Summary: In this Peabody Award-winning program, CNBC's David Faber scrutinizes Wal-Mart as he seeks to understand how the company has ascended to the heights of power it has come to occupy-and whether this juggernaut can continue to succeed in the face of increased opposition. Given unprecedented access, Faber takes viewers from an annual managers' meeting that resembles an evangelical revival to the...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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Summary: A business model based on door-to-door selling made sense in the 1950s, but today's young adults love to shop-which means tough times for Avon. This case study examines forces that have seriously reduced the company's market share and the aggressive steps it has taken to boost its customer base and rebuild its image. Identifying pivotal socioeconomic factors among women under age 35-including a...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007

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Summary: Emerging from under the cloud of bankruptcy, Northwest Airlines has cut

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007

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Summary: Employees are among a company's most valuable assets. In this program, Mitchell Fromstein, president of Manpower, Inc., addresses the issues of finding, training, motivating, compensating, and retaining good employees: how to conduct an interview and what to look for; what the resume can tell; where to find the right person for a job; legal pitfalls to avoid; the importance of human relations;...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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Summary: The only way to remove sexual harassment from school and work is to get educated about the problem and learn ways to deal with it. This informative video explains different kinds of sexual harassment, defines the factors motivating harassers, and provides specific techniques for dealing with the problem. Viewers will see what steps to take if anyone harasses them or if they witness the...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Sue, Natalie

Summary: In this wildly funny and heartwarming office comedy, an admin worker accidentally gains access to her colleagues' private emails and DMs and decides to use this intel to save her job--a laugh-till-you-cry debut novel you'll be eager to share with your entire list of contacts, perfect for fans of Anxious People and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. As far as Jolene is concerned, her...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Summary: What if I'm fired unfairly? "If I get hurt at work, will I still have a job when I recover?" "Is it legal to dismiss someone for repeatedly being late?" "I was passed over for a promotion, and I think it's because of my ethnic background. Can I take legal action?" Geared toward students entering the workforce, this timeless program answers these and other important questions as it explains...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: For years, companies have used temporary employees to keep costs low, but with jobless numbers rising amidst a recession, starting an employment agency is risky business. In this program, Meighen Nehme, founder of The Job Shoppe, a Windsor, Ontario-based temp agency, faces a challenging economy and crosstown competition. Her business plan and decisions are critiqued by Arlene Dickinson, CEO of...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009

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Summary: In Canada, retailers lose more than a million dollars every day to employee theft. Enter the pre-employment honesty test. Using a case study of a woman denied employment on the basis of an honesty test as a springboard for discussion, this program provides an overview of this controversial screening device. Issues of question validity, test discrimination, and the proper use of psychometric...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000

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Summary: Can institutional policies-or racial quotas, as some affirmative action opponents call them-remedy the historical mistreatment of African Americans without impinging on the prospects of white citizens? In anticipation of the U.S. Supreme Court's Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger decisions, this NBC News program explored the legal, racial, and socioeconomic issues behind those historic...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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Summary: How will America close the gender gap that exists in technology, to empower female students? Set at Fulmore Middle School in Austin, Texas, this program exposes counterproductive classroom behaviors and presents measures being taken to correct the misperception that computing is a males-only domain. The Director of the Center for Gender Equity, the author of SchoolGirls, the creators of...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: Shell of Australia is a part of one of the world's largest oil and gas companies. Australia-based Intrepid Travel is a medium-size adventure vacation company. In this program, human resource professionals from these two companies discuss the processes of recruitment, performance appraisal, and termination; explore the dynamic relationship between employees and employers; and describe the...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009

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Summary: This program includes conversations with airline machinist Marv Sandrin, and Northwest Vice President, Richard Anderson. Sandrin is former president of District Lodge 143 of the Machinists' Union. He was employed at Northwest Airlines before the ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) gave him and his union an ownership stake in the company. Under that ESOP, unions gave up

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: One of the last documentaries from ABC News journalist Peter Jennings, this program untangles a particularly complex problem: the rapidly growing number of Americans who lack health care coverage. With characteristic thoroughness, Jennings searches out specific reasons for the weakening and potential collapse of employer-subsidized health insurance. America's rising median age, medical advances...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: Entering a crucible of racial, political, and legal issues, this program explores America's national debate over affirmative action. Viewers will receive a detailed look at the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court case which confirmed the legality of race-based academic admission criteria, as well as a behind-the-scenes examination of hiring policies at the Ford Motor Company. Observations from students,...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: Using the EEOC definition of sexual harassment, this program shows how this damaging and expensive problem in the workplace takes place, how situations get out of hand, and how the problem can be addressed and stopped. It reviews all the well-worn excuses for ignoring harassment, provides suggestions for action if harassment is suspected, and highlights the cost of failing to take action at...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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Summary: At the head of the Fair Labor Association, Auret van Heerden takes a practical approach to workers' rights, persuading corporations and NGOs to respect the role of labor in global supply chains. In this TEDTalk, the committed activist makes a reasoned business case for fair labor while exploring the next frontier of employee-management friction - globalized industries in which no single...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010

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Summary: A detailed and revealing case study, this CNBC program guides viewers through the corporate dimensions of the world's largest passenger jet fleet. Students will witness high-level management maneuvers undertaken behind the closed doors of executive suites. Several rarely discussed aspects of the airline industry are addressed-chief among them, how a labor-management conflict is sorted out and...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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Summary: Duane Woerth, Director of Northwest Airlines, is different from most American corporate board directors. He's a labor leader, representing employees who own 30 percent of Northwest. What gave Duane Woerth a role in setting corporate policy was the airline's brush with bankruptcy in 1993. Woerth, a Northwest pilot for 15 years, joined with the leaders of other unions to offer the company

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: This program covers the important and timely issues involved in managing multicultural and sexual diversity in the workplace. Topics covered include "Why Value Diversity?," "Understanding Our Biases and Assumptions," "Sexual Harassment," "Recruiting and Interviewing a Diverse Workforce," "Making New Employees Feel Valued," and "Managing Diversity: Meeting the Challenge.

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: In this program, Bill Moyers takes a piercing look at how global economic changes are destroying the lives and livelihoods of hardworking Americans. The documentary follows several individuals and their families in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as they fight to make ends meet in the "new economy. In sheer numbers, more jobs were created than lost in America during the last decade, but a look behind...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: This program is devoted to the ways in which the demands of a diverse work force can best be met: how schools can help prepare students, how businesses can help build bridges, how all Americans can-and must-learn to value, respect, and benefit from diversity in society and in the workplace.

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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