Alternative Work Schedules Alternative Schedules offer both the employer and employee a versatile and innovative work scheduling program in the work place. In recent years, the importance of flexible and compressed work schedules have been enhanced by the emergence of work and fa...

INTRODUCTION 'Alternative work hours involve the adjustment of employees' daily work schedules and/or working the typical 40 hour work week in fewer than five days'. Flexibility and Flexible Work are terms used to describe a wide range of work styles and employment practices. Broa...

The following paper is a brief summary of employment law cases pertaining to religion, national origin, age and race. The summaries contain explanations between the case and the statute or regulation pertaining to them. Each examines how the regulations have evolved pertaining to the individual case...

The goal of the HR system of Performance Management is to enhance employee actions in an attempt to achieve results that conform to the company's goals and visions. Upon studying Performance Management, I drew the conclusion that an effective manager will plan and implement an effective, effic...

DRAFT 16th May 2000 DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURE 1. Purposes The purposes of this procedure are - ● to ensure consistent and fair treatment of disciplinary and performance issues ● to help and encourage employees to achieve and maintain appropriate standards of conduct, att...

Corporatism is a political theory that has been embraced at different times through Australia's political history, particularly between 1983 and 1995, during the Labor government of Hawke and Keating. Power is the ability "to control or influence outcomes, actions or events... [and] may be...

Over one hundred years ago, the Australian Workers Union (A.W.U) stood at the forefront of the most significant industrial battle in the Australian workplace. It was a fight over "freedom of contract". The pastoralists, the employers in Australia's wool industry, wanted the "freedom" to employ ...

Labor If we're going to explain why some people earn a great deal of income while others earn very little, we must consider both the supply and the demand for labor. We usually ask ourselves why does the average college graduate earn over $40,000 while the average high school graduate ea...

The state's economy has fallen on slow times and less income during the last few years with little relief in sight. The consequences permeate the legislature, news headlines, and most importantly, people's pocketbooks and wallets. Differing opinions about budgeting and spending have created difficul...

At the Harvard Trade Union Program of 1999, Emeritus Professor John T.Dunlop asked the class of mid-career union leaders to paint a picture of where their union would be in the year 2025. This was based on a similar event in 1955, when the editor of Fortune magazine asked the long-serving AFL-CIO Pr...

An ethical dilemma related to HR that a friend faced with their employer was difficult to resolve because there were no trained HR professionals at the site, and this led to a lack of understanding of problems and issues. It was a small organization without an HR department. The situation was ethi...

"Ethical work climate as a factor in the development of person-organization fit" by Sims and Keon (1997). This article presents findings relative to the business research issue of how to best fit a person to their employment organization. Business research includes market research and mo...

Introduction: Human Resource departments are going to be facing new and critical challenges in the near future – when it comes to recruiting, hiring, and retaining fresh talent – even beyond what they face today. Indeed, according to a new study by Monster Worldwide, a leading global on...

There are many alternatives that are used to motivate workers beyond the conventional bureaucratic ways that was once thought of as the only way to control workers. Since the 1960's we have learned a great deal of information leading to the discovery of alternatives to bureaucratic organizations. To...

Over the last 18 months my department overtime expense has increased by 37%, which has been the direct result of a 28% increase in absenteeism. By introducing a flexible working schedule I am confident absenteeism will drop, therefore lowering the overtime expense within my department. In a survey o...

Introduction: Drug Testing vs. Employee Assistance Programs In our last meeting we were asked to offer proposals on how we can cut costs. In looking into this I found some interesting research on eliminating drug testing in favor of Employee Assistance Programs. By eliminating our drug-test...

Abstract Organizations are increasingly using telecommuting as a way to increase productivity and decrease costs. Employees also see positive results from telecommuting. Research shows however that there are negative sides as well. Governmental intervention beginning in the early 1990s almost p...

Introduction Child labor is a serious problem in many parts of the world, especially in developing countries. Labor is defined as physical or mental work especially of the hard or fatiguing kind. (Webster's Dictionary) Child labor usually means work that is done by children under the age...

Family Friend, Morale Enemy It is a known fact that employer's can not please everyone, but many have tried. In an attempt to recruit and keep desirable employees many companies have established family-friendly policies. It is these policies that have caused a controversy to arise with ...

Section 3: How are wages determined in Australia. Describe the roles of employer associations, trade unions and industrial tribunals in Australia's labour market. Wage determination in the labour market, has been partly based on the standard of what constitutes a fair or living wage, and th...

Why would labour regard globalisation as a threat? Globalisation is the term that refers to the acceleration and intensification of mechanisms, processes and activities that are allegedly promoting global interdependence and perhaps, ultimately, global political and economic integration. At its c...

INTRODUCTION Migration and mobility have for a long caught a lot of attention in theory as well as in public debate. But in actual fact the large majority of people does not move. Worldwide, only about 2% of the total population live outside their home countries. For Europe, records on i...

The Aging of the Workforce: Demographic Impact The confluence of two important demographic shifts promises to reshape the U.S. workforce over the next decade and beyond. First, there will be more workers over age 55. In 2000, 13 percent of the workforce was 55 and older, according to the Bureau of ...

Over the last decade, many employees have developed allergies related to the use of latex. "The employees affected have mainly been found in healthcare, food services and in beauty services." As employees in these areas, as well as other areas have learned of the potential risk from t...

Affirmative Action is defined by Webster's New World College Dictionary as a policy or program for correcting the effects of discrimination in the employment or education of members of certain groups. The phrase affirmative action was coined by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 when he issued Execu...