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The research presented here contributes to the current debate on the effects of perceived self-efficacy (PSE). The study, undertaken with 157 schoolteachers who had just started their first teaching position, [...]

When the CEO of HSMC (Hypothetical Services and Manufacturing Corporation of Anywhere, U.S.A.) met with the Board of Directors last week, the Board wanted to know how a staff writer [...]

Being a superstar on the job means more than just showing up. Develop a winning work ethic for career success. Once upon a time on The Brady Bunch, there were [...]

FOR COMPANIES THAT HAVE HISTORI-cally adhered to a strong code of ethics, their image has been somewhat tarnished by the fallout from the financial scandals involving Enron Corp., Global Crossing, [...]

We complain that we are overworked, tired and grumpy, and yet we wear our busyness as a badge of honor. It's become almost banal to comment on how busy and [...]

Long before Wesley Snipes became one of Hollywood's leading men, he parked cars as he dreamed of one day hitting the big time. Acclaimed movie star Morgan Freeman danced before [...]

For many well-meaning managers, getting employees to change their behavior is a frustrating, challenging, confounding task. Employees often don't see the value of performing their jobs differently or taking on [...]

Blowing the whistle on outrageous moral and ethical misbehavior by employees of one of the federal government's biggest and most profitable contractors is serious business. But when complaints are raised [...]

Byline: Ed Frauenheim You don't act polite when you don't want to. You are more relaxed than strict about finishing things on time. You have a lot of confidence in [...]

Byline: Jeremy Smerd It took more than 40 years, four doctors and a misdiagnosis of depression before Lew Mills, a family therapist in San Francisco, was identified as having attention [...]

In my prior articles in this series, we explored two leadership concepts - the first being the behaviors that you should exhibit to be a leader worthy of following, and [...]

Byline: Arielle Emmett To catch a crook or untether a dark horse en route to corporate stardom, Robert Hogan, an organizational psychologist and president of Hogan Assessments Inc. in Tulsa, [...]

Byline: Stephen Sonnenberg, Christina McEnerney Sam is stressed out. He spends increasingly more time chatting on the phone and lingering over lunch. Several times a week he shows up late [...]

Zzzzzzzzzzzz. That's the sound of employees sleeping on the job. Far from being offended by it, some companies approve and even actively encourage workplace napping. At Gould Evans Goodman Associates, [...]

Interview with Shirley Arney, Quinco Behavioral Health Systems Patient feedback is a core element of most behavioral health treatment plans--but when it comes time for employee feedback, organizations often find [...]

Like everyone else these days, I'm stretched and stressed. The vice president of the product development group at a manufacturing concern recently lamented, 'The best new product we could develop [...]

In today's competitive job market, it's easy for managers to feel a bit uncertain about the loyalty of their team. In fact, according to a nationwide poll, 60% of executives [...]

Seven months ago, Isabel Santos was overwhelmed with work. Each week, the Toronto-based child and youth worker had to juggle visits to 30 kids she was responsible for, travelling up [...]

For Michael Shevlev, tracking employees' use of software and the Internet is an absolute necessity for employers who are juggling productivity with employee privacy while trying to remain competitive in [...]

If there's one thing that's clear in today's emerging digital economy, it's that many of the competitive gains of the last few years can be directly attributed to Internet connectivity. [...]

You can find sustainable solutions and organizational renewal in the least likely places. Have you ever read the children's classic by Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are? It's a [...]

Catastrophic incidents of violence in the workplace are headline-grabbing, but still the rare exception to how disgruntled employees express their anger, maintains Deanna Geddes, professor of human resource administration, Temple [...]

Business environments are filled with talkers, those who are quick to fill air space gabbing on about anything: their perceived worth, accomplishments, opinions and vapid prognostications. Too much known about [...]

Are you breaking First Amendment law when you fire that loudmouthed employee? Suppose you have an employee who denounces your business decisions at every opportunity (and at the worst times), [...]

Experts recommend eight hours of sleep a night, but U.S. adults average only six hours and 54 minutes during the work week, according to a new study by the National [...]

According to a recent poll by the Angus Reid Group, one-third of Canadian workers have Internet access at work and four out of five of these say they log on [...]

Little did Tim Riester, president and founder of Riester-Robb (#71), know that when he asked his employees to bring something creative they had produced to a show-and-tell staff meeting, he [...]

DUBLIN IN DUBLIN'S pubs and restaurants these days you are more likely to be served by a Spaniard or Italian or Australian than by anybody Irish. With not enough natives [...]

'My computer made me do it' may soon be a common lament heard around offices and factories in the U.S. as more and more workers are confronted with new technology [...]

SPAIN Executives, as the name implies, spend most of their time 'doing things.' They are measured against objectives that show how much market share, sales, international expansion and so forth [...]

At least once a year we talk to human resources folk who-ve had to orchestrate organization-wide layoffs. In some cases, thousands walked the plank at one time; in others the [...]

When I look at a huge cardboard box, I usually see... a cardboard box. Not so with Melanie. When my six-year-old daughter fixed her eyes on the huge box that [...]

Today's business climate presents more than a few challenges to your organization's ethical practices. Safeguarding your company is your job. Take a stand for business ethics. Ed Emde is president [...]

It's hard to remember now, but the weekend after a thousand pounds of nitric and sulphuric acids exploded under the World Trade Center, speculation about the identity of the bombers [...]

MANAGEMENT REWIRED BY CHARLES S. JACOBS Most commonly accepted business practices are the product of theories, anecdotal evidence and the status quo. Management generally operates a certain way because that [...]

Gary Imlach may be best known on TV these days for presenting the Tour de France, but in choosing for his first book to write about his father Stewart, and [...]

Workplace alcohol use and impairment directly affects an estimated 15% of the U.S. workforce, or 19.2 million workers, according to a recent study conducted at the University at Buffalo's Research [...]

Office rumors are often the best way for employees to pick up valuable information on what is going on in the company. As such, management should therefore not try to [...]

'I'M NOT HAVING THIS CONVERsation again, Walt, OK?' Paul Owens said exasperatedly. He walked away leaving Walt Brower, his longtime colleague and friend, looking solemn and disappointed. Brower returned to [...]

While rows of cubicles in an office create an open floor plan with easy access to employees and cost-effective spaces, there can be many downsides associated with this type of [...]

When I joined the employee assistance field in the 1970s, with a graduate degree and a background as a therapist, I was in a distinct minority. At that time, most [...]

WE ASKED ENTREPRENEURS to recall their worst hires ever. Here's what they said: Scott Testa, 38; Mindbridge Software Inc. in Norristown, Pennsylvania: 'We hired someone [who] would fall asleep in [...]

Do you go into work early to get a few extra things crossed off your list, to try to get ahead, or even just to catch up? Chances are you're [...]