When you ask employees what they'd rather have, cash or a gift, many times they will say, "Oh, just give me the money." However, this is not always the case. A survey of 1000 adults working for Fortune 500 organizations revealed that salary and bonuses are not the key factors to ...

With globalization affecting almost every country in the world today, there comes a greater need for trade liberalization, and a more robust flow of investments. As such, it is inevitable that jobs once held by a country's workers will now be subject to global market forces, and may be moved ab...

The U.S. Supreme Court has just dismissed a case that would have decided a longstanding question of whether disparate impact claims are available under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). Adams v. Florida Power Corp. What this means for employers is that, in the Eleventh Circuit at leas...

What is stress? How to deal with stress – and what are the pivotal causes of stress – those are the key questions to be addressed in this paper. But at the outset the emphasis should be on precisely what is stress. In their book, Managing Yourself: How to Control Emotion, Stress, and Tim...

Corporate Downsizing Corporate Downsizing Organizations in every segment of business, industry, government, and education are downsizing. Downsizing is and has been a controversial phenomenon in the last few years. The controversy that surrounds downsizing may be better described as a debate in ...

A 401(k) plan is a retirement account to which employee and employer contribute, on which taxes are deferred until withdrawal, and for which the employee selects the types of investments. As with anything to do with the Internal Revenue Service, the 401(k) plan has many ups and downs and many regula...

To begin this assignment, let us look into the meaning of the sentence "job stress". Job is the word to describe something that has to be done; a task: an undertaking requiring unusual exertion; a specific duty, role, or function: a regular remunerative position. Stress is defined as a dy...

Human Resource Manual Employment and Separation Policy and Procedures The future of Mass Productions depends upon the quality of our work force and that managers hire and promote the best qualified candidates for the available positions. Thus, Mass productions conducts the employment ...