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A 'bad apple' spoils the whole office
2007-02-18 15:56:00
WASHINGTON: One "bad apple" can spread negative behaviour like a virus to bring down officemates or destroy a good team, according to a new study examining conflict in the workplace. Negative behaviour outweighs positive behaviour, so a bad apple can spoil the whole barrel, but one or two good workers can't "unspoil" it, researchers at the University of Washington said in the current issue of the journal Research in Organizational Behaviour. "Companies need to move quickly to deal with such problems because the negativity of just one individual is pervasive and destructive and can spread quickly," said co-author Terence Mitchell, a professor of management and organisation. If a bad apple slips through screening in the hiring process, he or she should be placed to work alone as much as possible, the study's lead author, William Felps, said. The study defines negative workers as those who do not do their fair share of the work, are chronically unhappy and emotionally unstable, or bu...
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Troubled Britney dons a bikini
2007-02-17 06:07:00
New York: Troubled pop singer Britney Spears surprised onlookers when she swapped clothes with a dancer at a nightclub. Spears arrived wearing a red mini-dress but wanted to change because she did not like the dress. Pagesix.com quoted a source as saying: "She didn't like what she was wearing, so she asked one of the dancers to trade clothes with her." Spears eventually changed out of her red dress and came back wearing a bikini and busboy under the coat and continued to dance.
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'Terror attacks on India has Pak origin'
2007-02-15 04:43:00
The US on Friday said the terrorist groups responsible for attacks in India , including in Mumbai recently, have 'origin' and 'links' in Pakistan and hoped the anti-terror joint mechanism proposed to be set by the two neighbours would produce results. US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher, however, insisted that India has not told his country anything about Pakistan's involvement in terrorism here and maintained that the two countries ought to sort out their issues between themselves. Talking to newspersons here, he refused to comment on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement about 'credible' evidence of ISI's involvement in the July 11 Mumbai blasts. "The Mumbai blasts and the series of blasts in India highlight the need to deal with the problem of terrorism," said Boucher who discussed terrorism with Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon here earlier this morning. "Many of the links (of groups) that are talked about go back to their origin and ties in Pakistan. ...
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