I. Issues in communicating and understanding company policy at the Charlotte‚ NC‚ Phoenix Advertising‚ location. II. Understand company policy issue by comparing and surveying. A. Compared corporate policy with branch policy. 1. Compared branch policies regarding work hours against corporate policy. 2. Questioned branch managers regarding their policies. 3. Questioned branch HR manager about documentation and enforcing of corporate policy. B. Survey employees regarding daily operations and
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well-being of workers. 130 million workers in more than 7 million places are protected by the Fair labor Standards Act. The act covers employees who are engaged in the production of goods for interstate and foreign commerce. The minimum wage rate‚ overtime payments‚ child labor laws‚ and equal rights are a major provision in the Fair labor Standards Act. The minimum wage rate as of 2009 is $7.25 per hour. Every employee is required by law to post Employee Rights under the Fair Labor Standards Act
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Matching capacity to demand; the planned output for a period is set at the expected demand of the period. Level strategy – Maintaining a steady rate of regular time output while meeting the variations in demand by a combination of inventories‚ overtime‚ part-time workers‚ subcontracting‚ and back-orders. | |Pros
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lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. The suit‚ filed in California state court in Los Angeles‚ lists as plaintiffs 15 workers in Bangladesh‚ Swaziland‚ Indonesia‚ China and Nicaragua. They claim they were paid below minimum wage‚ forced to work unpaid overtime and in some cases even endured beatings by supervisors. The lawsuit also lists four California plaintiffs‚ including two unionized workers at Kroger Co. unit Ralph’s and Safeway Inc. grocery stores‚ who claim Wal-Mart’s entry into Southern California
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project duration Chapter Outline 1. Rationale for Reducing Project Duration 2. Options for Accelerating Project Completion A. Options When Resources Are Not Constrained i. Adding Resources ii. Outsourcing Project Work iii. Scheduling Overtime iv. Establish a Core Project Team v. Do It Twice—Fast and Correctly B. Options When Resources Are Constrained i. Fast-Tracking ii. Critical-Chain iii. Reducing Project Scope iv. Compromise Quality 3. Project Cost-Duration Graph 4. Constructing
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Applying Expectancy Theory as an Approach to Improve Motivation One challenge many companies face is employee motivation. Business success is largely dependent upon the ability for companies to motivate their employees to achieve the best results. Because of this‚ many have researched organizational motivation and theorized on the subject. One widely accepted concept is Victor Vroom’s expectancy theory. Expectancy theory is based on the premise that employees will be motivated to perform at their
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job design’s third approach is known as job rotation‚ which is simply known as shifting to different work or task from your current task in the company on temporary or permanent basis‚ job rotation is linked with job enlargement as in both the variety of work is increased the only difference is that in job rotation the employee only works on the new task he or she is shifted too‚ and do not have to carry doing both task on daily bases as in job enlargement‚ job rotation is only done on the basis
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Wal-Mart Stores‚ Inc. is currently entangled in a legal battle that will decide if the company has engaged willfully in gender-based discrimination. Underlying causes‚ organizational culture and ethical issues will be examined in determining how the largest private employer in the United States could have fallen prey to unfair labor practices. "In 1999‚ women constituted 72% of Wal-Mart’s hourly employees‚ but only 33% of its managerial employees" (Bhatnagar‚ 2004). This fact and many others
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acknowledged and further noted that‚ the formula used to arrive at the said amount paid by the pension fund is correct both under Cap 106 and 206 of the Laws of Zambia. Therefore suggests that the anomaly in the loss of value of the compensation benefit overtime arose by default omission of the Zambia Army to sanction payment of the said amount of ZK11‚ 123.33N to the Pensions Fund upon lodgment of the said claim for payment in 1992. 3. Apparently Sir; the delay for non-payment occasioned by the
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influence this shortage including injuries‚ mandatory overtime‚ the aging generation vs. the new generation‚ and job
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