structure and policy improvements‚ unions could maintain their relevance in the Australian labour relations market. Factors Responsible for Trade Union Decline in Australia Changing Composition and Structure of the Workforce The changing structure and composition of the Australian labour force is often cited as an explanation for union decline. Since the 1980s there has been an increase in the employment shares of women‚ foreign-born workers‚ atypically employed workers (part time and casual employees)
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CHAPTER 8 Employee relations learn ing outcomes After reading this chapter you will: ●● ●● ●● ●● ●● ●● ●● understand the changing nature and continuing importance of employee relations be able to define the differences in the purposes‚ content and operation of disciplinary‚ capability and grievance procedures understand the good practice steps and statutory requirements that ensure the effective handling of conduct or capability cases be able to assess the suitability
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Employment Relationships- Problems and Perspectives Introduction The employment relationship is the heart of any industrial relations system. It is the relationship between the employer and the employee. A successful employment relationship has always been the foundation of any successful business or organisation no matter how big or small. Variety of philosophers and writers of management have written a lot of theories relating to employment relationship. These theories have changed vastly from
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industrial relation and human resource are the two major components of the business which has not changed much. Industries sure are dependent on the customer‚ but they are also dependent of their work force and employees. There is always a need to perform coordination between the industrial needs ad employee needs thus many organisation and countries have brought in changes to their system and they have revamped the employment relations according to the changes. The employment relations were initially
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………………………………………………………………………………….. 1 2. Employment Relations in Singapore ………………………………………………………… 1 3.1 Gender Wage Gap …………………………………………………………………… 1 3.2 Existence of Gender Wage Gap ……………………………………………………… 2 3.3.1 Compensation Differential …………………………………………..……… 2 3.3.2 Family Role Constraints ……………………………………………………. 2 3. Employment Relations Worldwide ………………………………………………………….. 3 4. Equity in Employment Relations ……………………………………………………………. 3 5.3 Economic
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its impact on unions and employers in industrial conflict. The paper will mainly focus on the Workplace Relations Act 1996. This Act would be used to explain the effects it had on the shift of control using relevant case study examples. This paper is divided into four parts‚ explanation of conflict in the workplace‚ the invisible frontier of control‚ and the impact of the Workplace Relations Act 1996 with case study examples. Introduction It has been argued that industrial conflict is inevitable
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Managing Employee Relations * Relationship between an employer and employees lies at the heart of what makes an organisation effective. * Employees have power to allow organisation to meet and exceed its objective or to fail. * Highly motivated employees= more productive‚ engaged and greater contribution towards its overall direction and success. * Demotivated employees= high absenteeism‚ poor time keeping‚ low productivity‚ strikes (collective strike) ‚ working to rule= undermine
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MSc. International Business and Human Resource Management Managing Employment Relations (HRMG5057) Individual Essay Assignment Submitted To: Peter Butler Submitted By: Karan Sharma (P13202579) Word Count: 2576 words Date: May 7TH‚ 2014 Flexibility is about an employer and a worker making changes to when‚ where and how an individual works to meet the business and individual needs. Flexibility empowers both the business and the individual needs to be met through
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1‚ An employment relationship describes the dynamic‚ interlocking economic‚ legal‚ social and psychological relations that exist between individuals and their work organizations. Palgrave Macmillan (2013)‚ Glossary [online] Available at: < http://www.palgrave.com/business/brattonandgold/glossary/glossary.htm> [Accessed 17th September 2013]. Factors that impact on this relationship both have a detrimental effect to the running of a business. I will focus on two internal and two external. These
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Introduction In Singapore industrial relations is important as Singapore is a hub for global activities‚ if Singapore were to be an inequitable place to work in‚ it will result in Singapore being unattractive to people to work in and firms would not be enticed to expand their business in Singapore leading to low job creation. There are various systems in place in Singapore to create an equal playing field in industrial relations. But no system is perfect‚ in the essay I would be talking about the
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