Workplace

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A '''workplace''' is a location where someone works, for their employer or themselves; a place of employment. Such a place can range from a home office to a large office building or factory. For industrialized societies, the workplace is one of the most important social spaces other than the home, constituting "a central concept for several entities: the worker and [their] family, the employing organization, the customers of the organization, and the society as a whole".<ref>Paul Jackson, Reima Suomi, ''e-Business and Workplace Redesign'' (2004), p. 37.</ref> The development of new communication technologies has led to the development of the virtual workplace and remote work.

==Issues== * Sexual harassment: Unwelcome sexual advances, conduct or remarks of a sexual nature which unreasonably interferes with the performance of a person's job or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/statistics/ | title=Statistics | website=www.eeoc.gov | access-date=2016-04-29 | archive-date=2016-05-05 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505130226/https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/statistics/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> * Kiss up kick down * Toxic workplace * Workplace aggression: A specific type of aggression that occurs in the workplace. * Workplace bullying: The tendency of individuals or groups to use persistent aggressive or unreasonable behavior against a co-worker or subordinate. * Workplace conflict: A specific type of conflict that occurs in the workplace. * Workplace culture: The social behaviors and norms in the workplace. * Workplace counterproductive behaviour: Employee behavior that goes against the goals of an organization. * Workplace cyber-aggression: Workplace e-mail or text messages that threaten or frighten employees. * Workplace democracy: The application of democracy in all its forms to the workplace. * Workplace deviance: Deliberate or intentional desire to cause harm to an organization. * Workplace discrimination: Discrimination in hiring, promotion, job assignment, termination, and compensation. * Workplace diversity: Theory that in a global marketplace, a company that employs a diverse workforce is better able to understand the demographics of the marketplace it serves. * Workplace emotions: Emotions in the workplace play a large role in how an entire organization communicates within itself and to the outside world. * Workplace employee factors leading to job promotion. * Laziness in the workplace which could lead to Industrial accidents or other things. * Workplace empowerment: Provides employees with opportunities to make their own decisions with regard to their tasks. * Workplace evaluation: A tool employers use to review the performance of an employee. * Feminisation of the workplace: Trend towards greater employment of women, and of men willing and able to operate with these more 'feminine' modes of interaction. * Workplace relationships: Directly related to several other area of study including cohesion, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and intention to leave. * Workplace gender inequality: Relates to wage discrimination and career advancement. * Workplace gossip: Idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others. * Workplace harassment: Offensive, belittling or threatening behavior directed at an individual worker or a group of workers. * Workplace health surveillance: The removal of the causative factors of disease. * Workplace hazard controls for COVID-19: Measures employed to control the spread of COVID-19 * Workplace humor: Comedy that revolves around the inner workings of various jobs. * Workplace incivility: Low-intensity deviant workplace behavior such as rudeness, discourtesy and displaying a lack of regard for others. * Workplace intervention: Scheme to improve both organizational and individual health as well as help workers manage job stress. * Workplace jargon: Highly specialized terminology or needlessly complicated and obfuscated phrases sometimes used by managers or colleagues. * Workplace listening: a type of active listening that is generally employed in a professional environment. * Mobbing: similar concept to workplace bullying. * Workplace morale: Workplace events play a large part in changing employee morale, such as heavy layoffs, the cancellation of overtime, canceling benefits programs, and the lack of union representation. * Workplace menopause: The impact menopause symptoms can have on attendance and performance in the workplace. * Workplace narcissism * Workplace phobia: An actual or imagined confrontation with the workplace or certain stimuli at the workplace causes a prominent anxiety reaction in a person. * Workplace politics: The use of one's individual or assigned power within an employing organization for the purpose of obtaining advantages beyond one's legitimate authority. * Workplace privacy: Employees typically must relinquish some of their privacy while at the workplace, but how much can be a contentious issue. * Workplace probation: A status given to new employees of a company or business. * Workplace psychopathy: Psychopaths can do enormous damage when they are positioned in senior management roles * Workplace revenge: Refers to the general action of purposeful retaliation within the workplace in an attempt to seek justice. * Workplace sabotage: When disgruntled workers damage or destroy equipment or interfere with the smooth running of a workplace. * Workplace safety: Occupational safety and health is a category of management responsibility in places of employment. * Workplace spirituality: A grassroots movement with individuals seeking to live their faith and/or spiritual values in the workplace. * Workplace strategy: The dynamic alignment of an organization's work patterns with the work environment to enable peak performance and reduce costs. * Workplace stress: The harmful physical and emotional response that occurs when there is a poor match between job demands and the capabilities, resources, or needs of the worker. * Workplace surveillance: Businesses use workplace surveillance as a way of monitoring the activities of their employees. * Workplace swearing: In the UK, swearing in the workplace can be an act of gross misconduct under certain circumstances. * Professional development: Skills and knowledge attained for both personal development and career advancement. * Workplace violence Violence that originates from employees or employers and threatens employers and/or other employees. * Workplace wellness: Program offered by some employers to support behavior conducive to the health of employees.

== See also == {{cols}} *Corporation *Employment *Factory *Office *Organization *Whistleblower {{colend}}{{Portal|Organized labour }}

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==Further reading== * {{Cite book |title=The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace |author=Ron Friedman |year=2015 |isbn=978-0399165603 |publisher=TarcherPerigee }}

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