UNITE is a union that was established in the late 1800s to represent workers in the hospitality industry, including restaurants, hotels, foodservice, and gaming organizations. The union is very active in gay, lesbian, and transgender issues. Employees enjoy the protections that are offered by working at a unionized establishment, however they are concerned about rights to privacy as they relate to mandatory testing in the workplace.
It is recommended that unionized organizations use approaches to discipline that include the elements of advance warning, immediacy, consistency, and impersonality. This is otherwise known as the:
Progressive discipline rule
Hot stove rule
No-fault rule
Just cause rule
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UNITE is a union that was established in the late 1800s to represent workers in the hospitality industry, including restaurants, hotels, foodservice, and gaming organizations. The union is very active in gay, lesbian, and transgender issues. Employees enjoy the protections that are offered by working at a unionized establishment, however they are concerned about rights to privacy as they relate to mandatory testing in the workplace.
UNITE’S vice president explains that under the law, employees can get fired for any reason, as long as the cause is not discriminatory. This is referred to as:
Employment-at-will
Just cause
Hot stove rule
Fair treatment
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Describe the role(s) and functions of a project manager. Use your own personal experiences to describe why these are important. Your answer should be no shorter than three typed pages. And, you must cite information from ALL thirteen chapters of the book (even the ones we did not specifically cover in class). For example, a project manager must effectively communicate with team members (ch.1)
*I dont expect anyone to write anywhere near 3 pages for me, but if you really want to share your thoughts I wont hesitate to read it. Im more so looking for examples or others experiences and how to layout my paper incorporating all the functions and roles of a project manager*
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Compare and contrast the two MAIN generic business level strategies used by two different mobile phone producers to gain and sustain competitive advantage, using two specific companies of your choice.
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Assume that you are a manager in a factory and your supervisor has asked you increase productivity without hiring additional workers or incurring overtime. Describe how you could motivate the existing workers using one content perspective and one process perspective. Support your answer.
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Prompt 1: What do you personally want to see in an organization's culture? This can be written in first person. Explain the type of environment you personally think would represent a positive, successful organizational culture, where you would want to work and, if you were, manager, what would do to create that desired culture.
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Your Chief executive has asked you to prepare a report for the board identifying the key contemporary business issues and main external factors affecting the organisation and the impact on HR. The report should also include how HR strategies and practices are shaped and developed and how to identify and respond to changes in the business environment.
In presenting the report you are expected to have included:
-summary of the contemporary business issues and the main external factors affecting your organisation. Some comments and conclusions on impact of these issues and factors on the HR function in terms of a SWOT analysis.
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Directions: In a six slide PowerPoint presentation, address the questions below. *If you do not have PowerPoint, you may write your information in a Word document (Slide 1: Slide 2: etc.).
SLIDE 1: Share a link or image of an advertisement that you find to be interesting
SLIDE 2: What is the ad trying to sell?
SLIDE 3: Describe how you feel this ad is trying to influence the audience
SLIDE 4: Describe who you think the target audience is
SLIDE 5: Describe any ethical issues that may be present here
SLIDE 6: Apply one of the three sociological perspectives to your ad (Conflict Theory, Functionalism, or Symbolic Interactionism)
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Business risk management
Samsung Company Question: gather information on its loss
exposures, loss history, after loss activities, or anything that
may help you understand its risk and risk management strategies.
Finish a Risk Audit Report for your target company.
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Assume that you were just hired as a manager at a company where there are absentee problems with some of the employees. Discuss at least two kinds of reinforcement that you could use to help resolve the situation. Next, summarize at least two strategies that you could use for the frequency of providing reinforcement. Discuss which option you anticipate will work best and explain why.
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1. In what ways collaboration overload can have an impact on
decision making?
2. What biases play into managers continued use of collaboration
tools and modes?
3. How collaboration overload (requiring employees to use multiple
collaboration mechanisms or become employed in open-office
environments) affects innovation and creativity? What some of the
positive and negative effects?
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A constitutional amendment allowing Congress to impose a federal income tax on individuals
and corporations went into effect in 1913. Since then, Congress has passed many laws
dealing with the federal income tax. One law that has an important effect on payroll work
is the Current Tax Payment Act of 1943. What is the term used to describe this law and do you
consider it a just law? What is the current administrations approach to this law?
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1. What will be some of the potential issues faced by a business looking to implement job rotation after brexit in lower skilled jobs?; such as Mcdonalds, hotels and so on.
2. Using the Job Characteristics model as a framework may identify changes that need to be made which will make the jobs in food retail, cleaning or farming more attractive. How might this be problematic for jobs in these industries?
3. What are some possible ways to improve intrinsic/extrinsic motivations for lower skilled jobs in industries mentioned above?
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Garvin has developed eight dimensions that can be used in the assessment of the quality of a product. Similarly, some other authors have worked on the dimensions that can be used in the evaluation of the quality of a service.
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Imagine that your company is switching to a matrix structure . Before, you were working in a functional structure. Now, every employee is going to report to a product/team leader (Product A, B and C) as well as a department manager (ex: Marketing, Research & Development, Production, Procurement, and Finance).
What are the sources of resistance you foresee for a change such as this? List and explain at least 5 steps/things to do?
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