Balancing Act
Site featuring Work/Family Balance solutions, focusing on women.

About.com: Work/Life Balance
Information and web sites on this issue, as well as consultants and coaches specializing in life/work balance are referenced on these pages.

How to Negotiate for More Vacation Time
An article on eHow with tips and suggestions for getting more time off at work.

Top Five Destinations for a Working Vacation
USA Today article about the best cities to work, while you rest.

Sally Helgesen
Website for the author of "The Female Advantage."

Society of Women's Health Research
Non-profit in which Gail Evans is a boardmember.

Fun Team Building
Visit the site of Fun Team Building (based in Atlanta, Georgia) to read a variety of articles and tips on team building.

How to Build a Teamwork Culture
Article at About.com featuring tips on building teams and fun teambuilding games.

Anger Central
Why sit in your office and get all hot and bothered about that pointy haired boss, your mother in-law or anything else that makes you want to fly off the handle? Don't keep it in, share it with the entire world!

Conflict with Managers
We've all worked for difficult bosses or supervisors with whom we come into conflict. Find advice and tips about how to deal with such conflict.

Bad to the Bone: Dealing With a Bad Boss
Article on understanding hat your boss may not know he is bad and how to address that.

Leadership Development
A Scandanavian model

Volunteering and Adult Learning
Research and practice in adult education can inform the development of learning opportunities for volunteers.

ASTD
Linking people, learning, and performance

I Quit
This Web site offers advice on how to quit your job -- and includes sample resignation letters.

Dealing with Difficult People
This iVillage message board is devoted to coping with difficult coworkers, as well as difficult bosses.

Appropriate Workplace Behavior Quiz
Ready for a challenge? See how savvy you are about effective behavior at work.

Employee Surveys: Boss Stories
Most people have very strong feelings about their boss. After all, the work day takes up eight or more waking hours five days a week.

Toxic Boss
This resource helps leaders cope with workplace toxicity with speeches, workshops, surveys, and humor.

Office Politics
What problems are you grappling with? Is a co-worker making you want to tear your hair out? Did the boss call you into his/her office? Post your dilemma here.

Team Building and Delegation: How and When to Empower People
Employee involvement is a management and leadership philosophy about how people are most enabled to contribute to continuous improvement and the ongoing success of their work organization.

The Top 10 Ways to Empower Your Employees
A list of the top 10 things you can do that will really empower your employees, according to employees.

Never Do What You Can Delegate
Monster.com article about leaders taking on to much work, a reflex that is a substitute for decision making.

Arthur Miller Society
A group devoted to promoting knowledge about the author and supplies related, upcoming events. Membership is open to all interested.

Monster Reputation Points Quiz
In company life, nothing is more important than your reputation. Have you been taking good care of yours?

Office Gossip: Does It Have a Place at Work?
Gossip is an unavoidable presence in all workplaces - learn to use it to your advantage.

Job Satisfaction of Recent Graduates in Financial Services
A Department of Labor study analyzing a survey that asked respondents to rank such factors as realization of expectations, company support, attitude, relationships with coworkers, and pay.

The Job Satisfaction Test
You can test your own level of job satisfaction by rating 22 aspects of your job.

Employee Satisfaction Surveys
A selection of sample surveys that measure a variety of things: employees' attitude, opinions, motivation, and satisfaction.

Does the Internal Candidate Have the Edge?
If you are hoping to move up and a position opens at your institution for which you think you are qualified, should you apply?

Promoting A Good Internal Candidate Generally Is Better Than Choosing An Outstanding External Candidate, Researchers Find
Which is a better choice: The external job candidate who scored exceptionally high on an interview or the internal candidate who has an above-average, but not exceptional, past-performance record?

Selecting an Internal Candidate for CEO
A process that works

Journal of Career Assessment
Over the last decade, Journal of Career Assessment has provided methodologically sound, empirically based studies focusing on the process and techniques by which counselors and others gain understanding of the individual faced with the necessity of making informed career decisions.

It Pays to Ask
The art of asking

How to Build a Team
Using vision, commitment, and trust

Performance Profile
Your career narrative

MyGoals
Goals and goal-setting

The Continuous Professional Development Process
The continuous professional development process (PD) is a necessity to all employees working in growing and productive industries.

The Power of Positive Management
Leading experts from the Positive Psychology movement tell how organizations can boost employee productivity and engagement.

Low morale afflicts US Airways workers
Concessions keep them flying but unhappy

All-Time Low for Employee Morale
Dissatisfied IT workers have nowhere to go -- for now.

Women Don't Ask
Negotiation and the gender divide

Not Asking for Help Is Top Networking Mistake
Results of Office Team Career Challenge survey

Success Is Just a Question Away
Asking is the only way to get what you're seeking in your life, in your relationships, or in your business.

When People Lie at Work
A survey of 40,000 working Americans, ages 18 to 60, found that 93 percent of them lied regularly and habitually at work.

How to Make Friends at Work
Some points that will help you make allies at work.

Making Friends at Work a Tricky Undertaking
We, as well as our employers, benefit from having emotional support at the office.

You're Not Fired! (Yet)
Apologies to Donald Trump, but sometimes a helping hand for your apprentice is better than a termination notice. Harvard Management Update on ways to coach underperformers.

You're Fired!
A 7-Step Coping Checklist

How to Deal with "You're Fired!"
5 Tips: Dealing with losing your job

Center for Talent Retention
The Center for Talent Retention is dedicated to building an organization's capabilities to deliver human capital results.

Orientation Vs. Integration
Great ideas for orienting new employees in an effective new employee orientation

Employee Orientation
Keeping new employees on board

Surveys of Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprises
Provide valuable economic data on business owners' race, ethnicity, and gender. The published data include number of firms, sales and receipts, paid, employees and annual payroll. Data are presented by geographic area, industry, firm size, and legal form of organization.

Center for Women's Business Research
Since 1989, the Center for Women's Business Research has documented the women-owned business landscape by developing original research of the economic and social contributions of women-owned firms.

Startup Funds for Women
What to consider before applying for a startup loan, and a roundup of various funding sources dedicated specifically to women-owned businesses

The Changing Workforce
There is a change coming in the demographics of the national workforce. This change may help you request a more flexible work schedule or increase your value to an employer.

The Needs of the Aging Boomer Workforce: From Rebellion to Retirement
What are the needs of the aging boomer workforce? The associate director of training and work life initiatives at Time Warner Inc. and General Motors' administrator of work/family programs for the UAW-GM Center for Human Resources talk about what their companies are doing for older workers.

The Boomer Bust
Big problems ahead for organizations: As one generation leaves, a very different one enters

Baptist Health South Florida
"People caring for people"

Organizational Behavior: The Enemy Next Door
Can too much in-house rivalry among coworkers be a good thing? Not if your management style demands teamwork, yet pits one employee against another or makes one a star. Here's how to avoid the pitfalls and promote greater collaboration.

Internal Competition Can Kill Your Organization
The president of Progressive Leadership Inc. offers tips leaders can use to overcome internal competition and instill an atmosphere of open communication and organizational collaboration.

Turf Wars
Build consensus, but expect office politics.

Unite the Tribes: Ending Turf Wars for Career and Business Success
Christopher Duncan's 2003 book expands on the "Ten Pillars of the Empire," laying out a plan that can help transform human nature from a liability into a business asset.

A Significant Other: Riding The Centenary Tour De France With Lance Armstrong
Recommended by Margaret: "This book is topical -- if a little off the wall. It is about riding the Tour de France as one of Lance Armstrong's team and is one of the best things I've ever read about how you can only compete when you support each other."