Yesterday, I caught up with Brett Rinke after teaching a couple of classes with Dr. Patrick Schultz in the Management Department of UND’s College of Business and Public Administration. The classes were about workplace bullying, and coincidentally, Brett had just used an article in a presentation he had done about bullying. (I know Brett from the Northeast Dakota Area Human Resources Association, the local affiliate

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Steven Samra, who had been homeless until 2000, takes us through the steps and obstacles to getting and keeping a job while homeless.

“If only they’d get a job, they wouldn’t be homeless anymore.”

You’ve thought it before. Perhaps you’ve even muttered it a few times. But however pervasive this “common-sense” rationale for ending homelessness might be, “getting a job” is just not that simple for a

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In AAUW last week, I heard about an old enemy and a new friend.

The old enemy is the “Pay Gap.” I remember wearing 59 cents buttons back in the day when we talked about the Equal Rights Amendment. I’d lost track of the number since then. It’s 78. That’s the number of cents the average college-educated U.S. woman earns to the average

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Add this to the list of things to make sure you aren’t doing during interviews–picking up subconscious impressions imparted by the way applicants … part their hair!

According to the “Hair-Part Theory” devised by Catherine Walker, a cultural anthropologist, and her brother John, the side on which hair is parted affects the way people are perceived and how others interact with them, The Roanoke Times reports.

For

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