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Employers looking to hire quality diversity candidates can increase their chances by following some tips provided by an expert international recruiting firm that specializes in hiring sales and marketing personnel.Tempe, AZ (PRWEB) April 13, 2007 -- International Search Consultants (ISC), a leading executive search firm that specializes in finding upper echelon sales and marketing professionals

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In the critically-acclaimed multi-awarded TV series, "24", we were introduced to the concept of a Black president. Somehow the idea did not seem bad at all. On television, that is. But when reality followed fiction, the public outlook changes and many people were not that supportive of the idea of having an African American sitting in the Oval Office as President.Just recently Sen. Barack Obama,

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It is vital that we understand each other's culture. A lot of tragedy stem from misunderstanding and the unwillingness to open up one's mind to different perspectives. Take for instance the differences between an Arab American and a Muslim.The most common notion of Arab Americans is that they all practice Islam. A person who comes from an Arab-speaking nation is bound to be one, right? Wrong!

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A new study described as the first of its kind by Telework ExchangeSM, a public-private partnership focusing on telework in Federal government, and the Federal Managers Association (FMA) has found that management resistance is a major barrier to adoption of telework. "Face-to-Face with Management Reality - A Telework Research Report" was underwritten by TANDBERG, a leading provider of visual

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I've just come across an article on "Extreme Jobs". It's a replacement term for the old-fashioned "workaholic". According to this article at BlogHer the phrase "Extreme Jobs" was coined by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, head of the Hidden Brain Drain Task Force of the Center for Work-Life Policy.According to the Center for Work-Life Policy’s latest research, titled, "Extreme Jobs: The Dangerous Allure of

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There are things that bad managers do that can push employees including those who were usually described as "dedicated workers" to misbehave at work. Authoritarian managers most often apply Machiavellian techniques to make employees become more productive at work, but what these managers do not realize is that a manager-employee relationship built on mistrust and negativity will only result to

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An article at WorkplaceLaw.net has recently posted a news article that caught my attention. In it a man, who has been branded a "vexatious litigant", has been banned from bringing Employment Tribunal claims after initiating 40 claims in the last ten years.His case highlights the issue of 'career applicants' – people who make false job applications with the intention of bringing a discrimination

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From BusinessTrainingMedia.com Workforce Article Library1) Focus on retention. Most employers find that it is generally easier to recruit people than it is to retain them. Unless organizations create a climate that welcomes and is hospitable to those who are in some way different from the existing group, costly turnovers will continue as new talent leaves.2) Develop internal candidates for

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By: Simma LiebermanIf there is not enough diversity in your employee base or there is high turnover with certain groups of employees, your organization will not be able to leverage the power of diversity. Building diversity in a company through recruiting and retention is an important step to creating an inclusive workplace. Are your recruiting efforts doing the following? Here are some tips to

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By Craig HickmanOrganizations have enormous power to focus efforts on collective goals, objectives, issues, problems, and results, if they so choose. It’s the power of an organization’s convergent effect — people coming together in a planned way to accomplish something mutually beneficial for all involved. That’s the theory of organization.If organizations exist to unite diverse perspectives,

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by: Simma Lieberman Some people work at their jobs because they have to make a living, and they get to express themselves after work. Some people have careers that they love, and have a hard time not taking home their work with them when they go home. And then there are successful people in the diversity field. They have a passion for diversity and they live their work. Whether or not they take

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An article from the College Journal has just caught my eye regarding workplace diversity and the reasons why job seekers should be concerned about it. Writer Laura Stevens quoted Mauricio Velasquez, president and chief executive officer of the Diversity Training Group, a diversity-consulting company in Herndon, Virginia, on the main reason for doing investigative work before sending out your

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By: Daniel HuntHave you ever filled in an application? If you are a grown up with large experience in business, traveling or just purchasing something, you had to deal with an application obligatory. Except your first and last name there is another question that you have to answer. Denote your sex: male or female. Nowadays this is an obligatory question to answer only because some peculiarities

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By Calvin B. Ball IIIIn this ever increasingly diverse workplace, many are faced with the "X-Factor." Teenagers and twentysomethings are changing the face of the work environment. Those who have been in the workplace and are from different generations are sometimes at a loss for how to interact, understand and embrace this facet of diversity.However, this like any other dimension of diversity, is

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Recent studies reveal that more employers are trying to recruit older people to overcome a shortage of skilled workers.The firms are introducing age diverse practices even ahead of the new regulations in October and the reason is that this enables employers to tap into the relatively unused talent pool of older workers to overcome recruitment difficulties and help build an age diverse workforce

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"When in Rome, do as the Romans do" is good advice for anyone who finds their way to Rome. One can never be entirely sure which behavior is expected of a visitor when visiting an ethnically diverse place such as Rome. Roman history is replete with references to the multitude of kingdoms and territories that the great and powerful Roman Empire had defeated and subdued, and subsequently absorbed

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Annoying co-workers? Hateful jerks masquerading as officemates? Oh, yes! We always have 'em in our workplaces, and they are becoming a problem. For those who were victims of their abusive behavior and wanted to know how to handle their bullying antics, check out this article from the Boston Globe.A related blog post discussing acquaintances who practice "learned helplessness" tactics to take

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Provided by: Like most people these days, you're getting combat fatigue from the gender wars. You'll grasp at any shred of evidence that men and women have enough in common to someday be capable of inhabiting the same planet peacefully.The latest dispatch from the gender front offers a glimmer of hope in the office. A team of Louisiana psychologists has found that, faced with stress in the

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Provided by: More and more companies are asking employees to leave the isolation of their cubicles to collaborate with co-workers, spawning innovative ideas, increased productivity--and, surprisingly, friction.According to Debra Connelley, Ph.D., who teaches organizational behavior at the University of Buffalo, increasing diversity and team-based work structures can spark office conflict. This is

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By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press ServiceBAGHDAD, June 22, 2006 – The pen is mightier than the sword, and sometimes in the war of words we unwittingly give the advantage to the enemy.In dealing with Islamic extremists, the West may be giving them the advantage due to cultural ignorance, maintain Dr. Douglas E. Streusand and Army Lt. Col. Harry D. Tunnell IV. The men work at the National

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I just found one of my articles, How Men and Women Communicate at Work, republished in the General Information for Youth site. Thanks to Maneh Mamyan who blogs from Yeravan, Armenia. I am reposting the article here for your perusal.How Men and Women Communicate at WorkMen and women communicate differently. They may use the same words, but they place different connotations and emotional emphasis

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Scrounging around the web, looking for scraps of info on diversity and its role in career development? This very informative site, DiversityWorking.com, can help you. It can be useful for a lot of people, particularly job seekers belonging to minority groups. For example, those with non-Caucasian ethnic/racial backgrounds like Asians, Hispanics, African Americans, Native Americans; 'minor' gender

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Summer is here and with it a lot of leisure time to spare. My time, however, is spent more and more in front of the computer than out there under the warm summer sun and perhaps, an hour or two in the surf. Often when I look at the images of summer I see kids playing and resting on the beach. Why is it that summer is more commonly associated with youth rather than the well-baked maturity of the

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Seven Critical Interventions in Times of Major Organizational TransitionThese strategic plans and action steps include:1. Promoting Truth in Reorganizing2. Getting Initial Buy-in3. Structuring Systemic Grief Work4. Working with an EAP/Outside Consultant5. Experimenting with Team Meetings6. Increasing Management Visibility7. Following the Way of the Acronyms1. Promoting Truth in Reorganizing. In

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Discrimination may not be as blatant as 20 decades ago but its menace though subtle still exists and harder to detect. In an article written by Michelle K. Massie, a Monster Contributing Writer, discrimination whether in the workplace or in school can cause undue toll on the physical, mental and emotional well-being of employers and students. She cited a 2002 Rutgers University study, "A

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Dr. Mark Gorkin has outlined several stategies for employees and employers to apply when dealing with workplace burnout:1. Schedule "R and R." Remember, some of your best producers don't know when to turn off their motors. Monitor their behavior: slipups, missed appointments or a deadline, being abrasive with customers or colleagues, etc. may mean "Rest and Recreation" is no longer optional. You

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Three major sources of burnout as identified by Mark Gorkin in his Burnout Series articles at MentalHelp.net:The boundary between work and home is eroding; there's less recovery time and space with today's exhausting pace,when ideals, high expectations and critical or especially, pride-driven goals prove elusive or are continuously thwarted despite significant investment of time, energy, money

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After being blocked by Google from posting in my own blog because of unscrupulous and inveterate spamming (which isn't my doing, mind you), I'm very happy I'll be able to blog my self to eternity and beyond with the extra time I have now. Thanks to a new assistant at work, I get to divide my time between my blogs and the website I'm working on. (*sigh*)Anyway, I've received this email from a

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I have been looking over the most recent EEOC cases from Jan 2006 downwards to 2005, and something struck me as alarming for women of all ages and nationality everywhere. It's a pattern of sexual harassment and sometimes violence perpetrated against females. The most common instances where women experienced such acts were when the female was in a subservient position in the place of work, and

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'Racial Diversity Improves Group Decision Making In Unexpected Ways' cries the headline in red large letters. This conclusion is based on a Tufts University Research on the effect of racial diversity on group behavior. The new research indicates that 'diverse groups perform better than homogenous groups when it comes to decision making and that this is due largely to dramatic differences in the

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I recently came across another blog named 'Exploring Gender' and this post, girls who flash, struck me as an example of how pathetic some females have become. They have no sense of decency and self-respect anymore. Why do you think this is happening? Are we rearing our females this way or are we lacking the right role models for them? So many questions went through my mind as I read this post.

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For many decades, minorities in America have been exposed to discriminatory hiring. Inclusion into higher positions had been difficult for deserving individuals. As always their skin, their ethnicity, or their preferred gender had blocked their way to professional growth. However, the continuing flow of migrant workers and changing social values have elevated the concepts of 'diversity', '

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