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Employee Relationships is a Serious Employer Responsibility

HR Digest

They imply the presence of a psychological contract or an informal, unwritten commitment in the employer-employee relationship, a concept that was earlier defined by Schein (1988). Performance Reviews The format a company adopts for providing feedback to an employee can determine how the employee accepts and inculcates that feedback.

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Tackling Problems – How big is your “O”? | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

It is part of a mental process that Edgar Schein refers to as ORJI in his book Process Consultation- Lessons for Managers and Consultants. And, in thinking about it now, apart from doing just about everything wrong, we simply didn’t spend enough time in “O”. “O” O” stands for observation. Here’s how it works. So, how do you stay in “O”?

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