Articles tagged: Ms. Management

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   Ms. Management: Driving Our Employees Over the Edge

   By Stacy-Marie Ishmael

   Posted on July 19, 2017

   Our fetishisation of stoicism means we tend to dismiss deteriorating mental health breakdowns as mere distractions, best treated with an hour or so of venting to colleagues and several infusions of hard liquor.

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   Ms. Management: I Hope You Find the Time to Read this Column

   By Stacy-Marie Ishmael

   Posted on June 21, 2017

   If you’re the kind of person who is into both checks on the executive branch and the finer points of employment law, you may already have come across the case of KNTV, Inc. and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, AFL–CIO. If not—and who can blame you—a quick primer: that case set the precedent that an employer’s use of the phrase “I hope you” could be reasonably construed as “coercive.”

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   Ms. Management: Whose Stories Do We Consider?

   By Stacy-Marie Ishmael

   Posted on May 16, 2017

   On books, checklists, and the cumulative effect of unconscious decisions.

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   Ms. Management: The Hard Work of Hiring Well

   By Stacy-Marie Ishmael

   Posted on April 18, 2017

   In this installment of Ms. Management, we learn why a better interview process is better for everyone, not just the applicants.

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   Ms. Management: This Isn’t the Diverse Newsroom You’re Looking For

   By Stacy-Marie Ishmael

   Posted on March 16, 2017

   The first column in the “Ms. Management” series: how newsroom managers can take more tangible steps to increase newsroom diversity.