and academic professionals. This will include different perspectives‚ approaches and definitions of “what employee relations is”. “Employee relations is a common title for the industrial relations function within personnel management and is also sometimes used as an alternative label for the academic field of “industrial relations”. The term underlines the fact that industrial relations is not confined to the study of trade unions but embraces the broad pattern of employee management‚ including systems
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location‚ and of how they resisted the persistent attacks of the British in order gain their full pledged freedom. Who were the Maroons? The Maroons were escaped slaves. They ran away from their Spanish-owned plantations when the British took the Caribbean island of Jamaica from Spain in 1655. The word maroon comes from the Spanish word ‘Cimarron’‚ which meant mountain top dwellers. They fled to the mountainous areas of Jamaica‚ where it was difficult for their owners to follow and catch them‚ and
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essay aims at explaining the state of industrial conflict in Singapore presently. An employment relation is the relationship between managers and employees in an organisation which is usually informal – for example‚ between supervisors and subordinates. At the industrial level‚ the relationship between the management of an organisation and its union is more formal and referred as industrial relation which is a subset of employment relations (Tan‚ 2007). Industrial conflict is the total range of behaviour
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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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EMPLOYEE RELATIONS 13/02/2014 A MARXIST (OR RADICAL) PERSPECTIVE OF THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP LOCATES ’THE ASYMMETRY OF POWER BETWEEN EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE’ AT THE HEART OF ITS ANALYSIS. (BLYTON AND TURNBULL‚ 2004: 34). The conviction that there exists a power imbalance in the employment relationship which gives employers a prejudicial benefit over employees takes its existence for several centuries. Karl Marx known for his theories and contributions related to the employment relations field‚ became
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Occupational Safety and Health in the Caribbean lecture notes Dr. A. Bailey BBA Unit 1 Course objectives On completion of this module the student should have mastered the following : * Overview of OHS in LAC * Gender issues * High risk occupations * Common occupational hazards * The impact of OHS in LAC * Main policy issues and challenges * Policy recommendations People spend more than one-third of each day at work. For this reason alone it should be clear that
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Mariela Boutte Dr. Subramanian HUMN 3375 July 2‚ 2015 Behind the Caribbean Scenery “A People to Mold‚ A Nation to Build”-European Colonization in a A Small Place “Antigua is a small place‚ a small island‚” nine by twelve miles long‚ discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493 (Kincaid‚ 80). Europeans later settled on the island along with the slaves they imported. In A Small Place‚ Kincaid described the Europeans as “Human rubbish‚” who took “noble and exalted human beings from Africa” to enslave
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EVALUATE THE APPROACH OF OBJECT-RELATIONS THEORY IN TERMS OF ITS EFFECTIVENESS As we have seen‚ “the concept of object relations stems from psychoanalytic instinct theory. The “object” of an instinct is the agent through which the instinctual aim is achieved‚ and the agent is usually conceived as being another person. It is generally agreed that the infant’s first object is his mother. The origin of object relations lies in the first year of life‚ and most‚ although not all‚ psychoanalysts have
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Which theories or theories of industrial conflict‚ if any‚ can best explain the state of industrial conflict in Singapore? Justify your answer. This essay is based on the assumption that Singapore’s industrial relations tend to be pluralistic in nature. The pluralistic approach to employment relations as defined by Bray‚ Waring and Cooper (2011) is that the employment relationship contains a potential to conflict. Hence‚ the question is the extent of industrial conflict in Singapore and which
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EMPLOYMENT IN INDUSTRIAL AND POST INDUSTRIAL 1 SOCIETIES IN RELATION TO POWER 1 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1 2.0 GENDER DEFINED 1 3.0 ASPECTS OF GENDER 2 4.0 GENDER AND POWER RELATIONS 2 4.1 Patriarchy System 2 4.2 Biological aspect 3 5.0 INEQUALITIES IN EMPLOYMENT 3 5.1 Altitude towards women in the workforce 3 5.2 The industrial and post industrial societies 4 6.0 CONCLUSION 5 LIST OF SOURCES 7 Assignment Questions A. Discuss the role of gender and employment in industrial and post-industrial
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