A workplace is a location where someone

works Works may refer to: People * Caddy Works (1896–1982), American college sports coach * Samuel Works (c. 1781–1868), New York politician Albums * '' ''Works'' (Pink Floyd album)'', a Pink Floyd album from 1983 * ''Works'', a Gary Burton album ...

, for their employer or themselves, a place of

employment Employment is a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services. Usually based on a contract, one party, the employer, which might be a corporation, a not-for-profit organization, a co-operative, or any othe ...

. Such a place can range from a home office to a large

office An office is a space where an Organization, organization's employees perform Business administration, administrative Work (human activity), work in order to support and realize objects and Goals, plans, action theory, goals of the organizati ...

building or

factory A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. T ...

. For industrialized societies, the workplace is one of the most important social spaces other than the home, constituting "a central concept for several entities: the worker and

heir Inheritance is the practice of receiving private property, titles, debts, entitlements, privileges, rights, and obligations upon the death of an individual. The rules of inheritance differ among societies and have changed over time. Officiall ...

family, the employing organization, the customers of the organization, and the society as a whole". The development of new communication technologies has led to the development of the virtual workplace and

remote work Remote work, also called work from home (WFH), work from anywhere, telework, remote job, mobile work, and distance work is an employment arrangement in which employees do not commute to a central place of work, such as an office building, ware ...

Workplace issues

Sexual harassment Sexual harassment is a type of harassment involving the use of explicit or implicit sexual overtones, including the unwelcome and inappropriate promises of rewards in exchange for sexual favors. Sexual harassment includes a range of actions fro ...

: Unwelcome sexual advances or conduct of a sexual nature which unreasonably interferes with the performance of a person's job or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment. *

Kiss up kick down Kiss up kick down is a neologism used to describe the situation where middle-level employees in an organization are polite and flattering to superiors but abusive to subordinates. The term is believed to have originated in the US, with the first ...

Toxic workplace A “toxic workplace” is a colloquial term used to describe a place of work, usually an office environment, that is marked by significant personal conflicts between those who work there. Such infighting can often harm productivity. Toxic workplac ...

Workplace aggression Workplace aggression is a specific type of aggression which occurs in the workplace. Workplace aggression can include a wide range of behaviors, ranging from verbal acts (e.g., insulting someone or spreading rumors) to physical attacks (e.g., punch ...

: A specific type of aggression that occurs in the workplace. *

Workplace bullying Workplace bullying is a persistent pattern of mistreatment from others in the workplace that causes either physical or emotional harm. It can include such tactics as verbal, nonverbal, psychological, and physical abuse, as well as humiliation. T ...

: The tendency of individuals or groups to use persistent aggressive or unreasonable behavior against a co-worker or subordinate. *

Workplace conflict Organizational conflict, or workplace conflict, is a state of discord caused by the actual or perceived opposition of needs, values and interests between people working together. Conflict takes many forms in organizations. There is the inevita ...

: A specific type of conflict that occurs in the workplace. *Workplace culture: The social behaviors and norms in the workplace. * Workplace counterproductive behaviour: Employee behavior that goes against the goals of an organization. * Workplace cyber-aggression: Workplace e-mail or text messages that threaten or frighten employees. *

Workplace democracy Workplace democracy is the application of democracy in various forms (examples include voting systems, debates, democratic structuring, due process, adversarial process, systems of appeal) to the workplace. It can be implemented in a variety of ...

: The application of democracy in all its forms to the workplace. *

Workplace deviance Workplace deviance, in group psychology, may be described as the deliberate (or intentional) desire to cause harm to an organization – more specifically, a workplace. The concept has become an instrumental component in the field of organizational ...

: Deliberate or intentional desire to cause harm to an organization. *

Workplace discrimination Employment discrimination is a form of illegal discrimination in the workplace based on legally protected characteristics. In the U.S., federal anti-discrimination law prohibits discrimination by employers against employees based on age, race, ge ...

: Discrimination in hiring, promotion, job assignment, termination, and compensation. *

Workplace diversity The business case for diversity stems from the progression of the models of diversity within the workplace since the 1960s. In the United States, the original model for diversity was situated around affirmative action drawing from equal opportunit ...

: Theory that in a global marketplace, a company that employs a diverse workforce is better able to understand the demographics of the marketplace it serves. * Workplace emotions: Emotions in the workplace play a large role in how an entire organization communicates within itself and to the outside world. * Workplace employee factors leading to job promotion. * Laziness in the workplace which could lead to

Industrial accidents A work accident, workplace accident, occupational accident, or accident at work is a "discrete occurrence in the course of work" leading to physical or mental occupational injury. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), more tha ...

or other things. * Workplace empowerment: Provides employees with opportunities to make their own decisions with regards to their tasks. * Workplace evaluation: A tool employers use to review the performance of an employee. *

Feminisation of the workplace The feminization of the workplace is the feminization, or the shift in gender roles and sex roles and the incorporation of women into a group or a profession once dominated by men, as it relates to the workplace. It is a set of social theories s ...

: Trend towards greater employment of women, and of men willing and able to operate with these more 'feminine' modes of interaction. *

Workplace relationships Workplace relationships are unique interpersonal relationships with important implications for the individuals in those relationships, and the organizations in which the relationships exist and develop. Workplace relationships directly affect a ...

: Directly related to several other area of study including cohesion, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and intention to leave. * Workplace gender inequality: Relates to wage discrimination and career advancement. * Workplace gossip: Idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others. *

Workplace harassment Workplace harassment is the belittling or threatening behavior directed at an individual worker or a group of workers. Recently, matters of workplace harassment have gained interest among practitioners and researchers as it is becoming one of the ...

: Offensive, belittling or threatening behavior directed at an individual worker or a group of workers. *

Workplace health surveillance Workplace health surveillance or occupational health surveillance (U.S.) is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and dissemination of exposure and health data on groups of workers. The Joint ILO/WHO Committee on Occupational Health at it ...

: The removal of the causative factors of disease. *

Workplace hazard controls for COVID-19 Hazard controls for COVID-19 in workplaces are the application of occupational safety and health methodologies for hazard controls to the prevention of COVID-19. Vaccination is the most effective way to protect against severe illness or death f ...

: Measures employed to control the spread of COVID-19 *

Workplace humor Office humor, also often called workplace comedy, is humor within the workplace, in particular, office, environment. It is a subject that receives significant attention from students of industrial and organizational psychology and of the sociolog ...

: Comedy that revolves around the inner workings of various jobs. *

Workplace incivility Workplace incivility has been defined as low-intensity deviant behavior with ambiguous intent to harm the target. Uncivil behaviors are characteristically rude and discourteous, displaying a lack of regard for others. The authors hypothesize the ...

: Low-intensity deviant workplace behavior such as rudeness, discourtesy and displaying a lack of regard for others. *

Workplace intervention Occupational health psychology (OHP) is an interdisciplinary area of psychology that is concerned with the health and safety of workers.Schonfeld, I.S., & Chang, C.-H. (2017). ''Occupational health psychology: Work, stress, and health''. New York, ...

: Scheme to improve both organizational and individual health as well as help workers manage job stress. *

Workplace jargon Corporate jargon, variously known as corporate speak, corporate lingo, business speak, business jargon, management speak, workplace jargon, corporatese or commercialese, is the jargon often used in large corporations, bureaucracies, and similar wo ...

: Highly specialized terminology or needlessly complicated and obfuscated phrases sometimes used by managers or colleagues. * Workplace listening: a type of active listening that is generally employed in a professional environment. *

Mobbing Mobbing, as a sociological term, means bullying of an individual by a group, in any context, such as a family, peer group, school, workplace, neighborhood, community, or online. When it occurs as physical and emotional abuse in the workplace, suc ...

: similar concept to workplace bullying. * Workplace morale: Workplace events play a large part in changing employee morale, such as heavy layoffs, the cancellation of overtime, canceling benefits programs, and the lack of union representation. * Workplace menopause: The impact

menopause Menopause, also known as the climacteric, is the time in women's lives when menstrual periods stop permanently, and they are no longer able to bear children. Menopause usually occurs between the age of 47 and 54. Medical professionals often d ...

symptoms can have on attendance and performance in the workplace. * Workplace narcissism *

Workplace phobia Ergophobia (also referred to as ergasiophobia or ponophobia) is an abnormal and persistent fear of work (manual labor, non-manual labor, etc.) or fear of finding or losing employment. It is considered a form of social phobia or performance anxi ...

: An actual or imagined confrontation with the workplace or certain stimuli at the workplace causes a prominent anxiety reaction in a person. *

Workplace politics Workplace politics is the process and behavior that in human interactions involves power and authority. It is also a tool to assess the operational capacity and to balance diverse views of interested parties. It is also known as office politics and ...

: The use of one's individual or assigned power within an employing organization for the purpose of obtaining advantages beyond one's legitimate authority. *

Workplace privacy Workplace privacy is related with various ways of accessing, controlling, and employee monitoring, monitoring employees' information in a working environment. Employees typically must relinquish some of their privacy while in the workplace, but how ...

: Employees typically must relinquish some of their privacy while at the workplace, but how much can be a contentious issue. * Workplace probation: A status given to new employees of a company or business. * Workplace psychopathy: Psychopaths can do enormous damage when they are positioned in senior management roles *

Workplace revenge Workplace revenge refers to the general action of purposeful retaliation within the workplace in an attempt to seek silence the victim and avoid accountability. Retaliation: work related vs. social Acts of retaliation within an organization can be ...

: Refers to the general action of purposeful retaliation within the workplace in an attempt to seek justice. * Workplace sabotage: When disgruntled workers damage or destroy equipment or interfere with the smooth running of a workplace. * Workplace safety: Occupational safety and health is a category of management responsibility in places of employment. * Workplace spirituality: A grassroots movement with individuals seeking to live their faith and/or spiritual values in the workplace. *

Workplace strategy Workplace Strategy is the dynamic alignment of an organization’s work patterns with the work environment to enable peak performance and reduce costs.Savage A E (2005) Workplace strategy: What it is and why you should care. ''Journal of Corporate R ...

: The dynamic alignment of an organization’s work patterns with the work environment to enable peak performance and reduce costs. *

Workplace stress Occupational stress is psychological stress related to one's job. Occupational stress refers to a chronic condition. Occupational stress can be managed by understanding what the stressful conditions at work are and taking steps to remediate those ...

: The harmful physical and emotional response that occurs when there is a poor match between job demands and the capabilities, resources, or needs of the worker. * Workplace surveillance: Businesses use workplace surveillance as a way of monitoring the activities of their employees. * Workplace swearing: In the UK, swearing in the workplace can be an act of gross misconduct under certain circumstances. *

Professional development Professional development is learning to earn or maintain professional credentials such as academic degrees to formal coursework, attending conferences, and informal learning Informal learning is characterized "by a low degree of planning and ...

: Skills and knowledge attained for both personal development and career advancement. *

Workplace violence Workplace violence (WPV), violence in the workplace (VIW), or occupational violence refers to violence, usually in the form of physical abuse or threat, that creates a risk to the health and safety of an employee or multiple employees. The Nationa ...

Violence that originates from employees or employers and threatens employers and/or other employees. *

Workplace wellness Workplace wellness, also known as corporate wellbeing outside the United States, is a broad term used to describe activities, programs, and/or organizational policies designed to support healthy behavior in the workplace. This often involves healt ...

: Program offered by some employers to support behavior conducive to the health of employees.

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