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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The Strategic Importance of Effective Employee Relations Today there is a new importance to build a competitive advantage through an organization’s human resources by focusing on achieving the strategic benefits of “employee engagement”. Keeping employees motivated and engaged in goals of the organization. The most important part of employee engagement is ensuring they are treated fairly‚ ethically and legally. Research has shown employees are sensitive to the treatment they receive from employers
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Abstract Employee motivation is a topic widely researched noting numerous motivational theories and concepts. Similarly there has been much discussion on the many factors that influence an employee’s level of motivation. Those factors include monetary rewards‚ employee involvement‚ training & development‚ employee recognition programs‚ etc. This paper will discuss review motivational theories developed based on the concept of “needs” and other motivational philosophies‚ as well as discuss the correlation
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A case study on Poor Employee Relations and its Effect on Customer Demand Summary of the case This case study follows a Tool Manufacturer where an in-depth organizational analysis was conducted comprising of qualitative interviews with senior management. Hence‚ process mapping was conducted to detail the main activities of the organization. The process mapping demonstrated how the customer and the organization interacted. The customer would initially approach the Tool Manufacturer through
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John Doe J. Doe American Government May 10‚ 2011 Unitary vs. Federal Government Our Founding Fathers had viewed centralized power as a threat to their rights and liberties. They had been under the Unitarian constraints of British authority. Dividing power between the three levels of government‚ federalism‚ was one of the solutions to this problem. Our founding fathers also recognized the potential danger for conflict between the three levels of government‚ so they instituted several ways to
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assignment I will be explaining the principal psychological perspectives. I will explain the different psychological approaches to health and social practice and assessing the different psychological approaches to study. Psychology is the focus on different subjects such as the human development‚ social behaviour and cognitive processes. There are different approaches that have been developed in order to explain the psychology. These perspective or approaches include the behaviourist‚ social learning
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this trend is much easier than to explain it (Rollinson‚ Dundon 2007). Some say there is a certain reason mainly resulting in this decline while others emphasize the interaction of several factors. For example‚ Freemand and Pelletier (1990) solely utilize the changes in labour law to explain the decrease of unions during 1980s‚ arguing that the legal factors accounted for the ‘entire’ decline in union density in the period between 1980 and 1986. However‚ to explain the decline of collectivism‚ Metcalf
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/1056-9219.htm IJCOMA 18‚4 Employee motivation: a Malaysian perspective Rafikul Islam and Ahmad Zaki Hj. Ismail Department of Business Administration‚ International Islamic University Malaysia‚ Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the motivating factors of employees working in various Malaysian organizations. Design/methodology/approach – A survey method
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Federal and unitary systems of government have many similar qualities therefore it becomes difficult to decipher between the two. In order to illustrate the difficulty in trying to distinguish between the two‚ I will first define what each system of government involves and then attempt to compare and contrast. Federalism is the creation of two layers of government‚ the federal government and the constituent states‚ which equally share the legal sovereignty of a country. Each tier of government has
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We are obliged to make sure that every child gets a healthy start in life. With all of our wealth and capacity‚ we just can’t stand by idly. Secretary of State Colin Powell‚ 2000 ISBN: 0-536-29978-1 Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society‚ Seventh Edition‚ by Donna M. Gollnick and Philip C. Chinn. Published by Prentice-Hall/Merrill. Copyright © 2006 by Pearson Education‚ Inc. Chapter 2 Class hile he was still in college‚ Tomas Juarez had decided he wanted to work with children
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