There are a multitude of reasons why workers to decide to join or attempt to create a union. The overwhelming majority of employees seek to unionize because of dissatisfaction with one or more conditions of employment. Among them‚ the most common areas of employee discontentment usually originate from disagreement with management over compensation‚ benefits‚ managements’ response to grievances‚ high levels of job stress‚ and low job security. While dissatisfaction with one of these areas alone is
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EFFECTS OF MOTIVATION ON EMPLOYEES IN SIGINON FREIGHT (A CASE STUDY AT SIGINON GLOBAL LOGISTICS) CHAPTER ONE A. INTRODUCTION Employee motivation is one of the important issues faced by every organization. The main task which every manager has to perform is to motivate his subordinates or to create the ‘will to work’ among them .The efficiency of an employee depends on two factors‚ first is the level of ability to do a certain work and second is the willingness to do the work. Ability can
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Moral Choices Facing Employees When employees sign a contract with a compamy‚ they are agreeing to perform certain tasks in exchange for a finacial reward. It is possible that employees are obligated to do their jobs only to get paychecks‚ but do they have an obligation to help the company past what they are legally responsible to do? What if their company’s interests conflict with their own? Should an employee speak out on immoral decision made by the company? Theses are just a few of the questions
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Job Analysis and Hiring Decisions at Ovania Chemical Summary: Ovania is a chemical company that specializes in plastic resins (packaging/containers). The competition has led them to modernize its facilities. Because of this‚ they have created a new position- the system analyzer-which asks the people to have more abilities with the development of the technology. In order of that the company formed a committee and creates job tasks to evaluate and select these new employees in fair and objective
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that “Too much and too little bureaucracy in an organization demotivate employees and cause them stress.” According to James & George (2008)‚ bureaucracy is a formal system of organization and administration designed to ensure efficiency and effectiveness. Hanson (1979) defines bureaucracy as “an authority structure based on rational behavior” The hierarchical authority that bureaucracy brings in may mean that employees do not contribute to decision making due to the setup. Ideas can be killed
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Four Ways to Reward and Motivate Employees All businesses want motivated employees. Using monetary and other rewards to improve motivation is a simple idea‚ but doing it fairly and effectively is a challenge. Four steps to follow in implementing a rewards program are as follows: 1. Establish an action plan. 2. Be creative in determining rewards. 3. Give employee rewards a personal touch. 4. Group rewards may be appropriate‚ but do not undermine individual initiative. Reaction:
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They’re Not Employees‚ They’re People I found this article to be very interesting. Business analyst‚ Peter Drucker explained the changing dynamics of the workforce and covered “two extraordinary changes in the business world” as he stated in the article that has taken many by surprise. The first one is the overwhelming number of people in organizations that are not traditional employees and secondly‚ how many businesses have outsourced employee relations. The rise of the temporary worker has been
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Hiring Thoroughbreds: Pitfalls to Avoid and Rules to Follow Hiring Thoroughbreds: Pitfalls to Avoid and Rules to Follow To maintain a leading edge‚ high technology organizations must attract and retain the very best people. Too often‚ the selection team inadvertently makes some common mistakes because they either ignore or are unaware of the pitfalls of the recruiting game. Organizations seeking top-notch talent must be certain that their recruitment process does not "turn off ’ these
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American Airline which filed for bankruptcy protection‚ also wants to make changes to its staff pensions. The airline lost about $884m and more in the first nine months of 2011. AMR’s chief executive‚ Thomas W Horton said in a letter to his employees "We are going to use the restructuring process to make the necessary changes to meet our challenges head-on and capitalise fully on the solid foundation we’ve put in place." By that he means the company would move on from bankruptcy with fewer workers
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abilities of a good workforce. The United States Government is no different. One of the major concerns of most employees is receiving fair compensation for the work performed‚ even after retirement. In 1920 the U S Federal government provided retirement‚ disability and survivor benefits for most civilian employees. The plan continues to provide benefits to those still covered under the plan. Employees covered under CSRC were not covered by Social Security. However‚ realizing a need for change‚ the United
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