Essays on Blyton

Introduction

The world of trade and commerce has changed a lot in relation to labour and employee interaction with firms since the 1700s when the concept of work became more advanced. The purpose of this essay is to analyse the concept of employee relations and how it has evolved over the years. In order to attain this end, the following objectives will be explored: A critical evaluation of the concept and theory of employee relations in various forms of organisations – large, indigenous, multinational, private and public entities; An assessment of the concept of employee relations as it evolved in the ...

Introduction

This report is based on the key findings established after going through the case study of Intercontinental Hotel Brisbane. The hotel consists of 1019 rooms and is situated in a prime location in Brisbane. The workforce at the underlying hotel comprises agency workers (coming from Asian and some other foreign countries) and directly appointed employees. The company has recently introduced an automated system based on a software application called Optii to appraise the performance of their employees in order to make them utilize their full potential. The question is how far Optii has been successful in dealing with the ...

Alienation

Alienation is a condition under social relationships characterized by low degree of the same values and high degree of isolation of individuals ((Trinca and Fox, 2004). It is separation of an individual from the rest of the people either in a community or working environment. The three main causes of alienation includes; powerlessness, meaninglessness, and self-estrangement. Powerlessness is lack of control over the work activities, lack of autonomy, and lack of autonomy. Meaningless is lack of understanding or sense of contribution to a larger purpose.Looking from broader perspective there are three factors that affect alienation; individual factors for instance personality, values, belief, ...

English

It all started when I was six and my sister moved to the city for college. Unable to understand the need for a good education at such a tender age, I was furious with my parents for this decision, and spent days in solitary confinement in my room, which once used to be ours. During those years, amidst all the merriment of sisterhood, there were days when she was very infuriating and I wished that she would just disappear. The lonely days in my room made me feel guilty about my wish, and with no one to talk to, I started ...

Introduction

The changes in the corporate sector due to the ever increasing globalization have specially affected the employment relations in the business organizations. The employment relations refer to the interaction between all the parties who are linked to the relationship in the employment. Armstrong (2009) states that the employee relations includes all the areas within the human resource management that have direct link with the employees; even managing the terms and conditions of employment and resolving any kind of issues are included in it. The general belief is that the criteria for measuring the performance of the organization include assessing ...

Changing Context of Work

1: Herod, A. and Aguiar, L. 2006. Cleaners and the Dirty Work of Neo-liberalism. Antipode, OX4 (2DQ), pp. 425 - 433. In the political-economic realm, the past two decades or so have been dominated by two words: neo-liberalism and globalization. According to this article, janitors and cleaners are among the occupations that endure the most probabilities of enduring injuries. The article has further analyzed research done in the US and Australia which indicates that this category of workers are ranked as the fifth going by the possibilities of enduring injuries. Despite to this, they are also victims of ...

Changing Context of Work

1: Herod, A. and Aguiar, L. 2006. Cleaners and the Dirty Work of Neo-liberalism. Antipode, OX4 (2DQ), pp. 425 - 433. The work of a cleaner has been featured in many Hollywood movies and the most common one being Maid in Manhattan. While these movies indicate that cleaners and janitors can possibly integrate with the rich, cleaners are actually fifth in ranking of occupations that endure most probabilities of injuries. This has been recorded in Australia and the US. Janitors and cleaners endure harsh conditions and low pay as well. With neo-liberalization, government regulations on workplace have undermined protection ...

Abstract

Values are the enduring perspectives that an individual strongly holds to judge between right and wrong. In addition, with the help of such values an individual is able to perceive and interpret the surroundings on the basis of which, an individual is able to make correct decisions. Since values play such crucial role in an individual’s life. It has been indicated that values have significant role in influencing the attitude of an individual i.e. commitment and job satisfaction along with other factors. On the other hand, it has also been indicated that conflicting values systems can negatively influence ...

Alternative perspective on management

In management and organizational studies, there is seemingly one way used to analyze aspects of management. However due to the scientific nature of management and organizational studies, there are alternative critical approaches used to analyze various aspect of management. Looking at the definition of management and organization, one can easily say that both concepts are as old as the history of human beings. In the historical period, there were various forms of organizations including armies and states which experienced management and organizational challenges. These challenges highlighted on areas such as human resource management, resource and financial management, branding and ...

CHAPTER 1

1.0 Introduction The purpose of this study will be to investigate the impact of teamwork in Chemical Engineering Department in the Federal University of Technology, Niger State, Nigeria. In order to be sure of getting assistance in the course of the study, I contacted the Head of this department who gave me an assurance of help of any kind of information as well as resource that I may need during the study. In this particular study, both qualitative and quantitative methods will be used. Debatably, overall performance of an organization depends on various factors which include; employee ...