The Legal Environment of Business Research Paper February 9, 2011 The legality of employers monitoring the actions of employees outside the workplace and reprimanding or firing individuals based on any findings. Introduction What an employee does outside of the workplace and working hours should not put him at risk for termination, right? Not necessarily. Today, employees are meeting up in bars to have bash sessions about their terrible boss or awful working conditions, they are updating
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These actions “raise serious concerns that such testing could pose a significant threat to workers' privacy, autonomy, and dignity. Thus, defining the ethically, legally, and socially appropriate and inappropriate uses of genetic testing in the workplace,” (DEHS, 2001) presents a major breach in a workers legal right to privacy. One hundred and twenty-five BNSF employees filed on-the-job injury claims citing carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) for “years of repetitive activity such as wielding a wrench
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considerations of actuality qualitative and Computable research approaches include very changed expectations around how research must be accompanied and the part of the researcher. (www.researchgate.net, n.d.) 4 The study of communication is of specific attention nowadays as of speedy growth in new skill for creating and conveying information. However, communication scholars agree that, although the explosion of communication technologies, the social communication difficulties we have nowadays
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knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, or research. On-the-job training, also known as OJT, is teaching the skills, knowledge, and competencies that are needed to perform a specific job within the workplace and work environment. On-the-job training uses the regular or existing workplace tools, machines, documents, equipment, knowledge and skills necessary for an employee to learn to effectively perform his or her
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Page 1 of 11 Original Research Retention factors in relation to organisational commitment in medical and information technology services Authors: Jeannette van Dyk1 Melinde Coetzee1 Affiliation: 1 Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, University of South Africa, South Africa Correspondence to: Melinde Coetzee Email: coetzm1@unisa.ac.za Postal address PO Box 392, University of South Africa 0003, South Africa Dates: Received: 17 Oct. 2011 Accepted: 19 Mar. 2012 Published: 18
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European University 2013-2014 Human Resources Management Class Summary Gauthier Steiner European University 2013-2014 Human Resources Management Class Summary Gauthier Steiner Contents What is Human Resource Management? 3 Who Performs the Human Resource Functions? 4 Key Challenges for HR Managers 5 HRM and Strategy 6 Organizational Performance and the Human Resource Manager 7 Communicating Human Resource Programs 8 Equal Employment Opportunity & Diversity 9 Equal
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MERU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT RESEARCH PROJECT AN INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT IN WORKPLACE TO ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS IN MERU MUNICIPALITY KENNEDY MUTWIRI MUKARIA MUC-SBS-555-0056/2009 A RESEARCH PROPOSAL A research proposal submitted to the department of business in partial fulfilment of requirements of degree of Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) of Meru University College of Science and Technology DECLARATION This is my original work and
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that some employees would otherwise consider personal and private. Therefore, it is important for employees to be aware of his or her privacy rights in the workplace, including policies regarding use of e-mail and Internet. Email and the Internet undoubtedly has revolutionized the way the entire world communicates. The irony is this technology erodes the expectation of privacy because users expose themselves to personal identity theft and it proliferates illegal and malicious activities such as
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January 2012 to the cruise ship Costa Concordia. The analysis is carried out only on the conduct of navigation – and not on the emergency response at three different levels: the errors of the bridge team, the error-inducing conditions of their workplace (the bridge), and the organisational processes behind them – following Reason’s (1997) model of organisational accident. An organisational accident is a rare, but often catastrophic, event that occurs within complex organisations as a product
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