On July 19, I testified at a hearing held by the U.S. Congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on the subject of FEMA-issued trailers for hurricane victims and the subsequent adverse health effects experienced by those living in these trailers. It was quite an experience.
Is it OK to use an iPod at work? The debate grows as iPods become more popular. While some employers ban iPods, others encourage their use to reduce stress or boredom.
One of the primary outcomes of the congressional hue and cry in the aftermath of the notorious Enron, Tyco International, and WorldCom accounting scandals was the Sarbanes-Oxley Law of 2002, known in shorthand as SOX. The intended consequences of SOX are obvious. The unintended consequences are less so.
An image change could boost your career or job success and may even help improve workplace safety and health. Here are seven tips that might help you project a more appealing and winning image.
While the four-color typology seems useful to explain and resolve differences among individuals, and to assess team composition and balanced leadership qualities, I believe it’s chancy to assume one’s primary color is constant across settings. It’s likely many people alter their color rankings to fit current circumstances.
Take a look around and you might wonder what’s happened to the art of communication. We seldom talk to bank tellers; simply take our business to an ATM. Make AMTRAK reservations, for instance, and you talk slowly to a voice recognition system. How many companies do you call these days and get a live operator?
If you were asked to describe your personality, you could undoubtedly list a number of unique qualities you perceive in yourself as compared to others. The most prominent personality theorists and researchers, from Hippocrates to Carl Jung and Myers/Briggs, have classified people into four groupings.
Those who make their living on the road or do extensive traveling have never had an easy go of it. But now it’s getting more ridiculous by the day. I got a taste of it recently running through an airport in my socks after the security check to catch a plane on a hastily rebooked flight.
If government subsidies can get businesses to do irrational things like produce fuel ethanol from corn, just think of what subsidies could do to encourage rational, moral behavior, like preventing workplace injuries and illnesses.
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