BACKGROUND Military culture and workplace are areas of interest for researchers across disciplines. However, few publications on military culture exist. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to introduce general concepts regarding the structure and culture of the United States Military and discuss how this creates challenges for reintegrating into the civilian world. METHOD Topics that w...

Virtual organising is a term which commonly describes an approach to managing and configuring organisational resources beyond the spatial and legal boundaries of the firm. To better manage the process of virtualisation, three things need to be understood: how virtual the organisation wants to be, how virtual the organisation is, and how capable the organisation currently is of operating virtual...

Workplace ostracism was originally defined that individuals were excluded or ignored or disregard by other employees. Workplace ostracism is a kind of “cold violence”, which has been paid attention widespread. The study reported here mainly summarized workplace ostracism and its effects from lots of domestic and foreign literatures. Firstly, we comb the conceptions and nature of workplace ostra...

Technology in the workplace is widespread in order for an organization to conduct business operations routinely. Technology allows the end user to experience work overload by taking on many projects and work stoppage from misconfigured computers, outdated devices, and network outages. Work overload (techno-overload) and stoppage because of technology has spurned a new terminology from work rela...

This is a short writing in response to the “Financial Incentives: Only One Piece of the Workplace Wellness Puzzle” (1) by Kristin Van Busum and Soeren Mattke of the RAND Health Advisory Services, RAND Corporation, in Boston. We would like to thank Kristin Van Busum and Soeren Mattke for their time in reading our article and offering excellent suggestions to employers and policymakers in order t...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to identify key success elements of employer-sponsored health promotion (wellness) programs. METHODS We conducted an updated literature review, held discussions with subject matter experts, and visited nine companies with exemplary programs to examine current best and promising practices in workplace health promotion programs. RESULTS Best practices includ...

This article reports on a study of the use and form of greetings and closings in the emails of two New Zealand workplaces: an educational organization and a manufacturing plant. Using discourse analytic techniques, 515 emails were analyzed and a number of differences were identified. In the educational organization, where restructuring has resulted in low staff morale and a mistrust of manageme...

Multiculturalism is one of the many factors contributing to the growing diversity found within the workforce comprising today’s organizations. This is particularly true in the ICT workplace. Diversity is often investigated in the context of teams and global organizations seeking to improve knowledge management and/or innovation strategies and practices. Understanding the role that culture plays...

The authors examine competing theoretical arguments regarding whether union representation, shared governance, wage levels, and two features of the quality of labor relations-workplace culture and conflict in negotiations-lead to better or worse outcomes for airlines, and they test these interpretations using a mix of historical and quantitative data from major U.S. airlines. Both the qualitati...