Working Conditions Reports Samples For Students

CS417

Assignment1 Part2
Industrial Revolution Research
Industrial Revolution
Abstract
The Industrial Revolution is famous for developing the industrial advantages that are common today. New inventions helped the textile factories grow and produce cloth. The steam engine was very important for making transportation faster and easier. Ships and railroad locomotives started using steam engines which made a significant change in transporting raw materials and finished products to sell. Building the ships and railroad trains used materials like iron and steel that were important and still are for modern manufacturing of many products. The social impacts from the Industrial ...

Introduction

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) entails the practices that are undertaken by the organization as a way of giving back to the society b solving the social or environmental issue. For instance, the business may fund projects in the community such as schools programs and clean water projects. Additionally, the corporations may undertake climate change activities such as planting trees and reducing emissions as well as funding for research for common good such as Ebola and cancer programs. Implied, the corporations bet on these projects to create customer awareness and as a way to win their loyalty in the long-term. ...

- Introduction
Employment laws meant to cushion the employees against any form of oppression they may face at their workplaces (Cabrelli 2010). In UK, these employment laws differed in that workers and employees enjoyed different protection, the employees enjoys greater rights than workers. Despite the difference, every person working for an employer is entitled to national minimum wage, protection from discrimination and right not to work for more than 48 hours per week. The employment laws apply universally whether the employees and workers are permanent or working on a temporary basis (Langley 2011). Employment regulations reviewed each year particularly ...

Report On Working Conditions

Executive Summary – The report presents the situational analysis of the working condition at Faredeal Travel Agency and identifies the requirement of enhancing the communication between the management and employees along with recommendations on improving working conditions.
Introduction – Working conditions of the company are significant to improve the performance and efficiency of employees. Also, it introduces safety in the working environment. This report

Provides the recommendation to the company to improve the existing working conditions.

Procedure – Survey was done to collect the information regarding the present working condition and to gather the information regarding improvement required by employees. The information was interpreted in percentage to elicit better understanding.
Findings – The ...

A writer ventures into the writing business with the aim of entertaining the readers. These personalities write captivating stories that entertain the readers. However, in this case, Upton makes the above statement to try and bring out the fact that even though the book was written to entertain the readers, somewhat it tampered with their inner feeling. The book centers around a Lithuanian immigrant who comes to the USA with the hope of having a better life. However, the turnout of events does not impress both the writer and presumably the reader. The book describes the life of one Jurgigs life ...

Abstract

Improving labor inspection services and OHS concerns in UAE and for small business is a growing concern. The paper looks into the growth of small business in Qatar and the need for strong OHS laws for workers and owners. There is a need to educate business about the worker’s rights and responsibilities as well as the responsibilities of the employers. The paper also looks into the demographics of the employee in UAE and the challenges faced by the state for occupational health and safety improvement in Qatar. The rate of industrialization has significantly increased over the past decades in Qatar and ...

International Foundation Year ProgrammeUndergraduate Study Skills in English.Continuous Assessment Task : Report PlanStudent name : Ali AlkasbiStudent number : 200820443Due Date : 18-11-2013Tutor : Jennifer Hirst Word Count : 3144This report is commissioned by the national consumer magazine called 'Right To Buy'.

The cocoa industry has is a big industry in the world. It gets its raw products from the farms in Ghana and Ivory Coast. They are processed to get products like chocolate and other by- products. It is considered a very crucial industry that it has its own challenges and benefits as a whole.
BackgroundGhana and Ivory Coast farms ...

Michael Bloomberg is definitely among the public personas whose persistence, inventiveness and meticulousness became the foundation of successful entrepreneurship and overall affluence in financial, political and media realms. In addition to political career, Bloomberg’s greatest achievements in business are a global media empire and a financial data network bearing – quite naturally – the name of their decisive founder, Bloomberg LP. Having created a Wall Street company in 1981 (Anders, 2009) with an intention to collect, structure and deliver financial and trading information (Bainbridge, 2008, p. 27), Bloomberg has been expanding his empire further until today. According to Winfrey (2009, ...

Introduction 3

Summary of the Equality Act 2010 3
The Purpose of the Equality Act 2010 4
Protected Characteristics in the Equality Act, 2010 4
Two Forms of Discriminations Discouraged by the Act 5
Behaviour Considered unlawful in the Act 5
Employment and Working Conditions Exempt from the Act 6
Changes made from Previous Discrimination Legislation 7
Potential Problems with the Equality Act of 2010 for Employers and Employees 8
Recommendations on how Organisations can ensure Compliance with the Equality Act 11

References 13

Employment Relations and Law – Equality Act 2010
Introduction
With the rise in globalisation pressures and the need for businesses ...

A Study on the differences between Maersk and Citigroup in IHRM practices

Globalization of business operations and the emerging issues have necessitated that business organizations reformulate their management policies to resolve the problems arising out of a diverse cultural atmosphere. Business destinations in developing countries offer a multitude of opportunities but organizations have to prepare themselves well to address the differences in business factors influencing success. These factors may be related to political, economic, cultural or legal environment and affect the functions of organizations. One of the organizational functions affected seriously by the diverse factors is that of International Human Resource Management (IHRM) and multinationals formulate different policies to confront the ...

Introduction

The purpose of this report is to analyze the different social responsibilities and ethical responsibilities of businesses to the society. Apart from the main objective of maximization of profits, businesses should have other objectives that ensure that their practices promote the welfare of the society. In this report, Walmart is analyzed.
Walmart is an American multinational company considered to be the largest employer with 2.2 million employees (Walmart.com). Apart from the United States, it has branches in United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Mexico, and India. It usually operates general chains hypermarkets, grocery stores, and discount department stores. The company’s ...

Abstract

The human asset employed by an organization plays a crucial role in influencing the efficiency and performance level of an organization. There are some factors which influence the working nature of employees. These factors have to be fully taken into consideration for the achievement of the set objectives. One the main factor is safety in the working environment. The safety of an employee is particularly significant in an organization. Every employer should ensure that the working environment is free from any safety problem. This helps to improve their performance. Safety and health of an employee help to improve the motivation ...

The Industrial Revolution was a period from the 18th to 19th century when fundamental changes occurred in agriculture, transportation, textile, economic policies, metal manufacture, and the social structure in England. It is an era that destroyed the old manner of doing things. The Industrial Revolution was a chief turning point in the history of mankind. Eventually, almost every aspect of life was in some way influenced by this transformation. For instance, population and average income began to show signs of first-time sustained growth. In addition, advances in agriculture practices and techniques resulted in changes in industrial organization, increased supply of raw ...

Introduction

Nike Inc is a corporation that was founded on Jan 25, 1964 in the county of Washington. It is a corporation that was founded in the United States of America by a Phil Knight. At the time of its inception Phil was a track athlete at University of Oregon. The company commenced operations as a distributor of shoes for a Japanese company. Original the organisation started operating under the brand Blue Ribbon Sports which was later changed to Nike Inc, on May 30th, 1978. The name Nike originates from the Greek goddess of victory. Presently the company specialises in the production of sports equipment and ...

Health and the Consumer

Elite Care is an organization fueled or driven by offering both the best patient care services and the best working conditions for the staff members. First with the name, as a manager one tends to feel that the name Elite Care explains the mission statement of the hospital. The name Elite seems to stand out from the rest of the health care organization. This is because it genuinely reflects on what the organization is going to offer. This is quality services to the patient with no discrimination to the best environment for the members of the staff to work under. ...

Introduction

Occupational health and safety are associated with the safety, health, and welfare of employees who are engaged in work. It plays an important role in managing the company’s operations. The report addresses workplace hazards and provides information about the accidents and injuries occurred in the engineering industry. One of the main aims of the report is to indicate ways of mitigating the risk of loss. The purpose of this technical report is to demonstrate that the author has engineering knowledge, professional competence, and technical ability to carry out the essential research in detail about the health and safety ...

Introduction 3

Executive Summary 3
Ethical Policies of the Company 4
Environmental Policies of the Company 4
Credibility of Ethical and Environmental Claims 6
Conclusion 6

Reference List 8

Introduction
Adidas AG is a German global corporation that designs, produces and sells sport goods, including clothing, shoes, and various accessories. This company operates in more than 160 hundreds of countries and employs more than 53 thousand people, generating sales of more than €14 billion (Adidas-group.com, n.d.). The company is known to design clothes that have three parallel bars, which is a typical logo of the company. Adidas was founded in 1924, and today it ...

Analysis of Multinational Companies

Analysis of Multinational Enterprise
The spread of the globalization across the world facilitates the process of the foundation of new firms and business units in different regions. With that, some companies prefer to have the supply chains approximately in every country regardless the fact that the headquarter of the company is locate din one jurisdiction. Among diversified nature of the business units, today are quite popular the multinational companies due to their competitive advantages in the market. The experts in the business environment define the multinational company as the enterprises that has the production facilities and other relevant assets ...

Analysis of IKEA and INDITEX

IKEA is a multinational company that designs and sells furnishing products around the world. There are many different factors that influence the work of IKEA in every separate country that the company operates in. This is why it is of the greatest importance for the company to analyze its operational environment, and one of the tools that the company can use is the PESTLE analysis.
Various political factors influence business activities of IKEA group of companies, such as trade restrictions, labor laws, taxes, tariffs, etc. In addition, an attitude of many governments, especially those of European countries, was significantly ...

Introduction

Employment laws are set to protect human rights and ensure fair treatment of employees by their employers. Companies are required to adhere to federal and state employment laws (Guerin & DelPo, 2013). To improve working conditions and morale of the employees, organizations are encouraged to follow employment laws, governing codes, and set expectations of conduct within the workplace (Twomey, 2010). Since DPG is a manufacturing organization, it is required to adhere to all provisions of the constitutions (federal and state) Source: (Goldman, Corrada & Goldman 2011). Critical laws to be followed are detailed below. Overall, it is in DPG interest to ...

The business sector is one of the most challenging economical sectors in the global market. To be concise, the manufacturing sector is one of the most challenging business sectors the market. There are a lot of factors that are considered while making business decisions. These factors include, financial decisions such as cutting down on costs and improving sales.
The Foxconn Company is a company that deals with the Apple Company. The company manufactures i-pods and i-pads for the Apple Company and it works collaboratively with other leading technology firms. The company has been surrounded by multiple controversies concerning employee welfare ...

Introduction

Occupational health and safety involves the development of a culture that promotes health and safety within the workplace. Promotion of healthy and safe working conditions within the workplace is important both to the employees and to the employer, as well. To the employees, the probability of suffering harm from their line of occupation is reduced, additio0nally, the risk of contracting a medical condition from their occupation is minimized. To an employer, the damage to the organization occasioned from OHS failures is minimized. Some of the liabilities that an employer can accumulate from poor OHS practices is insurance claims from employees harmed ...

The observations related to Tam Dental are made as a part of this report where their feedback clearly suggested the fact that there were various instances and situations that had led to miscommunication in the office thus leading to impact on operations. The interviews taken clearly indicated that the communication between the doctors, the staff and other support functions was not adequate.
At the outset the communication related to presence and requirement of the support staff was not fixed due to which there were always chances of ambiguity and confusion. The schedules were not created on the basis of ...

Executive Summary

Blundstone is Footwear Company based in Tasmania, Australia specializing in the manufacture of different types of footwear. The recent plan to expand their operations to Indonesia requires a careful market analysis in terms of PESTLE and SWOT analysis so as to identify the opportunities available in the new market. The political and legal factors include stable political system and efficient laws essential for the organization to develop easily. Economic factors also indicate an existence of stable opportunities for foreign direct investments with low legal restrictions. However, uncertainty in inflation rate and low value for the currency are key threat that ...

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is an exposé of the lives of immigrant workers of the meatpacking industry in Chicago. It revolves around the lives of a Lithuanian family who went to the United States in the hopes of living a better life but ended up destroyed and toyed by the rotten capitalist system. Sinclair uses the idea of the Darwinian evolution in a jungle, where powerless immigrant workers are preyed upon by cruel, wealthy and corrupt capitalists.
The book’s agenda was to provide a compelling critique of capitalism, and raise a socialist alternative. It was meant to make people realize the ...

Book Report: “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair’s book titled “The jungle” presents the author’s visionary ideas to the American society in 1906. Sinclair’s show of the life of struggle is evident through the characters Jurgis Rudkus and Ona. The two are a family, struggling to make ends meet in the suburbs of Chicago. The author presents the suffering which immigrants undergo, especially those who do not know much of English who are forced to take on various labor jobs that are barely enough to sustain their daily expenses. Mr. Rudkus and his family stayed lowly having found a job in the meat industry, ...

Introduction

In order to understand the role of unions in workplace health and safety, the workplace health and safety incidents need to be studied. In spite of the fact that colossal efforts have been made to improve the work place safety for employees still the number of casualties have been currently reported to be around 2 million and 330 million accidents had taken place at work stations. Among all other divisions BWI are the most unsafe ones. Construction sector has the highest number of casualties compared to other large industrial sectors and reportedly 100,000 fatalities take place per year ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Abstract
This paper is on the topic of human rights. It begins by defining human rights. It also mentions important people throughout the history of human rights’ development. The paper speculates on how different countries handle human rights and the violations therein. Finally, the paper assesses what the causes, effects, and solutions are to each country having its own human rights policies.

Part I

Heading: Definition and meaning
- Human rights are a more understanding and definition ensuring that humans are allotted basic rights, such as the right to life.

Heading: Historical landmarks/people in Human Rights Development

- Abraham Lincoln – fought a war in order to free the ...

Summary Review

Barbara Ehrenreich has written many books, but her book ‘Nickel and Dimmed’ is a classic in providing knowledge about a socio-economic issue of how does a poor, low-wage worker is able to survive in such a meager income. In this book, she begins to investigate that what are the hidden costs attached to the survival of a low wage worker and how do they cope up with those. To know more about it, she decided to spend some time of her life that were approximately three months, doing various lower wage jobs that included house cleaning, nursing, being a waitress and a sales girl serving at ...

R. WILLIAMS CONSTRUCTION CO. V. OSHRC
R. Williams Construction is a company that deals with digging trenches in construction work. According to the employees of the company, minimal supervision of the workforce is part of the company’s culture. In fact, the employees could even engage on some duties without being instructed to. At one time, a tragedy occurred following the crumbling of a trench, killing one employee, Jose Aguiniga, and injuring another, Adam Palomar. The two were cleaning the pumps, but had not been instructed to do so.

Following the investigations undertaken by the Occupation Safety and Health Act (OSHA), ...

Food retailing

Social, ethical, and environmental factors affect the foods that consumer buy. Intolerance and allergies can affect diets and availing a balnced diet can help navigate these problems. The social responsibilities that food retailers meet include socio-economic changes such as foreign travel, eating patterns and immigration, and lifestyle such as work/life balance, fewer children, greater spending power, and people living loner. Many food retailers are increasingly employing both legal and illegal immigrants in the countries in which they operate. In their part, food retailers are making it their responsibility to ensure that they employ legal immigrants and compensate according to the ...

Individual report on simulation exercise- Glo-bus

Introduction
Generic strategy

Undeniably, marketing strategies for different enterprises are streamlined to develop competing strategies comprising of promotions, pricing and advertising. As such, our financial strategy focused on creating a one star level camera to be dispensed to our consumers at lower prices. In addition, the strategy purposed at developing a 4 star camera to be utilized by stylish customers. Deductively, the uniqueness of our pricing and quality facilitated maximization of our returns since our prices were relatively cheap, hence affordable. Moreover, multi-featured cameras we produced would offer a competitive edge for our products and hence promote our company's brand.

Our ...

Theories of Foreign Direct Investment

A Company’s interest in investing in foreign markets is guided by many forces. There are several theories that explain the justification of FDI in the countries of interest. Among them is the theory of imperfect markets (oligopolies and business advantage) (Chiang, 1995).This theory is majorly cantered on the fact that companies operate on an area of market advantage. A research carried in Stephen Hymer in 1959 at MIT showed that this type of investment was common in markets where oligopoly was the order of the day (Gwarney& Somida, 2000). Companies which were losing their domestic markets due ...

1. Explain how you would handle this situation if you were Charles Renfold.
It is always hard to predict one’s behavior in the times of a crisis. Being caught off guard by Darlene Lambert, Charles Renfold did not have a prepared response to her claim. However, it is possible to suggest that he was not able to evaluate the situation well enough. Being overwhelmed by the urgent work, he did not realize the depth of the smoking problem in Redwood Associates. Indeed, he tried to smoothen the conflict by explaining his point of view to Darlene Lambert, yet he ...