EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The purpose of this report is to describe and analyze the detriments and implications of a workplace tainted with harassment issues, as well as to provide recommendations to assist organizations on how to avoid legal liability regarding harassment claims and how to achieve a harassment-free work environment. Drawing on scholarly sources, the report identifies three forms of harassment, which are bullying, sexual and racial harassment. It examines the differences in people’s
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Bully prevention manager Deborah Temkin argued that the study involving bully prevention programs, Journal of Criminology, should be looked at more closely. There were simply not enough variables for an argument on the increasing or decreasing of bullying of schools with
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Economics September 13, 2014∗ Abstract We study the joint determination of fund managers’ contracts and equilibrium asset prices. Because of agency frictions, investors make managers’ fees more sensitive to performance and benchmark performance against a market index. This makes managers unwilling to deviate from the index and exacerbates price distortions. Because trading against overvaluation exposes managers to greater risk of deviating from the index than trading against undervaluation, agency
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3. Key Facts and Analysis. Discrimination in the office workplace, defined as when an employee experiences unfair treatment on the basis of “race, religion, national origin, disabled or veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics,” is an area of legitimate alarm in the American job market, and is prohibited by Federal Equal Employment Opportunity laws. According to these laws, discrimination extends to harassment, retaliation against an employee who files a claim about unfair treatment
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manipulation of data to dishonestly obtain money. Even though the fraud is happening over the phone it is using the lack of updated computer data to dishonestly obtain money. 2. What internal controls would you recommend that would enable the resort’s managers to prevent such offenses? First, in order to get paid, Travel Agents must turn in proof that they are authorized agents. A list will be completed and maintained starting with all new business. Just by saying we are updating our records and now
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Case #25 Gainesboro Machine Tools Corporation Synopsis and Objectives In mid September 2005, Ashley Swenson, the chief financial officer (CFO) of a large computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) equipment manufacturer needed to decide whether to pay out dividends to the firm’s shareholders, or to repurchase stock. If Swenson chose to pay out dividends, she would have to also decide upon the magnitude of the payout. A subsidiary question is whether the firm should
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an unexpected, potentially negative, by-product of behaviours demonstrated by many employees, which is now commonly referred to as cyberloafing, cyberdeviancy or cyberslacking. While on the surface the initial response by most business owners and managers is that cyberloafing is a wasteful activity costing the company money through loss of productivity as a result of employees spending company time on personal endeavours, there has been another, more positive spin off, to the personal use of technology
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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Faculty of Arts and Science & Rotman School of Management Final Examination, April, 2010 RSM 230H1S – Financial Markets INSTRUCTIONS: You have 2 hours for this exam. Complete your Scantron in PENCIL and use it to answer Part A of the exam. Answer Part B of the exam on this paper in the space provided. All cell phones and portable electronic devices must be turned off. Non-programmable calculators are permitted Please remain in your seats during the
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of life of the parties cannot be accepted by another party. Answers for question 1 i: CONFLICT AT WORKPLACE 1 A manager at my workplace reassigned an employee’s task to the employee’s co-worker but failed to communicate the reassignment to the employee. This has caused the employee to feel slighted, which can transform into animosity among the two employees and the manager. Failing to communicate in the workplace may cause employees to make incorrect assumptions and believe workplace gossip
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