...in charge of forming a team, he or she must include each member of the section as an intricate portion of the critical decision making process, but sometimes the team needs additional help to ensure that the team will remain as one. Developing a working relationship with each member of the team can improve the execution phase of this process. America is one of the most powerful industrial nations in the world; in the early 1900’s this Country produces an amazing amount of products, everything from food to steel. With big time industry come large number of employees who are expecting a nice size of the profits that these organizations produce. When companies are at odds because of disagreements between employees and the organizations leaders, a mediator must intervene. Labor relation is a process of managing unionized employment organizations or workgroups, this communication process can mean the difference between an organizations ability to continue operation or complete work stoppage. Unions in America are viewed as bad for the employer and can cause many problems that will lead to a work stoppage and no profits for the shareholders. Anytime that people are involved there will be people, which will discuss the pros and cons of any situation. Some of the pros of forming a union within an organizations is; unions can help members fight against big company’s and there policies, individual employees will have a voice against their organization, unions help employees...
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...Assessment of To Organize or Not to Organize Yolanda A. Wesley HRM534 Dr. Annette West January 26, 2016 An Assessment of To Organize or Not To Organize The discussion will pertain to “To Organize or Not To Organize” a union with the Foster Care Workers, who work for the City of Newport News Department of Human Services in Virginia. Within the discussion, safety regarding workers going on home visits alone and not in pairs; long working hours without proper compensation, and disagreements regarding strenuous agency policies which conflict with what the state guidelines reflect. A final decision on whether a union needs to be formed to improve working conditions or whether a union is not needed will be made by the end of this written. In addition, mission, purpose, and an objective statement for a strategic plan to organize a union will be created for the group of employees willing to join a union. All employees in the group will decide on a timeline for the execution of the union. In the event that management has any objections, the union will address the management with counter arguments to their objections to prove a point that a union is needed to improve the safety of employees. Foster Care workers complete “home visits” alone in low income and crime infested neighborhoods frequently. “On January 19 in Newport News, Virginia, 26-year-old Jamile Wilson stabbed St. Vincent’s Hospital-Westchester case manager Frances Mortenson, 47, during a home visit (http://www...
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...geographical area join together to form an economic union or a regional trading bloc by raising a common tariff wall against the products of non-member countries while freeing internal trade among members. Opposing tariffs can also differ among members when trading with external partners, this is called a customs union, but in a free trade zone among members is called a free-trade area. All this culminates in a common market, which includes also the free movement of labour and capital among the member states, forming the most advanced type of economic integration, the economic union. Examples of a complete economic and monetary union are the United States. Free trade leads to the most efficient utilization of world resources and thus maximizes world output and welfare, our goal is to increase welfare by practising free trade. A customs union can reduce and increase welfare, to insure that welfare is increased the customs union should be formed under the following conditions: 1. the higher the preunion trade barriers of member countries. There is then a greater probability that formation of the customs union will create trade among union members rather than divert trade from non-members to members. 2. The lower are the customs union’s barriers on trade with the rest of the world. This makes it less likely that formation of the customs union will lead to costly trade diversion. 3. The greater is the number of countries forming the customs union and the larger their size. Under these circumstances...
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...someone else intrinsically, or for their own sake? None of these questions has ever received a precise definition. Although the question of what love is has never been rightfully answered, theorists have compiled several theories on what love should be, or what it entails for love to occur. One of these theories in particular is love as a union. Philosophers like Scruton, Solomon, and Nozick, collectively known as union theorists, have their own unique theories that come together to form a theory of love known as Love as Union. Love as Union According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, love as a union is a view that consists in one's desire to form a union, or a "we" with another individual. While union theorists believe that this desire does in fact exist, union theorists differ on their perspectives as to how this "we" is actually formed. Union theorists cannot seem to decide whether this "we" forms a new entity(this view is meant to be taken literally), or whether the "we" is a mere metaphor. The formation of a "we" from a literal perspective has been widely endorsed by union theorist Solomon. Solomon views the formation of a union as a literal fusion of both "souls" of the two lovers. According to Solomon's view, love is the passageway that allows lovers to redefine themselves in terms of their relationship. Solomon supports his theory by saying that love is a concentration as well as an...
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...The “Louisiana Students’ Resoluon” was wrien by a group of een students during the beginning of the Civil War. They wrote this document on campus at the University of North Carolina. They wrote it to express their loyalty to their home state of Louisiana, and to inform their governor that they were willing to come home and ght in Louisiana’s regiments. “The Philidelphians Forming Regiments” was composed on April 22, 1861 by Alfred M. Green. He was an African American abolionist, and he wrote this document in the hopes to bring to light how willing and helpful African Americans would be if they were allowed to serve in the Union army. “The Advance into Virginia” was published in a regimental newspaper on July 5, 1861. This excerpt...
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...about unionizing. There are even petitions being signed. As an HR manager, these matters need to be handled appropriately and carefully. Acme Auto Parts is a small nonunion auto parts manufacturer. Recently, employees have been mentioning the United Auto Workers (UAW). The UAW is the union that represents the other auto companies. They are trying to organize the nonunion parts factories and they have been trying to contact Acme workers. The problem is that the workers might be convinced to join the union. As an HR manager, I need to protect the company and keep the employees happy as well. The way I would respond to this situation is to keep an open communication with the employees. They need to be aware that the Big Three automakers (Ford, General Motors and Chrysler) are trying to wring cost concessions. They are facing high competition and this is affecting Acme Auto Parts as well. I would organize meetings with the employees to show them the financial status of the company. They would be able to voice out their concerns in these meetings. This is extremely important because the company needs to know where the employees stand. If they are unhappy, then they will be more convinced to join the union. If they are not fully knowledgeable about the facts regarding the company and...
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...Discriminatory liberalization Customs Union Economics of European Integration Lecture 1: Economics of preferential liberalization Thomas Blondiau (Center for Economic Studies, KU Leuven) Louvain Institute for Ireland in Europe, January 2012 Thomas Blondiau (Center for Economic Studies, KU Leuven) Preferential liberalization Discriminatory liberalization Customs Union Introduction Graphical analysis Welfare Introduction Questions that we will answer in this section Why was/is the EU so successful? Thomas Blondiau (Center for Economic Studies, KU Leuven) Preferential liberalization Discriminatory liberalization Customs Union Introduction Graphical analysis Welfare Introduction Questions that we will answer in this section Why was/is the EU so successful? What economic forces are driving the spread of European integration? Thomas Blondiau (Center for Economic Studies, KU Leuven) Preferential liberalization Discriminatory liberalization Customs Union Introduction Graphical analysis Welfare Introduction Questions that we will answer in this section Why was/is the EU so successful? What economic forces are driving the spread of European integration? We use a simplifying (NICNIR) economic framework Thomas Blondiau (Center for Economic Studies, KU Leuven) Preferential liberalization Discriminatory liberalization Customs Union Introduction Graphical analysis Welfare Introduction Questions...
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...Laws & Unions – United Parcel Service HRM/531 April, 2013 Abstract Labor Laws and Unions were established to protect the employees in an organization through maintaining his or her rights under law. The Clayton Act was established in 1914, which stated that employees had the right to join a union. Many laws have been passed since then to protect the rights of the organization’s and its unions. The United Parcel Service (UPS) is the largest employer of the Teamsters Union under the Package Division ("Teamsters package division,"). UPS is an excellent example of the benefits of joining a union it processes and its negotiation power. Benefits to Joining a Union There are many benefits to joining the United Parcel Service (UPS) Teamsters Union. According to the Teamster’s Package Division newsletter, the division represents package car drivers, air drivers, feed drivers, part-time loaders, unloaders, sorters and clerks ("Teamsters package division,"). Joining the Teamsters union offers opportunity for workers to receive better pay, benefits and improved working conditions. In 1997, the Teamsters union represented UPS when they went out on strike to receive better wages for part-time employees and to keep control over the union employee pension fund. The strike lasted 15 days and the outcome was in favor of the union and the employees. The company increased the wages of part-time and full-time employees, upgraded part-time positions to full-time and gave the union continued...
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...The third issue is that we have to commit to give Vietnamese employees the right of forming association. Employees can gather themselves to talk to employers and to help each other in the hours of need. The right of forming association is one of the rights given by The Creator to people who are able to work and go to work to defend themselves. This is one of the standard regulations by ILO in which Vietnam is one member. This is also a universal norm in the civilized social life. In the past BTA negotiation with the US, Vietnam had been insisting the US on giving it the GSP which stated the condition of applying zero tax on some thousand of goods imported to the US which mainly were art and craft products, sedges, etc. The US remained its firm in rejection as its GSP law claims some strict requirements including the right of forming association. In the final negotiation round and in the private meeting of the two delegation leaders, “We shall just write on the BTA that the US will consider giving Vietnam the GSP, yet when the consideration starts, whether we get it or not we’ll talk later”, I said to Mr. Joe Damond – leader of the US negotiation delegation. He found the suggestion sensible and he agreed. Returning to our country, I dared not boast about that win because I knew it was just words pleasing BTA so that everybody was happy, but someone reported that we had been patient in fighting and making the US give us the GSP and we won! I heard that later on, after many years...
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...Throughout this entire course the topics of healthcare, the economy, and national security have been brought up. But one that hasn’t that Im going over is trade, America has it flaws in its trade system and they need to a total revision of all free trade importing into America. In this weeks lesson reading forming unions and a light history was brought up and how Americas at companies where forming unions for improving minimum standards, wages and work conditions. These union have help the people that are on the floor working in these manufactor companies improve quality of life. But they have also killed many jobs, as stated in the lesson, General Motors, for example, laid off more than 25,000 employees – largely because GM could no longer afford to pay them the wages and benefits that...
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...for countries to ultimately benefit from trade between one another. This can be done by forming a Free Trade Area, Custom Union, Common Market, Economic Union, or Political union. A Free Trade Area is where counties in the group try and remove tariffs and quotas on the goods and services being traded between the countries. By choosing Free Trade Areas they are allowed to trade freely among member but have an independent policy for non-members. The European Free Trade Association is an example of a free trade area. A Custom Union is similar to free trade areas but members must conduct and pursue common external tariff. Custom unions help increase efficiency by bring the countries involved closer. The European Union is an example of a custom union. A common market is basically custom unions that along with increase efficiency, allow for free factor mobility across members. It makes it easy for capital and labor to be traded between members of the common market. An economic union is a union just like a common market but wants to use one common monetary and fiscal policy. The European Union is close to forming an economic union because it is made up of 27 member states with 15 of those members using the Euro as the official countries currency. The European Union is the second largest importer in the worlds and largest exporter. It is hard for countries to form these types of unions because when giving up monetary...
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... Heather Rourk MBA 6301 October 30, 2012 Wal-Mart is a billion dollar company that has thousands of stores and millions of employees. Naturally issues are going to arise in any organization, but when there is a company as large as Wal-Mart, these issues will be public and become headline news. Wal-Mart has been the center of attention over the past decades regarding the ethical and unethical practices within the organization. Many lawsuits were filed by current and previous employees in regard to the unethical practices of Wal-Mart. Some of these unethical practices are making employees work-off-the-clock, sexual discrimination, health benefits, and the use of illegal aliens for employment, unions, and child labor laws. In the following paragraphs, this case study will be broken down into further explore these unethical issues with Wal-Mart and how Wal-Mart decided to handle each of these issues The major issue regarding Wal-Mart recently is the “off-the-clock work” that management enforces inside their stores. According to Stanwick and Stanwick (2009), between 2000 and 2001, 11 states had pending lawsuits against Wal-Mart for “refusing to pay overtime for workers and failing to compensate workers when they worked during their scheduled breaks.” The company settled many of these lawsuits, but the practices still continued throughout the years. One employee stated in his or her complaint against Wal-Mart that management was...
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...| Organizational Analysis | McDonalds Corporation | | McDonald's is the biggest restaurant corporation in the world and second largest employer in the United States, after Walmart. With 500,000 employees serving at over 90,000 branches around the world, McDonald's requires great leaders with more knowledge and skills in Human Resources Management than any other corporation. The following paragraphs pinpoint the external environments affecting the Human Resources decision, exam the strategy for recruitment and retention and, last, discuss the McDonald's approaches to employee performance management, development and reward. I would at the end provide suggestions of improvement for the strategies. For any corporation to succeed, three core elements are essential: mission vision, and value. They are the pillars of a stable and goal oriented organization. For a global corporations like McDonald's, establishing the three pillars takes more effort as diversity and culture be taken into consideration and respect. McDonald's is the most successful restaurant corporation in the world, with branches in over 100 countries and 500,000 employees serving millions of the people around the clock. However, its success story does attract some attacks and criticism, from Hollywood reflecting the consequences of eating fast food they serve to the entitlement of 'McJobs' in dictionary. The entitlement of jobs in McDonald's as 'McJobs' with attachment of low-paying and labour-intensive...
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...Human resource administration is the job carried out in companies which facilitate the most efficient use of folks to accomplish organizational as well as individual objectives. This document will discuss/explain EEO and Affirmative Action, Human resources planning, hiring, as well as selection, Human resources improvement, Pay and perks, Safety and Health, and Employee and labor relationships, and how these factors work collectively to execute that primary job. And in case any factors are more essential as compared to the others, and how the HRM part can be improved for forming organizational and worker behavior. (Youseef, 2012). The main job of human resource administration is to enhance the efficiency and contribution of workers in the achievement of organizational objectives and goals. When this is carried out efficiently, it can make the main difference between an effective company and a failed company. Companies greatly concentrate on human resource administration and all of these factors. The main job of human resource administration is to enhance the general efficiency and make sure workers are accomplishing the strategic objectives and goals of the company. Human resource administration can also enhance spirit, output, promote retention, and assist companies increase efficiency to make sure their long term strategic objectives are achieved. The end result from these actions can assist a company efficiently use employee skills to create new possibilities ...
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... Summary Of The Case Study Lanka Fashions Leather Products Company has been running a profitable business for the past several years. At the beginning there was no trade union for the company but about six months ago the workers of the company has formed a branch union of a registered trade union sponsored by a political party with radical views. after the formation of the union they requested several opportunities to meet the management to discuss about factors affecting the member attached to the company. however the management has turned a blind eye to the request made by the union to give an opportunity to discuss the matters. The union informed the management in writing that in the event management failing to grant an opportunity to discuss the matters effecting within 14 days the union will be compelled to resort to strike action. As there was no response from the management they extended there mandatory period for a further period of two weeks. Management continued to be indifferent towards the union's request, and the union ultimately launched a strike. the union had a membership of nearly 75% of the total workforce of the company and almost 70% of the membership joined the strike. Even after the commencement of the strike the management refrained from having an dialogue with the union. Two weeks after the commencement of the strike the management wrote to all the strikers individually by registered post to their home address that they would be treated has...
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