Category: Workplace

Full PDF Version April 13, 2001 The Honorable Daniel K. Akaka Ranking Member, Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation, and Federal...

Full PDF Version Introduction. The subject of the document is confidentiality, which is a critical component of a successful ADR...

I. CITIZEN-TO-CITIZEN DISPUTES Alternative dispute resolution is traditionally defined as resolving disputes peacefully by means other than going to court....

HR 1965 IH 107th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1965 To clarify the Administrative Dispute Resolution Act of 1996 to...

Memorandum For Secreatary Widnall Shortly after Vice President Gore issued the Report of the National Performance Review (NPR) in September...

This article was first published in "Employment Update", a newsletter of Bullivant|Houser|Baily. Winter 2001, Volume 6, Number 1.The Americans With...

A Challenging Time for Organizations The capacity of technology is far greater than what most of us need. Regulation is...

As a leader in the New Economy, you surely recognize the imperative of faster, smarter and newer. The entire business...

Interest-based negotiation has been hailed as the savior of the contract bargaining process, enabling parties to reach better deals and...

(Introduced in the House) HR 820 IH 107th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 820 To amend title VII of the...

In 1994, 18 million cases were filed in U.S. courts at a cost of $300 billion. 20% of Fortune 500...

65 Federal Register 59200, 59208-14 (October 4, 2000) ADR Program Evaluation Recommendations I. Introduction The alternative dispute resolution (ADR) field...

Have you ever received or given ambiguous instructions? Do you always provide information through memos or other written communication? Are...

They don't know how to define or identify a hostile workplace. A hostile workplace is any work environment where violence,...

This article was previously published by CFIER. In the course of responding to inquiries about the use of an interest-based...

Reprinted with permission from ADR Currents, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Sept. -Nov. 2000), a publication of the American Arbitration Association.Violations...

Conflict is an inevitable fact of any organizations life. Organizations that accept this truism, do so for many different reasons,...

"This article originally appeared in Track Two (Vol. 7 No. 2 August 1998) , a quarterly publication of the Centre...

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This article is courtesy of HR.com, a website committed to making the lives of HR professionals and business managers easier....

Karen likes to spend a half-hour each week privately with each of her employees to sound out their concerns about...

In October 1998, President Clinton signed the Dispute Resolution Act of 1998 mandating all federal courts to develop an ADR...

The California Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision written by Justice Mosk, has gone a long way towards defining the...

(NEDRA) (Introduced in the House) HR 4593 IH 106th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 4593 To amend title VII of...

Reprinted with permission from ADR Report, Volume 3, Number 2, pages 5-8. Copyright 1999 by Pike and Fischer, Inc. Although...

With the growing recognition that mediation is an important element in an effective conflict management system, many corporations are training...

Currently, there are more rules, regulations, and laws dealing with sexual discrimination, and particularly sexual harassment, than any other substantive...

Introduction A number of recent initiatives by Congress and the Government have encouraged the use of alternative methods of workplace...

Product and process. These are the two areas of focus for any successful business. As a business owner or manager,...

Put two people together in the workplace (or anywhere else!) and there will be conflicts. So it goes with people!...