When Governments Fail…

This past Monday, Iceland’s coalition government collapsed amid public outcry of the government’s failure to effectively bail out their broken financial system.  Simply put, Iceland did not have deep enough pockets like the US did to provide some sort of recovery program for its banks and other financial institutions.  Although those are some of the [...]

WalMart – Industrial Peace?

In true Borat fasion – WalMart employees are clearly the happiness employees on the planet……NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is more than clear through the picture painted by Barbara Ehrenreich that WalMart employees probably don’t top the charts in employee satisfaction.  They seemed miserable with their wages, mindless tasks, and especially their incompetent managers, like our friend Howard.  [...]

Psychological Theories Tied to Attitudes Within Organizations

The selection we read from Nickel and Dimed sparked an interesting idea in reference to one of my annotated bibliography concepts we received back in class. One of my concepts related to a point that Scott and Davis made in chapter 2 about the influence an organization can have over an individual. They discuss how [...]