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Benefit cuts can also affect productivity, says Christine Porath, an expert on organizational behavior at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. "Performance declines, people are not as creative or innovative, and if they don't have a say in the decisions, they don't feel a sense of procedural justice...
...worse. The data, collected in three studies over eight years at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, also reveal that 20% of employees say they are victims of incivility on a weekly basis. Should managers be kinder and gentler? You bet, says author Christine Porath, assistant professor of management, because "incivility has detrimental consequences. Does performance decrease? Yes. Does creativity suffer? Yes. People just don't concentrate." Turnover results too: 1 in 8 employees who experience rudeness ends up leaving. The biggest surprise: the study estimates that the average FORTUNE 1000 executive spends...
Israeli officials initially professed shock and incredulity at the censor's published admissions. Said Uri Porath, a spokesman for Prime Minister Menachem Begin: "If they are listening to phone calls, it is the first time I have heard about it." Mort Dolinsky, head of the Government Press Office, said, "I have never heard of this listening to phone calls and garbling of telexes. I do not think it works that...
...notice, not to be given before news reports of the attack came over the wires. Porath waited through all of Sunday evening for a telephone call from Begin authorizing release of the story. Not until the following day, after Amman Radio sketchily outlined the raid as a joint Israeli-Iranian venture, did Israel give its own version of events...
...When Porath telephoned in the government's statement to a holiday skeleton staff at Israel Radio, journalists refused for an hour to believe that the startling report was genuine. Only when Radio Staffer Emmanuel Halperin, Begin's nephew, confirmed the facts with the Prime Minister himself, did the station put the reports...