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A great primer on IP protection! Intellectual property protection is critical to fostering innovation. Without protection of ideas, businesses and individuals would not fully benefit of their inventions and would focus less on research and development.

It's up to us to take advantage of our differences to help make us more productive and more successful. To do that, we have to make an effort to recognize and respond to situations where coworkers or customers don't feel respected. It’s not easy but it’s certainly worth the effort.

Incivility can quickly turn into workplace harassment… creating an environment or climate of ridicule and disrespect - in which harassing behaviors are tolerated.

In America, individual rights are often valued over the rights of society, but what many Westerners do not realize is that more than two thirds of the world’s population comes from cultures that value collective rights over the rights of an individual.

Often business deals are lost because the parties involved did not take the time to learn about each other’s cultures prior to interacting. Good due diligence goes beyond just looking at the bottom line.

The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989, commonly known as the WPA, is a U.S. federal law that protects federal whistleblowers who work for the government and report agency misconduct. This course provides and overview of the WPA and WPEA. Be informed.

Diversity has to do with human differences. So a lot of times when people say “diversity” they really mean is race or gender or ethnicity. Diversity is much more than that – it’s any point of difference.

You may not be able to change the entire culture of your organization…but you can impact how YOU deal with office politics - proactively and intelligently.

It’s often easy to see other human beings as different if you look at them through the “We – Them” mindset. This depersonalizes people.

Sexual harassment is still a very real workplace issue. Sexual harassment can be committed by a person of any gender, and it can occur between people of the same or different gender.