its objective or to fail. * Highly motivated employees= more productive‚ engaged and greater contribution towards its overall direction and success. * Demotivated employees= high absenteeism‚ poor time keeping‚ low productivity‚ strikes (collective strike) ‚ working to rule= undermine ability to ensure financial health and long-term competitiveness. * Organisations that are able to establish and maintain good relations with employees= avoid weakened effects of under-producing and uncooperative
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self confidence among workers * To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers * To provide opportunities for promotion and growth * To protect women workers against discrimination Political function Political role‚ using collective power to influence decisions on behalf of members and the wider society; Political activity: trade unions may promote legislation favourable to the interests of their members or workers as a whole. To this end they may pursue campaigns‚ undertake
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our own personal lives. * The collective unconscious. This is shared by all people. It is the collective memory of human thought and experience‚ from ancient to modern times. This includes the basic human instincts and the archetypes. * The Self is that what we are in essence. In psychological terms‚ it includes the conscious‚ the unconscious‚ and the ego. The Self is the central archetype in the collective unconscious‚ Archetypes The collective unconscious is shared by us all. This
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Grievance in Industry There are many factors in industry‚ which make a worker unhappy and dejected. May be his fellow workers are non-co-operative or his foreman’s sarcastic or harsh remarks on his own personal problems outside the factory or domestic matters. Poverty‚ undernourishment‚ debts‚ unemployed dependent‚ etc. may be working adversely in his mind. He look around and finds everybody being unkind to him. He is aggrieved and wants to ventilate his feelings and reactions. A well-defined grievance
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identification of a group of people having similar interests and forming a group to protect those interests‚ thus forming a union. Unions can also form around issues‚ for example the NFA who is a collective group of people working to protect gun usage. Workers form unions based on these thoughts to ensure that collective representation in the workplace occurs. Furthermore‚ people intentionally form groups of interest (unions) because they see themselves as different and want to promote and protect their different
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impact. Based on theoretical work in the field of organizational behaviour it is proposed that HRM comprises a set of policies designed to maximize organizational integration‚ employee commitment‚ flexibility and quality of work. Within this model‚ collective industrial relations have‚ at best‚ only a minor role. Despite the apparent attractions of HRM to managements‚ there is very little evidence of any quality about its impact or that of New Public Management. However‚ the purpose of this paper is
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your sources. 1. A major part of the study of labor law and collective bargaining is the unique vocabulary that has developed over the period of time; accordingly‚ define the following terms and concepts: a) Authorization card This is a form signed by employees to give power to a union as an agent for his her bargaining. The card is legally binding the employee. It legally authorizes a union to represent an employee for purposes of collective bargaining towards the employer. b) Decertification election
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unions are most common in occupations in which employees frequently switch employers. A construction worker is usually hired to complete work at a specific job site and then moves on to work elsewhere (often for another employer). In addition to collective bargaining‚ craft unions often serve as a placement service for members. Employers contact the union’s hiring hall and union members currently out of work are referred to the
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GLOBAL ENTERPRISES‚ (GEI) GEI is a long-term military contractor and manufacturer of protective body armor‚ munitions equipment‚ and armored vehicles‚ with annual revenues of $300 billion. GEI employs 140 workers each highly paid union technicians and mechanics‚ members of the Union of Munitions and Armor Workers (UMAW). GEI manufactures protective body flak jackets‚ night vision rifle scopes and armored tank vehicles for the US military. Contrary to international law and treaties
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Managing Employee Relations HRM 20010 Ms Maeve Caraher Module Housekeeping • Module Outline on Blackboard – print it out • No text book but ‘Core Readings’ available for download from Blackboard– START READING NOW! Do not fall behind. • Additional reading list on the course outline = for those who want to do well • Assumed that you will be reading 6 hours per week (5 ECTS) → timetable some reading time each week NOW! • Take notes in lecture! • Welcome to ‘Managing Employee Relations’
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