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ARCHITECT OR ARSONIST: Using e-mail to build not burn bridges
As a mediator helping people repair the damage that conflict has done, I have seen the havoc a single e-mail message can wreak. And as a corporate trainer, I have heard supervisors and employees alike...
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Mandatory arbitration provision violates US National Labor Relations Act
Ross Runkel in both his arbitration blog and his employment law blog reports this week that the U.S. National Labor Relations Board has held in U-Haul Company of California (NLRB 06/08/2006) (2-1) that...
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The art of demotivation: video captures bad boss behavior
There is probably no greater source of workplace conflict than bad bosses. Why? Good bosses provide leadership. Bad bosses provide what columnist Dale Dauten, author of the Corporate Curmudgeon, calls...
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Special Labor Day edition of Blawg Review covers history of American labor
Labor Day here in the United States is associated far more with back-to-school sales, political campaigning, and backyard barbecues than it is with its original purpose–a day to honor workers. This...
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Bursting the bubble: cultivating dissent in the workplace
According to a recent BusinessWeek poll, 90% of executives and middle managers believe that they perform in the top 10%. (This effect, known as positive illusion bias, is not confined to managers...
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Boys will be boys: gender still an issue for the legal profession
I will remember always the pride I felt the day I was sworn in as a member of the bar. I was the first woman in my family to go to college, to get an advanced degree, and now, to become a lawyer. It...
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Workplace violence blog committed to making employees safer
PART27.com, a web site dedicated to providing resources that help organizations, companies, and agencies create safer workplaces, also publishes Workplace Violence, a blog that delivers news and links...
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Failure to listen leads to racial harassment charge
A Purdue University employee and student has been accused of racial harassment simply for reading a book. The book that got Keith Sampson into trouble was the critically acclaimed Notre Dame vs. the...
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You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours: organizational behavior expert...
Idiosyncratic deals, or i-deals as they are also known, are agreements negotiated between individual employees and employers that benefit both sides. Although such deals give an individual employee a...
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Resolving Conflict in Teams: new blog latest addition to ADRblogs.com
The World Directory of ADR Blogs has just added a new entry to its catalog: Resolving Conflict in Teams, published by American conflict resolution specialist Guy Harris, who describes himself as a...
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