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Showing 1 to 20 of 2953 for “"workplace"”.
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Workplace-related anxieties and workplace phobia : a concept of domain-specific mental disorders
Background: Anxiety in the workplace is a special problem as workplaces are especially prone to provoke anxiety: There are social hierarchies, rivalries between colleagues, sanctioning through superiors, danger of accidents, failure, and worries of job security. Workplace phobia is a phobic anxiety …
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ENHANCE YOUR WORKPLACE! A dialogue tool for workplace health promotion with a salutogenic approach
… and a dialogue process that could be useful for workplace health promotion from a salutogenic point of view. The studies have been performed within two health care organizations between 2005 and 2009, together with hospital staff. Two questionnaire studies were conducted (n=446 n=505, …
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Workplace culture and critical thinking.
Workplace culture and critical thinking.
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Disconnect Within the Museum Workplace
Observations by museum professionals discuss a growing disconnect between museum staff and their administrators regarding work expectations. To determine if this divide is part of a developing trend or an isolated phenomenon, surveys were created for administrators and staff and sent to …
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Being Multicultural in the Workplace
… how do multicultural individuals influence the workplace? In turn, (b) how do their workplace experiences affect their identity and sense of self? Data was coded and thoroughly analyzed for emergent themes. This study provides important insight into how multicultural individuals define their …
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Women and the Violent Workplace
Globally workplace violence is a pressing concern. It is an ever increasing problem and thus an extensive field to research. Despite an increase in interest, there are specific areas of workplace violence that remain relatively unexplored, and this is further compounded because workplace violence …
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Responding to the Workplace Narcissist
The presence of narcissism in the workplace is well established. Some have even gone so far as to extol the virtues of the narcissistic personality and the effect that it has on the leadership roles in organizations. Still, research suggests that there are more narcissists than there are leadership …
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Self-employment and workplace wellbeing
… the relationship between self-employment and workplace wellbeing.The thesis consists of three empirical studies, which set out to answer the followingquestions: 1) What are the differences of workplace wellbeing between the self-employed and employees? 2) What factors contribute to workplace …
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Sexual harassment in the workplace
The twentieth century has brought substantial changes in the legal and socioeconomic status of women. Women have entered the labour market in substantial numbers, hoping for recognition as persons in their own right, based on their individual capabilities and achievements in their chosen realms of …
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Electronic Communications in the Workplace
Processing personal data may be an incidental consequence but difficult to avoid in the day to day operations of the employment relationship. Privacy in the context of the employment relationship is not a precise term but a bundle of not very specifically defined rights and expectations. Generally …
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Workplace learning through structured interactions
… a competitive advantage in the economy. The workplace is thus being recognised as a legitimate environment for learning new skills and knowledge, through participation in everyday work activities. This recognition has led to numerous studies that connect learning and the workplace, giving …
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Mapping workplace and organizational change
… with these global phenomena. By mapping workplace and organizational change, the thesis attempts to construct a framework to visualize the new physical pattern and geographic distributions of global organizations to form a conceptual understanding of the complexities in the global …
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Workplace Devaluation: Learning from Experience
… education, race or profession, who experience workplace devaluation agree that this experience devalues their contributions and demeans their sense of self. This study illuminates the professionals' perspective of workplace devaluation through their experience. Within the framework of grounded …
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Improving workplace productivity and corporate culture : perceptions and experiences of the effects of workplace massage
… many employers have increasingly been providing workplace massage programs to their staff as one initiative to redress this trend. Masseurs have promoted the effectiveness of this intervention for improving musculoskeletal disorders and reducing stress, and claim massage therapy contributes …
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Reframing Responses to Workplace Stress: Exploring Entry-Level Residence Life Professionals' Experiences of Workplace Resilience
… professionals' experiences of resilience in the workplace. Resilience is a multilevel, biopsychosocial construct that broadly refers one's ability to maintain or improve positive function in response to adversity (Cicchetti, 2010; Masten and Wright, 2010). Workplace resilience is specifically …
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Workplace Harassment: A Cross-Jurisdictional Comparative Analysis of Legislative Responses to this Workplace Phenomenon in Canada
… Canadian legislatures have enacted to address workplace harassment. It adopts a qualitative, comparative case study approach, providing an in-depth comparative analysis of legislation from Québec, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia. Through this analysis, this thesis outlines …
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Validation Study of the Workplace Relationships Inventory: A Workplace Self-Report Measure of Adult Attachment Style
… in regard to close working relationships. The Workplace Relationships Inventory was modeled on the Experiences in Close Relationships scale and designed to be utilized in workplace environments. It was hypothesized that the Workplace Relationships Inventory has a two-dimensional structure like …
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Promoting Alcoa Fjarðaál as a workplace
… when designing promotion initiatives for a workplace. The attraction of a company plays a crucial role in the promotion of a company. Looking further into attraction, three facets were found to affect attraction toward a company: Employee satisfaction, generational differences, and social …
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