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Introduction to Workplace Influence on Individuality
Today’s workforce is a balancing act. It is important to promote diverse thinking while also aligning all employees to the company mission and goals. It is important to streamline processes within an organization while also allowing room for creativity and out...
Introduction to Laws and Employee Rights
What you’ll learn to do: Discuss laws relating to employee rights Legislation and associated court cases regarding employee rights should be monitored on an ongoing basis to remain abreast of (in compliance with) changes in employee rights and behavior respon...
Progressive Discipline
LEARNING OUTCOMES Discuss the progressive discipline process In order to avoid perceptions of arbitrary or discriminatory discipline, HR management should establish a progressive discipline policy and process. A critical implementation step: ...
The Purpose of Discipline
LEARNING OUTCOMES Discuss the purpose of discipline Every effective organization needs to establish, communicate and enforce standards of behavior and performance. Some employees will learn and adopt the organization’s standards as a matter...
Introduction to Disciplinary Factors and Guidelines
What you’ll learn to do: Discuss disciplinary factors and guidelines We often think of discipline as a negative—a judgement. But discipline also has a positive connotation—for example, developing a positive practice or honing our abilities. And that is the po...
Employment at Will Doctrine
LEARNING OUTCOMES Explain the Employment at Will Doctrine Identify exceptions to the Employment at Will Doctrine The at will employment doctrine states that employment is for an indefinite period of time and may be terminated by either the e...
Introduction to Employee-Employer Contracts
What you’ll learn to do: Discuss the employee-employer contractual relationship In the United States, the general rule is that employment is “at will.” In this section, we’ll discuss what that means for employers and employees, what the exceptions are and how...
Employee Behavior Outside of Work
LEARNING OUTCOMES Discuss laws related to employee behavior outside of the workplace Discuss laws related to employee social media use Federal laws related to employee behavior include the National Labor Relations Act (discussed below) and t...
Employee Information
LEARNING OUTCOMES Discuss laws related to employee information Employee information is an area that is governed by federal, state and local laws. Key legislation includes the following: The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) The Drug-Fr...
Why It Matters: Employee Rights and Responsibilities
Why learn about rights and responsibilities of employees and their employers? In business it is often difficult to determine where one’s rights end and another’s responsibility begins. However, with increasing transparency, empowered workers, and the ability ...
Extroversion & Introversion
Managing Introverts and Extroverts in the Hybrid Workplace *ARTICLE* by: Erica Dhawan From less social interaction to more opportunities for autonomy, if you’re an introvert, chances are you’ve enjoyed working remotely over the past year plus. On the other h...
Conclusion: Managing Stress and Emotions
Stress. It happens when an individual is confronted with an opportunity, constraint or demand related to what he or she desires, and for which the outcome is perceived to be both uncertain and important. Stress at a certain level is good and motivates producti...
Managerial Approaches to Stress Management
When we talked about individuals exercising time management techniques as a way of achieving a better work-life balance, we mentioned flexibility and the ability to allocate 50% of their day to the unpredictable, unplanned part of their days. Could managers be...
Organizational Approaches to Stress Management
In addition to careful job design and managing stifling company cultures, organizations are taking steps to help employees battle stress by offering programs, benefits and office “perks” that allow workers to make choices about managing stress as it best suits...
Workplace Stress Management
Back in 1908, psychologists Robert Yerkes and John Dodson developed a theory about stress and performance. They proposed an “inverted-U” relationship between arousal and performance, crediting heightened states of arousal with optimum performance. At a certain...
Consequences and Costs of Stress
Today’s typical workplace expects quite a bit from its employees. In a climate of layoffs and downsizing, employees are typically expected to do “more with less”—that is, additional work for the same pay, often without updated resources and in a short amount o...
Sources of Stress
If you poll a group of individuals about what their biggest stressors are, they’re likely to give you these four answers: Money Work Family responsibilities Health concerns In most surveys on stress and its causes, these four responses have be...
What is Stress?
Like motivation, stress is a very individual experience. One person can feel extreme pressure and anxiety over a task that is looming, and another might look at the same task and see it as an exciting challenge. In spite of that, we’ve seen an overall jump in ...
Technology and Organizational Behaviour
How technology can impact people's organizational behaviour Communication Technology has made communication easier than ever before. Long gone are the days where you send a letter and wait for a written response or have to use an operator to connect a call....
Formalizing Behavior Standards, Consequences, and Procedures
LEARNING OUTCOMES Discuss laws relating to employee rights Discuss disciplinary factors and guidelines Remember when you helped Freedom Inc., the rapidly-growing company that sold products with superabsorbent material for incontinence? Your brilliant decis...