Workplace Issues

Welcome to our collection of Web sites related, broadly, to workplace issues. As we progress, the site and an instruction regarding what is available at the site will be placed in the appropriate heading in the Chapter Outlines.

Workplace Violence

Take the Workplace Violence Quiz.

Violence and postal workers. Explaining "why."

The Toxic Workplace.

Preventing Workplace Violence: Management Considerations.

Violence In The Workplace.

Workplace violence links.

See Oct. 7: Dealing with Difficult People.

Business Ethics Magazine: Trend Watch Articles---Social Investors Triumph With 3M Tobacco Man! "The nation's third-largest billboard company, St. Paul, Minnesota-based 3M Media, a subsidiary of 3M, announced in mid-May that effective December 31, 1998, it will be totally out of billboard advertising of tobacco products and promotions, including tobacco-sponsored events."

Business Ethics Magazine: Interview: Dilbert's Scott Adams.

Business Ethics Magazine: The Best Corporate Citizens: Is your company on our list of the nation's 100 most profitable, public and socially responsible companies?

Business Ethics Magazine: Online!

Alcohol and mental health problems.

Employee Theft  This site describes Self-Study Materials:  REID AUDIO CASSETTE COURSE ON EMPLOYEE THEFT INVESTIGATIONS (read about cases of "Embezzlements" and "Single incident theft involving unusual access" involving disgruntled employees).

Employee Theft, brief description of the problem.

Employee Theft.  United States Postal Inspection Service--Employee Theft/Embezzlement: penalties for postal employees (employee theft is serious business!).

Biting the hand that feeds you.  Gary Larsen humor (with Danish commentary).

Computer-Based Monitoring  Monitoring Internet Traffic In The Workplace: Be Careful If You Screw Off On Company Time!  This is one employee's feelings about computer-based monitoring.

Electronic Performance Monitoring  Technological Surveillance in the Workplace--Monitoring E-Mail, Computer Files, Voice Mail, and Telephone Use Without Crossing the Privacy Line.

Prepared by Mark Garrison, September, 1997
Modified, February, 1998