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If your boss belittles you and treats you badly, it may be time to get your team involved.

Battling the bad boss

Q: After joining this company six weeks ago, I quickly learned that my new boss is a tyrant. "Doug" constantly makes insulting and demeaning remarks, to the point that I...
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Tips to manage your performance review

The annual performance review strikes fear and loathing in the hearts of most workers, even those who believe they've worked well and hard. There's usually some disconnect between what we...
How do you address the office loud talker? Diplomatically, our expert says.

Tread softly to address colleague’s volume

Q: "Paula," one of our team members, talks so loudly that we can hear every word of her phone conversations and discussions with other co-workers. The constant sound of her...
The crowd listens to a presentation during a job networking meeting at St. Hubert's Parish Ministry Center in Hoffman Estates, Ill., on Monday, February 8, 2010.

Q&A: How to maximize networking

WICHITA, Kan. — Business people know they should network, but they often don't come away from an event making the connections they're looking for, said Lisa Marie Platske, CEO of...
Joy Ashner, who had lost her job in a downsizing in September, works on her resume, while at her home in Buffalo Grove, Ill., on Friday, Jan. 2, 2009.

Make resumes catch the computer’s eye

If this is a foreign language to you — "proprietary algorithms," "advanced semantic search," "computational linguistics" and "statistical inference" — keep reading. Workers who haven't applied for jobs lately may...
Truth Fisher, pictured February 20, 2012, is a labor lawyer employed by the Law offices of Gordon Rees in Miami, Florida. She represents employers and is seeing all kinds of workplace discrimination lawsuits about work/life balance issues.

Jobless discrimination ban gains steam

Recently, a hiring director complained to me that he was aghast at the way a job candidate came dressed for an interview for a financial position. He wore jeans and...
A couple holds hands at a group Valentine's day wedding ceremony in West Palm Beach, Fla. One study shows that husbands and wives who are unable to generate coping support at home tend to return to work even more agitated.

Marital support key to managing work stress

You come home after a stressful day at work, kick off your shoes, and continue to stew about the unrealistic demands of a customer or an insult from your jerky...
A job seeker hands a recruiter a resume at the New York Career Fair in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012.

Should I change jobs?

QUESTION: I'm having trouble deciding whether to change jobs. For a number of years, I have worked for a small local company. I can walk to work and go home...
Gail Miller, right, Toshiba director of marketing, and her staff listen to ideas about how Toshiba can use social networks such as Facebook to get their products noticed.

Keep meetings on track

QUESTION: Meetings in the volunteer organization that I'm involved in tend to get very out of control. We often stray off topic, usually because of a few longwinded folks. How...
Kim Gibbons, director of strategic marketing at Cisco Systems uses her own personal cell phone and iPad while working at Cisco in San Jose, California, on Friday, January 27, 2012. The laptop, however, is Cisco's.

BYO gadget to work?

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Like many employees these days, Kim Gibbons uses her own smartphone and tablet for her job at Cisco Systems. That way, no matter where she is...