, design principals key to ergo program.
- The design of the workplace plays a major role shaping employee performance, including productivity and quality. The elimination of musculoskeletal disorder risks during the specification of workstation set-ups, tools and equipment is an important parallel activity to the recognition, evaluation and control of...
- Research articles 2001-04-01
- Informal Conflict Resolution:A Workplace Case Study
- From the executive summary: ‘Conflict resolution practice has largely focused on conflict taking place in public, as if it was set on a theater stage with an audience watching the interactions unfold. In reality, conflict plays out behind the scenes, unobserved by the conflict analysts and system designers. Informal conflict...
- White papers 2000-09-01
- Workplace Health: Dehydration
- The fact that about two-thirds of the weight of our bodies come from water might lead us to conclude that this most fundamental of fluids plays an important part in the physiological and biochemical processes that maintain health and wellbeing. As it happens, even quite mild dehydration...
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- How to Win at Office Politics
- Like it or not, every workplace is a political environment. But operating effectively within it doesn't have to mean sucking up, lying, or slinging dirt. In its purest form, office politics is simply about getting from here to there: securing a promotion, seeing an idea come to fruition, or gaining...
- Articles 2007-07-02
- When the Harrassment of Others Becomes Your Problem
- When the Harrassment of Others Becomes Your ProblemDon't be afraid to involve HR.....If a manager or employee is ever unsure how to handle a situation, a good place to start is by consulting your HR Business Partner or representative. Keep in mind that they may be obligated to act...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-01
- Coping with Office Politics
- You’ve heard the old saying that, who you know matters as much as what you know. Even more important, and not as clichéd: Who likes you counts a great deal in getting ahead in most organizations.When you think about it, a workplace really is a series of interconnected relationships—we get...
- Articles 2007-02-28
- Want to Boost Office Morale? Take Part in Flashprank Friday!
- Are laughter levels in your office dropping? If so, you're not alone. According to a study of over 5,000 office employees by Comedy Central UK, increased pressure and job-security worries are making the lighthearted workplace a thing of the past for many workers. Depressed employees told the...
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- Pay Attention to Your Body Own Language
- Much is made of using body language to project strength and competence in the workplace, but as any FBI profiler will tell you, nonverbal cues are an indicator of larger underlying truths that shouldn't be swept under the rug. On BNET's Useful Commute on Monday, Kinsey Consulting...
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- Sutton: Calculate Your "Total Cost of Jerks"
- The Find: If you really want to motivate yourself and your company to root out jerks and their productivity and creativity sucking behavior, one business guru suggest you calculate your TCJ: total cost of jerks. The Source: An article entitled "Building the Civilized Workplace" by No Asshole...
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Motivating Others during Difficult Times
- There are times in all organizations when the external environment conspires against success. Wider economic and political factors may have undermined the business model; or competitors may have beaten the organization to the market with a new product. The internal environment may also cause difficulties. The hierarchical structure may be...
- Articles 2007-11-09
- Making The Connection Leadership Skills And Emotional Intelligence
- There is growing evidence that the range of abilities that constitutes what is now commonly known as emotional intelligence plays a key role in determining success in life and in the workplace. Recent CCL research has uncovered links between specific elements of emotional intelligence and specific behaviors associated with leadership...
- White papers 2001-12-01
- Motivation And Job Design
- Motivation is the psychological feature that arouses the behavior of an individual towards accomplishment of certain pre-defined goals. Job design involves envisioning and defining specification of work system related to a particular job. It is an activity to ensure that people and other resources are effectively and efficiently utilized. Job...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Spy Lame/ 'Recruit' suffers from a paucity of authenticity
- As an espionage thriller, "The Recruit" is exceedingly average. On the other hand, it excels as a cautionary tale about the perils of workplace romance, especially if the lovebirds in question happen to practice deception and subterfuge for a living. No, silly, "The Recruit" isn't about...
- Research articles 2003-01-31
- '30 Rock': It's not about 'SNL,' but the 'vibe' is there
- The show: 30 Rock The premiere: Wednesday, Oct. 11 (8:30 p.m. ET/PT), NBC The concept: Personalities clash behind the scenes of a live TV show. The challenge: Getting audiences to watch while competing with the new NBC drama Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Both are about...
- Research articles 2006-08-16
- Two TV signs the end is near.(Suburban Living)(TV/Radio)
- Byline: Ted Cox ." NBC puts its faith in Jesus Christ on Wednesday. The Fox network puts its faith in Pamela Anderson. That pretty much says it all, doesn't it? NBC presents "Revelations," a six-part miniseries about...
- Research articles 2005-04-12
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