...As the newly appointed Director of Human Resources for Wilson Brothers you discover that since implementing an employment test at one of the plant locations the percentage of visible minorities selected for employment has dramatically changed. You believe the test may be culturally biased, which has resulted in discrimination against visible minorities. Post your responses to Part A and Part B shown below: Part A: 1. Explain your ethical responsibilities as an HR professional. (5 marks): As an HR professional I often need to navigate the often complex matter of ethics in relationships with clients, management, workers and the broader society. As a certified HR Professional I am guided by the Code of Ethics prescribed by the Human Resources Professionals Association (HRPA). Committing to these ethical codes ensures that myself and other HR professionals will abide by certain standards like competency in the field, legal requirements, human rights in the workplace, balancing organizational and employee needs, hold confidential information, avoid conflicts of interest and commit to personal and professional growth. 2. What principles set out by the HRPA/CHRP Code of Ethics or other Human Resources Professional organization apply in this situation? (5 marks). By implementing an employment test that may be culturally biased, the Wilson Brothers organization is violating human rights, denying employment equity, and is engaging in discriminatory practices. Part B: ...
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...------------------------------------------------- Wilson Brothers case 1. The notion requires that the pay is equal when men and women are doing similar work. Men and women must receive equal pay when doing substantially the same work, effort, responsibility, skill and working conditions in the same company. This notion is in the Employee Standards Act legislation. 2. For the notion Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value is based on the level of skill, effort, responsibility and work conditions involved in the job. Male tradition jobs consist of truck driving, fire fighter, factory, etc. Female tradition jobs consist of childcare worker, secretary, nurse, etc. because of the differences in skills, effort and responsibilities for the traditional jobs for men and women the Equal pay for Work of Equal Value come into play to make it fair. This notion is part of the Pay Equity Act. (Your Legal Rights, 2015) 3. To implement the notion Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value I would start by making sure there’s no gender based pay discrimination. I would also produce and require that all the employees do a job evaluation to determine their position/roll in the workplace and to determine what they’re salary/wage would be. In the Job evaluation I would specifically be looking for four factors which are the skills, effort, work condition and responsibilities of each employee. To make sure that this is a successful decision I would review the results periodically...
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...The Wilson Brothers Limited Case You have recently been hired as the HR manager responsible for two separate Ontario locations belonging to Wilson Brothers Limited. You have been asked by the HR Director at the head office in Brandon, Manitoba, to quickly provide a report on any initial HR issues related to Recruitment and Selection, Compensation and Benefits, Health and Safety, Training and Development and Labour and Employee Relations that are affecting or will affect the Cambridge operation and the new plant in Scarborough. The HR Director has made it very clear that Wilson Brothers would like both the Cambridge location and the new plant in Scarborough to remain union-free and are willing to offer very competitive wages and benefits in order to ensure this. This report must be submitted within 7 days. You were provided with some background information about the company during your selection interview. Background Information: In 1960 the Wilson brothers, Bob and John, started Wilson Brothers Limited. This Canadian company manufactures and distributes various lines of prepared foods (including baked goods and various types of bottled juices) for the Canadian market from a number of plants, with the head office located in Brandon, Manitoba. By 2000, Wilson Brothers Limited had six operating plants in Canada. They had also expanded to the Western US market and had a number of plants in Europe. In Ontario there is a medium sized plant located in Cambridge. Until recently...
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...In 1987 the Pulitzer Prize for Drama was given to August Wilson for his well written play Fences. The Pulitzer Prize is one of the highest honors in the world for writers, playwrights and composers. Fences, was the sixth play of Wilson’s ten part Pittsburgh Cycle. The series of plays narrate the misfortunes and goals African Americans hope to reach during each decade of the 20th century. August Wilson's series of plays brought him recognition as one of America's most celebrated scriptwriters which earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play Fences was written in 1983 by August Wilson. Fences is perhaps August Wilson's most prominent work, Fences explores the life and relationships of the Maxson family. This touching drama gave Wilson his first Pulitzer Prize. The focus of Wilson's attention in Fences is the protagonist Troy Maxson, a 53-year-old head of household who hardly gets by with supplying for his family. All the action occurs in the front yard of Troy and Rose Maxson’s home. Troy once thought he had a promising career in baseball but because the race barrier had not been broken as yet he never made it to the MLB. He has since become a garbage collector who struggles to fend for his family. Even as he gets near retirement age, Troy is forced to do heavy lifting instead of driving the truck. Before baseball, he had been thrown out by his father and was a homeless, poor man until he was imprisoned for 15 years after murdering someone in the course of a robbery. ...
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...Full name: Le Mai Huong Class: A1 The plot development of my favourite movie: 2012 The movie starts by a scene in 2009, Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team, visits astrophysicist Dr. Satnam in India. Dr. Satnam warns that neutrinos and radiation from a solar storm are causing the temperature of the Earth's core to increase rapidly. Adrian Helmsley informs Carl Anheuser and United States President Thomas Wilson that this will start natural disasters and it’s necessary to prepare for saving a fraction of world’s population. In 2010, Wilson, along with other international leaders, begins a massive, secret project intended to ensure humanity's survival. The world’s leaders decide to build ships called “arks” to escape the cataclysm. Approximately 400,000 people are chosen to board ships that are constructed at Cho Ming valley, China. Additional funding for the project is raised by selling tickets to the private sector for €1 billion per person. By 2011, they start secretly moving humanity's valuable treasures to the Himalayas. In 2012, Jackson Curtis is a science fiction writer in Los Angeles who works part-time as a limousine driver for Russian billionaire Yuri Karpov. Jackson's ex-wife Kate and their children Noah and Lily live with Kate's boyfriend, Gordon, a plastic surgeon. Jackson takes Noah and Lily camping in Yellowstone National Park, where they meet Charlie, who hosts a radio show from the park. Charlie references a theory that suggests...
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...Why do we build fences? Why do we barricade ourselves? Why do we put up walls? Is it because we want to isolate ourselves from the world? Is it because we want to mark our property, perhaps to shut people out? Or is it because we so desperately want to protect what we possess from exterior forces? What exactly do fences serve a purpose? In a literal sense, a fence is a barrier enclosing an area of ground to mark a boundary control access or prevent escape (www.merriam-webster.com). However, for August Wilson, fences aren’t just a bunch of wood constructed together to form a railing; to him, it is clear that there are far more profound and hidden propositions regarding the subject matter. Notice that the title is in its plural form, this goes...
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...The power behind memories A commonly used quote reads “Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose” (Arnold). In “The Piano Lesson”, August Wilson creates a theme of holding onto the things that you love and the effects of slavery. Boy Willie fights over the piano to gain success while Berniece fights over it because she holds onto the dear memories of the Piano and the meaning behind it. In this play, the piano symbolizes the family history of the Charles family and it creates a theme of memory and slavery. The Piano’s History symbolizes all the wrongs about slavery. Doaker: "[Willie Boy] carved all this. […] He got a picture of his mama…Mama Esther…and his daddy, Boy Charles. […] He got all...
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...driven to play the piano that she has not touched in years. This action causes a cascade of changes in the main characters. The protagonist in the play is Berniece. From August Wilson's stage direction, "Thirty five years old, with an eleven year old daughter, she is still in mourning for her husband after three years" (1.1.62-63) In describing the Charles house, the stage direction adds, "although there is evidence of a woman's touch, there is a lack of warmth and vigor" (1.1.4) This last statement could just as well be describing Berniece. Having lived through the tragic loss of her father and more recently the loss of her husband, she does not want to deal in the past. We get a feel for her detached and cold existence when her brother shows up. Boy Willie, primarily the antagonist, is the polar opposite of Berniece. [He] is thirty years old. He has an infectious grin and a boyishness that is apt for his name. He is brash and impulsive, talkative, and somewhat crude in speech and manners. (1.1.16-18) Having driven two days from Mississippi, he shows up at the Doaker house before dawn, waking the house with an abnoxious childlike exuberance. Unaffected by her brother's happiness to see her, Berniece sees no joy in this reunion. The news that Boy Willie delivers—that Sutter, a descendent of the slavers that owned their family, has been pushed down a well by ghosts of the past—is just another unwelcome link to events Berniece would rather forget. Without as much...
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...The aim of this case assignment is to analyze whether Brookes Brothers was the right base for entering the United States and if M&S paid reasonable price for Brookes Brothers? When Lord Rayner assumed the chairmanship of Marks&Spenser (M&S) in July 1984 one of the priorities that he outlined was: “the expansion of international business, including securing a foothold in two large international markets – The United States and the Far East.” By 1987 he didn’t reach this goal and in March 1987 sent a team of executives to the United States to study the clothing and food markets in order to determine whether M&S should move into United States or not and if so how. After receiving results of a broad study of American retailing it was determined that M&S had opportunities to move into US market but the firm lacked the merchandise and store style to compete successfully in the United Stated and it was decided to find a clothing and a food chains in order to develop a M&S-type store in the long run. After 7 months of study M&S came to conclusion that it should purchase Brooks Brothers, an upscale specialty clothing chain with a small joint venture in Japan. According to the case study it is difficult to assume whether the Brooks Brothers was the right base for entering the United States. On the one hand a company had a long-standing reputation of high-quality menswear, was oriented on upper-middle class businessmen and professionals and counted several presidents among its...
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...President Wilson was able to draw American Support for the war. Despite his being elected as the “peace” president. Many Americans believed he’d keep them out of the war, especially after he stated that, “so far as I can remember, this is a government of the people, and this people is not going to choose war.” Before his election, Wilson promoted American neutrality. He pushed for what he believed his Americans wanted. However, through his employment of propaganda, Woodrow Wilson was able to convince the American people to join the ranks, he persuaded Americans into accepting rations for food, he involved women in the war effort, he was even able to sway them into buying government bonds (liberty bonds) to fund the war. In the end, through his use of propaganda, President Woodrow Wilson was ironically able to change the popular American opinion and convince Americans to support World War 1. Propaganda, as defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is the “spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person.” It is always biased towards a view or idea. Governments employ propaganda to sway public opinions towards supporting a cause. The use of propaganda became very popular in America during World War I. As a matter of fact, World War I proved America to be the largest producer of pro-war propaganda in the world. Originally elected as the pro-isolationism president, President Woodrow Wilson employed...
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...think he wanted everyone to fail just like him. Troy looses the love of his life, his wife and children by building an obscure fence that is capable of keeping him away from his love ones. Because of the absence of parental affection and marriage steered him to make typical mistakes which cost his relationship with his wife rose, his sons Lyons and Cory, his brother Gabriel and best friend bono. Troy comes from a hard upbringing; all he received was physical, verbal, and mental abuse from his father. He lived a life motherless because his mom left him and his other siblings behind because of his father’s anger towards his mom. If there’s one thing troy learned from his father, it would have to be being a provider for his family. Because of his father’s malice behavior, Troy felt like responsibility and hard work was more important than loyalty and love. The only way Troy could become a man is by pursuing happiness in other things. Troy brought blasphemy of his failures into his family’s descent; his unawareness to success led to the destruction of a father and son relationship. In the play Fences, August Wilson shows how Troy could never face the opportunities of his children being able to accomplish what he couldn’t. For example, Troy never succeeded in playing professional baseball leagues because he was black. In this time, blacks were allowed to play. However, his son...
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...Comparison of Advertising Strategies of Safeguard vs. Lifebuoy Soap Tahir Ajaib Babar MC070201657 15th May, 2013 Department of Management Sciences, Virtual University of Pakistan TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 Introduction Introduction …………….…………………………………...………………………. 3 Background …………………………………………..………………………….……4 Objectives ………………………………………………………..……………….…. 4 Significance…………………………………………………….………………….… 4 Chapter 2 Project Proceedings………………………………………………..……………….....5 Chapter 3 Methodology 3.1 Data collection tools/instruments……………………………………….………..7 3.2 Subjects/Participants……………………………………………….………….....7 3.3 Data processing and analysis…………………………………………….…….....7 Bibliography …………………………………………………………………………8 Chapter 1: 1.1 Introduction of the Project: Safeguard, launched in 1995 by Procter & Gamble has set new standards for defining "health & hygiene" in Pakistan. It is an anti- bacterial soap that provides germ protection for twice as long as ordinary soaps making it the doctors' number 1 recommended choice throughout the world. In addition to germ protection, it also caters to various other needs such as beauty care and protection against sweat odor. Safeguard Soap a product of Procter & Gamble is based on clinical testing. Safeguard is targeting the whole family, but it is putting more emphasis on children. Children are more vulnerable to germs and they need more protection, because they spend more outside the home playing around...
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...Bennett, Edward M. Recognition of Russia. Blaisdell Publishing Company, 1970. Pp 226 Edward Bennett was a professor at Washington State University. It appears that he had other works published, which followed the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Bennett used many sources for this book from a mix of primary and secondary sources, but appeared to use more secondary sources to support his thesis. Edward Bennett examines the U.S. policy of recognition and non-recognition during the time from President Woodrow Wilson administration through Roosevelt’s and the recognition of Russia and its effects on the American society. Bennett shows that a student must realize a states right to deny recognition to another state. He shows during Wilson’s administration the move away from the de facto policy. Bennett then try’s to show how effective Wilson’s non-recognition doctrine had been since its adoption to its abridgement in 1933. During this period he illustrated the differing view from Wilson’s non-recognition to Roosevelt finally extending diplomatic recognition to Russia and the effects that ensued. Prior to 1913 the United States practiced a de facto recognition towards governments of other countries. The U.S. practiced this form of recognition mainly on the basis it was the way that they had gained diplomatic recognition from France. During the time before the non-recognition the US had used the de facto (functional control) form and then the diplomatic recognition...
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...Progressive Era through the Great Depression Latisha Blacknall Dr. James Allen HIS105 Contemporary US History November 5, 2012 In American History there were many turning points that occurred from the Progressive Era through the Great Depression. It was during this period that many historical events shaped Americans current society, politics, economy and culture. The progressive era was a time period that American people needed. When society was going through urbanization, this movement was needed to survive the harsh conditions they were forced to live and work in. If it had not been for the muckrakers, the progressive era might not have received the attention that was needed to become a success. They wrote newspaper columns about the unsatisfactory conditions people were forced to live and work in while the government did nothing. The progressive era also brought awareness to the importance of education and started the reformation of the system. It was during this time that more schools were built and teachers’ salaries were raised. There was two major turning points in the in progressive era, the first is the Women Suffrage Movement. The National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA), which was founded in 1890, the second is The National Women’s Party (NWP) which was founded in 1913 and was led by Alice Paul. NAWSA worked many states to try and convince opponents that women were a valuable asset to society and deserved the right to vote. Alice Paul was more...
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...According to my research President Wilson went to Capitol Hill to address the senate With his speech about “peace without victory” although his speech brought about the Fourteen Points Treaty on January 8,1918. The republican senate was against him immediately. He did not care . I believe that the President was trying to make peace with the American people as well as around the world.Wilson was convinced of his cause that he decided to that he himself would go to the peace conference. Although the Fourteen Point Treaty reassured that the America and it’s Allied that they Where fighting for more than imperialist. America wanted peace and the Allies did as well. On January 18, 1919 the peace conference began at the Palace of Versailles. Although the Fourteen Points as known as the Versailles Treaty became one-sided. President Wilson still insisted that liberal terms against the French and the British. The conference went on for months. The allies insisted on getting compensation and security for all of the damages and the loss of land during the Great War with Germany. Even though their were many rules for Germany, They signed the treaty on June 28,1919. According to our text book many of the Americans favored the treaty. President Wilson personally handed the treaty to the senate. Even though the senate house was divided into two different groups with many different ideas on how President Wilson handle the situation. The...
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