Quotes About Workplace

Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your people. Sustainability starts with your staff.

Be very professional because it will get you a lot further. You have to treat people with the same respect whether they're signing your checks or cleaning up after you.

As a modern employer you have to treat people well.

Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.

If you're going to say to all the people that you're working with, 'We want you to treat the customers honestly; don't lie and don't cheat,' it is somewhat hypocritical if you're not following the same rules.

I know what it's like and how hard my assistants work, and I try to treat them as fair as possible and make the office a fun environment.

I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right.

I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.

One of the interesting things about being a female police officer in the '60s is they really didn't have opportunities to do any serious police work - they filed, and they made coffee, and they were treated like secretaries.

I'm no libber. I like it when a man looks at me and treats me like a woman. I do think though, that women should get equal pay to a man doing the same thing.

The bureaucrats tremble because they don't perform. In the past nobody checked their work. Now that I do it they are scared.

A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that.

They said a secretary should not question her boss's personal life and a boss should not question his secretary's personal life. But it was a Christian organization.

organizations are made up of people. If this should seem obvious, the implications of acknowledging it are not.

Imagine a place where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude every day.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

Whereas children might engage in more direct forms of bullying such as name calling and physical violence, adult bullies are more likely to use indirect methods that are harder to identify and, most importantly, to show evidence for. Commonly, workplace bullies use micro-management in such a way that to an observer it simply looks

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

Management and efficiency studies in the work place tell us that one hour of uninterrupted time is worth three hours of time that is constantly interrupted.

Study after study has shown that motivation probably has a larger effect on productivity and quality than any other factor

The "contempt of cops" by those in their chain of command creates Toxic Boss Blues.

The word of the age is "multitasking"—shorthand for the idea that I'm paying attention to very little while giving the impression that I'm intently following five things.

I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack.

If you work at a 10,000-person company, and you're using e-mail as the primary means of communication, then you probably have access to a couple hundredths of 1 percent of all the communications happening across the company. But if you use Slack, you might have access to 10 or 20 percent.