News tagged with coworkers
US hospitality industry often reluctant to hire people with disabilities
People with disabilities trying to find employment in the U.S. hospitality industry face employers who are often reluctant to hire them because of preconceived notions that they cannot do the job and that they are more costly ...
Jan 26, 2012 |
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'Touch' TV series uses numbers to connect people
Think about all of the different people that you come in contact with on any given day: family, friends, coworkers and strangers going about their lives. The fateful hijacking of Flight 93 on 9/11 showed how ...
Jan 26, 2012 |
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'I feel your pain ...' Same sex coworkers sympathize when they observe lack of respect aimed at their colleagues
Imagine the following scenarios: a co-worker is spoken to condescendingly, excluded from a meeting, or ignored by a supervisor. How does it make you feel? Do you feel differently depending on whether your co-worker is a man ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Worrying can impact interpersonal relationships, study finds
Most people worry from time to time. A new research study, led by a Case Western Reserve University faculty member in psychology, also shows that worrying can be so intrusive and obsessive that it interferes in the person's ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 26, 2011 |
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Women less interested than men in jobs where individual competition determines wages
Men are more likely than women to seek jobs in which competition with coworkers affects pay rates, a preference that might help explain persistent pay differences between men and women, a study at the University of Chicago ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jan 13, 2011 |
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'Vive la difference!' Seeing foreigners as foreign encourages local coworkers to assist them
Whether it's a company with local and ex-pat employees, countries in need of aid, or the elderly interacting with the young, a new research paper to be published in the journal Psychological Science says recognizing divers ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 11, 2011 |
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Sick? Stay home!
(PhysOrg.com) -- The deadline is looming, rumors of layoffs are swarming and you get the flu. Think the heroic thing to do is to go in and “work through the pain?” Wrong! According to Dr. Mary Capelli-Schellpfeffer, medical ...
Jul 09, 2009 |
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