Implicit gender bias has costly and complex consequences for women in the workplace, with many reporting microaggressions which result them being overlooked or disrespected. We present an online desktop virtual environment that follows story of a male female self-avatar from first-person perspective, who either experiences positive negative workplace scenario. The scenario included examples tax...

This article explores the organizational conditions under which discrimination charges occur. Drawing on structural and organizational theories of the workplace, the authors demonstrate how organizational conditions affect workers' and regulatory agents' understandings of unlawful discrimination. Using a national sample of work establishments, matched to discrimination-charge data obtained from...

Workplace development brings change. New policies may be developed, workplace systems transformed, and tasks, roles and responsibilities adapted and revised. For the individual employee a new set of behaviours may be required, or established patterns of behaviour may be adapted and transformed. Within the psychological literature, goal setting theory represents one of the most well developed an...

BACKGROUND Workplace victimization is considered a major social stressor with significant implications for the wellbeing of employees and organizations. The aim of this study was to examine the influences of employees' personality traits and organizational politics on workplace victimization among Ghanaian employees. METHODS Using a cross-sectional design, data were collected from 631 employe...

Information privacy concerns are a dominant concern of the information age. Such concerns emanate from the tension between the correct use of personal information and information privacy. That tension has extended to the computer-mediated work environment as employees are becoming increasingly aware of the ways in which management can employ technologies to monitor their email and Internet inte...

Increasingly the literature highlights the importance of having ethics and values taught at all levels of the education system. Governments, such as those of New Zealand and Australia, are increasingly focused on introducing curricular requirements for values education and ethics, and some universities in Australia have already introduced ‘core generic papers’ across all degree programmes, incl...

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...

In industrial and educational practice, learning environments are designed and implemented by experts from many different fields, reaching from traditional software development and product management to pedagogy and didactics. Workplace and lifelong learning, however, implicate that learners are more self-motivated, capable, and self-confident in achieving their goals and, consequently, tempt t...