Running Head: HUMAN RESOURCES PLANNING AND EMPLOYEE RELATIONS Human Resources Planning and Employee Relations HUMAN RESOURCES PLANNING AND EMPLOYEE RELATIONS 1 Abstract The golden rule of “treat others as you would like to be treated” has an important role in managing how organizations deal with employee relations. Most employees just want to be treated fair‚ honestly and in straightforward manner. When employees are
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International Employment Relations Review‚ Vol. 8‚ No. 2‚ 2002 49 WHAT IS EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS? Peter Slade University of the Sunshine Coast This article examines the question as to whether or not a new paradigm of employment relations is emerging. In doing so‚ it examines the nature of ideologies‚ and argues that the specific adoption of pluralism and the joining of Industrial Relations and Human Resources Management as a prerequisite to the evolution of a new field of enquiry is misplaced. It
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paper aims to critically evaluate the article “Employee Motivation- A Powerful New Model” published by Harvard Business Review. This study was made by Nitin Nohria‚ Boris Groysberg‚ and Linda-Eling Lee and they based their research upon the four drives: acquire‚ bond‚ comprehend‚ and defend. The purpose of their studies is to examine a new model‚ looking at how each of the drives operates and prove for the importance of all these four drives in employee motivation. The authors indicated the organizational
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Progressive Discipline Theresa K. Trafford Southern New Hampshire University Employee and Labor Relations October 2011 Abstract Discipline within the workplace is and has been a controversial subject. With so much at stake‚ employers and employees have different opinions on types of discipline and the effectiveness of these processes. One largely debated form of workplace discipline is progressive discipline. Should employees be encouraged to rehabilitate in the workplace? Should management
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Public relations have been regarded as an important tool in maintaining and enhancing the relationships between an organisation and its publics. There are different models of public relations that organisation adopt to reach mutual understandings between their publics or to demonstrate its organisational desire to its publics. Grunig and Hunt (1984) define the communication theory as a fundamental tool of enhancing and maintaining the relationship between an organisation and its publics‚ which can
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Sunflower Incorporated Synopsis This case refers about a large distribution company which resells products related to snacks. Thiscompany undergoes a change in its financial reporting system which was suppose to increase itsprofits and decrease its cost as well as to compete with its rivals. Issues The major issue that this case highlights is manipulation in products in some regions to increase the sale and the profit of the company. This manipulation in products is selling low quality
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The following report will discuss American retail giant‚ Wal-mart’s current ethical and business objectives. The report will look at Wal-mart’s employee relations in regard to discrimination and other various issues involving their employees. It will look at how their ethical stance contradicts with what has gone on in the past regarding associates (employees) and management. We will also look at their business objectives or as Wal-mart calls them – “comparable store sales”‚ where they measure the
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TO WHAT EXTENT CAN INTERNATIONAL AID BE REALLY EFFECTIVE? One cannot help but be shocked to hear that often‚ medical and food supplies sent to flood victims have never reached the victims but have in fact fallen into the coffers of the officials who were to distribute the supplies to the victims. This is indeed an eye-opener and we wonder how long such activities have been going on undetected. It brings to realisation the truth that among so called humans are beasts which will take advantage of
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Sunflower Incorporated Sunflower Incorporated is a large distribution company with over 5‚000 employees and gross sales over $700 million in 1991. The company purchases and distributes salty snack foods and liquor to independent retail stores throughout the United States and Canada. Salty snack foods include corn chips‚ potato chips‚ cheese curls‚ tortilla chips‚ and peanuts. The United States and Canada are divided into 22 regions‚ each with its own central warehouse‚ salespeople‚ finance department
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students work) SECTION A: TO BE FILLED BY THE STUDENT Student Name: Ahmed Hafeel Unit No and Name 24.Employee Relations Term : Summer 2013 Assignment Title : Understand the context of employee relations against a changing background Due Date: 16/07/2013 Date Submitted : (if different) Grading criteria covered within this assignment: Pass Merit Distinction LO1 M1 and M2 Not applicable Student Declaration: By submitting
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