Some argue that it is unethical for entities to look at personal profiles to judge their applicants. There may be no correlation between the information on those profiles and whether the person is qualified, and entities could often make judgments off of personal biases. ... The plaintiff's voluntary sharing of information means that the government never forced him to share the information he posted online and got fired for. ... A page might reveal ethnicity, disclose personal events, or promote political or religious views. ... If you have information or material you want to leave up bu...

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After passing the first selection with success, a member of the government comes to their house to ask them very personal question about their past. ... Employers want to control the information supplied by job applicants to avoid false or inflated information. ... While some people are not concerned about background investigations, others are uncomfortable with the idea of an investigator examinating their personal history. In-depth background checks could unearth information that is irrelevant, taken out of context, or just plain wrong. ... When a check enters into personal life with no r...

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They monitor email that enters their system by using software that that records information and or activity on a computer and then sends the information to the person or company that installed it. ... This helps ensure that employees are not surfing the web or writing personal emails when they should be working. ... Right to privacy and protection when it comes to their personal information or monitoring of private email. ... Employees should not be to upset because their email is being monitored, because it is still a very convenient and fast way of communication in this information age. Howe...

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Information and technical knowledge is demanded in the workplace causing higher education and professional training to become prerequisites for any career in Information Technology. ... In the Management Information Systems (MIS) career market, "a growing number of employers are asking applicants to send in their resumes in a scannable format" said Kerri Bennett (Bennett, personal interview, September 20, 2003), a recruiter for Northrop Grumman Mission Systems. ... Chris Han, an associate recruiter for Microsoft says "As trivial as it may sound, the most important thing to provide is your co...

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Almost 80 percent of organizations use e-mail to transmit information. ... E-mail is increasing in popularity in the workplace because it is an efficient, quick method to receive and disseminate information throughout a large business. ... There is nothing to prevent an employer from looking at intercompany e-mail communications and even using this information against an employee at a later time. ... It needs to protect confidential and privileged information from being intercepted by competitors. ... This will assure the employees that they should use business time for only business not...

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"Although 80% of all organizations communicate and share business information via e-mail, only 36% have policies addressing proper e-mail usage" (Greengard). ... Then there is the issue of whether or not the information obtained from electronic communication should be allowed into court as evidence. ... I believe that e-mail and the Internet can be very fast effective tools for taking care of some personal business without interfering with a person's work. ... In 1928 the question arose of whether or not to allow into evidence information that had been written down according to what t...

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Computer-mediated communication (CMC) is an interactive channel, which allows users to be active and engage in a two-way communication, it is an inexpensive way of information seeking for increasing efficiency and productivity (Miller, 2009.) The nature of CMC allows greater manipulation and more careful construction of personal information. CMC allows delays to responses, which gives participants the opportunity to review revise or cancel their communications before the information is sent (Heisler & Crabill, 2006.) ...

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And the trends that drive technology 'faster, smaller, cheaper' make it possible for larger and larger numbers of employers to gather ever-greater amounts of personal data." ... As PC World columnist Daniel Tynan points out, companies that don't monitor network traffic can be penalized for their ignorance: "Employees could accidentally (or deliberately) spill confidential information...or allow worms to spread throughout a corporate network. ... Legal scholar Jay Kesan points out that the law holds employers liable for employees' actions such as violations of copyright law...

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For your information, your break is a privilege, not a right. ... In reality, professionally you are supposed to keep your personal life separate from work life. No one will tell you about your co-workers personal life, in a very detailed way especially not on your first day of work. ... The person leading this orientation is entrusting the new person with all of this known but confidential information but makes it a point to not let on or they will be let go. ... The employees in Orientation have all found a way to keep their personal life separate from their personal life, for the most pa...

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I will express my personal opinions and information that I have learned from out lectures, textbook and work experience. ... The factors that would enhance an employees job satisfaction are the following; freedom, feedback, good pay and promotion programs, challenging, personal comfort and social interaction. ...

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Allow the employee to clean out his or her office or desk, but have someone oversee the process to make sure that only the employee's personal possessions are removed. ... First, when an employee is discharged, it is important to immediately pay the employee for all regular and overtime hours worked and any unused vacation or personal time. ... Finally, another matter that needs to be considered after a discharge occurs is the information that you will release about a former employee when a job reference is requested. In light of the increasing number of libel and slander lawsuits filed...

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First, allow employees provide input into appraisal process through completing self-appraisals, training employees to share information with supervisors, and training supervisors to obtain information from employees (Gilliland & Langdon, 1998). ... The job relevance is important when the information is collected and the appraisal system is developed (Gilliland & Langdon, 1998). ... One of the approaches to make sure the PA process is fair and accurate, has no adverse impact, is to develop some procedural tools which can help raters avoid personal and legal errors, such as check lists, safeguar...

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Interviews can give crucial information about an applicant as well the applicant can judge the position and the company. ... It should include: 1) Contract Information: Your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address at which you can be reached and all your contact information should go at the top of your resume. 2) Job objective: A one sentence objective focusing on your specific area of expertise and the sort of work you are hoping to do. 3) Employment History: Paid and non-paid experiences beginning with the most recent. ... If you are a new graduate without a lot of work expe...

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That after giving to the company twenty or more years they were given ½ hour to pack theirs personal staff and leave the company. ... Companies can do this by providing employees with information about how productivity has contributed to profits. ... The retention programs attempt to gain loyalty by meeting the personal and developmental needs of the employees. ...

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Application Forms (prefer application forms) due to it having all the information Boots the Chemist are looking for, from the form, the managers are able to determine if you are going to be successful candidate for the job or not. The information, which is required by Boots the Chemist using the application forms, is:  Personal details  Educations  Skills  Experience  References  Position applied for  Working hours By filling out the form correctly, the applicant will be chosen amongst the others for an interview if successful, people who ha...

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They build a sense of personal value. ... They enhance personal development. Performance evaluations are motivational for employees who are looking to enhance their personal learning, growth, and development. Appraisals are a highly valuable source of information, insights, and tools necessary for such progress. Performance appraisals are similarly motivational for employees whose needs are centered on achievement, goal attainment, and sensing personal effectiveness, respect, and trust. 5. ...

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I enjoyed the way the test focused on what I believe to be my best natural abilities; by asking a series of informative questions tuned to my personal likes, tastes, and attributes. ... There are lots of other things you can do as well such as informational interviewing (calling up people in a profession you think your interested in and asking them questions about their job), or reading books about some area in the work place you are interested in. ...

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Some of the duties of an educational, vocational, school or guidance counselor, include counseling individuals to help them understand and cope with personal, behavioral or social problems influencing their vocational or educational situations. ... They counsel students on their goals for the future, their personal problems, as well as assist them in deciding what training institutions would be the best fit for them. ... At times, the counselors gather information through regular meetings with their clients. ... The work relies heavily on personal initiative, and more often, it is considered a...

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Work should stay at work and personal feeling should not enter the work environment. ... The Nolo: Law for Everyone's Web site provides information of the laws regarding racial discrimination (http://www.nolo.com). The EEOC's Web site provides information regarding federal laws against racial discrimination (http://www.eeoc.gov). ...

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With this companies have discovered that people enjoy a work place that is accepting and that meets all of their personal needs and goals. ... A mentor is a higher ranking, senior organizational member who helps to provide direct training and inside information on the ups and downs of the organization. The mentor provides inside information on how the company works. ...

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It can be verbal including remarks, nicknames, asking personal questions, non-verbal involving photographs, whistling or it can be physical which involves pinching, brushing against them or sexual assault. ... Companies that are dealing with the problem much avoid penalizing the victim, by either transferring them to a less desirable position or leaking out the information. ... Preventing sexual harassment in the workplace requires a lot of investment time from all personal, in the end however these costs will be significant to the savings the company has in legal fees and health care costs. ...

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"This privacy issue derives from the basic right to freedom, and at a minimum this entails the right to be left alone including the right to withhold from employers personal information that is not relevant to the job (Werhane, 1985)". ... "Such testing, for example must be truly random (to guard against discrimination), and must be conducted in such a way that the personal space of the persons being tested is not unnecessarily violated (Desjardins and Duska, 1987). ...

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Communication is the process by which people send and receive information. ... If the employee has a personal problem I can send them to a wellness program where they can talk to a licensed counselor. ...

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Tweezerman, which manufactures and distributes personal health-care products, was on the verge of announcing across-the-board wage increases when the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks struck a staggering blow. ... That's why we feel the best way to dissipate the fear and stress that arises in such situations is with open communications, complete sharing of information and the truth," he says. ...

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I felt that if I relay information to my manager, it would not be kept in secret. ... Everyone has his or her personal rules for effective communication and unless everyone is on the same level, employers" will always have communication barriers in the workplace. ...

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