Browse by Tags

• Attitude & Motivation
• Best Practices
• Business
• Career Change
• Current Affairs
• Employment Trends
• Goals
• Hopes
• HR Issues
• Management
• Office Politics
• Ownership & Initiative
• Personal Development
• Plans
• Productivity
• Professionalism
• Troubleshooting
• Work

• When New Years Resolutions Aren’t Resolute

  Resolute (adj): firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion. Tomorrow begins a New Year, and as such, it is the time of New Years Resolutions. It’s a common joke that we Americans are very fond of making a list of items we want to achieve Read More... Posted Monday, December 31, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Attitude & Motivation, Career Change, Ethics, Ownership & Initiative, Personal Development, Work, Plans, Hopes, Goals

• "Think Twice" Before Making a Wrong Move

  In their 2008 Investor’s Guide, Fortune Magazine offered ten tips to help us prevent the heat of the moment from melting our better judgment. The tips form an acronym – Think Twice – and are worth keeping in mind no matter what you’re thinking about or Read More... Posted Sunday, December 23, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Ethics, Business, Management, Office Politics, Ownership & Initiative, Productivity

• How to Respond to Racism at Work

  Penelope Trunk has an interesting post on responding to racist comments in a work situation, and she links over to a brilliant entry on the very useful blog, Race in the Workplace . The author, Carmen Van Kerckhove, is a consultant for New Demographic Read More... Posted Monday, August 20, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 2 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Ethics, HR Issues, Professionalism, Troubleshooting

• 10 Tips for Keeping Your Bridges Intact

  Got a new job? Congratulations! But don’t throw caution to the wind just yet. It has taken a long time to create your strong reputation at the office, and unless you want to erase everything you’ve accomplished since you started, your departure must be Read More... Posted Thursday, July 05, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 3 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Ethics, HR Issues, Work

• Blowing the Whistle on YouTube

  Apparently, employers who lurk around MySpace is yesterday’s news. In USA Today this week, Stephanie Armour reports on employees who making videos of the workplace and posting them on well-trafficked Internet sites like YouTube . Some companies consider Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 4 Comments Filed under: Current Affairs, Employment Trends, Ethics, Business, HR Issues

• Are You an Ethical Employee? - Part III

  What if you’re not certain if an action is unethical? Here are some questions to ask yourself: Are there any potential legal restrictions or violations that could result from the action? Does my company have a Code of Ethics (formalized rules that describe Read More... Posted Saturday, July 01, 2006 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Ethics

• Are You an Ethical Employee?

  This is the first in a four-part series on business ethics. Hope you find it helpful! According to our friend Webster’s, ethics is defined as the study of what is right and what is wrong. Similarly, an ethical issue requires a person to choose among actions Read More... Posted Friday, June 23, 2006 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Ethics, Business, Professionalism

• Experience is the Name of the Game

  By now, you've probably heard that the publishing world has been up in arms and two rival houses have been warring publicly over a Harvard sophomore, Kaavya Viswanathan, who allegedly plagiarized large portions of her new novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 02, 2006 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 2 Comments Filed under: Attitude & Motivation, Current Affairs, Ethics