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Who: General Business and Finance When: April 17-18, 2015
GBC
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IJAS
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When: April 16-19, 2015
What: Intl. Conference of Interdisciplinary Studies
Where: San Antonio, TX Deadline: March 31, 2015
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When: April 23-24, 2015
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Where: Bedford, TX, USA Deadline: April 15, 2015
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When: November 24-26, 2015
What: 3rd International Conference
Where: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Deadline: June 1st, 2015
AIIC
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ACBPP
IJACP
GE
Where: Azores Islands, Portugal Deadline: June 25, 2015
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When: November 5-7, 2015
What: The Asian Conference on Business and Public Policy
Where: Kobe, Japan Deadline: July 1, 2015
Who: IJACP
When: November 17-20, 2015
What: Intl. Conf. on Business Mgmt. and Information Systems 2015
Where: Singapore, Singapore Deadline: September 30th, 2015
Who: Global Economics 2015
When: August 3-5, 2015
What: Unfolding Interventions in Business & Economics
Where: Birmingham, UK
Who: AACSB Intl.
AACSB
When: July 8-11, 2015
What: ICAM - 2015
When: April 26-28, 2015 Where: Tampa, FL, USA Deadline: March 15, 2015
ICEBT
AAIC
Who: ICEBT 2015
When: August 25-26, 2015
What: 2015 Intl. Conference on Economics, Business and Trade
Where: Hong Kong
Who: AAIC 2015
When: June 3-4, 2015
What: Megatrends and Research Where: Surabaya, Indonesia Opportunities in Accounting Deadline: April 16th, 2015 Who: Global Academic Institute
IIAC
Deadline: March 20, 2015
What: 2015 Prague Intl. Academic Conference
When: September 6-9, 2015 Where: Prague, Czech Republic Deadline: August 7th, 2015
Who: Center for Scholastic Inquiry When: October 28-30, 2015
CSI
What: Academic Research Conf.
Where: Charleston, SC Deadline: September 30, 2015
SBANC
SBANC
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“Organizational Challenges: lack of information and misinformation.” Organizational Challenges and Supports Related to Managing a Diverse Workforce
Organizational Challenges
Organizational Supports
Employees’ difficulties in coping with cultural diversity
Educational programs and training to assist employees in working through difficulties
Resistance to change
Top-down management support for diversity
Ethnocentrism
Managers who have diversity skills and competence
Lack of information and misinformation
Education and training
Prejudices, biases, and stereotypes
Awareness raising
Reasons employees are unmotivated to understand cultural differences:
Peer support Organizational climate that supports diversity
Lack of time and energy and unwillingness to assume the emotional risk necessary to Open communication with manager about diexplore issues of diversity versity issues
Absence of social or concrete rewards for Recognition for employee development of diinvesting in diversity work versity skills and competencies Interpersonal and intergroup conflicts Recognition for employee contributions to diarising when diversity issues are either ignored or mismanaged versity goals
Work group problems
Lack of cohesiveness
mentation of organizational diversity goals and
Communication problems
objectives
Employee stress
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Organizational rewards for managers’ imple-
Minimizing Costs from Employee Absences This paper was written by Susan Knapp from Kaplan University.
Absenteeism results in significant financial loss
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to organizations including the loss of productivi-
Dr. Don B. Bradley III
ty and replacement costs. It is imperative that
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organizations develop and implement plans for
Daniel Champion
tracking, managing and minimizing employee
Marissa Sides
absences. Summarizing the results of extensive
Raina Silva
research conducted on absenteeism, this paper addresses the drivers of absenteeism and what small businesses can do to keep employees present at work and contributing to the organization’s performance. Strategies addressed include absence management systems, attendance incentives, paid time off plans, workplace flexibility, and action steps for supervisors.
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