How to deal with rumors on the grapevine By Kim Harrison‚ Consultant‚ Author and Principal of www.cuttingedgepr.com If managers and supervisors don’t attend to the communication needs of their staff‚ there is no vacuum of information. Instead‚ the informal avenue of rumors grows‚ frequently putting a destructive slant on organizational happenings when employees are uncertain. Some people say that up to 70% of the information employees receive is via the grapevine. Information via the grapevine
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there is a huge abundance of information and the determining factor of it is the ease of access and speed to that information. The information can be found through various sources such as encyclopaedia’s that are online or offline‚ books‚ magazines‚ articles and the Internet. New and old information alike is archived and picked out through various mediums‚ but as technology evolves some of the biggest questions of humanity are still yet to be uncovered. There is still a pursuit to answer the big questions
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Parting at the Crossroads: The Development of Health Insurance in Canada and the United States‚ 1940-1965 Author(s): Antonia Maioni Source: Comparative Politics‚ Vol. 29‚ No. 4 (Jul.‚ 1997)‚ pp. 411-431 Published by: Ph.D. Program in Political Science of the City University of New York Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/422012 . Accessed: 12/10/2013 14:05 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms
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Introduction If a company is likened to a small democratic nation‚ then its directors are its government. Once elected and in control‚ the directors have almost total power over the operation of the company until they are removed. Therefore‚ duties must be given to directors‚ to ensure they act in the proper manner. Fiduciary Duties Section 131 of the Companies Act 1993 discusses the duty a director has‚ to act in good faith and in the best interests of the company. The fiduciary duties
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Hayleigh Pataki English 101 – 506 Feature Article Newspaper: The Dominion Post Audience: Morgantown Residents School Gone Wild Partying‚ heavy drinking‚ and drugs are all associated with the word college. When thinking about college students most people think of rambunctious teenagers doing whatever they couldn’t do while living at home. These stereotypes are commonly true but universities worldwide are slowly trying to crack down on the excessive amount of alcohol
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(HRM) that their involvement has been placed centre-stage as a core element of an HR approach. This article reports findings from 40 interviews with line managers on their experiences in handling HR work that has been devolved to them‚ from a study of three different UK work organisations. The study finds that significant organisational benefits and costs exist from involving the line in HR work. The article concludes that participation of both line and HR managers in HRM needs to be re-assessed‚ as line
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they will have strong effects. By Maureen Glabman Contributing Editor In 1995‚ Harvard business school professors Clayton Christensen and Joseph Bower put “disruptive technologies” in the business lexicon by introducing the term in a seminal article in the school’s journal. The phrase described what happened in 1960‚ for example‚ when an unknown company‚ Sony‚ began selling an affordable transistor television that eventually replaced RCA’s vacuum tube. Soon it became apparent the transistor
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Industrial and Corporate Change‚ Volume 12‚ Number 2‚ pp. 351–385 The vanishing hand: the changing dynamics of industrial capitalism Richard N. Langlois Alfred Chandler’s portrayal of the managerial revolution of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries does not extend well into the late twentieth century‚ when widespread vertical disintegration began replacing the classical multi-unit managerial enterprise. This paper attempts to explain the new economy in a manner consistent
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Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science‚ 16: 254–267‚ 2012 Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group‚ LLC ISSN: 1091-367X print / 1532-7841 online DOI: 10.1080/1091367X.2012.693371 Assessing College Student-Athletes’ Life Stress: Initial Measurement Development and Validation Frank Jing-Horng Lu and Ya-Wen Hsu Graduate Institute of Physical Education‚ National Taiwan Sport University‚ Taiwan Yuan-Shuo Chan‚ Jang-Rong Cheen‚ and Kuei-Tsu Kao Department of Adapted Physical Education
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ARTICLE III – BILL OF RIGHTS Section 1. No person shall be deprived of life‚ liberty or property without due process of law‚ nor shall any person be denied the equal protection of the laws. Definition of “Police Power”: 1) Power vested in the legislature 2) By the Constitution 3) To make‚ ordain‚ and establish 4) All manner of wholesome and reasonable laws‚ statutes‚ and ordinances 5) Either with penalties or without 6) Not repugnant to the constitution 7) As
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