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6 Myths About Men and Women and the Workplace

He was always at work, it seemed.

He was the first one there in the morning, and the last one to leave in the evening. He was usually in his office on weekends, too. Managers would point him out to subordinates, nodding approval of his work ethic. Then someone discovered all those extra hours had been devoted to starting his own competing company.

Many managers still abide by the myth that success can be measured by how many hours someone spends at their desk. Yet 25 years ago flex-time, compressed workweeks, job-sharing, and other flexible work arrangements emerged as better approaches that could make people more successful. Ten years ago the business case was proven that showed organizational practices, policies, programs, and philosophies designed to enhance work-life balance promoted success.

But barriers still exist that prevent employees from utilizing work-life options, and employers still don't fully support them. Why? Mostly because of myths about men and women and their roles in the workplace.

Last fall WFD Consulting and WorldatWork partnered to investigate those myths and looked at business practices and attitudes in Brazil, China, India, Germany, the UK, and the USA. The results are worth reviewing if you're trying to attract, motivate, and retain talented employees.

Men are more work-oriented than women.

A persistent stereotype exists that men identify more with their work and women with personal and family matters. It turns out there's little difference among generations or between men and women. The real difference is between emerging and developed countries where work identification is much higher in emerging markets than in developed ones. In fact, in India and Germany women are more work-oriented than men.

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In2Design - How automation allows quick response to customer requirements.

Several years ago,In2Design invested heavily in CNC machines to help improve their ability to respond to customer's requirements.

What is CNC? Numerical control (NC) refers to the automation of machine tools that are operated by abstractly programmed commands encoded on a storage medium, as opposed to manually controlled via hand wheels or levers, or mechanically automated via cams alone. These early servomechanisms were rapidly augmented with analog and digital computers, creating the modern computer numerical control (CNC) machine tools that have revolutionized the manufacturing process.

In modern CNC systems, end-to-end component design is highly automated using computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) programs. The programs produce a computer file that is interpreted to extract the commands needed to operate a particular machine via a postprocessor, and then loaded into the CNC machines for production. Since any particular component might require the use of a number of different tools-drills, saws, etc., modern machines often combine multiple tools into a single "cell". The complex series of steps needed to produce any part is highly automated and produces a part that closely matches the original CAD design.

So what does all this mean to the factory's customers? At In2Design, the automated factory allows the company to modify existing product, or create new product (specials) quickly, and cost effectively.

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A Checklist for quitting your job.

The Right Way to Quit Your Job

The job market may be better now than during the peak of the recession, but that doesn't mean workers should feel too confident about quitting their job abruptly without having something else lined up.

"Right now, we are still in an economy where you really need to look for other jobs before you leave," said Samantha Zupan, spokesperson for Glassdoor.com, a job search engine. Unemployment

is stuck above 9% with nearly 14 million Americans out of work and eager to land whatever few jobs are out there. That doesn't mean quitting is completely off the table, but as Zupan puts it, "you really need to do your homework before you quit."

With that in mind, we spoke with several career experts to find out just what that homework is. If you are considering quitting, these are the steps that you should follow before, during and immediately after you give notice to your employer.

All the best,

Bill Meyer
Contract Specialties, Inc. (CSI)

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