Research in England revealed that bosses who treat their employees unfairly can cut their lives short. Sixty-four hundred civil servants in London were studied and asked questions like: "Do you ever get criticized unfairly?" "Do you ever get praised for your work?"

Ten years later, it was discovered that men who reported low scores on their bosses' fairness were 30 percent more likely to have coronary ...

At 3:30 p.m. on June 6, 2007, a 21-year-old man with muscular dystrophy named Ben Carpenter drove his electric-powered wheelchair down the sidewalk in Paw Paw, Michigan. As he approached the street crossing at the corner of Red Arrow Highway at Hazen Street, a semi truck came to a halt at the stoplight. Ben began to cross the street from the north to the south in his wheelchair just a few feet in ...

A 2007 survey conducted by researchers at Florida State University discovered that employees who endure abuse from their bosses retaliate with poor performance. Abusive behaviors included the silent treatment (general avoidance and ignoring e-mail and other correspondence), personal put-downs, broken promises, and managers blaming their mistakes on employees to save face. Employees with difficult ...

Sam Chapman, founder of Empower Public Relations in Chicago, Illinois, has banned gossip in his office. Two years ago, Chapman left a larger company where office backbiting was epidemic and damaged both careers and morale. Now he calls the shots, and one of his primary rules is that if you have something to say to or about a colleague, you must say it to their face.

The penalty for breaking this rule ...

An unidentified beer taster went to battle with a Brazilian brewery, alleging his bosses failed to provide the proper health safeguards when they ordered him to drink more than three pints of beer each day. For more than a decade, the worker faithfully consumed between 16—25 small glasses of beer as part of his daily routine. For good measure, the company even sent him home with a bottle of ...

Rumored notes from hospital charts (probably written by some sleepy intern or frazzled nurse):

• The patient refused autopsy.

• Patient has left white blood cells at another hospital.

• Note: Patient recovering from forehead cut. Patient became very angry when given an enema by mistake.

• Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year.

• On the second day, ...

In a 2006 interview with USA Today, Israel Gaither, the national commander for the Salvation Army, offered some advice on how to instill employees with a sense of mission.

Here are some of Gaither's tips:

• Begin the day with prayer. • Organizations involve humans, and humans sometimes falter. Leaders should pick up those who have fallen, but also have the option to fire them. • Serving ...

A Spherion Workplace poll of 1,601 employed adults asked the following question: "If you knew your employer could see content from your social network website—such as MySpace, Friendster, or Facebook—would you remove any content from it?"

Yes: 33 percent
No: 37 percent
Neutral: 30 percent

If you feel overloaded, you're not crazy. You're normal. But you may feel distracted, frustrated, or half sick, because the average office worker gets 220 messages a day—in e-mails, memos, phone calls, interruptions, and ads.

No wonder a survey of 1,313 managers on four continents found that "one-third of managers suffer from ill health as a direct consequence of stress associated with information ...

When the stress of work gets to be too much, an increasing number of executives are escaping from the cares of this world in less conventional ways. Instead of simply retreating to the beach, to the mountains, or a golf outing, many adults are, well, acting like children.

At California's Camp GetAway, an adult can participate in sing-alongs, water balloon fights, kickball, s'mores around the campfire, ...