Kathryn Bigelow’s victory for best director in Sunday night’s Oscars’ ceremony provided a surprising moment for millions of those who tuned in to watch. Undoubtedly the 3,400 attendees seated inside Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre knew that Bigelow’s victory, if it came, would be a first, but the majority of all those far removed from the business [...]

The gray area of sexual harassment in the workplace is exampled by the office romances of late night comedian David Letterman. While surveys tell us that approximately 40 percent of Americans at some point in their careers and working lives participate in a workplace romance, those liaisons that occur between a supervisor, or company owner [...]

Very few of us in today’s workplace are veterans of the Great Depression. But if current economic conditions are any indication, the economy that we are living through makes us all veterans of the “Great Recession.”
While the last several weeks have brought an improvement in future long term economic forecasting, it is clear that as [...]

Sometimes for a man in the midst of a passionate pursuit, the compass points in only one direction, south.
You might think we mean below the belt line, but now Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina has added new meaning to going south as he has added a new twist to the recent sordid history of [...]

Note to Readers: This is the third of a three-part series on sexual harassment in the workplace. In Part One (April 14) we discussed the definitions, profiles, history, and the incident reporting levels of sexual harassment. The following day, in Part Two, we reported on the underlying reasons why many men don’t respect a woman’s [...]

Note to Readers: This is the second story in an ongoing series on sexual harassment in the workplace. In yesterday’s article we gave updated statistics on the number of complaints filed claiming sexual harassment. The good news: claims filed over the passed decade are trending downward. The bad news: it appears that the vast majority [...]

In the last twenty years there has been a cultural awakening in American thought:
That sexual harassment is not just wrong, it’s illegal.

Do you know your rights? Here are a few quick facts:
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) describes sexual harassment as a form of gender discrimination that is in violation of Title VII of [...]

Two weeks ago we met Carol, a bright, determined woman who just recently celebrated her 30th birthday and has been busy going on job interviews since getting let go from her position as a project manager for a financial services firm.
Since losing her job last November she has been on 37 job interviews and has [...]

In 1909 it really didn’t matter that men are from Mars, and women are from Venus when it came to business. The workplace of 2009, however, is completely different. And in this new and still emerging world, conflicting Mars Venus styles can take a heavy toll on office efficiency and bottom line sales.
When you speak [...]

Carol had a great job up until November of last year. As a project manager for a financial services firm she was busy from the moment she came to work until it was time to go home. Even though there were long days, Carol loved her job because the challenges kept coming and as she [...]