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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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 of humanity
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Human Resource Management Article Maximizing your return on People Submitted to: Miss Deep Kiran Submitted by: Arsal Amjad STD: 13050 Maximizing Your Return on People by Laurie Bassi and Daniel McMurrer Managers are fond of the maxim “Employees are our most important asset.” Yet beneath the rhetoric‚ too many executives still regard—and manage—employees as costs. That’s dangerous because‚ for many companies‚ people are the only source of long-term competitive advantage. Companies
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Janet Sanchez Professor Cichelli Sociology 100 March 8‚ 2015 Article Summary In the article "Understanding American Worldview‚" the author J. LaVelle Ingram explains the cross cultural differences between Americans and immigrants. It also informs immigrants the atypical worldview of the American country they are adopting. Hence‚ these set of worldviews are categorized in five dimensions. In America‚ the first identified dimensions of worldview is that time focuses on the future instead of the past
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American Airlines eliminating in-seat screens on new jet This article is about how American planes all around the world are starting or thinking about taking off all the seat screens. And their reason for that is that they have been studying that most people bring their own screens to the planes. And they don’t want the screens just there for looks so there deciding so take them off and it will be one more less thing to worry about in the future. For example‚ it says that 90% percent of passengers
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1.0 INTRODUCTION The article we are about to review is titled “ Family-Work Conflict and the Availability of Work-Family Friendly Policy Relationships in Married Employees: The Moderating Role of Work Centrality and Career Consequence”‚ it’s a Research and Practice in Human Resource Management‚ volume (18(2))‚ page number (35-46)‚ year 2010. The article is done by Okechukwu Amah an employee of Chevron Nigeria Limited and has worked for the organisation for twenty-five years. He obtained his
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basic principles of the available hedging techniques. However‚ demonstrating the calculations in an exam‚ under pressure‚ can cause problems. In this article‚ each foreign currency hedging technique is demonstrated numerically to give students further practice. Then the conditions for the use of each technique are discussed. Throughout this article the following scenario will be used: Imagine USB Inc‚ an American software house‚ is due to pay a UK supplier £1m in three months’ time. It is now
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Running head: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC The relationship between instrumental music participation and standardized assessment achievement of middle school students: Article review assignment Md Emtiaz Rony Kent State University Previous researches on understanding higher order brain functioning based on music as a main effect‚ have been explored a possible relationship between the area of a brain that stimulated by music and the same area that controls spatial reasoning
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Marketing Management Article on How to Assess Market Viability of New Products Surveyor of the Fittest [pic] BY HONGJUN (HJ) LI With the correct methodology‚ companies can effectively assess what market is viable and what market is not. Industry research shows that 75% of new-product launches fail in the marketplace (visit www.microsoft.com to read its sec- tion about new–product development performance). That number does not even include product concepts that never successfully
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Management a true profession is an interesting article. It is written by two authors‚ Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria. Rakesh Khurana is a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School in Boston while Nitin Nohria is also a professor of business administration and senior associate dean and director of faculty development at Harvard Business School. Both authors have written informative books on the subject of business. The purpose of this article is about revolutionizing the training
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