With this background‚ the next section briefly highlights the important trends with respect to aggregate female employment in the Indian manufacturing sector over the 1990s. It is argued that much of the use of female labour in export production in India has been in informal and unorganised workplaces‚ including home-based work‚ with associated implications for pay‚ working conditions and consequently also for social policy. The cases of Export Oriented Units (EOUs) and Export Processing Zones (EPZs)
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explaining the state of industrial conflict in Singapore presently. An employment relation is the relationship between managers and employees in an organisation which is usually informal – for example‚ between supervisors and subordinates. At the industrial level‚ the relationship between the management of an organisation and its union is more formal and referred as industrial relation which is a subset of employment relations (Tan‚ 2007). Industrial conflict is the total range of behaviour and attitudes
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What Is a Family? thorny question for many policymakers is‚ “What is a family?” Definitions abound‚ but consensus does not. How we define the family is often hotly-debated because the definition has significant consequences in people’s lives. Government agencies often have to define what a family is in order to determine who benefits from their program and who does not. Towns or cities often have to define families in developing zoning and housing regulations. Family definitions can have a bearing
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12:33 PM Page 43 2 Human Relations Theory and People Management The minutiae of the human soul … emerged as a new domain for management Nikolas Rose Conventional textbooks often set up a simple story about organization theory which has a very appealing structure. In this story‚ there is a good guy and a bad guy. Who gets to play which role sometimes shifts‚ but most often the bad guy is the scientific management approach and the good guy is human relations theory. This is a flawed story in
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Chapter 16: Labour Relations Labour union: an officially recognized association of employees practicing a similar trade or employed in the same company or industry who have joined together to present a united front and collective voice in dealing with management. -the purpose of unionization are to influence HR policies and practices that affect bargaining unit members such as pay and benefits. Labour- management relations: the ongoing interactions between labour unions and management in organizations
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Program EEO: Equal Employment Opportunity EEOC: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission EI: Employee Involvement EI: Emotional Intelligence EPA: Equal Pay Act FLSA: Fair Labor Standards Act FMLA: Family Medical Leave Act FSA: Flexible Spending Account (Healthcare) GPHR: Global Professional in Human Resources D E F G 5 H HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 HMO: Health
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by a common purpose’ (Fox‚ 1996: 2)‚ namely the success of the organisation. This perspective views all the people in the organisation as part of one big team. Unitarists view everyone within the organisation as part of one team with one loyalty structure. This immediately says that there are no barriers between different groups and departments which could lead to poor communication and animosity‚ which would go against the notion of common values and common goals as that would not be advantageous
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perspectives on the family—family is deteriorating‚ family is changing‚ not deteriorating‚ or family is stronger than ever. Discuss which of these perspectives you feel is the most accurate concerning families in the United States today‚ using information from the text and the reader to provide support for your argument. In order to compare and contrast the three perspectives on family we first must define family. In America today there is much diversity. Ask five different people what family is‚ you might
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Nayar of India (Kinship‚ Beliefs‚ and Values) Richard Cantu Introduction to Cultural Anthropology: 101 Instructor: June Maul August 9‚ 2011 The Nayar of India are ethnographic and folk-culture society. They are a complex and interesting large and power cast society that live in extended matrilineal family groups. Hinduism is the main religion of these people and that combined with their social and economic structure make for an interesting combination of kinship‚ gender relations‚ beliefs
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human race. The act of conducting negotiations between two persons‚ or two nations at a large scope is essential to the upkeep of international affairs. Among the many functions of diplomacy‚ some include preventing war and violence‚ and fortifying relations between two nations. Diplomacy is most importantly used to complete a specific agenda. Therefore without diplomacy‚ much of the world’s affairs would be abolished‚ international organizations would not exist‚ and above all the world would be at a
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