exchanged easily. To encourage their employees‚ Nokia has adapted various HR techniques including pay system‚ training and developing employees‚ and fringe benefits. Rewards The total compensation of employees aims to not only maintain a healthy working environment‚ but to also fulfill Nokia’s goal to fulfill employees potential. Nokia rewards its employees for good performance‚ competence development‚ and company success rewarding higher performance and contribution with higher rewards. Every employee
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complex issue in today’s society. This essay will firstly outline the changing nature of the working environment in regards to the changing roles of women. It will then define work-life balance‚ specifically in relation to women in the workforce. Furthermore‚ it will assess what businesses are doing about work-life balance and argue that current policies and practices that are in place‚ such as flexible working hours‚ are not entirely effective. It will then go on to critically analyse various legislation
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Association to conduct an audit of working conditions at Foxconn in 2012. (B) Issue of the news Strike was happened in Zhengzhou factory of Foxconn in 5 October this year. Three to four thousands of employees stop working. This may affect the progress of the production line for assembling the iPhone 5. The poor working conditions are the main reason lead to the strike as Foxconn did not concern about the physical and mental health of employees. The long working hours make employees feel tired. Their
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UNDEREMPLOYMENT THE GLOBAL ECONOMY has created a flexible labour market and the myth of ‘feminization of work’‚ in reality; it has led to unemployment and underemployment of women in India. One study puts female unemployment at six to seven times that of men. In the rural areas‚ 30 lakh women have lost jobs in agriculture and livestock. Women have lost 1‚ 45‚000 jobs in the textiles sector during 1994-2000. Female underemployment is also increasing at a faster rate than for men. This article
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it is stated that if any problems with plumbing or air conditioning are experienced‚ a maintenance person will begin working on the problem within one hour. If the tenant must wait more than one hour for the repairperson to arrive‚ a $10 deduction from the monthly rent will be made for each additional hour of time waiting. An answering machine will take the calls and record the time of the call if the maintenance person is busy. Past experience at other complexes has shown that that during the week
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Therefore‚ there is a need to carry out more in-depth studies to determine the impact of longer hours and drastic scheduling changes on employees and to investigate their claims of being overworked. This research will look at the effect of long working hours on employees belonging to different industries‚ different types of organizations and employees in different situations. The study will also study the impact of gender‚ pay scale and age and examine whether it affects the impact. The sample size
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work-life balance and the issues which can be faced when initiatives to achieve such a balance are implemented. One issue surrounding the concept is that ‘work life balance’ is often loosely defined as simply referring to the balance between an individuals time spent at work and on home life. In fact employees are usually monitored on various factors including their attention whilst at work. ‘Central to definitions of work-life balance then is the notion that the modern employment relationship is a negotiation
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employment in a variety of work settings‚ the results illustrate aspects of both positive and negative spillover from work to non-work life. In addition‚ the findings add to the growing number of studies that highlight the conditions under which part-time working detracts from‚ rather than contributes to‚ successful work-life balance. The conclusion discusses the need for a more multi-dimensional approach to work-life issues.
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flexible working hours Flexible working hours is a way of arranging working hours to allow the employees to select their working hours themselves or even choose the number of hours they will work on a day (Hoffmann & Greenwood‚ 2001). Bevan and colleagues (1999) suggest that organizations that don’t recognize and address the work/life balance issues are at competitive disadvantage; some organization require a core time that all employees should be existing and outside this core time the employee
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Table of Content: Purpose of the Environmental Research 3 Introduction to my classroom environmental qualities 4 Classroom detailed plan (before changes) 9 My data (observation logs before changes) 10 Observation focuses (working well and requiring changes) 13 “Environmental changes” - team discussion 14 Post changes data (observation logs) 20 Classroom detailed plan (after changes) 22 Effect of the changes 23 Summary 27 Reflection
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