March 29–I’ve heard . . .:  Preface to a criticism or reprimand, used by managers who are too wimpy to take responsibility for observing your behavior firsthand, and who also are trying to make you paranoid; implies that other people have complained to your supervisor about your behavior or actions, but when you question any […]

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Recent posts have focused on women in the C-Suite.  What about mommy challenges that women face at work?  Forget the C-Suite, although this particular challenge could affect long-term gender C-Suite issues.
Women have children.  Women have to choose whether to quit work and stay home for a while–maybe a long while.  (Some women don’t have that choice.)  […]

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Following up on the immediately preceding post, how would you like to have this job?

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And speaking of diversity in the C-Suite, the New York Times reports that there is a C-Suite niche where women are finding success.
Hmmmm.   Do you think that women would find even more success if a woman were elected President of the U.S.?

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Most C-Suites are still mainly composed of white males.  Gains have been made by women and people of color, but the top dog world of most companies is a one race, one gender world.  (Click here, here and here.)
If you ask why, you’ll get a lot of answers–some probably right, some probably wrong.  If one of the […]

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What happened in California with grocery stores a few years ago won’t happen on the other side of the country–at least, not this time.  Click here to read an article in the Washington Post.

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Are you kidding?  You’re not suggesting that I consider ditching something that’s as old as hiring and firing?  Yep.
Don’t have performance reviews if:
–They aren’t honest about employees’ deficiencies and designed to help them improve their performance.
–They aren’t given timely.
–They aren’t consistently given to all employees.
–They don’t cover the entire review period (not just the last […]

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My post on guns in the workplace was joined by other posts on this subject, including a post from Cultural Offering and one from I’m A Pundit Too under its “current events” section.
Another post or two that gained some traction were about bullying, as reflected in Chris Moander’s blog.
One of the posts for March 27 on PointOfLaw deals […]

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Well, shortly after posting about some research that says employee empowerment and enlightened management could lead to world peace, I have now run into research that says it’s more and more difficult to have friends where you work.
 Why?  “Friendship is based on openness and trust and self-disclosure, and in the workplace this can backfire.”
Maybe these two pieces […]

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March 27–I hear you:  A faux compassionate phrase, laced with a touch of concern and sometimes accompanied by a “supportive” touch, which managers trot out when faced with angry or controversial sentiments from employees; vaguely social-worky but promises no action; many managers imagine, mistakenly, that just by “hearing” their employees, they will be able to […]

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