Ethnic minority is a comparatively important group that comprises a large sector of the American hospitality industry. The purpose of this study was to investigate the career expectations of ethnic minority students majoring in the hospitality industry and to examine if ethnic minority students perceived more career barriers than White students. Results showed that ethnic minority students perc...

Occupational exposure limits (OELs) serve occupational health professionals as benchmarks for a healthy work environment. OELs are generally developed by manufacturers for substances which are not subject to governmental regulation or which have not been evaluated by consensus organizations such as the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists. This review is intended to serve a...

This article highlights the prevalence and economic outcomes of financial illiteracy among American households, and reviews previous research that examines how improving financial literacy affects household saving. Analysis of the research literature suggests that previous financial literacy efforts have yielded mixed results. Evidence suggests that interventions provided for employees in the w...

This document is a consensus statement by the major American societies of physicians who work in the interventional laboratory environment. It reviews available data on the prevalence of occupational health risks and summarizes ongoing epidemiologic studies designed to further elucidate these risks. Its purpose is to affirm that the interventional laboratory poses workplace hazards that must be...

Respectful treatment may be more consequential for members of stigmatized groups because they are often excluded from society. The present study examined the consequences of respectful treatment in the workplace on job satisfaction for members of stigmatized groups. Among a nationally representative sample of American adults, members of stigmatized groups showed a stronger relationship between ...

Background: Anxiety is a stimulus-bound phenomenon. Workplaces are complex stimuli which are especially prone to provoke anxiety. Workplace phobia is defined as a phobic anxiety reaction with symptoms of panic occurring when thinking of or approaching the workplace. People suffering from workplace phobia regularly avoid confrontation with the workplace. Method: This article reviews recent findi...

SUMMARY IBM's Microkernel, named Workplace OS microkernel 17], was the core component of Workplace OS, a portable successor of OS/2. The basic premise of Workplace OS work was: 1) IBM would adopt and improve the CMU Mach 3.0 microkernel for use on PDAs, the desktop, workstations, and massively parallel machines, and 2) that several operating system personalities would execute on the microkernel...

Exchange of knowledge is becoming increasingly important to modern organizations. In this chapter is explained what this elementary knowledge exchange consists of and how a virtual workplace can support knowledge exchange between workers. A scenario from the medical domain illustrates how physicians can improve their knowledge exchange by utilizing the virtual workplace models introduced. Bette...

Information and communication technology is at the core of administrative work and it has a significant influence on work and on the work environment. This paper presents a study designed at understanding the digital transformation of student administration at a large university. Through quantitative and qualitative data, different aspects of the digital workplace are highlighted. The study is ...

The Information area has revolutionized the workplace. Douglas Kruse, a professor of human resources and the director of the program for disability research at Rutgers University, states that 7% of employed persons with disabilities work 20 hours or more a week from home. While some modern countries have established “virtual teams”, which are said to be comprised of people who are geographicall...