Essays on Employers

A domestic worker encounters certain expectations from an employer bearing in mind that all people are not the same. Hence, it is up to the “baomu” to study his or her environment so that he or she can act, work, and behave appropriately. Yan Hairong develops a critical analysis of the standards of a proper domestic worker according to the employers. What are their expectations? How can the “baomu” fit in with the family? What form of training does the domestic worker need? This essay examines the primary ideas highlighted by Yan in the text “What if Your Client/Employer ...

The affordable Care Act 2015 formerly christened as Obamacare is one of the major reforms in the health sector. Obamacare seeks to expand and improve health care access to a majority of Americans by curbing costs of healthcare through taxes and regulation. The primary focus of this policy was to provide more Americans with access to health insurance, improved quality of health insurance and health care, reduce healthcare expenditure in the country and more importantly regulate the insurance industry. However, the policy has received support and opposition in equal measure. Proponents of the policy call it a monumental legislation ...

Management Theories

Management Theories

Introduction: Overview of Management

Human beings will remain to be the most complicated assets to manage in an organization unless probably the day computers will think, feel, and learn to do things without human intervention. Until then, every manager needs a management concept that will assist him or her to manage these complex resources. Management refers to the process of locating, organizing, planning, leading, and exercising control over the workforce among other resources. Every manager needs to have the necessary skills in making decisions and resolving issues for him/her to be effective, efficient, and beneficial.

In essence, managers’ primary role is ...

Issues at Kaluyu Hospital: Case Study

1. The case of Kaluyu hospital highlights a slew of anomalies in organizational culture and practices that demoralize employees. First and the foremost, there is a lack of transparency in rewards and performance system. The credit of the patient care usually goes to the doctors despite the fact that nurses do all the work. The partnership of doctor and nurses, one of the fundamentals of quality care, is in trouble. Research reveals that these types of conflicts often lead to serious long-term issues. If it continues unabated, it is likely that the organization will witness high turnover, low job ...

Discuss the positives and negatives of corporate culture in the competitiveness of a firm. Relate how firms should deal with different corporate cultures in mergers and acquisitions. According to Wheelen and Hunger (2015), "corporate culture fulfills several important functions in an organization. It conveys a sense of identity for employees and helps generate employee commitment to something greater than them. It adds to the stability of the organization as a social system and serves as a frame of reference for employees to use to make sense of organizational activities as well as a guide for appropriate behavior." One of ...

Ergonomics refers to the process of changing the job making it easier for the workers. It enables the matching of equipment, work methods, and tools with the workers. The ergonomic application should be practiced in a way that it benefits, workers through the betterment of work procedures and task designs. Adding the consciousness of personnel to the importance of implementing ergonomics paves the way for both the employees and the management to work together and acquire primary benefits for the employees’ health. Many researchers have discovered that ergonomics is more efficient when the employees and the management work hand ...

Abstract

If you ever tried to solve an issue with finding an employee for a particular position in your company, you must know that it’s quite difficult to find a professional. Sometimes this issue is solved simply but sometimes you need a whole raw of tests and interviews to see what kind of person is sitting in front of you and if you can trust him/her with an important job. Big companies hire special managers to find proper workers. And if you have a rather small enterprise, you have to find them yourself. It’s not that easy – an ...

Contrasting Two Cultures with a Model of Culture

The model of culture to be used in this part of the paper is Professor Geert Hofstede’s Model of National Cultures. Professor Hofstede is famous for his study wherein he looked at how values in the workplace are influenced by particular cultures. He was a consultant working with IBM in the 1970s and 1980s, and thus he was able to observe various workplace cultures around the world (Geert Hofstede: National Culture). Originally, he came up with four dimensions of culture along which behaviors could be linked and thereafter analyzed. The original dimensions are Individualism-Collectivism, Uncertainty Avoidance, Power Distance ( ...

Purpose of Selection, Its different Methods and their Validity/Reliability

The Purpose of Selection The primary purpose of selection is to hire the most suitable job applicant who can meet organisational and employment requirements in a best possible manner. In other words, this process is followed with a sole purpose to determine and employ those candidates who can fulfil employer’s requirements . Selection is different from recruitment because the former attempts to select only the right job applicants to fill a particular position whereas the latter creates a pool of talented candidates who can apply for a particular vacancy. Recruitment is a positive process where an organisation looks for ...

Introduction

The doctrine states that occupation is supposed to take an undefined time and can be terminated by both the worker and the employer. The guideline has been applied historically by the courts in the interpretation of employment relationships. The employers and workers have been awarded unequal bargaining power. It causes criticism of the doctrine since the outcomes are seen to be harsh. The unions looked to, are seen as the certified employees’ representatives, thus trying to equalize the bargaining power. Various benefits are associated with the union powers such as job security and bonuses. With the acceptance of the “ ...

Introduction

While job description refers to the specific roles or duties of a given position in an organization, job specification indicates the required attributes for someone to be considered competent for a given task (Verboncu & Zeininger, 2015). HR managers utilize the two concepts (job specification and description) in attracting and evaluating potential employees and in identifying proper strategies of managing an organizational workforce. Some of the important attributes evaluated during job description include necessary goals and skills for a given position. In job specification, the human resource (HR) managers take account of individual attributes, experience, skills and training that are ...

Issue

Have Adam and I formed a partnership? Rule Partnership Act (SA) 1891 Section 1- Definition of Partnership Partnership Act (SA) 1891 Section 2- Rules for determining Existence of Partnership Partnership Act (NSW) Section 2- Rules for determining Existence of Partnership A partnership entails the relationship that exists between two or more people with the intent of running a business for profit making purposes (Partnership Act (SA) 1891 s 1). Based on Partnership Act (SA) 1891 s 2 and Partnership Act (NSW) s 2, for a partnership to exist, the relationship must satisfy three aspects:

The establishment of a business;

In common; With a view ...

Newspaper Article 1: Employee Retention- How to Retain Employees

Introduction The purpose of the paper Employee Retention- How to Retain Employees is to highlight several tactics that a human resource manager can employ to retain the employees in their organization. As such, the organizations that utilize the outline tactics benefit from the associated high turnover costs as well as productivity. The paper aims at ensuring employers create a strong workforce by retaining the employees.

Summary

The paper highlights twelve tactics that any employer aiming to retain their employees can utilize. For instance, the paper talks about offering highly competitive benefits packages that relate to the needs of the employees. ...

Introduction

Traditionally, employment relationships have generally been governed by the common law doctrine of employment at will. In the nineteenth-century American common law, the employment-at-will doctrine became the norm. The at-will-doctrine holds that unless the parties expressly agree in particular duration, the employment relationship can be served by either employer or the employee at any time and for any reason. According to the Bureau of Labour Statistics, however, there are major exceptions to Employment-at-Will including implied contract exception; policy exception and convention of good faith and fair dealing (Muhl, 2001). Employment at will is basically a voluntary and indefinite employment ...

The article "Despite Recession, High Demand for Skilled Labor" by Louis Uchitelle highlights the need for skilled labor despite the soaring unemployment rate. The unemployment rate has risen to 9.4 percent, the highest in 30 years (Uchitelle np). This increase is mainly due to a recession. Interestingly tough employers are looking for qualified workers even during the hard times according to the government's standard employment data. These jobs take years of experience to attain the required skills. For instance, it is tough to find an experienced person in welding. It takes a minimum of ten years to produce a ...

What began as simple sharing of Facebook statuses and Twitter updates have given way to public Snapchats and Instagram stories in which we broadcast every little detail of our lives for everyone to see, including our current and future bosses. While this type of technology has the capacity to foster a greater sense of community and can aid in globalization and sharing of cultures, it also facilitates negative behavior that can paint a less than flattering picture of a job candidate. This paper aims to discuss the positive and negative ways social media can be used to influence job ...

Employee law

Employee’s workplace rights mandated by US federal law The employees’ workplace rights as mandated by the US federal law are the set of privileges that the workers should enjoy as they carry on their stipulated duties. The employees' rights in the workplace are informed by the federal and state laws which have created regulations that define the relationship between the employees and the employer (Kelly & Kalev, 2006). The workers' rights also encompass the rights that are not necessarily mentioned in the legal statutes but implied from the legal protection (Kelly & Kalev, 2006). The rights of the employees at ...

Part 1

Part 2 I agree with Akers & Chingos (2014) that, “increases in lifetime incomes of college-educated Americans have more than kept pace with increase in debt loads.” According to their research, the average household with student debt has experienced an increase in annual income of $7400 while total debt increased by only eighteen thousand dollars. The statistics show that income of educated Americans has been increasing at a faster rate than the increase in student debt and the increased annual income can pay the additional debt within two to three years (Akers & Chingos, 2014). The increase in borrower’s income ...

Employee Benefits Plans For Small Businesses

Employee benefits are very crucial in the lives of employees together with their families. Employees will consider benefits if they are to work for an employer. There are those benefits that employers must provide as required by the state while others are optional and it is the employer who decides whether they can offer the benefits or not. Most benefits provided include employee social security, unemployment insurance taxes, employee compensations, disability insurance, leave benefits, family, and medical leave (United States Small Business Administration, 2017). On the contrary, optional benefits may include COBRA benefits, employee incentive programs, health insurance, and ...

Analysis of Incident Investigation Data for Causal Factors

Abstract Accidents may be caused by various conditions: the worker’s physical and psychological condition, safety rules control, overload at work, lack of manual to prevent accidents from happening. If the worker in poor physical condition, tired and incapable of thinking clearly, he should not be allowed to work any further for safety reasons, and those conditions of workers should be defined by the company’s safety control officers before letting him start the job. Giving overtime to workers also needs careful test of workers’ physical condition. Sometimes exploited may not be equipped with safety terms. Working with dangerous ...

Introduction

Employee interviews are popular as part of the selection process because of its more personal nature and its ability to measure characteristics not accessible with other methods (US OPM 3). However, in a contemporary environment governed by anti-discrimination laws, drawing out an applicant’s behavior can be tricky and prone to misinterpretation for discriminatory hiring practices as in the case of Specialist Kayla Reyes.

An Overview of Facts

Army veteran Specialist Kayla Reyes, age 21 and had four years of overseas combat deployment, interviewed for a job in sales at Macy’s (Fashion Fair Mall in Fresno, CA) in February 2014 and was ...

Public health is concerned with preventing injury or disease and prolonging life through research. Data collected from different communities is used to determine disease prevalence and possible risk factors. This information is utilized to develop policies to prevent or reduce disease incidence.

Overview of Database

In 2012, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) carried out the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey whereby youth fitness data was collected among children aged between 3 and 15 years. Demographic data such as socioeconomic status, country of birth, nutrition, health history and level of education was also collected (CDC, 2012). Demographic information was ...

Every organization has its specific way of recruiting new employees. One organization might select its employees through the internet while another might conduct face to face interviews. The article measuring adverse impact in employee selection decisions. In Practitioner's Guide to Legal Issues in Organizations by Dunleavy, Morris, & Howard (2015) broadly discusses the relationship between the terms employee recruitment, adverse impact, and disparate treatment. The article argues that adverse impact and disparate treatment are among the biggest problems faced by possible employers when looking for qualified employees. The article also discusses the specific guidelines that are used to recruit workers.

Purpose

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Interpreting Laws and Court Decisions

Introduction Laws are continuously changing and are always put in a language difficult for the common citizen to understand. The average working American is mostly unable to understand the legal language and terms. This makes the interpretation of laws and, even court decisions, a difficult undertaking. Labor laws in the US provide a necessary legal relationship among the workers’ labor unions, workers themselves, and the employers. The laws also form a basis on which the labor cases are determined in courts. The interpretation of both the court decisions and laws, therefore, remains significant to both the workers and their ...

Introduction

Traditionally, the primary role of health care organizations has been the delivery of health care services to the public. However, over the last few decades several changes have occurred in the medical field that requires health care organization to develop new ways of enhancing the quality of service delivery. For example, the current generation is more aware of health issues than it has been the case in earlier decades. At the same time, there are more chronic and life-threatening diseases and conditions affecting populations across the nation and the world in general than it was the case in history ( ...

Introduction

The balancing of life and work is a problem for several individuals in organizations. Work-life balance as a concept has become popular in research works. Additionally, sociology, human resource management, psychology, as well as organizational studies are concerned with work-life balance. Most research encourages people to find an equilibrium of work and life. This is to avoid conflicts that often arise. The concept has also had various definitions proposed by scholars. Others define it as a sense of harmony in life. It is also described as satisfactory functioning at home and work with minimum conflict of roles. Focusing on ...

One of the key goals of obtaining a college education is the acquisition of communication skills. In the workforce, the better an employee listens to feedback and instructions, and the better an employee can provide critical facts and opinions, the more likely an employee is likely to succeed in the workplace. Recent graduates who have a basic knowledge of business law are even more prepared to succeed in the modern workforce, and employers want them for several reasons. According to Maggitti, business law focuses on critical thinking. Business law is a core discipline where critical thinking is especially critical. ...

The workplace is considered as the best place to promote the health and well-being. The reason is that; there is a large elderly population that can be reached by the health messages. Research shows, 45 percent of the workforce come from groups that are traditionally hard to get the health messages and proper diets (Johansson, & Partanen, 2002). The groups come from low socio-economic areas thus disadvantaged with health messages. Following many statistics showing that these populations are at risk of developing diseases like diabetes, stroke, hypertension and cardiovascular disease, the stakeholders have an interest in health status well-being of ...

Introduction

A code of conduct is a document that sets out a collection of rules, social norms, and responsibilities that an individual or any party should follow as a part of an existing organization. In some cases, they may also refer to and cover areas such as the principles, values, and standards that an individual should use as a guide when making actions and decisions when working within an organization. Following an organization’s code of conduct often has two main goals. The first one is to keep the stakeholders satisfied by ensuring that all actions and decisions that are ...

Background

The Multifibre Agreement was developed in 1974 and governed the world’s textile sector until 2004 when it was phased-out. The accord inflicted quotas on the amount developing countries could export to the developed world. It was meant to help the developed countries adjust to existing absolute advantage that the developing countries have in the textile industry. The existence of the agreement allowed the Bangladesh textile industry to flourish in the 20th century and early 21st century. It was highly expected that the phase-out of the MFA would greatly affect Bangladesh negatively as the country was highly dependent on ...

Gender equality is an issue that has persisted throughout history and pervaded the same on one level or another. Throughout much of history, men have used religion, power and influence to subjugate and limit women. One might think that such a pattern would be tapering off and going away in the 21st century and within modern times. While many countries, including the one mentioned throughout this report, have been able to advance and progress in major ways, there are still a ton of opportunities to learn and grow.

Focus of Report

This report will focus on a specific country and a specific ...

Should U.S. Provide Free Healthcare Coverage For All? Should U.S. Provide Free Healthcare Coverage For All? The healthcare system is an important factor in the success of any country. It is an engine for innovation, as it disseminates life-enhancing treatments for the citizens to have better health. The healthcare system can provide enormous benefits to its citizens. With continuous consumption of healthcare services by individuals comes a growing demand for healthcare services that provide happiness and satisfaction to people. For this, patient satisfaction has been labeled as “a complimentary measure of healthcare quality” (Browne et al., 2010, p.921). In ...

Having a job is very important to many individuals, especially because of the difficult economic times that we are living in today. At the same time, though, another reason why getting an efficient job can be difficult, is because of the state of the economy as well. As Donald Trump mentioned during his debate with Hillary Clinton recently, American’s economy is a bubble at the moment, and one slip could end up causing a recession, like what has happened in 2008. However, it is also important to mention that as the years have gone by, the economy continues ...

It is worth mentioning that the primary objective of unions is to represent employees in matters regarding welfare, pay, and benefits. However, it is hard to achieve a collective agreement due to different factors between employers and worker. Economically, unions negotiate higher pay for their members. The pay rise lowers the profit earned by the employers. Consequently, the business owners are forced to increase prices of their products (Oswald, 1985). On the same note, legal factors also affect negotiations as there exist some statutes that affect the negotiation process. For this reason, the unions and employers must make sure ...

Compensation strategy of an organization is essential in ensuring a competitive advantage over rivals. In the contemporary business world, companies face increasing pressure to offer high-quality products and services. Compensation strategy is important to employees and employers. Workers often depend on salaries, wages, as well as benefits for income provision. Compensation practices differ in various companies. Managing compensation is a primary mechanism for decisions in the job market. Proper compensation management is crucial in improving organizational performance. Most companies adopt compensation strategies that enable employees to produce high-quality work. Companies such as Baker Hughes have a strategy aligned with ...

Trade unions, as well as industrial actions, can be dated back to the industrial revolution in the eighteenth century. Notably, labor unions are organizations that have been set up by workers in particular professions to enable them to achieve common goals. Several issues are usually addressed by the groups, including protection of the rights of the workers, improving working conditions for the workers, increasing the remuneration and benefits of the employees, and enhancing welfare among many other issues (Heckscher & Carré, 2006). In other words, trade unions exist for the sake of the workers. Members use the unions to discuss ...

Strengths of Sofitel Hangzhou Westlake 4

Weaknesses of Sofitel Hangzhou Westlake 6 Opportunities which Sofitel Hangzhou Westlake can Exploit 7 Threats to which Sofitel Hangzhou Westlake is Exposed 7 3.0 Strategy Proposed 8 4.0 Critical Evaluation of the Problems Identified 8

Using Six Hats Thinking Approach for Problem Solving 9

Blue Hat 9 White Hat 9 Red Hat 10 Black Hat 10 Yellow Hat 10 Green Hat 11 Application of Mintzberg’s Theory at Sofitel Hangzhou Westlake 11 Interpersonal use of Managerial Skills 11 Informational Role of Managers to Solve Problems 12 Decisional Role of Managers for Dealing with the Issue 13 5.0 Conclusion 13

References 14

Strategic Management Analysis of Sofitel Hangzhou Westlake in China ...

After a read of Margaretta Midura’s 2013 article dubbed John v. Jennifer, A Battle of the Sexes, it is impossible to remain disinterested in the impact of gender on one’s employment opportunities. Perhaps one’s academic prowess does not necessarily give him or her automatic ticket to success. On the contrary, the employers that one seeks to impress with good grades and a university degree might harbor prejudices that will create another hurdle based on the sexes. That is what Midura implies in John v. Jennifer. According to the author, in the fields of science, technology, engineering, ...

Gebelhoff (2016) points out that around 10% of U.S. workers were union members in 2013. Thus, only a small fraction of employees discuss their wages with employers. Gebelhoff (2016) notes that there were 35% of labor unions in America in 1945, however nowadays the number is a tiny one, and the Europe significantly differs in this aspect. Unionized labor is not prevalent, since the manufacturing sector is not popular anymore. The lack of labor unions in the United Stated of America is related to the growth of economic and political inequality as well as lack of progress in terms ...

Soc/100

Introduction Getting a job in the contemporary world proves to be a direct function of the relationship that one sets in the onset of an interview. If one is contextually able to exhibit a good relationship coupled with a positive and optimistic rapport with a tentative employer, then there is hope that if one gets employed, there will be a chance for a meaningful employer-employee interaction. Forging employer-employee relationships proves to be difficult for most people. Most of the jobs call for people to spend more time at work than they do with loved ones and family members. This ...

Interview is among the most used recruitment methods in companies around the world. Goffman believed that human beings engage in social practices in order to avoid embarrassing themselves or embarrassing others. More so, in interviews the applicants will work hard to create a likeable impression to the potential employers. This paper aims at analyzing the job interview and preparation process according to Erving Goffman, ‘The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life’ which mainly focuses on the applicant point of view. First, before the interview the applicant should research the company’s profile, future plans and goals. The applicant can ...

Professional Ethics

Professional Ethics There are various professional associations that deal with individual and organizational development across different fields of profession. These associations normally help in improving the people’s professional and personal conduct within and outside the workplace to prevent possible conflict with their colleagues. Using the established code of conduct, professionals are able to understand the essence of positive workplace interaction in order to avoid further conflicts between the employers, professionals, and clients.

Summary of the code’s features

A professional association that oversees people, managers specifically, is the Institute of Certified Professional Managers that aims to provide the needed training for managers. This is ...

Milton Friedman (1970) is opposed to the idea of social responsibilities of businesses. He makes the central claim that if there is a social responsibility of businesses it is to increase their profits. According to him, a business is nothing more than a group of workers/employees working for employers. Therefore, individual employers can donate to social causes. If the business (through its management) spends money for social causes, it is imposing costs on employees. Further, it is illegal to impose taxes on people. Only, the legislature has the jurisdiction to impose taxes. Moreover, the corporate executives are not competent ...

Introduction

During the acquisition process, employers who have streamlined the potential applicants for a particular position usually resort to interviews as a means to further screen the candidates. In the current discourse, the objective is to develop a questionnaire that managers would use when interviewing applicants.

Twelve (12) Permissible Questions to be Asked

Permissible questions are questions that are “allowed or permitted by laws or rules” . The following questions are deemed to be permissible:

Have you worked with previous institutions under a different name? If so, what name did you use?

Have you met the minimum age requirement set by law to work as a customer service representative? Could you provide any document that would validate your accurate age upon hiring? Can you undertake ...

Labor acts as a core concept in building a society or nation since it helps people from different lifestyles to work together and achieve a particular goal. It exists in different types with some requiring more skill than the others do, while others tend to be of a higher rank. Despite these differences, it is hard for a particular labor work to exist without the other. Over the years, there have been positive and negative changes towards labor policies, which help improve the current labor structures. One of the major changes is the division of labor in a bid ...

Overview

Discrimination has a lasting effect on employees who are on its receiving end. One who experiences discrimination at their workplace develops feelings of being vulnerable and in many cases loses interest in their work and career development. Such employees end up suing their organisations to fight for their rights. This causes a lot of unwarranted expenses to the organisation when it actually can be avoided. Discrimination at workplaces is often brought about by differences in race, sexuality, religion, age, sex and national origin. Other minor forms of discrimination include employee's limitation regarding their physical ability or educational level. Such ...

Abstract

The paper involves studying the importance of Work-life balance to enhance employee productivity. The aspect of this paper is importance because labor is one of the essential factors for a company’s success and managers should know how to tap into that resource efficiently to achieve overall success. The study will detail a brief introduction regarding WLB, its importance and benefits to both employees and employers.

Introduction

Work-life balance is a combination of three words work, life and balance. Work is the physical and mental activities one does on a daily basis to attain a salary at the end of ...

Introduction

People always say to themselves that the time has not yet come to save and enjoy life it is necessary at the moment. Having reached retirement age they understand that they were too careless. One of the main reasons for careless attitude to the pension savings is debt. A large number of Americans with great difficulty paying residential mortgages repay payments on credit cards. Some people in the US have at least one of these three types of debt retirement. Today, tens of thousands of Americans living in the country, whose age has long passed for 90 years and ...

There are diverse reasons why a person might pursue higher education. These reasons can be grouped into two: personal and societal reasons. In my case, I want to pursue higher education for both reasons. Personally, I want to hone my skills that will increase my employability. Higher education provides the foundation knowledge that will allow me to become more efficient in the field of expertise that I have chosen. Based from a study conducted by Baum and Payea (2005), the majority of employers highly consider the educational attainment of candidate employees in the employment process. Employers usually favor those ...

Personal Development Planning

Abstract Personal development planning is an innovative concept that was developed to ensure that the achievement of a student are tracked in a structured manner. Such a plan has been essential in enhancing their learning and career development, which are essential aspects of their learning and career development. Universities in different countries have facilitated students to develop PDPs, which are integrated with their transcripts. It is essential to note that PDPs have facilitated students to set clear goals that are essential in ensuring they achieve the desired objectives. Personal development planning has facilitated students to develop effective learning skills, ...

Introduction

Although stress has been found to be normal in some workplaces, excessive stress has been identified as one of the factors that interfere with employee performance and productivity (Interactive, 2011). Additionally, workplace stress affects the emotional and physical health of individuals. Predominantly, the personal ability to manage stress contributes significantly to success in work. Thus, although it is difficult to manage everything in the workplace environment, it does not necessarily mean that one cannot control his or her stress in various workplace situations. Stress in the workplace is not always bad. When an individual is in a comfort zone, ...

My job search was not as easy as I had initially thought. I was interested in jobs in finance and investment. Using the keywords finance and investment, I found many jobs but only a few of the jobs interested me. At first, it was difficult for me to make various tradeoffs say for instance between a high salary and job that would force me to relocate. To overcome this challenge, I classified all the factors that I was considering in a job into two i.e. I came up with a want list and a wish list. In the want ...

Introduction

The unionization of the work force can be observed as early as the 1800s, during the time when the industrial revolution was spreading quickly across Europe and the United States. These labor unions, however, are not permanently established organizations. Rather, these are employees who temporarily group themselves when employment issues arise in order to gain leverage in bargaining with their employers (Murray, n.d., p. 2). Among the major issues that bring employees together according to scholars are improvement of working conditions, wages and job security; issues that are still relevant in the contemporary labor setting across all industries (Cengage ...

A) According to U.S. EEOC (para 2-5), hostile work environment is a situation in the workplace where an employee finds it hard to work due to harassment from other workers in the workplace. This is usually severe and pervasive. Harassment can be in the form of bullying, fondling, and the use of offensive language and remarks. Sexual harassment refers to bullying in the workplace in relation to an individual’s sex. It mostly affects female employees whereby they are coerced to have sexual relations with their colleagues in the work place. Sexual harassment takes the form of physical or ...

Schools of thought have different views regarding labor unions. The mainstream economics school of thought view on labor unions can be said to be negative. It takes unions as a collective with other interventions in the market such as government intervention. It perceives unions to influencing the supply of labor negatively. This is because its views competitive markets as being perfect thus unions hinder the supply of labor. Additionally, its provisions reveal that the relationship between the employees and the organizations is perfect. This means that unsatisfied employees can leave or the employer can allow the employees to go ...

The advancement into globalization raises a controversial discussion about political and economic systems. By its nature, globalization implies setting a singular standard in various aspects of society, like politics, economics, technology, regulations, employment, etc. (Tregakis and Brewster, 2006). While convergence towards a common political and economic system is encouraged by structures such as European Union, which weakens trade barriers, the cultural patterns, the timing of industrialization, the nature of the dominant industries, the density of population or the disparity between rich and poor count as factors of divergence (Ashraf and Galor, 2007). As a result, two most common economic ...

The institutional affiliation

Conflicts in the labor-management relations have been always one of the major topics for discussions in the working environment. No matter what the source of the conflict is, there are certain tactics serving to overcome them. Collective bargaining is considered by many as the most desirable tactic for the conflict solution. It is nothing but negotiations between management and the employees in terms of wages, working hours, unfair corporate policy, working conditions, and/or general duties (Metcalf, 2017). The negotiations require one or several representatives who are leading the process on behalf of the management and the working personnel. Bargaining ...

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Abstract

The healthcare providers are focused to enhance the healthcare status in the country by means of remaining responsive towards the healthcare need of the nation. The public healthcare organizations address the healthcare need the residents at the national level by offering the effective healthcare services. The current paper has conducted the situational analysis by means of conducting PESTEL and SWOT analysis to assess the external and internal environment and it has been observed that Hamad Medical Corporation has the potential and resource to extend its healthcare services to address the wellbeing of the nation in a broader ...

Introduction

Hiring professional and skilled employees is the key objective of the Human Resource Management (HRM) department. For the purposes of the realization of this strategic objective, the HR manager is obliged to pursue equality in provision of working opportunities for all employees regardless race, sex, nationality or any other supplementary factor giving ground for unequal attitude. In this particular situation, the managers of the company request the Human Resource Department to resolve issue pertaining to division of quotas between ground crew and other employees. With that, the attention of the managers is focused on the age of the employees ...

Ethical Issues

Human trafficking is a worldwide problem. For all practical purposes, this activity is nothing but a form of modern slavery. Every year, about 21 million people are caught up in human trafficking from about 130 countries around the world. Without a doubt, this is a serious issue given that it violates human rights that the United Nations takes very seriously - and should. While this pertains mostly to women who are sold into prostitution while also involving children and young boys as well who are coerced into forced labour as well. Given the atrocities around the world, the purpose ...