a short literature review on the following topic as they relate to the workplace and work behaviour: diversity in terms of gender; sexual or religious orientation; You may move beyond these topic - with permission from your tutor. The topic of diversity in the workplace has been thoroughly researched and analysed. A variety of concepts and theories have been established to try and explain
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PERFORMANCE EVALUATION Formal determination of an individual’s job-related actions and their outcomes within a particular position or setting. In financial trading‚ its objective is to assess the extent to which the individual added wealth to the firm and/or its clients‚ and whether his or her achievement was above or below or industry norms. also called performance. Performance appraisal is the procuring‚ analyzing and documenting of facts and information about an employee’s net worth to the organization
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* Academy of Mtinagfiiwnl journal • 2002‚ Vol‚ 4S‚ No‚ I. :i:n-351. SOCIAL UNDERMINING IN THE WORKPLACE MICHELLE K. DUFFY University of Kentucky DANIEL C. GANSTER University of Arkansas MILAN PAGON University of Ljubljana An interactive model of social undermining and social support in the workplace was developed and tested among police officers in the Republic of Slovenia. As predicted‚ social undermining was significantly associated with employee outcomes‚ in most cases more strongly than was
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Workplace bullying is social‚ psychological‚ verbal or physical abuse by employers or co-workers. Unfortunately‚ bullying does not only happen in the playground‚ but also in many workplaces. Many times‚ the workplace can feel a lot like high school: gossip‚ passive-aggressive behavior‚ and cliques. Bullies definitely exist in the work environment‚ though they are not easy to spot like the ones in grade school. Bullies in the work environment do not go around stealing lunch money and hitting kids
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Emotion in the workplace: The New Challenge for Managers Emotional Intelligence‚ In recent years‚ have become something of a hot topic in management. According to the authors‚ the aim of this article is to acquaint managers with intruiging new research that examines both emotional intelligence and the broader issue of emotion‚ which has shown to play a powerful role in workplace setting. The authors opened the article with a scenario concerning an employee‚ which unfortunately‚ probably presents
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Capstone Assignment Gossip in the Workplace Lotta Weigeldt Table of Contents 1. Introduction...........................................................................................................p. 3 2. Literature Review on Gossip.................................................................................p. 3 2.1 Definition of Gossip................................................................................p. 4 2.2 Communication Models…..............................
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Patient Evaluation By Anthony Professor Harper Psychology 201 Due: 4/24/2013 “Joshua” I will be performing my evaluation on a patient who we’ll call by the name of Joshua. Joshua is a sixty-three year old Caucasian male. He is married to his wife of the same age and has two sons in their thirties. Joshua said he was from a part of New York City‚ but preferred not to specify any exact details about his address. Joshua mentioned that he had lived in the State of New York for his entire
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Fineman Et al (2010) defined emotions in the workplace as an external presentation of our personal experiences‚ meaning feelings are internal but emotions on the other side‚ can be intentionally influenced. Service organisations‚ even more than ordinary organisation‚ have to deal with a great deal of communication‚ with customers‚ suppliers and staff. For a long time ‚ communication was seen as mainly verbal but an undeniable amount relied in non-verbal and this is the product of emotions. To understand
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Motivation Evaluation In November 2009‚ Oprah Winfrey delivered the shocking news that she will end her show in September 2011. The Oprah Winfrey Show is viewed by 42 million viewers weekly‚ it was the number one talk show for 23 successive seasons‚ and it received numerous awards throughout its history. Oprah’s decisions to take on the show‚ stay the course‚ and ultimately to end the show was motivated by psychoanalytic‚ humanistic‚ and diversity motivations. Freud’s psychoanalytic view suggests
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Strategic Management is the art and science of formulation‚ implement and evaluation cross-functional decisions that enable an organization to achieve its objective. Strategic Management has changed to meet the challenges of each decade of business development and has been significantly impacted by globalization. Organizations using strategic management are more successful than organizations that do not employ this central process. Strategic Management is often referred to
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