Perhaps never in the history of the Philippines have we been made to provide personal information as frequently as during this pandemic. Almost everywhere we go, we are required to have our contact tracing apps scanned or we may have to manually fill in some logbook or contact tracing sheets and provide our age, place of residence, e-mail address, contact number, and health and travel information.

Management prerogative refers to every employer’s inherent right to regulate, according to his own discretion and judgment, all aspects of employment, including hiring, work assignments, working methods, the time, place, and manner of work, work supervision, transfer of employees, lay-off of workers, and discipline, dismissal, and recall of employees.

THE DESPERATE SCENES playing out in India may foreshadow a dangerous new phase of the pandemic where people die in droves, not of the disease so much as a lack of proper medical care. The situation could get a lot worse thanks to a sudden shortage of medical oxygen in the country.

THE SEEMINGLY impossible, paradoxical news that astronomers had taken a picture of a supermassive black hole captured our imaginations in 2019 for good reason. What they actually showed us was a sort of shadow -- a spherical blackness surrounded by a cosmic hurricane of matter and energy -- but that was enough to qualify as a sign of real human progress.

“Matter is energy ... Energy is light ... We are all light beings.” -- Albert Einstein Several recent events in the Philippines energy sector which when...

I once came across an online chat group where one of the members asked for advice on how to best prepare for marriage. The...

ONE foreboding royal ancestor stares down at visitors who enter Westminster Abbey through the great doors at the west end of the nave. Just...

Technology- and app-based transport network vehicle service (TNVS) is cool. It is transparent between the passengers and service providers. Passengers know the fare even before they book and confirm a ride. And after they confirmed the ride, they will know the plate number, driver’s name, etc. of the vehicle that will pick them up. On the part of the drivers, they know the names of their passengers, their cell phone numbers, where they are waiting and their destination, cool.

Almost every day, I pass by the unfinished structure of what should have been the second building of Ospital ng Makati. This Malugay Street...

IN MANY PARTS of the world, inflation is climbing quickly, including in the US, where I live and where inflation is now north of...

THERE is no shortage of candidates for the title of the most dangerous business idea of the moment. Management-by-algorithm may remove what humanity there...

One of the key thrusts of the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) for 2022 is Human Development and Well Being.