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Workplace violence and sleep problems

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Health is a key factor that is important to every worker, and to be healthy, safety and productive, having a good sleep is necessary for all those factors (Garbarino et al., 2016c; Magnavita and Garbarino, 2017). Lack of sleep can cause harmful effect to people where it will affect the mental performance, plus vigilant attention] (Hudson et al., 2019), deftness (Banfi et al., 2019), performance issues (Massar et al., 2019), and also emotional factors (Cousins and Fernández, 2019). The increase of these complications due to lack of sleep will result occupational road accidents, near-miss accidents (Garbarino et al., 2016a, 2017), and occupational injuries (Garbarino et al., 2016b), that will create a negative outcomes in an organization. It was experienced that there is a considerable amount of loss to an organization due to insufficient sleep duration of the employee. In US it is researched that the organizational loss due to the sleep problems is around 9.9 million and it is calculate...

Stereotypes that affect Hiring in Workplace

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Everyone start a career in an organization thinking that it will make a positive impact to the life, thus there are factor that directly creates negativity in the working environment such as LGBTQ, Gender, race, culture is few of them. A group of stereotypes are the reason that makes the inequality in the workplace. Recruiting or Hiring decisions takes a vital part in every organization, as it will affect the growth and the identity of the organization in the industry. Most of the wrong hiring decisions that are taken by the employer is due to the limited time and lack of information (Birkelund 2016). Apart from information that is provided on the individual applicants through an CV , the hiring decisions also defines two additional source of information that employers rely on such as statistical information and cultural stereotypes. Discussing on the first source of information, statistical information has been initially originated from a literature that is done by Phelps (1972) and...

Unconscious bias in Workplace

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Unconscious bias in a workplace is where employees ideas, understandings, decisions are affected from attitudes of various individual in an organization in an unconscious way. In most of every society there are several social groups who are claimed to valued tent to gain all the benefits such as housing, education, and employment opportunities. And some social groups who have been claim to devalued stigmatization and marginalization have to overcome the access to get the same opportunities as the valued group (Pratto, Sidanius, Stallworth, & Malle, 1994). Even though these challenges are based on the society level they also affects individual personal level also. This extension of devaluation is referred to as bias, and it will affect in different ways such as individual and interpersonal levels (Hebl, Foster, Mannix, & Dovidio, 2002; Ruggs, Martinez, & Hebl, 2011). Bias can also produce the meaning of mistreatment, discrimination, impoliteness to on another (Cortina, 2008...

LGBTQ Inequality in Workplace

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Promoting the diversity and culture in a workplace is not only important to the organization, it is also important for the employees and clients also. Because if the employees has a peaceful environment to work they will deliver their best to the organization that will make the client also happy and confident about the company. According to the work presented by McPhail, McNulty, and Hutchings (2014) it is told that the HRM practices at an organization should pay a great attention to most exceptional workplace experiences such as the sexual minority of employees that is under the group of LGBTQ as they are playing a important part on the global talent pool(Day & Greene, 2008). It is said that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) employee are facing lot of challenges and circumstances in the international assignments, and it is said that the HRM policies in an organization should need to be better carved to address these complexities as it will increase the diverse workfor...

Managing Disability in Workplace

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Workplace is combination of various types of individuals. People with disabilities are not an isolated group. They may have physical disability or mental disability developed at the birth, childhood, teenage, or later in life during education or employment. People with disabilities has contributed the world in different ways. But when it comes to a workplace there are so many discrepancies that they face due to disability. According to the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Protection of Disabled Persons (2008) that has provided an effective definition of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the disability is described as “loss or abnormality of a certain organ or function, psychologically or physiologically, or in anatomical structure and lost wholly or in part the ability to perform an activity in a normal way” (Zhu et al., 2019, p. 22). People who claim to have disabilities have to justify the above definition and get a government issues ce...

Personality conflicts and Bullying in Workplace

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Workplace is somewhere we meet different types of people. It a point where professional lives whether they like or not get along with. A definite clash of personalities will conflict in here. Apart from that some people experience the enjoyment at work but some doesn’t. Due to the negative environment in the workplace most of the individual are unenthusiastic to perform their action at the organization. The negativity in a workplace, organization, society is build due to interpersonal conflicts, aggression and workplace bullying by the social stressors, for example, by negatively affecting employee commitment, engagement, and health (Bowling and Beehr, 2006; Nielsen and Einarsen, 2012). Interpersonal conflict defines a “process that begins when one party perceives that the other has negatively affected, or is about to negatively affect, something that he or she cares about” (Thomas, 1992, p. 653). Workplace Bullying is also known as harassment at work. According to an analysis presen...

Communication barriers in Workplace

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Communication is one of the major factors that directly affects an organization success (Butchibabu, SparanoHuiban, Sonenberg & Shah, 2016). But there is always a communication barrier in every workplace regardless of what sector it is. This barrier may be due to the lack of language knowledge of the employees, personal conflicts, reputation issues and so on. Workplace diversity can be double-sided and also it can create challenges for the organization (D'Netto et al., 2014). The most One of the often facts that is observed in diverse workforce is the miscommunication or no communication (D'Netto et al., 2014; Lauring & Selmer, 2012; Podsiadlowski, Gröschke, Kogler, Springer & van Der Zee, 2013). If two individual employees have misunderstanding due to cultural difference, personal difference miscommunication will occur, that will lead them even to get disappoint for the other person. Current organizations has become more culturally diverse, that has created commu...

Generational and Age Diversity in Workplace

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Workplace is identified as a group of individuals who are from various backgrounds and various age levels. Generational differences in the workplace as a research and intervention topic have recently grown significantly in popularity (Joshi et al., 2011; Lyons et al., 2015; Campbell et al., 2017). Age diversity is a fact that has affected on most of the organizations which has also resulted employee conflicts. Generational gap is inter-related with the skill level of the employee, where aged employees are reluctant to learn from the young. Main aim of any organization is to maintain its performance. In order to achieve this target, a skilled staff is a critical and an essential factor (Liang, 2012). So, organizations need to adjust human resource management (HRM) policies to inspire the workforce (Truss et al., 2013). The employees of various Generations as X, Y, and Z have diverse set of skills and perceptions regarding their jobs, which results organizations face multidimensional cha...