Rank-and-file employees, or rank-and-file staff, are the backbone of most companies. With no fancy titles on their business cards - if they even have business cards - nor the word "manager" in their ...

June is nail-biting time at Enron Corp., a Texas energy and trading giant, at which managers assemble twice a year to evaluate and cull employees as if they were head of cattle. Wrangling behind ...

When Navy legend and computer programming pioneer Grace Hopper was promoted to O-7 in 1982, she pinned on the one-star insignia and became Commodore Hopper. If she had been promoted just a few years ...