Toxic Workplace: Organizational Behaviour

 Control System Design: Peasant Cookery    Peasant Cookery is a fine dining restaurant located in Winnipeg, Manitoba in the heart of the exchange district downtown. Their menu features a French influence, and their customers tend to be fairly well off upper middle class citizens. Its also a popular destination for travelers to visit during their time in the city, so first impressions and quality of service are very important to the organization. their main mission is to impress guests beyond their expectations through means of quality service, and consistency in the food.      The staff consists of servers, food runners and hostesses (serving support directly to the servers), bartenders, line cooks, head chef and a general manager. This is very much a team environment and the common goal of the team is to ensure efficient use of staff time. As most of the wages rely on an hourly tip-out, everyone is expected to work hard and finish promptly once they are no...

 Mikki Hebl Mikki Hebl is  the Martha and Henry Malcolm Lovett Chair of Psychology, and Professor of Management at Rice University. Her research involves discrimination issues, and focuses on diversity. She falls into the visible minority group of women. In the interview she highlights the issue of subtle sexism towards women in the workplace, and how even if discrimination is not blunt, it is still harmful. Things like choice of language, attentiveness to concerns, and separate standards all contribute to harmful workplace activities. She supports the idea of women maintaining male allies and advocating for themselves. One thing she mentions is choice of language. when referrals have been made, male applicants usually contain words like "assertive and independent" while female workers get words like "caring" and "kind". She says this type of word choice is subtle but holds women back from opportunities. Another example she shares is that women often get l...