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While some recent humanresources initiatives such as "work/life balance" or "wellness" may resonate more with, say, single moms or diabetics, eradicating these subtle slights has an almost universal appeal. Few bosses want to create tension between employees with something as simple as a handshake. But, Young says, when one worker is greeted with a polite how-do-you-do while the guy next door gets a playful pretend-punch, it's clear in an instant who is in the inner circle and who isn't. The same is true when a manager dismisses one person's idea and then embraces...
...weekend training exercise, Waterman expected that male and female cadets would be told to sleep in different rooms. Instead, all the cadets unrolled their sleeping bags next to each other and, still in uniform, went to sleep. In any other setting, the situation might have brought some sexual tension. But with the battalion, it felt natural. One contributing factor may be that the army simply does not give women the opportunity to express femininity. For example, the women’s formal uniforms are modeled after the men’s, although women have the option to wear a skirt...
...everything by the rules, but there are ethical issues. His best way would be to go back and pay tax on the sale of Shin Corp. and try to do something with the deal so Thais retain majority control. If he does that, maybe he can reduce the tension. He should do that, stay on for a while, then leave politics...
...There was a renewed confidence that the kinds of issues that brought the Faculty to this point of tension are in view of the central administration,” Mendelsohn said...
...real test of a program of general education is not what it requires of the students, but what it demands of the faculty,” wrote Professor Michael J. Sandel in a January New York Times article on the Harvard curriculum. Articulating the tension between faculty research and undergraduate education in large research universities, Sandel asserted that “general education needs to lean against the specializing tendencies of departments and disciplines...