Employee Development

In team-based organizations, opportunities for promotion come rarely. So how do you provide opportunities for team members to grow and develop?

Say Goodbye to Why and Try

The words we use make a huge difference in manner we communicate. Why and Try are useless words. Strike them from you vocabulary and improve your relationships.

Jest Practices: Best Practices for Humor in the Workplace

Although humor in the workplace can have beneficial effects, yet not all humor is good humor. However the challenge is to interject appropriate humor & fun into our serious jobs without hurting others or seriously undermining the company.

Is Your Company's Stress Management Program Stressful in Itself?

Some simple advice — and pass-along strategies — for reducing stress in the workplace.

Cubicles Today: Applications and Trends

We take a look at how employees' needs are changing the cubicle landscape in the 21st century. We also offer tips for businesses transitioning their staff from a traditional workplace into a modern, cubicle-filled one.

Globalization of English: Communicating Intelligibly

The advent of modern technology, especially the Internet, has made access easier and cheaper to people worldwide such that it helped speed up globalization. Along with it, the transfer of International Assignees across geographical borders perpetuates the use of the English language. That has never been as pervasive or as widely, although variations of the language and degree of fluency differ from country to country, individual to individual.

The Meaningless Melancholy

If a lexicon is not able to tell you the correct meaning then it is you who will decide where to march after that. The prejudice of being called as the only loyal member of the organization is the chief impetus of corporate sycophancy. This account is an endeavor to examine whether this force will forlorn the values of organizational behavior or it will prove as a mechanism to deprive the corporate culture with social and humane values. The department of human resource which is considered as the apex court for an employee in any organization is only...

Business Motivation

Motivation can have different kinds because of various sides of human nature.

Communicating to a Global Audience

To communicate clearly and with global sensitivity, several guidelines and tips must be followed. The resulting business writing will be easier for your audience to understand.

Intercultural Conflict in the Workplace: every Organization's Nightmare

Conflict is a clash of values that is a common occurrence in the workplace. Add ethnic, geographic and lingual diversities to the conflict, and it will become the stuff of every organization's nightmare. Not to mention, the International Assignee's too. More and more executives are expected to work internationally, hence business and social contacts between people of various nationalities increased.

Flowers in the Workplace: How Motivation can Affect Productivity

Learn how flowers can improve worker motivation and in turn, increase productivity overall in the workplace.

Dealing With Workplace Bullying And Harassment

A great psychiatrist gave a presentation at a large conference attended by colleagues and his peers. As he spoke every audience member were glued and intently listening to every one of his words. He was talking about harassment.

Mastering Singaporean Business Etiquette: 7 Tips

To the first-time International Assignee to Singapore – or Asia for that matter – the mere thought of experiencing a wholly different culture is daunting enough. In addition to putting in his best work performance so as to make his expatriation experience worthwhile. Hence, this article to enlighten Expatriates heading to Singapore.

Communicating with Singaporeans: Understanding 6 Key Aspects

To the first-time visitor, Singapore is a thoroughly Asian country with Western trappings. Not to mention, an English-speaking populace that may cause some discomfort and confusion: apart from Asians speaking English with one another, one has to contend with the varied Singaporean accents – according to the individual's ethnicity.