...Agreements Argument For Workplace romances can lead to accusations of poor judgment, breaches of ethics, favoritism, lost productivity, poor employee morale, sexual harassment claims and even workplace violence. Such concern has led an increasing number of companies to institute "consensual relationship agreements," also known as "love contracts." (Kurtz, 2012) People dating each other in the workplace can wreak havoc on an organization, especially a small organization. Attitudes toward workplace romance are changing -- at least for millennial employees. A whopping 84 percent of workers ages 18-29 say they would have a romantic relationship with a co-worker, compared to just 36 percent of Generation X workers (ages 30-46) and 29 percent of Boomers (age 47-66), according to a recent Workplace Options survey. And 40 percent of Millennials say they would have no problem dating their supervisors (compared to just 10 percent of older generations). More than one-third of employees aren’t sure if there’s a company policy about dating at the office. If your business doesn't have such a policy, it’s time to consider it. Nearly half the employees surveyed say office romances are going on at work, and even if they don’t care, you need to be concerned about sexual harassment charges and complaints about perceived (or real) employee favoritism. Therefore it's essential for HR professionals to accept the likelihood of office romance and have policies and procedures in place to address...
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...with more and more people spending time focused on work and being in the office, the number of office romances are on the rise (Dharmaraj, 2012). In the office, one tends to meet people who share in at least one of his or her common interest(s)-the career path he or she has chosen. Any activity such as dinner and drinks after a long days work can lead in individuals developing a love interest in one another. Many actors and actress can be seen in films together; Only later for it to come out that they are dating. President Obama met his wife while employed at Sidley & Austin, LLP (Essence Magazine, 2010). Those involved in romantic relationships must ensure that the relationship does not interfere with the performance of either employees job by properly managing the relationship;Management is a necessity to protect both those involved in the relationship and the company itself (Cohen, 2009). As long as the individuals involved are able to differentiate the difference between the workplace and their relationship, a consensual relationship agreement can be used to protect the company's safety against sexual harassment claims should the relationship go awry. A consensual relationship agreement(CRA) is voluntary written contract that protects employees from claims of sexual harassment against the company (Hellriegel & Slocum, 2011). The agreement is to follow company rules in regard to sexual harassment, agreement that the relationship is voluntary and not a condition...
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...romantically involved parties acknowledge and adhere to specific guidelines in the workplace (Hellriegel/Slocum p 65). I have not worked for a company that had such an agreement. Matter of fact, reading this case study on Diversity Competency in the Organizational and Behavior text was the first I’ve heard of it; however, I personally have had a workplace romance. Several of my close married friends met their significant other in the workplace. Articles online specific to CRA’s declared they have only been around for six or seven years (Higher Education WebBlog, Consensual Relationship Agreement 5/23/2011) and 75% of employers do not have a policy on workplace relationships (Employment Law Alert, The Importance of a Workplace Romance Policy, 5/2/2011). Where it can be the epitome of distraction, it seems the healthcare industry is swarming with office romances. Many of these romances are temporary with harsh endings. A great employee might not want to continue working for an employer if an office romance went sour. This alone would be a strong argument for a Consensual Relationship Agreement. The text identifies the following guidelines in a CRA (Hellriegel/Slocum p 65): Their relationship is voluntary and consensual They agree to abide by the employer’s antidiscrimination, antiharassment, and workplace conduct policies. They promise to report any perceived harassment to management, if it occurs. They agree to behave professionally and not to allow the relationship...
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...This article was downloaded by: [University of Macau Library] On: 09 October 2014, At: 18:24 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Chinese Journal of Communication Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcjc20 “Platonic relationships” in China's online social milieu: a lubricant for banal everyday life? Yann-Ling Chin a a Arts, Humanities and Education, Nottingham Trent University , UK Published online: 14 Nov 2011. To cite this article: Yann-Ling Chin (2011) “Platonic relationships” in China's online social milieu: a lubricant for banal everyday life?, Chinese Journal of Communication, 4:4, 400-416, DOI: 10.1080/17544750.2011.616286 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2011.616286 PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE Taylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in the publications on our platform. However, Taylor & Francis, our agents, and our licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the Content. Any opinions and views expressed in this publication are the opinions and views of the authors, and are not the views of or endorsed by Taylor & Francis. The accuracy of the Content should not be relied...
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...Abstract This paper provides an interim assessment of my company by using certain tools as applicable. The analysis will seek to address the following: what tools are available to provide analysis, identify the tools and how they are used, the benefits of each tool, concluding with an organization change agenda demonstrated by a Balance Score Card of the company. The following tools will be used in the analysis: Organizational Culture – “This is defined as a pattern of basic assumptions that a given group has invented, discovered, or developed in learning to cope with its problem of external adaptation and internal integration”. This assumes the initial stage of identifying Organizational Capital We will examine the Nirvana group using the “ice berg” principle to demonstrate how the culture is made up. The “7-s Frame work”---A system used to garner a better understanding of an organization. This tool will be used simultaneously to: To conduct a SWOT analysis and identify the seven key elements existing in the company and to what benefit they serve. “Balanced Score Card”--- This will address the organization change agenda by identifying and measuring three criteria, namely; Customer Perspective, Alignment, and teamwork. Resort Demographics The Nirvana hotel group is Jamaican owned and operated, it comprises four resorts totalling 920 rooms “Nirvana Resorts’ primary target market is defined as the active, romance-expectant couple. The typical clientele are adults over...
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...Ethical Leadership Decision Making and Ethics Change Competency James McNerney, CEO of Boeing Diversity and Ethics Diversity Competency Verizon’s Workplace Diversity Stakeholder Responsibility and Ethics Ethics Competency Johnson & Johnson’s Stakeholder Ethics and Principles Experiential Exercise and Case Experiential Exercise: Ethics Competency What Is Your Decision? Case: Diversity Competency Consensual Relationship Agreements Learning from Experience Anne Mulcahy, Chairman and CEO of Xerox, Commits to Business Ethics Anne M. Mulcahy is the chairman and CEO of the Xerox Corporation, headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut. Xerox is best known for its copiers, but it also makes printers, scanners, and fax machines. The company sells document software and copier supplies and also provides consulting and document outsourcing. In this feature and throughout the chapter, we present a number of aspects of Anne Mulcahy’s personal commitment to ethics and Xerox’s initiatives for nurturing an ethically based organization. When Mulcahy was appointed the CEO in 2001, it was not the best time to be the company’s leader. On May 11, 2000, Xerox fired CEO Richard Thoman (later charged with, but not convicted of, accounting fraud), and promoted Mulcahy...
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...Week 1 |[pi|Week 1: Business Ethics and International Responsibility (May 1 - May 8) | | |[pic]|Help |[p| |c][| | | | | |ic| |pic| | | | | |] | |] | | | | | | | | | | Week 1 Introduction Hi! It's Week 1, and we're set to go. This course is perhaps a little different from the typical MBA course. Rather than studying the internal workings of a business, we shall instead delve into the legal, political, and social cultures of our city, nation, and world and see how these affect everything we do in business. We shall study the gamut of legal concepts, from product liability, to civil rights, to intellectual property rights, to antitrust and consumer protection. Underpinning all of these legal concepts, however, will be two foundational aspects: (a) the ethical issues within, and (b) the "world view" without. Milton Friedman, Immanual Kant, Blanchard and Peale, Laura Nash . . . these are just a few of the names of ethicists and...
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...the discovery of diamonds in South Africa, the trade simultaneously took off and became much less profitable. Up until the mid-1800s, diamonds were a rarity and could be seen only on the hand of a monarch. But the diamond rush that began in South Africa in the second half of the 19th century flooded the market with diamonds, killing demand. It would take some ingenious plotting and advertising to keep the diamond's reputation as intrinsically valuable and desirable, which is where De Beers comes in (Goldschein, 2011). Company History and Overview De Beers got its start when English-born businessman Cecil Rhodes, broke into the diamond business in South Africa by renting water pumps to miners before buying diamond fields of his own. Rhodes, sensing he had ventured into an untapped market, bought up diamond fields, including one owned by two brothers named "de Beer." In 1880, he bought the claims from his rival Barney Barnato to create the De Beers Mining Company. The tendency in diamond mining is to combine smaller groups in order to form larger ones. Individuals who need a common infrastructure form...
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...Chapter 8 1. What are the advantages and disadvantages or using licensing as a market entry tool? Give examples of companies from different countries that use licensing as a global marketing strategy. Licensing: Advantages: • Low cost entry alternative • Allows licensor to circumvent tariffs, quotas, or similar export barriers • Limits political risk and risk of expropriation • Provides additional profitability with little initial investment • Provides method of circumventing tariffs, quotas, and other export barriers • Attractive ROI • Low costs to implement Disadvantages: • A limited form of participation; licensor generally has no control on marketing program associated with product produced under license. • Financial upside limited by royalty rate. • Licensees can become competitors. 2. The president of XYZ Manufacturing Company of Buffalo, New York, comes to you with a license offer from a company in Osaka. In return for sharing the company's patents and know-how, the Japanese company will pay a license fee of 5 percent of the ex-factory price of all products sold based on the U.S. company’s license. The president wants your advice. What would you tell him? Assuming XYZ is a small manufacturer with limited international experience, and if the picture for both market and sales (market share) potential are promising, licensing can be an attractive entry mode. Possibly entry into the Japanese market could be expedited by following this approach, especially...
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...LITERATURE……………………………………09 CHAPTER 3 IMPORTANCE OF THE STUDY………………………………11 3.1 Green HRM Practices……………………………………………………….13 CHAPTER 4 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY………………………………..18 CHAPTER 5 HYPOTHESIS……………………………………………………19 CHAPTER 6 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY……………………………....19 CHAPTER 7 BIBLIOGRAPHY AND WEBLIOGRAPHY…………………..20 CHAPTER 8 END NOTE……………………………………………………….20 1. INTRODUCTION GREEN Green is the colour of emeralds,Jade, and growing grass. Green is the colour most commonly associated with nature and the environmental movement, Islam, spring, hope and envy. The term Green is derived from the German word Grun and Grene. The first recorded use of the word as a color as term in Old English dates to AD 700. In (Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Greek Languages it is associates as word freshness and sprouting vegetation. In the 18th and 19th century, green was associated with the romantic movement .Romanticism was also a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment . Hence Green politics” first began as conservation and preservation movements”.Thus Romanticism was Partly a reaction to...
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...Ethnical and religious cleavages in central and eastern Europe Does Europe exist? Where should be the borders? Russia and Turkey had a big influence on Europe as well. They dispatched parts of Europe for a long time. Of course the path dependency is present in these regions. The process of European integration started later there. European identity is difficult to describe. Distinction between east and west means post-communism (eastern). Central Europe: Czechs feel like being central Europeans (since they don’t want to be part of eastern Europe.) idea of central Europe is based on Austrian-Hungarian-Empire + parts of Germany eg Bavaria. The link is also the way of making decisions, working, doing things, tradition, waking up early (Franz Josef) many similarities. Lot of conflicts in Europe are still connected to events that happened hundreds of years ago. Poland (republic) Linguistic Group: Western Slavic Religion: Catholic (important part of national identity) Ethnical Minorities: German, Ukraine, Belorussian (small and not important) Often divided (Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary) Is called state of wheels always moving We are Poles because we are not Russian, not German religion became very important for their identification. Day 2 Post-Yugoslavia states Tito managed to unify Yugoslavia after WWII and to keep it independent from Russia. self-managed socialism (market orientation). More contact to the west. Authoritarian system but not as closed as...
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...perpetually sought new tools and insights to help them make decisions. From entrails to artificial intelligence, what a long, strange trip it’s been. SOMETIME IN THE MIDST OF THE LAST CENTURY, Chester Barnard, a retired telephone executive and author of The Functions of the Executive, imported the term “decision making” from the lexicon of public administration into the business world. There it began to replace narrower descriptors such as “resource allocation” and “policy making.” 34 | Chances Are The dicey history of risk 36 | The Meeting of Minds The power and perils of group decision making 38 | Thinking Machines The real intelligence behind AI 40 | The Romance of the Gut The appeal of leaders who just do it The introduction of that phrase changed how managers thought about what they did and spurred a new crispness of action and desire for conclusiveness, argues William Starbuck, professor in residence at the University of Oregon’s Charles H. Lundquist College of Business.“Policy making could go on and on endlessly, and there are always resources to be allocated,” he explains.“‘Decision’ implies the end of deliberation and the beginning of action.” So Barnard–and such later theorists as James March, Herbert Simon, and Henry Mintzberg– laid the foundation for the study of managerial decision making. But decision making within organizations is only one ripple in a stream of thought flowing back to a time when man, facing uncertainty, sought...
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...Chapter 12 Human Resource Management True/False Questions WHY HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IS IMPORTANT 1. High-performance work practices are those that lead to high individual and high organizational performance. (True; moderate; p. 323) 2. High-performance work practices involve a commitment by management to improve the knowledge skills and abilities of the organization’s employees, increasing employee motivation, and enhancing the retention of quality employees. (True; easy; p. 323) THE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PROCESS 3. The human resource management (HRM) process consists of 10 activities necessary for staffing the organization and sustaining high employee performance. (False; moderate; p. 323) 4. A labor union is an organization that represents workers and seeks to protect their interests. (True; easy; p. 323) 5. In the United States, nearly 25 percent of all workers are unionized. (False; moderate; pp. 323-324) 6. Affirmative action programs assure that minorities are given equal opportunities in the workplace. (False; difficult; p. 324) 7. A community fire department can categorically deny employment to a firefighter applicant who is confined to a wheelchair. (True; moderate; p. 324) 8. The United States will experience a shortage of 20 million workers over the next 10 years according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (False; moderate; p. 325) HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING 9. Human resource planning can be condensed into two...
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...maStuff My Stocking M/M Romance Stories that are Nice and… Naughty Stuff My Stocking: M/M Romance Stories that are Nice and… Naughty An M/M Romance Group Publication copyright 2010 With stories by: M.J. O'Shea Brian Jackson Deanna Wadsworth Missy Welsh Jade Archer Michael S. Xara X. Xanakas Mark Alders Em Woods Rachel Haimowitz SJD Peterson Kari Gregg Kim Dare A.J. Llewellyn Serena Yates Ocotillo Jessica Freely Heinrich Xin William Cooper Wren Boudreau Selah March Sarah Madison Stephani Hecht Amy Lane Angela Benedetti edited by: Diane W. (mailto:diane.goodreads@gmail.com) Jason B. Kathy H. Stuff My Stocking: M/M Romance Stories that are Nice and… Naughty What you’ve gotten yourself into… The stories you are about to read are the product of a very special project sponsored by the Goodreads M/M Romance groupthe online community for readers who love to read about men in love (Male/Male). The group moderators issued an invitation for members to choose a photo and pen a Letter to Santa asking for a short M/M romance story inspired by the image; authors from the group were encouraged to select a letter and write an original tale. The result was an outpouring of creativity that shined a spotlight on the special bond between M/M romance writers and the people who love what they do. This book is an anthology of those letters and stories. Whether you are an avid M/M romance reader or new to the genre, you are in for a delicious treat. So sit back, relax and enjoy...
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...time past, DeBeers bit by bit lose his absolutely control position. More and more diamond mining were founded in the world. The output of rough diamonds got a significant decline from 90% to 10%. On one hand, de beers don’t have enough money to buy all of the mining, on the other hand, most of other country’s government prevents de beers to buy their diamond mining, in order to protect local economic. Economic: DeBeers makes alliance with Russia, exploring diamonds with Tanzania, Namibia and so on. De beers put their manufacture factory in some country which has a very low labour cost, such as India. The biggest change is de beers begin to get in luxury goods market. In 2000, De beers and LVMH established a new company together. They are both pay 50% for the new company. De Beers supply rough diamonds and LVMH was responsible for design. This way means de beers can direct to sell diamond to normal customers. Social: De beers change several...
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