Workplace Violence According to an article in the Nursing Management magazine the definition of workplace violence is “any incident in which employers‚ self-employed people‚ and others are abused‚ threatened or assaulted in circumstances arising out of‚ or in the course of‚ the work undertaken” (Elliot‚ 1997). People in the health care field experience this type of issue more often than most people may believe. Research shows 35-85% of hospital staff reported that at least once during their careers
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Say ’no’ to workplace bullying Workplace bullying is harassment - a form of unfair discrimination. It is a worldwide phenomenon and is a serious and chronic workplace stressor that negatively affects individuals and organisations. Sadly‚ South Africa shares an equal part of the unhappy state of affairs. For example‚ in an internet survey conducted in 2000‚ it was found that 77.8% of South Africans said they had experienced a form of victimisation during their career. What is workplace bullying?
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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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an organization of workers who act together to secure benefits and rights in the workplace. As a worker‚ you have a right under federal law to form a union‚ select representatives of your choice and bargain cooperatively with your employer. This helps balance the power that employers have over individual employees. A union allows workers to say what changes are needed in the workplace condition and solving workplace problems. With a union contract and grievance procedure to back them up‚ workers
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Introduction – Ethics and the Workplace Ethics play a very important role in the running of a business. All firms and companies will have a set of ethical standards and practices that is suitable to their culture and nature of business. Ethics address duty‚ obligation‚ fairness‚ justice‚ altruism‚ and moral responsibility. Business ethics can be defined as right or wrong actions taken by corporations. Firms and companies are managed by people‚ from the very top management to the very bottom; any
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Main Post Question Ageism in the workplace Preconceptions of the elderly present ageist assumptions that characterize a group of people on the basis of their age; insidiously taking many forms‚ including prejudicial attitudes‚ discriminatory institutional policies‚ and practices that perpetuate stereotypical beliefs. This bias is so commonly accepted in our society that we don’t even recognize it. According to Adams et al.‚ the prejudicial characterization of the elderly invalidates and discriminates
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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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Technologies Effect within the Workplace COM/172 April 19‚ 2012 Abstract Technology has changed the way we do things in workplace because companies need to achieve better efficiency to deliver more products to the consumers. While technology helps to lower production costs which increase potential profits‚ technology has changed the way we do things in workplace. Technologies Effect within the Workplace The hi-tech advances achieved within the past few decades have brought about an
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Rumors in the Workplace “Oh what a tangled web we weave‚ when first we practice to deceive” (Sir Walter Scott). Rumors can be devastating to both a company as well as the employees in some cases even crippling the company itself. Most employees do not realize that is exactly what they are doing when repeating unsubstantiated comments. A rumor‚ by Webster’s definition‚ is an unconfirmed but widely circulated story or a piece of gossip. Once a company is faced with the rumor mill they have a
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At one point in each of our lives we have been discriminated against in regards to our personal character. This discrimination could be in reference to our age‚ gender‚ race‚ or even our sexual preference. None the less we have been discriminated against‚ and that just is not right. The issue of discrimination usually takes center stage in the office and the policy of discrimination is usually followed by the classic policy of sexual harassment. With this issue now at the forefront of most employer’s
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