Using rewards to motivate employees. How to pay: rewarding individual employees to variable pay programs Types of pay programs Piece-rate pay Merit based pay Bonuses Skill based pay Profit sharing plans Gain sharing Employee stock ownership plans Evaluation of variable pay Piece rate pay Provides no base salary and pays the employees only for what the one produces. E.g. ball park workers Limitations are that they are not feasible for many jobs Profit sharing plans
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Rights of Employees CONTENTS Introduction 1. Workers and employees 2. Length of service 3. Contracts of employment 4. Written statement of terms 5. Statutory procedures and the LRA Code of Practice 6. Wages 7. Hours‚ holidays and rest breaks 8. Sunday working 9. Time off provisions 10. Maternity‚ paternity and adoption 11. Part time workers 12. Fixed term employees 13. Discrimination 14. Whistleblowing 15. Employment protection in health and safety
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Ethical Interpersonal Communication 2 Ethics refers to standards of conduct‚ standards that indicate how one should behave based on moral duties and virtues‚ which themselves are derived from principles of right and wrong. The major determinant of whether communications are ethical or unethical can be found in the notion of choice. The underlying assumption is that people have a right to make their own choices. Interpersonal communications are ethical to the extent
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Impact of Culture on the Ethical reasoning of an Individual Abstract The purpose of this paper is to identify‚ relate and assess the impact of culture on the ethical reasoning of an individual. This report reviews current literature on this topic and identifies the various factors involved in the same. Established theories on ethics and moral development are reviewed and a culture-based model of ethical decision making is derived. Prepositions concerning the influence of various cultural dimensions
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In 2012‚ George Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon Martin‚ a 17-year-old African American high school student. Zimmerman‚ a 28-year-old Hispanic man‚ was the neighborhood watch coordinator for the community where Martin was lived. Zimmerman shot Martin‚ who was unarmed‚ during an altercation between the two. Zimmerman was charged with Martin’s murder but acquitted at trial on self-defense grounds. This incident was reviewed by the Department of Justice for possible civil rights violations‚ but no additional
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of sending a message‚ through different media whether it be verbal or nonverbal‚ so long as a being transmits a thought provoking idea‚ gesture‚ action‚ etc. Nonetheless‚ communication is usually described along a few major dimensions: Content (what type of things are communicated)‚ source‚ sender or encoder (by whom)‚ form (in which form)‚ channel (through which medium)‚ destination‚ receiver‚ target or decoder (to whom)‚ and the purpose or pragmatic aspect. Between parties‚ communication includes
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Stress has many interpretations and carries a negative connotation for most people. Over the years‚ stress has been indentified in different ways. It was conceived of as pressure from the environment‚ then as strain within the person. Today‚ stress can be known as the interaction between the situation and the person. It is the psychological and physical state that results when the resources of the person are not sufficient to cope with the demands and the pressure of the situation. Stress can undermine
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of sending a message‚ through different media whether it be verbal or nonverbal‚ so long as a being transmits a thought provoking idea‚ gesture‚ action‚ etc. Nonetheless‚ communication is usually described along a few major dimensions: Content (what type of things are communicated)‚ source‚ sender or encoder (by whom)‚ form (in which form)‚ channel (through which medium)‚ destination‚ receiver‚ target or decoder (to whom)‚ and the purpose or pragmatic aspect. Between parties‚ communication includes
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Young’s Modulus: This is the slope of the linear portion of the stress-strain curve‚ it is usually specific to each material; a constant‚ known value. Yield Strength: This is the value of stress at the yield point‚ calculated by plotting young’s modulus at a specified percent of offset (usually offset = 0.2%). Ultimate Tensile Strength: This is the highest value of stress on the stress-strain curve. Percent Elongation: This is the change in gauge length divided by the original gauge length
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Ethical Leadership Ethical leadership promotes social responsibility as part of its corporate culture. It treats all it stakeholders with fairness‚ honesty‚ and respect at all times. Ethical leaders consider the consequences of their decisions to others‚ and look for ways to minimize harm. By incorporating social responsibility into the corporate culture‚ an organization should enjoy continued economic success. Its products and services should be well received and its reputation will promote good
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