Absenteeism

One of the many unwanted liabilities is the Occupational stress which has grasped the attention of many over the past few decades. Stress at work is seen as a major cost by organization because it affects employee performance, notably through absenteeism and presenteeism (the practice of attending work even when employees feel too ill to be able to work effectively). Performance if defined can be understood as the ability to perform, in other words “Efficiency”. More concisely, Stress can be…

Student’s ability to learn and progress is implemented through their schooling life. It plays an integral part in to the formation of an individual as it is a place where there is an expectation that it will raise all students’ standards and be a place of equal opportunity. Through the reading of various journal articles, one could suggest that social class is a prime factor when assessing a pupil’s educational outcome. Social class plays an integral part of life and can be reflected in school…

It’s been happening since the beginning of time. Bullying is everywhere you go. My 60-year-old mother still recalls times in the 1970s when people called her fat at school. We are not enforcing strict consequences for bullying because people are still getting bullied, suicide is an epidemic, and many people don’t feel that it is their responsibility to do anything about it. It sounds insane, right? An act that makes people want to take their own life happens every day and we are just sitting…

Following months of heated debates and deliberations, George Osborne had announced that the new, mandatory national living wage would be enforced as from April 2016 (Personnel Today,2016). The living wage law requires all employers to pay a statutory wage of £7.20 an hour to all workers aged 25 years or above (HM Government). According to Bennett (2014) and Clary (2009), the living wage is the level of income that an individual must earn to cover the basic costs of living and to maintain a safe…

opinion. People who work in dangerous organizational circumstances are assumed employ fight or flight as a defense mechanism. The assumption groups tend to be divided into two camps of enemy and friendly forces. People with fight reaction show absenteeism, resignation, evasion and, especially, aggression against themselves, fellows and authority. They want to protect and conquer the foe. Some leaders force their subordinates to make more angry and violent against actual or imaginary enemies,…

Unethical conduct that is not illicit every now and again falls in a hazy area in the middle of good and bad that make it hard to choose what to do when it is experienced. Besides, diverse individuals have distinctive perspectives with respect to what is moral and what is untrustworthy. Case in point, some individuals feel that it is okay to tell a bit "white falsehood", or to make one long separation approach the organization's nickel, the length of they can advocate it in their psyche. At…

Childhood obesity is a growing problem around the world. Especially in America, obesity in children has been increasing drastically. According to the American Medical Association, in 2009, obesity increased from 5 to 12.4 percent in two to five year olds, 6.5 to 17 percent in six to eleven year olds and 5 to 17.6 percent in twelve to nineteen years olds.(Gale) Childhood obesity has doubled in children and tripled in teens over the past thirty years.(Ronald, Lankford,Hills)This data is proof that…

I. Background information On June 6, I interviewed Maoquan Luo, an effective and productive manager. He is 37 years old. Mr. Luo graduated from Zhejiang University in 2000 and obtained his bachelor in applied psychology. In order to advance his career, he enrolled in the MBA program of Lanzhou University in 2012. Mr. Luo has been working at Metersbonwe Group since 2008. Metersbonwe is a famous casualwear retail brand in China and has about 4,700 stores all over China. Maoquan Luo has held the…

Importance of Social Responsibility for Businesses Business plays an important role in the economy as well as in the society. Since businesses are run by private owners, they act in the way that increases their profits. But, because of their great influence, businesses are expected to also take some social responsibility. Milton Friedman, in the essay “The social responsibility of business is to increase profits”, argues that businesses’ only responsibility is to increase its profits and…

work-life balances has the following impacts: Positive Impacts 1. 88% agreed that it helps in fostering a good employment relations 2. 79% agreed that it helps in retention of more female employees 3. 65% agreed that it helps in reduction of absenteeism 4. 64% agreed that it leads to improvement in staff motivation and commitment 5. 60% agreed that it helps to lower labour…