‘Given the current economic circumstances employers needs must be prioritised’ Do you agree or disagree with this statement‚ why? It is no secret that Ireland is in considerable economic adversity but is our governments’ regulatory burden imposed on Irish firms further hampering their competitive advantage? The onerous amount of work involved in dealing with regulation such as employment standards and protection‚ can and will add to the costs of a business (ROBERT WATTAND DEREK SCULLY‚ 2007‚ p224)
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Creating “world-class” organizations through effecting Employee Relations in the workplace. Introduction Globalisation has become an increasingly important factor in today’s business model. Organisational survival and longevity are now closely linked to a strategy of seeking to be considered "world class". But why is this so important and what does globalisation mean. As described by wikipedia "Globalisation is the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views
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Employers in the Global Marketplace There are different ways for employees to participate in international business— as parent-country‚ host-country‚ or third-county nationals—so there are different ways for employers to do business globally‚ ranging from simply shipping products to customers in other countries to transforming the organization into a truly global one‚ with operations‚ employees‚ and customers in many countries. Most organizations begin by serving customers and clients within
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Consider the different methods used to give effective voice to employees and critically evaluate the importance of this to the employment relationship Due Date: 14/01/2011 Word Count: 3216 The development of the different methods used to engage ‘employee voice’ strongly coincides with the timeline that businesses have endured through in the present/ twentieth century. In the UK in particular‚ the methods implemented could be correlated to the economic and political climate of the country
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List three key points of legislation that affect employers in a business environment. Three main points that can have affect on employers are: Data Protection: The Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament which defines UK law on the processing of data on identifiable living people. It is the main piece of legislation that governs the protection of personal data in the UK. Although the Act itself does not mention privacy‚ it was enacted to bring UK law into line
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an overview for the presented discussion on employee voice Identify voice practices which represent an example of direct employee involvement and an example of representative participation Primary Research Methods Desk based research Analysed and assessed information; data and presented in report format Internet research focussed on Employee Voice Practices‚ Human Resource Management‚ Employee Involvement and Employee Participation‚ Unionised and non-unionised
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The last 25-30 years has seen major changes in the context of employee relations within UK organisations. The factors that have had the most significant influence on these changes are political‚ economic‚ social and technological of which I will be discussing to identify what particular influences these factors have had on employee relations over the last 25-30 years. To do this I first need to define the meaning of employee relations‚ which can be defined as according to Rose (2004):"the study of
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BUS405 Final Paper Paula Glover Labor Relations- Bus 405 004016 Professor Fred Brandt Employee Discipline September 4‚ 2010 Strayer University-Delaware County Employee Discipline Employee discipline is one of the most commonly discussed issues in any organization‚ whether it is union or non-union. It is a matter that management must deal with on a day to day basis
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Absenteeism in the workplace is probably one of the most difficult areas of employee discipline to control. This is usually because the problem is seldom properly monitored - supervisors ignore it on the basis that the employee won’t get paid for the day anyway‚ so it is his own fault. Problems of lost production‚ other workers getting upset because they have to pick up the workload of the absent employee‚ and so on are not even thought of by the supervisor. The pay office or wages department
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CIPD Managing & Leading People Employee Engagement Contents Page Introduction 2 Principles of Employee Engagement 3 Employer & Employee benefits of employee engagement which might accrue to the employees and to the employer 5 Opposing arguments which might be put forward against the implementation of employee engagement 7 Specific employee engagement practices and techniques which‚ in my opinion‚ would be most beneficial to achieving
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