Stress is the state of tension experienced by individuals facing too many demands, constraints or opportunities. Work is sometime stressful and can easily disrupt a person's work-life balance. Work related stress comes from numerous factors such as too many task demands, role conflicts, job bor...

Due to high costs employers in this economy often publish their job postings only on a small number of portals, which prevents the offers from reaching all qualified applicants. Employers often receive a large number of applications for an open position due to the strained situation of the labour m...

New technologies and practices, such as background checks, video surveillance, and computer monitoring infringe upon the privacy of employees in workplaces. Workers have a right to privacy, but this right "can be overridden by competing moral principles that follow the contract of employment&qu...

How an organization transforms its inputs into outputs is what I learned to \"technology\" to be. The term \"technology\" has been used by economists, managers, consultants, and business analysts to describe machinery and equipment that use sophisticated electronics and computers to produce those ou...

Introduction The future of training and development in the workplace over the next five to ten years will be impacted both by changes in the business environment and technological advances. The entry of a new generation of individuals who grew up with computers, changing definitions of ...

There's no doubt that factory conditions, and even office conditions,in the nineteenth century and the first third or more of the twentieth weredangerous, stress-inducing in the extreme, as Carol Hymowitz and RachelEmma Silverman pointed out two years ago in an article for ITworld.com. Inaddi...

The technological advances of new communication and computer technologies has generated a host of ethical problems, the moral notion of privacy in the workplace has become a major concern. Some of these problems or concerns arise from software for computer monitoring. With technology advancing a...

Recently an epochal event took place in our economical society. While there has been a slight decrease of 5.6% in unemployment, the number of those that are white-collar workers in managerial positions has rose to 43% of the total jobless community (Obleen 1). Stephen Roach of Morgan Stanley belie...

Summary: This article summarizes how businesses are watching outbound emails within their company that contain sensitive or law breaking information. It also explains how companies are dealing with spam and viruses. According to a June survey by Forrester Consulting, about 30% of 140 businesses ...

Workers of the world are exposed to many types of privacy-invasive monitoring while earning a living. These include drug testing, closed-circuit video monitoring, Internet monitoring and filtering, E-mail monitoring, instant message monitoring, phone monitoring, location monitoring, personality and ...

The Training Issue We already said that the Commission was concerned about the level and extent of training provided by America's businesses. The National Alliance of Business quoted Bureau of Labor Statistics survey data to outline the extent and pay-off from worker training. They found that...

In order to achieve my senior goals I will have to achieve many things. I will have to work hard in school to keep my grades up so I can get an internship, and after I graduate, get a full time job. I want to participate in clubs and play intramural sports through the recreation center. This may ...

The staffing plan for Kellogg's is predicated on the state of the industry, the position of Kellogg's within the industry, the number and type of staff already on board, and the rate of attrition. The state of the cereal industry in the 2000's is not impressive. Although the United ...

INTRODUCTION The technological boom has provided advances in the business world that were never before dreamed possible. Today, with the click of a mouse one can email requests around the world, chat in real time with people who are hundreds or thousands of miles away and set up shipments without ev...

Privacy is something that is everywhere, it is all around you. Privacy is where you eat, it is where you work, it is the people you associate with, it has everyone to do with you and where you do it at. Privacy is highly controversial between individuals, some people shrug it off and say, \"I have ...

Managing Diversity When writing about a certain topic, the first thing to do is research how you will gather all of the information needed. In this fast growing technological age, we have plenty of options to choose from. Since continuing our Graduate Degree at the University of Phoenix, we thou...

Introduction: Human Resource departments are going to be facing new and critical challenges in the near future – when it comes to recruiting, hiring, and retaining fresh talent – even beyond what they face today. Indeed, according to a new study by Monster Worldwide, a leading global on...

Economics has been an integral component of human enterprise ever since goldsmiths began utilizing their clients' bullion to support unrelated endeavors. The goldsmiths' simple process provided the model for present-day corporations to invest their net-worth in labor expansion and new tech...

Perspectives on the Effects of Job Outsourcing from the United States to Asian countries: A Comparative Analysis The influx of outsourcing jobs from the United States to specific countries in Asia, or the practice of off shoring, is both a social and economic phenomenon that demonstrates how, in th...

Why would labour regard globalisation as a threat? Globalisation is the term that refers to the acceleration and intensification of mechanisms, processes and activities that are allegedly promoting global interdependence and perhaps, ultimately, global political and economic integration. At its c...

Here are some key points and ideas about exercises we could do in class. PLease contact me if you have any questions. I think we could have the speaker and do the mock interview I suggested toward the end of this e-mail. Shana Cohn CLASS DESIGN Important points, class discussion questions and acti...

"Trends for the Millennium"September 25, 2001IntroductionCompanies of today must respond to change to survive the future. Change is inevitable-growth is optional. Change forces all business owners to adapt, adjust and be energetic in building their businesses. After all, there are only three thing...

Table of Contents: 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Managers¡ responsibility in the office and in society. 3.0 Employees¡ responsibility in the office and in society. 4.0 Changing for the future. 5.0 Who is affected and to what degree. 6.0 Conclusion and Summary 7.0 Bibliography. ...

Protection of privacy is an important issue and one that has often beenpassionately debated in political, social and business circles sinceprivacy is no longer a free commodity. There was once a time when we couldtake privacy for granted but with advanced technology and better modes ofcommunication ...

Corporate DownsizingCorporate downsizing now affects every type of business industry - including, but not limited to, technology, education, government, transportation, and telecommunications. Downsizing has become a very controversial issue in the past few years based on the reasons that downsizing...