Workplace Safety: Our Role By Collins Opara - Chief Chemist‚ MRS Oil Nigeria PLC. August 2011 Safety at the workplace has been a concern for many organizations. Most organizations have incorporated cultures and even metrics into their business scorecard to manage workplace safety. Even organization who were used to neglecting safety in workplace are beginning to embrace it. A research conducted in 2009 by the BUREAU FOR LABOUR STATISTICS US (2010) reported that in the US the number of days-away-from-work
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Unit 5 Communication and professional skills within child care and education D1/ D2 Select four aspects of professional practice and give reasons why each chosen aspect is essential and who this may affect. There are many aspects of professional practice‚ these aspects are very important to be followed. Working in partnership with health care and other professionals: working closely with the other professionals in the setting is important for the safety of the children. Communicating about
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what points in the communication process can problems occur? Give examples of how noise can interfere with the communication process. What can managers do to reduce problems and noise? Problems can occur when the message is not delivered unclear. When the sending doesn’t follow up with the receiver to make sure the message was understood. Problems also occur when the environment is noisy; the message tends to not be heard correctly. Noise can interfere with communication when a person is giving
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college‚ and especially in the workplace of adults the concept of bullying has always been an ongoing factor which became a global issue. “In general terms‚ bullying describes a wide variety of negative workplace behaviors including verbal threats‚ personal attacks‚ humiliation‚ innuendo‚ and deliberate isolation of a colleague.” Bullying in the workplace has been identified as a major contemporary challenge for occupational health and safety. These negative workplace behaviors are frowned upon‚ but
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Building Inclusive workplaces by harnessing diversity Introduction Why should a successful organisation embrace diversity? Some will say discrimination is wrong‚ illegal and immoral. Others will talk of the social need for inclusion. There is‚ however‚ a larger reason for organisations to embrace diversity. The paradigm through which the organisation sees diversity is crucial and that will shape the organisation’s diversity philosophy. Diversity management brings a variety of gender and ethnic
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Introduction The focus of this paper is to better understand the factors that cause inequality in the workplace between men and women. Many women have difficulty advancing in the corporate world because of gender stratification. There are several factors that lead to the failure of women becoming authoritarian. For example‚ if a man were to demand his proceeding employees to complete a task in a harsh‚ almost barking manner‚ then each employee would listen. However‚ women have to find different
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“Bullying in the workplace” When the word bullying comes to mind‚ I think of kids. Elementary kids at recess‚ middle school kids at lunch‚ high school cliques‚ but the one thing that had never crossed my mind was an adult being bullied‚ especially at work. How could you be bullied at work? How could you be bullied as an adult? Is bullying in the workplace that big of an issue or is this just merely a term the less determined worker uses as an excuse for a poor job performance? In
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Group Communication Paper Team D BCOM 230 September 13‚ 2010 MEMO: To: Mrs. Johnson From: Team D Date: September 13‚ 2010 Re: Group Communication Mrs. Johnson I would like to start off by saying congratulations on your new manager position within the company. In your managerial position‚ you will have four employees who have worked with the company for a period of time. The employees have worked and communicated well with each other. Each person puts each others needs
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America and increasing the risk of large-scale food poisoning. In his new book‚ Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal‚ Eric Schlosser describes fast food’s hidden dangers. A Lifetime of Fast Food Although most of the health problems related to fast food aren’t felt until middle age -- obesity and diabetes are at an all-time high --- the damage starts before children enter kindergarten. Hoping to shape eating habits‚ fast-food chains market heavily to children. About 96% of American
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A Study of Motivation in the Workplace | Tamara M. Coleman | EMBA22-2 | Motivation is difficult to explain and practice. However motivation is still the one thing that makes people productive in their jobs. Whether the motivation is tangible or not‚ it all depends on the individual and how management takes the information and applies it. There are many theories and practices that can be studied and applied to any situation. Motivational theories are studied and practiced by theorists and
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