Ageism in the Workplace: A Cause for Concern Abstract The purpose of this paper is to discuss the problems faced by older employees in the workplace. The problems researched include age discrimination affecting promotions‚ forced retirement and problems employers face when dealing with older employees. Older employees are facing the same economic issues faced by all employees. Those older employees who do not have‚ or are unable to survive on savings or investments still need to work. Employers
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Change in the Workplace: Understanding People in Change Reich (2000) states that change is sudden‚ nonlinear‚ and constant. Radical changes in the workplace are those changes that have a dramatic and sometimes traumatic effect on the work environment and personnel. Asking someone to take a different action than what they are used to does not mean they will want to do it. Resistance to change in the workplace means loss of productivity. As a change insurgent‚ it is important to get personnel
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Workplace Counselling – A Necessity The relationship between work and the psychological well-being of the worker is a topic that has received a lot of attention in recent years. Work stress is seen as a modern epidemic‚ which effects one in terms of health‚ absence from work‚ and costs to the national economy. Studies have reported a wide range of pressures experienced by workers‚ such as workload‚ too many tasks‚ poor work environment‚ problems with colleagues or superiors‚ organization culture
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Diversity in the workplace is a topic that many industries and organizations spend an abundant amount of time and training on in order to ensure its presence. Today’s workplace is more diverse than it has ever been in history. While the workforce has made strides in the direction of equality‚ it is still far from attaining total equality in the workplace. A company must value diversity. The main objectives of valuing diversity include awareness‚ education‚ and positive recognition of the differences
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Collaboration in the Workplace In this global economy in which organizations are driven by technology‚ processes and the need to share information‚ collaboration is important. Rosen (2007) defines collaboration as "working together to create value while sharing virtual or physical space" (p. 9). Collaboration has become a standard in today’s organizations. Teams are working together virtually or face-to-face on projects or on problem solving. Sharing experiences
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motivated effectively by what stimulates them specifically. These motivation stimuli include incentivising economic rewards‚ providing intrinsic satisfaction to the employees along with others such as creating effective social relationships within the workplace. These stimuli are specifically outlined within the report and compared accordingly as to why some may be preferred to other‚ depending on the individual circumstances. As such‚ motivation is multi-faceted with its factors having varying degrees
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Violence in the Workplace 1. Why do you think there has been more workplace violence during the last 30 years then in all previous years? Before beginning‚ I would like to state my belief that any violence is inspired by fear‚ and I believe there is more in the world today that inspires fear than there was 30 years ago. I personally cannot imagine letting something go for so long to feel that I had to resort to violence‚ but do see that people who are more prone to violent behaviors may see
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things in common. The problem lies with the management and the policies against dating in the workplace. They sometimes need to have policies because of situations that occur and disruptions or interference in the worker’s responsibilities. Although most companies don’t have a written policy many people feel that there is a unwritten policy against dating in the workplace. The Vault.com study shows workplace relationships have a fairly high success rate‚ with roughly a quarter of them resulting in
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situational examples and coping mechanisms with the bully‚ The Bully at Work by Ruth and Gary Namie‚ is an astonishing resource on workplace bullying. Gary introduces the main themes of the book by giving an example of his former boss‚ a bully. He also defines the victims of this social epidemic as Targets. Workplace bullying‚ like childhood bullying‚ is the tendency of individuals or groups to use persistent aggressive or unreasonable behavior against a co-worker or subordinate. Workplace bullying
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HR articles: Workplace culture Workplace culture is often hard to describe‚ because it means something different in every organisation and many times employees feel it’s ‘just the way things are’. But so often it can define a company and when it’s not working well‚ everyone knows about it. Below are some blog posts on what culture in the workplace is and how to positively cultivate it throughout your business. The happier an employee is at work‚ the more productive they are. It’s never too late to
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