Barbara Rose

More than 40 years after federal law made it illegal, 30 years after courts widely began recognizing it as a form of discrimination and at least 20 years after many...

Beware the employer that provides kitchen appliances. Julie Nagle learned this the hard way when she failed to notice the mini-refrigerators in managers' offices until after she started her new...

Kathleen Davis expects to hear back promptly when she leaves an employee a message, so you can imagine her frustration with a manager who seemed to ignore her e-mails and...

Karen McCulloh can tell a lot from a handshake. "If you meet a high-level, top-quality person, you're going to feel that confidence, that welcome," she says. Yet there was a...

It was an unlikely forum for a soul-baring revelation, but Cathy Benko figured it was as good a place as any to come clean on a subject close to her...

A newcomer to a project team discovered a disquieting truth about the people with whom he'd been assigned to work. "I'm noticing this pattern," he told Pam Brill, a New...

Some ideas unfold slowly, over months or years. Others burst forth with lives of their own, demanding immediate attention. It was the latter that seized Julie Gilbert after a dream...

Next time you feel powerless to change something you feel strongly about, remember Keith Smith and Ria McDougal. They worked in the stockroom at Niketown Chicago, a popular store with...

Debbie Rabishaw and her husband call it "going into mode." It's a look that signals the beginning of the end of their vacation, and it starts the night before they...

Jake Malhotra sighs audibly when asked whether he's ever worked on a doomed project. "I think it's pretty obvious to a lot of people at the very beginning if the...