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Working in a Hostile Environment

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As natural human being who was raised to respect others and to work corporately with others  to achieve certain goals and/or values (teamwork), he was not trained to play politics. He believes in the great saying of Niccolo Machiavelli that "politics have no relation to morals.", which sums up the danger of politics spreading inside workplaces. The question is; what should you do when your workplace turns into politics playground? The answer might be the following: Although may be it is the time for you to look for another workplace, you should not involve in any conflicts and you should keep your full intention to your tasks. Being a biased to any rivaling team is not a good idea as it might negatively impact your reputation which might result into decreasing the number of your future opportunities. Socially, biasing is seen as embracing every act, value and result your team commit or/and gain. My friend, workplace's politics is the fire to be fired in the hole, &qu

Why Middle Eastern Companies Should Extend Medical Insurance to Include Parents

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In this short essay, you will see how Medical Insurance on employees’ parents can benefit the companies and serve their objects. The aspects are the following: 1.     Showing and gaining respect: By including parents in medical insurance, corporates are expressing their appreciation to people who raised their employees, and we know how much parents means in sons’ & daughters’ life in Middle East. Therefore, and as it is expected, that workers will return this gesture by doing their job in best ways they could. 2.     Enhance company’s attraction to quality people: It is not a secret that one of the benefits companies can offer to any prospective or current employee is to include their parents in health insurance coverage. As a result, companies’ ability to hunt or keep valuable employees would increase. 3.     Not the first company: There are many examples of successful entities, which considered as attractive workplaces in Middle East, that implying parents’ medi

Corporate Culture: Five Factors That Create Productive Workplace

When talking about work environments, almost always Google's model comes up as the perfect example of modern innovative workplace and in how entities should treat and govern their employees. However, what is usually omitted or being forgotten in Google's model is the company's location (Silicon Valley, San Francisco), which might considered as IT's and IS's "haven" and it is a target of many technical specialists as the city offers quality welfare and attractive public environment. As a result, there are certain unrecognised factors that could determine a successful corporate culture and help an entity to reach to the desired and attractive work place where employees are happy, therefore, productive. In fact, whatever small or big the factors are for making best, innovative, productive workplace, we need to take into account every aspect in order to reach to the "heavenly" place. In this essay I try to focus on what it seems to be the sign