Posts Tagged ‘recession’
Room for More Executives Despite Recession
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
A management publication describes a new trend. Executives are creating a new executive slot — Chief Commercial/Customer Officer (the CCO). Thirty-six of the existing 56 have been hired in 2009 at the height of the recession used by firms to justify demands for concessions from non-supervisory staff, unions and layoffs for millions. The job is to assign to a single individual ownership of the customer and the customer interface given the explosion of many divergent sales channels, especially the digital channel which has grown too complex for the CEO, COO, CIO, CFO or C***HOLE to accomplish. Sounds like the work was done by the sales department and a couple of tech-savvy staffers. But they were laid off! The executive hypocrisy continues unabated.
Tags: CCO, executive hypocrisy, recession
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Dying Poor & Uninsured in America
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
The Institute of Medicine and the Urban Institute produced a report last year that tracked deaths attributable to being uninsured in America. In the latest year surveyed (2006) 22, 211 people died. Also we know that being underinsured can prevent getting life-saving treatment for diseases that insurers refuse to cover.
Tags: Ehrenreich, Goldman Sachs, health insurance, Institute of Medicine, poverty, recession, underinsured, uninsured, Urban Institute, working poor
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Downturn Gives Bullies More Power to Torture
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
By Tali Arbel
Associated Press Business Writer
Newsday
June 30, 2009BULLY WATCH: The recession is creating a “blank check” for office bullies, said one employee advocate.
The downturn’s layoffs – job rolls have shrunk by 6 million since the recession’s start – may make a bad situation worse for victims, said Gary Namie, director of the Workplace Bullying Institute, an advocacy group.
Tags: AP, help for targets, Namie, recession, WBI
Posted in Bullying in the News | 2 Comments »
Bullying at Work Worsens for 5 Million Americans
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Thanks if you were one of the 456 June WBI Survey respondents, 99% of whom were individuals who had been bullied or witnessed it. We asked if bullying began after Sept 2008, the time when the economic global crisis suddenly was recognized. Our intuitive guess was that tough times escalate bullying.
27.5% did say that the bullying worsened (it was more abusive, severe or frequent) after Sept. and 37% of respondents said that employers blamed financial troubles on the economic downturn. You can read the results of the brief survey here.
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Tags: bullying prevalence, economic crisis, recession, recession and bullying, research, survey, WBI-Zogby
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Science | 2 Comments »
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