Following a , the CEO of Aetna, raised eyebrows by offering free yoga and meditation classes to employees. As  wrote, “these moves have transformed a stodgy insurance company into one of the most progressive actors in corporate America.” Bertolini has , “we offer free mindfulness-based wellness programs to our employees. Because if we can make it easier for our employees to act thoughtfully instead of reacting to […]

Mary’s past record could be used to support her ability to perform her job satisfactorily without focusing on her absenteeism. Her previous record showed that she was a model employee, therefore, the past 3 years wherein her absenteeism became a company problem was based on external variables that was not present in her first 6 years in the company. The cause for her absenteeism had […]

Employability is a term that has been derived from the term employment. Employment basically refers to the capability of a person being admitted or hired in a labour or job market following his qualifications or the job requirements. The process of employability does not stop at that point of being hired, but also on how to maintain the newly acquired job, thus sustainability. Comprehensively, employability […]

Symbolizing the low regard for welfare of farm workers in various ethnic groups by the agricultural industry was el cortito, the short-handled hoe, known too as el brazo del diablo or “the devil’s arm”. In conjunction with hand weeding, it was useful in singling out lettuce, celery and beet starts, which were planted in heavy rows to guarantee that sprouts would survive the ravages of […]

If you found yourself surprised that self-driving Ubers launched in Pittsburgh and not San Francisco, it’s time to get wise. Not all our big ideas get started in Silicon Valley, after all, and Pittsburgh’s dominance in robotics make it a natural launchpad for futuristic tech. Of course, too many aren’t clued into Pittsburgh’s reboot from its steel town roots, or the entrepreneurial evolution so many […]

Generation Gap When younger workers are hired in the same department as older workers, the results can be frustrating or rewarding. What makes the difference is how management decides to blend the workforces. The 80 million Generation Y workers, called millennial, who were born after 1977 bring a host of talents to the office. They generally are skilled at hands-on, experiential learning and gain skills […]

I used to draw as a child, but then again, who didn’t? But as I dove into my art class, I found out that art was a lot more interesting than I thought. I visited the Getty Center as a young child, and as memory portrays it, the museum was boring and strict. So when I found out I would be venturing there once again, […]

As the saying goes ‘you get no second chance to make a first impression’. While idealistically we would all want to be judged by our innate abilities rather than the superficial packaging , unfortunately we still mostly tend to pick up a book by its cover . Whether we finally buy it might be dependent on how engaging the back summary is but that only […]

Grey offers a number of opinions on management thought in his book “A Very Short Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Studying Organisations” (2009). He outlines his opinions through a number of themes within the book such as looking at bureaucracy and scientific management together, his views on human relations theory (HRT) and its links with people management, the theme of organization culture and […]

In consonance to the essentiality of training and development in the proliferation of one’s organization, Raymond Noe’s Employee Training and Development exemplify the need to strategic training. The desire of the companies for competitiveness drives them to stimulate their work force. Enhancement of employee’s skills is the focal ingredient of Noe’s masterpiece, “competitiveness refers to a company’s ability to maintain and gain market share in […]