Civility at Work
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- How to Master Workplace Civility #SHRM18
Civility usually is demonstrated through manners, courtesy, politeness, and a general awareness of the rights, wishes, concerns, and feelings of others. It includes the behavior that helps to preserve the norms for mutual respect at work and, given the current economic and political climate, it’s something we could all use ... read more - Workplace Policies Don’t Have to Be Too ‘Politically Correct’
City of Boca Raton (1998), the Supreme Court stated that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act is not a general civility code. Ordinary tribulations of the workplace ... Making fun of cultural behavior or customs. Mocking or imitating speech or dialect. ... read more - A Progressive’s Lament: The Civic Sector’s Underbelly
Self-management is the norm in the workplace ... I call “jungle behavior” (that is, survival of the fittest). Under those circumstances, fellow citizens get dismissed and disregarded. Sometimes they’re cast as “the enemy.” Civility and those ... read more - Logic Prevails At The NLRB! Some Common Sense HR Policies Are Legal Once Again!
Generally, employers can prohibit employees from taking photographs or making audio recordings in the workplace. No. 2: Civility rules ... in preventing insubordination or non-cooperation at work. Furthermore, during working time an employer has every ... read more - Study: To prevent sexual harassment, academic institutions should go beyond legal compliance to promote a change in culture — ScienceDaily (Details)
“A change to the culture and climate in our nation’s colleges and universities can stop the pattern of harassing behavior from impacting the next ... and to help promote professional cultures of civility and respect. Among the report’s findings ... read more - NLRB Gives Employers More Freedom with Employee Handbooks
These wide-ranging provisions cover such subjects as civility standards, insubordination rules and prohibitions on taking pictures in the workplace. NLRB General ... insubordination or noncooperation at work," it states. "Furthermore, during working ... read more - Physicians not immune to sexual harassment in the workplace
Together, those behaviors adversely affected the wellbeing of half of the 12 percent of female and 4 percent of male physicians who reported experiencing sexual harassment at work. Other harassing ... reported the offensive behavior, more than half ... read more - Physicians not immune to sexual harassment in the workplaceTogether, those behaviors adversely affected the wellbeing of half of the 12 percent of female and 4 percent of male physicians who reported experiencing sexual harassment at work. Other harassing ... reported the offensive behavior, more than half ... read more
- When the Private Becomes PoliticalAs a woman who has experienced sexual harassment, assault, and rape, I feel a form of sympathy with the pure rage and even delight some women are publically expressing, calling men out on their inappropriate behavior. At the same time, I do not think that ... read more
- What to Do with Disruptive Employees
Nearly every workplace will have to deal with disruptive ... Roughhousing or playing around in a way that is offensive or unsafe. Any other behavior that causes undue frustration, disruption, and problems. Some disruptive behaviors like negativity are ... read more - Columnist Kevin Foley’s comparisons to WWII enemies are nonsense
There are reasonable restraints on dissent; one is restriction on employee behavior in the workplace. Athletes in a professional ... Every reasonable person desires more civility and cooperation in Congress plus more camaraderie among our citizens, The ... read more - Only 1 in 4 women who have been sexually harassed tell their employers. Here’s why they’re afraid
Is this making it any easier for a low or mid-wage worker in middle America to rid her workplace of a sexual harasser ... care to prevent and promptly correct any sexually harassing behavior” and the employee “unreasonably failed to take advantage ... read more