Essays on Bendix

Response Paper #1

At the Bendix Windsor facility, the occupational health and safety issues concerned asbestos dust. The facility produced and assembled a variety of auto parts including starter drives, brakes, and cylinders. Prior to become the Bendix plant, the building was used as a horse barn. It had poor ventilation and lighting. There was asbestos dust in the air due to shaking of filter bags which was done by hand and dust settled on the equipment. The asbestos was contained in the brake parts that the plant manufactured. Operators were exposed to high dust concentrations and the creation of dusty conditions. ...

Introduction

The paper is intended to develop a report about different management styles in the context of industrial or employment relations to compare it with the sophisticated paternalist/ HRM (Human Resource Management) approach. The management styles in employment relations may be different from how it is taken or considered. The preferences and choices of the organization directly impact on its strategies to develop a relationship with its employees (Miller, 1987). The preferences are usually aligned with the dominants of the organization that is directly involved in decision making process of the organization. These preferences of the dominants directly result in ...

Human Relations Thinking – A break from the past

Introduction Human Relations in an organization is the attitude and interaction that the employees and employers exhibit towards each other. Human Relations thinking and studies have gained significance in the current atmosphere of tough competition and transformation of business methods. There are certain indications that organisational behaviour modifications can affect performances to a large extent. Human relations in workplace is a part of organisational behaviour and invited the attention of scholars as a tool to improve workplace environment and thereby individual and group performances. Before the introduction of Taylor’s scientific management, the humanitarian aspect of labour was neglected ...

Introduction

The role of sociology in the society cannot be ignored. One can easily make use of social theories to reflect on the environment they live in. The conflict theory stipulates the existence of class structures in a society. Simply put, there exist social inequalities. This paper gives a reflection of this social theory in relation to the lifestyle of a given community.

The segment that gives the best reflection of my neighborhood is the ‘New Empty Nests’. As the term implies, people and families classified under this segment do not appreciate staying at home, hence the reason their families ...

Social mobility is the social standing of persons with regard to their classes and position in the social hierarchy. People move from one position in their social standing to the other depending on different factors that directly affect them. In the context of socioeconomic and political problems, the lives of many people are affected negatively, and this affects their social mobility. Naturally, it is expected that move up the hierarchy (vertical mobility) and not downwards. Mobility is usually enabled by many aspects. Human and social capital can act as a standard gauge that can influence the change. When people ...

Influenced by the Brothers Grimm’s German fairy tale ‘Rapunzel’, Tangled is an amazing animation movie. Dan Fogelman turned the story into a screenplay for Walt Disney. Walt Disney Animation Studios produced the animation movie as the fiftieth piece in the Walt Disney Animated Classics Series. The shooting production of the movie began in 2007. The film was released on 24 November 2010 at the El Captain Theatre. The initial directors of the movie were Dean Wellins and Dean Keane. However, they stepped down as the directors in 2008. Nathan Greno and Bryon Howard took over the directing role since ...