Summary: This program illustrates the application of positive psychology through a powerful workshop in which participants increase their awareness of what creates happiness by performing acts of indulgence, altruism, and gratitude. How to Be Happy also considers whether wealth, friendship, religion, job satisfaction, raising children, and getting older typically do or don't promote happiness. An fMRI...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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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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Summary: This program refutes the melting pot theory, explaining that employees do not-and should not be expected to-set aside their particular cultural values when they come to work. The most successful organizations and managers are those who understand diversity and seek to profit from it; this program presents the views of African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and Native Americans who share...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: When people decide whether or not to follow the crowd, what happens inside their brains? This ABC News program explores that question, highlighting neurological research that helps explain conformity and sheds light on the complex relationship between group and individual behavior. Placing test subjects in candid-camera style settings, the program illustrates how social pressures can alter...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program takes the viewer through the intensely personal stories of several ethnically diverse storytellers. From learning to speak English to teenage motherhood and blatant discrimination, all the participants share how they were able to beat the odds and gain employment. Each story offers insight into the issues that affect minorities, while experts offer some explanation and advice about...
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: 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: Focusing on the issues that can arise during employment, this ethnically diverse program shares the often frustrating and dramatic experiences minorities often face while on the job. Experts advise on how to deal constructively with problems such as racism, verbal abuse, and ignorance. Participants give an eye-opening account of how these problems exist at all levels of employment, from the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: From mud-slinging ad campaigns to the public airing of dirty laundry, the words coming from America's political class in recent years have done more to disillusion than inspire. At what point will cynicism, indignation, or outright anger cause substantive changes in the guidelines for attaining-and remaining in-office? This program appraises the alarming decline in popularity of politics among...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The Enron era saw the rise of a Machiavellian management style, but Bill Marriott sets a different standard. His attention to detail, including the concerns and the performance of his employees, is legendary. This ABC News program profiles Marriott and takes a look inside his
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This program deals with the nature of biases and preconceptions, pointing out that almost everyone sees the world from his or her own perspective and stressing the need to examine one's own thinking about "us" and "them. It covers the subjects of being "in" and "out" and the role of peer groups, community institutions, schools, and the media in determining what is "good" and "bad"; permits...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Economist Tim Harford studies complex systems and finds a surprising link among the successful ones: they were all created through trial and error. In this TEDTalk, Harford discusses the drawbacks of the God Complex - a syndrome common among doctors and other professionals in which they believe that no matter how complicated the problem, they alone have one, infallible solution. Harford asks us...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Heinz has sold baked beans since the late 1880s, and even though the recipe has remained basically the same, the company still sells 10 times as many beans as its nearest rival. Has nobody come up with a better product in 120 years, or is something else going on? Is branding so powerful that it can actually affect our taste buds? This program goes on the trail of international food and beverage...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Essentially, a manager's style is the way he or she makes decisions, relates to subordinates, and lays out a vision for an organization. This program examines five widely recognized management styles, commonly identified as autocratic, persuasive, consultative, participative, and laissez faire. Viewers learn about each style's characteristics, advantages, drawbacks, and practical applications....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: High tech is big money-as Facebook, Apple, and other digital superbrands have demonstrated so well. What factors enable technology companies to rule today's global economy? Is it all about marketing, or are other forces at work when the latest smart phone stirs consumers into a frenzy? This program goes inside the technology industry for answers. Viewers will learn about Sony's Blu-ray...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Formerly a speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore as well as an aide to Labor Secretary Robert Reich, Dan Pink went freelance to spark a right-brain revolution in the career marketplace. In this TEDTalk, the author of Drive and A Whole New Mind examines the puzzle of motivation - why it does or doesn't work. Viewers discover something that most social scientists know but many managers don't:...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Mind Over Money investigates the shattering impact the recent global financial meltdown had on how economists think. Why did so few of the brightest minds in finance not only fail to predict the crash but also argue that it was impossible? With insights from experts and scientific experiments that highlight the hidden money drives in us all, NOVA explores how human psychology and finance...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The apparel industry has become far more than a showcase for a designer's talent-it's now the battleground of billion-dollar corporations. This program enters the world of fashion superbrands to find out how and why they have invaded not only our wardrobes, but our minds. With help from neuroscientist and marketing expert Dr. Gemma Calvert, who administers an MRI scan to an avid fashion...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011