As I was driving into work this morning, I heard a story on NPR about a new study from Deloitte & Touche that examines “what’s going wrong in the workplace, from harassment to embezzlement and theft.” They found that supervisors tend to “set the standard on how to behave.”

At the Deloitte & Touche website, ethical [...]

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DO UNTO OTHERS… how?

As a corporate behavioral specialist, Art Schoeck has some advice for managers and employees who want to improve relations: Forget the Golden Rule.

“The Golden Rule is totally wrong,” says Schoeck, founder and CEO of Data Dome, a clearinghouse for assessment tools. “You don’t treat people the way you want to be treated. [...]

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The effects of cuts in the permanent workforce are starting to show.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics report on Continent and Alternative Employment Arrangements has documented that in 2005 more than 10 million workers – about 7.4 of the employed – were independent contractors (an increase from 6.4 in 2001). An increasing number of workers are [...]

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Lifetime Television, the women’s cable network, has issued the findings from their workplace survey of women.

The survey concerned workplace attitudes and behaviors, especially those concerning the boss-employee relationship, job fit, and workplace ethics.

Boss-Employee (What about co-workers? departments? teams?)

Who’s the ideal boss? If male, Bill Gates (38%). If female, Oprah Winfrey (58%).
Three times more women would [...]

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