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Mental Illness and the Workplace – Katherine Switz

01 Sep 2020
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How to Promote Racial Equity in the Workplace

Keywords: racism

January–February 2015
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Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence

By: Benjamin Edelman and Ian Larkin

We examine how unfavorable social comparisons differentially spur employees of varying hierarchical levels to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons with peers could cause either... View Details

Keywords: Behavior; Rank and Position; Employees

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October 17, 2023
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10 Emotions That Are Undervalued in the Workplace

By: Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss

In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. Their fourth strategy is about telling a compelling story about the change you need to... View Details

Keywords: Emotions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business or Company Management; Leading Change

September 2018
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Thoughts on the Workplace as a Masculinity Contest

By: R. Ely and Michael Kimmel

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January 2003 (Revised May 2003)
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Heineken NV: Workplace HIV/AIDS Programs in Africa (B)

Second in a three-part series that explores the multifaceted organizational and strategic choices that companies now face as a result of the global AIDS epidemic. Heineken is considering becoming one of the first companies to offer AIDS drugs (antiretroviral therapy)... View Details

Keywords: Health Disorders; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Employees; Food and Beverage Industry; Africa

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February 2001
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Deloitte & Touche (B): Changing the Workplace TN

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

Teaching Note for (9-300-013). View Details

Keywords: Accounting Industry; United States

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15 Jul 2012
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The Workplace Benefits of Being Out of Touch

18 Apr 2023
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How to Turn around a Toxic Workplace Culture

26 Jan 2020
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How to Overturn Workplace Prejudice about ‘Foreign’ Accents

07 Nov 2019
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McDonald’s fires its boss over a workplace romance

Who Guarantees Your Workplace is Safe for Return?

As we start to think about returning to work, shopping, and recreation, there is much talk about transformed... View Details

03 Feb 2023
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Making Performance Reviews Fairer in a Hybrid Workplace

02 Mar 2022
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How Bias Against Women Persists in Female-Dominated Workplaces

07 Jan 2015
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SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?

Summing Up What Isn't Off Limits When it Comes to Transparency? The discussion of this month's column on corporate transparency to employees made it clear that we have reached a point at which disclosure of pay information in organizations is no longer much of an... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

November 2004
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IBM's Diversity Strategy: Bridging the Workplace and the Marketplace

By: David A. Thomas and Ayesha Kanji

Explores how IBM incorporated diversity into its business strategy, making the case that workforce diversity is critical to marketing its products and services to its customers. In the early 1990s, Ted Childs, vice-president of Workforce Diversity, proposed to CEO Lou... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Diversification; Business Strategy; Integration; Global Strategy; Organizations; Markets; Information Technology Industry; United States

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