, 2005; Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart, et al., 2009). Human Resources Implications of Equal Pay Concepts While applicable employment legislation prohibits discrimination in compensation based strictly on gender, it does not necessarily require equal pay Continue Reading...
7. Fenn, P., & Ashby, S., 2004. Workplace risk, establishment size, and union density. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 42, 461 -- 480. 8. Griffin, M.A., & Neal, A., 2000. Perceptions of safety at work: A framework for linking safe Continue Reading...
Research will be useful to companies of all sizes and in all sectors of the market. Everyone is affected by diversity, whether they realize it or not. Companies that do not have a diverse workforce internally still come into contact with suppliers, Continue Reading...
For many people, especially those who are in their 30's, 40's, and 50's, they are motivated by the idea that they need to have built up a savings in order to retire. This is another form of financial motivation, but it seems to play out quite common Continue Reading...
Where, those facilities that had an adversarial relationship between management / employees or other groups saw dramatic long-term effects. As productivity, higher costs and increased amounts of waste would occur at these facilities. This is signifi Continue Reading...
Economists have consistently argued that the very existence of a minimum wage reduces employment opportunities for low wage workers. A small business, for example, may have work that needs to be done but can't afford to hire a minimum wage worker; Continue Reading...
This virtually means that the international community could soon observe mutations in the type and nature of the outsourced processes. In general terms, companies are looking to outsource growing numbers of more complex operations as they are not w Continue Reading...
Q12. Describe the impact of legislation on the field of compensation management. Minimum wage and overtime laws restrict the minimum amount employers can offer to workers; anti-discrimination legislation mandates that employees are compensated wit Continue Reading...
The teacher's union defends the practice of tenure, which makes teachers difficult to fire after a certain number of years, while a younger and untenured individual might be superior in the position. Today, in America, a non-unionized company is mo Continue Reading...
Recent studies indicate that FMLA no longer meets the needs and provides the protection that was intended to a large portion of the population. This gap needs to be fixed if FMLA is to continue to meets the needs of the American workforce. Works Ci Continue Reading...
The safety exception to the BFOQ is limited to instances in which sex or pregnancy actually interferes with the employee's ability to perform, and the employer must direct its concerns in this regard to those aspects of the woman's job-related activ Continue Reading...
There is also the danger of discrimination against a potential employee via uncovering a criminal history, a poor driving record, or other information which reveals an applicant's race, religious beliefs and marital status, all of which could led to Continue Reading...
Soliciting more suggestions about how to improve the company from employees will make workers feel as if the company has a personal investment in their output, and that they can make a valuable commitment to the overall mission of the company. Havin Continue Reading...
Interviewer rushes and asks illegal questions -- disability, retirement plans. Interview neatly deflects these questions without providing a real answer; normally considered unnecessarily obfuscating, these are perfect answers given the circumstan Continue Reading...
1). The steel industry, lead by the United Steel Workers of America (USWA) has also had a substantial force in the promotion of collective bargaining agreements. As well as being a skilled, blue-collar industry, the steel industry shares with automo Continue Reading...
Limitations on ADA Requirements: The ADA does not require employers to provide accommodations that pose an undue hardship on the employer or the business entity. The ADA defines "undue hardship" as accommodations that exceed the employer's financia Continue Reading...
The initial exchange between Raj and Sally illustrate the importance of sensitizing employees to the delicate nature of even benign social overtures, particularly in connection with coworkers of the opposite gender. Whereas innocent social invitati Continue Reading...
According to the current laws, which are not really up to speed yet, an employer can monitor employee email if he or she has a legitimate business purpose for doing so. There is a belief that, because the employer has an email and computer system f Continue Reading...
The Harvard model argues that unions provide an excellent means for getting workers' valuable opinions aired and for "shocking" management into adopting better practices (Turnbull 1991). (Flanagan & Deshpande, 1996, p. 23) Labor costs are one o Continue Reading...
As a result, financial planners need to advise clients who receive these payments and make large cash investments to do so as soon as possible. The study concluded that dollar-cost averaging would be unlikely to topple the superior results of lump-s Continue Reading...
The courts have basically given businesses cart blanc with regard to the monitoring of what their employees say and do in their work email as well as on their work computers, even when they sign in to private web-based email accounts for private tra Continue Reading...
Teams should be created that embrace a diversity of skills and workers from different areas of expertise, so there is no knowledge overlap, and thus less jockeying for position of who has the better qualifications within a certain field. If necessar Continue Reading...
They may not be reassigned to perform work that is substantially different from their normal occupational responsibilities (OSHA, 2003). Employers may not submit information about the employee that is intended to have damaging consequences on the e Continue Reading...
Reviewing the efficacy of the organization's compensation practices in retaining good employees, and for compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act, and conducting random sample of time records is essential good business practice. Of course, the Continue Reading...
In a study of sewing machine operators, showed that operators with a history of carpal tunnel syndrome used pinch grips more frequently and that the force used during these pinch grip exertions was greater than that employed by the control group (wo Continue Reading...
Building a volunteer program before such a disaster takes place, so volunteers can be trained under calmer conditions is the ideal situation. It is essential to inform the potential volunteers of the challenging situations they will face, and to pr Continue Reading...
Today, those workers and millions more are being supported by many politicians in the quest to gain legal status and if that legal status is gained the unionization of those workers will be extremely powerful. Why has the growth of Hispanics' union Continue Reading...
" (Thomas, Hutcheson, Porterfield, and Pierannunzi, 1994) Summary and Conclusion It is clear that employee turnover is very costly to organizations and as noted in the introduction of this study employee turnover rates are as high as 23.4% in some Continue Reading...
The completed form would then be processed and sent automatically to an organizer at a union chosen by the interested individual. This particular website has made it as simple as possible for individuals and entities interested in joining a union. Continue Reading...
Government subsidies significantly offset childcare costs, thereby helping a family's net income to rise, as happened in Colorado where the income of single mothers on TANF rose by 54% on average due to not having any childcare costs. In terms of he Continue Reading...
Often times the decision to outsource means the displacement of a significant number of company employees, and it is vital that the organization consider the decision carefully before making the move (Sinton, 2003). The ramifications of deciding t Continue Reading...
Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company spokesman stated, "The settlement is consistent with the practice we've been following," said Richard Russack. He also states that the companies apologized to it's employees for running the tests and Continue Reading...
Deontologically, people might take a stand for personal physical privacy as an innate moral good; yet, precisely what each deontologist might define privacy to be may vary. Consequently, some deontologists might think that workplace surveillance and Continue Reading...
" Retried on 03.06.06 at http://www.ergoweb.com/news/detail.cfm?print=on&id=525 15. Hunter R. Hughes, III." (2006). Retrieved on 03.06.06 from: Rogers & Hardin LLP http://www.acctm.org/hhughes/. 16. French. (2002). The Most Recent Developme Continue Reading...
Discouraging office romances will not eliminate such concerns entirely, because people also form strong friendships at work, and such friendships can lead to suspicions of some kind of unfair application of privileges, promotions, salary, or resourc Continue Reading...
Over the course of the interview I asked the woman questions about her boyfriend but mostly about herself, her happiness and her life of late. The woman described that she had a very busy course load, had to work extra hours to support herself and t Continue Reading...
Downsizing Impact What is the impact of downsizing? As the studies below indicate, layoffs have a number of negative effects not only on workers in different industries, but also on their communities and the market as a whole. Although it has been s Continue Reading...
Electronic Surveillance on-The-Job: The Pros and Cons of Employee Monitoring Modern technology has allowed employers many new capacities, including the capacity to electronically oversee employees every action while on-the-job. In recent years many Continue Reading...
In the case of this step being taken all parties agree to consider the recommendations and results of the investigation that will be carried out by this third party. The consultative committee is still heavily involved at this point as the committe Continue Reading...
20th Century a Good Century for Labor? By all accounts, the early 20th century was a terrible time to be a worker in the United States. Wages were low, benefits were virtually nonexistent, and safety considerations were not even a consideration. Th Continue Reading...
