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Trust and confidence in employees greatly empower them, making them motivated to collectively bring the company to significant progress. In operational terms, this simply means endowing the people with measurable accountability of tasks. They are adults, after all. This mandated individual accountability brings about a sense of responsibility in each [...]

Nowhere is systems thinking more evident than in employee relations. Open systems thinking and empowering clients to have the ability to be self-reliant have certainly become operationally pragmatic. In systems thinking, the focal point is empowerment. Interdependency is the natural result of systems thinking and empowerment. The employee organization [...]

Labor or human resources are very much a part of the value chain of a manufacturing firm which, in itself, is composed of many diverse, yet complementary, components. A manufacturing firm working on a production schedule and towards a given output will have to rely heavily on its employees. However, having a ‘common platform of participation is not [...]

In systems thinking, problems are seen as parts of an overall system, not just arbitrary results. This approach addresses the root or contextual cause of the problem, thereby not further allowing the problem to worsen. A certain framework exists in systems thinking whereby a problem is taken in relation to the whole, and not in isolation. Systems thinking [...]

According to Brooks (2000), workplace incivility translates to operational expenses for a business organization. The phenomenon goes through an entire downturn process that can be ugly for the company. There are victims of workplace incivility who suffer from stress, paranoia, anxiety, embarrassment, and fatigue. These may cause sleeplessness that, [...]

If the boss is the perpetrator of workplace incivility or workplace bullying, he will discover down the line that his toxic attitude does more harm than good for the company he is being paid to serve. Workplace incivility can include negative work behavior that can either be subtle or rude, is done with total disrespectful and disregard for co-workers, [...]

The business organization would do well to have an image and reputation of recognizing the equal and unequivocal human rights of each and everyone. The human resources department of the company should have a very careful and thorough process of hiring employees, thereby being capable of eliminating potential problems in the future. The department should [...]

There are some conflict resolution strategies that work for individual teams. There is one common strategy that runs through all these, though, and that is dialogue. A cooperative problem-solving style also enables people to work together. This cooperation not only finishes the work but also bolsters camaraderie and team spirit. Some employ the strategy [...]

Conflict resolution, a resultant and logical step to address the inescapable reality of conflict, is a must to move the team forward. Conflict resolution is a dynamic and pro-active endeavor that serves to find a commonality among the diversity in team membership. If there is no resolution to conflicts, the uniqueness of the individual cannot have [...]

Successful victims of conflict fight back even with negative response most of the time. Some responded by being absent often from team activities. The insight is clear. Those who fight back and try to resolve the conflict are members who recognize and confront the conflict issues squarely. In the process, they employ all means possible in terms of [...]