Employment Satisfaction: In the Doldrums Job satisfaction is declining as employees face increasing demands and pressures, with less than half of Americans reporting that they are happy with their current positions. ... However, satisfaction levels have declined significantly among professionals from households with the highest earnings -- from 66.5% in 1995 to 53.4% this year -- whereas workers from households with the lowest earnings reported satisfaction levels of 45.4% both this year and eight years ago. By age, workers in the 45- to 54-year-old group reported the lowest level of emp...

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A report compiled by Goldie Blumenstyk on behalf of The Chronicle of Higher Education highlights the dramatic shift of acceptance by both adults and employers in this mode of learning. ... John Zogby, who is cited throughout the Blumenstyk article is the author of a new book called The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream. ...

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Thus in this report, I will talk more about how when the economy is in a recession will affect the government policy, management of employment relations in organizations and workers and also how alternative work arrangements such as telecommuting can be helpful to an organization in reallocating its human resources as compared to permanent full time employment. ... Insurance agents work from a personal computer or a laptop financed interest-free by NTUC Income and only report to the office for the purpose of meeting clients or for internal meetings. ...

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According to an article written by Robert Dupont in the book Drug Abuse; Opposing Viewpoints [2], drug use in the workplace is accompanied by a host of problems: an increase in health care costs for treatment of both workers and their family members, reduced productivity, increase in theft, drug sales at work, and safety threats both on and off the job. ... Robert Half [7] wrote from his book, Robert Half On Hiring, that the negative effects of a personality test are that they are so complex, you need a specialist to interpret the results. ...

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The duties of the work are: report to the administrative secretary and b responsible for drafting letters of correspondence, answering phones, assisting in mailings, placing follow-up calls, distributing mail, setting-up meetings (book rooms, order food, coordinate schedule, run errands as they arise and keep supply inventory), manage prospect database, telemarketing update of database and follow up of direct mail. ...

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According to her book Nickel and Dimed: On not getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich writes that "What surprised and offended me the most about the low-wage workplace was the extent to which one is required to surrender one's basic civil rights and- what boils down to the same thing-self-respect"(211). ... This assertion by Ehrenreich is generally valid because in 2013, the American Civil Liberties Union received more complaints about workplace rights violations than about any other issue, which firmly proves that this problem still manifests through the invasion of privacy,...

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I've known teams to create a secret holiday pal gift-giving; schedule lunch and learn book discussions or presentations on topics people care about; hold ice cream socials; compete for the best decorated holiday windows; serve hot chocolate/cider/doughnuts on fall days, and give away a pumpkin to each employee; create awards for attendance, service, and contribution; and do social action work such as adopting a needy family for the holidays. ...

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I've known teams to create a secret holiday pal gift-giving; schedule lunch and learn book discussions or presentations on topics people care about; hold ice cream socials; compete for the best decorated holiday windows; serve hot chocolate/cider/doughnuts on fall days, and give away a pumpkin to each employee; create awards for attendance, service, and contribution; and do social action work such as adopting a needy family for the holidays. ...

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One of the reasons that China's GDP has been growing at a yearly average of ten percent for the past two decades is the large amount of Foreign Direct Investment coming from Hong Kong, Taiwan and the West. However, China's GDP growth rate dropped to 8.7 percent during 2012 with a slow down in export growth from 26% to 7%. A lot of economists started to doubt that this might be the end of the phenomenon of the Chinese export miracle. With other developing countries emerging in East Asia, many investors have begun to consider moving their factories and investments out of China and into...

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