Policy for Dual-Career Couples: Human Resource Management and Development HR Policy for Dual-Career Couples The changing demographics of our workforce have demanded that we address our HR policy regarding to families‚ and in particular dual income or dual-career couples. This policy will assist families that find themselves overwhelmed with work‚ parenting‚ adult education‚ and ultimately increasing productivity for the company. Careful consideration will be given to couples both employed
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DUAL CAREER COUPLES AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT‚ FAMILY AND REALLOCATION ISSUES SERVICES PROVIDED BY LARGE CORPORATIONS AND SMALL COMPANIES ABSTRACT As the dual career couples phenomenal increase rapidly in the global economy‚ large and small companies need to provide reliable services in order to alleviate the work-life challenges to support dual career couples in the complex issues they often faced. This paper will focus in the family career and reallocation issues of dual career couples and what
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Dual Career Couples Module 4 Assignment Empire State College Author Note: This paper was prepared for Human Resource Management‚ taught by Professor Berenson Abstract In this module we were asked to read the case study about Dual Career Couples. In this reading we learned how corporations are accepting the hiring of both spouses and if that’s not the case they are in favor of both couples being providers and offer programs and services to help the working couples to be more successful at
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work of wives while the husband are the breadwinner (Aryee&Luk‚ 1996). Nowadays‚ more and more parents are dual-earner couples and the multiple roles of the parents create a lot of work-life conflict‚ especially for those who work in the same organizations. According to the statistics report conducted by the Queensland Government‚ Department of Communities‚ Child Safety and Disabilities Services ‚ the labour force participation rate is 60.7% for women and 72.9% for men (May 2012). In year 2007
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LARGE CORPORATIONS MEAN BUSINESS! ANTHONY J. FRANKO ENG 122: ENLISH COMPOSITION II INSTRUCTOR SHANNON BILUNAS JANUARY 7‚ 2013 Large corporations such as Wal-Mart or Home Depot often come under criticism for putting mom-and-pop shops out of business. While this may be a valid criticism‚ the consumers neglect to realize that they play the biggest part in shutting these businesses down. Consumers across the country are always looking for the best deals or the lowest prices‚ and in most cases
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Patients who come to the Emergency Room have a variety of diverse health care needs that must be addressed in a timely manner. As every patient is different‚ an emergency room nurse is responsible for prioritizing each situation in relevance to importance. Triage is one of the first responsibilities that every ER nurse must be familiar with in this occupation. Triage means to sort or place in order of importance or extreme. Both physical and psycho social elements have to be taken into consideration when
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was primarily based on the typical‚ patriarchal‚ traditional family‚ where the father was the breadwinner and the mother was the homemaker‚ many families have now transitioned into modern day dual-career households. These couples are both highly accomplished and have established their own personal professional identities. In 1998‚ dueal-earner couple actually outnumbered “traditional” families nearly three to one (U.S.BureauoftheCensus‚ 1998). Despite these substantivechanges to the family unit‚ The
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Dual Career Families The societies in the United States and other societies abroad are enduring many changes at a rather rapid rate. The changes that I am specifically referencing are those involved with altering the norms and cultural traditions among marriages. There is a vast amount of growth among both the husband and wife fulfilling full-time careers. In the past‚ more traditional marriages existed. The husband would endure a full-time career while the wife stayed at home and completed the
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Dual career path What is dual career path? A dual career path system enables employees to remain in a technical career path or move into a management career. Noe pg 485 Objectives of dual career path systems: To attract‚ retain and develop outstanding technical talent. Dual career path involve the creation of alternate advancement paths for technical and managerial employees. The primary goal of this type of development approach is to enable advancement possibilities for highly skilled technical
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a global company provides some advantages to you relative to working for a domestic business‚ but it may also lead to some challenges. While each global company is different‚ it helps to weigh the pros and cons of a global culture before accepting a job with a multinational enterprise. Career Opportunities Working for a larger company offers more job opportunities. But a multinational company provides access to jobs around the world‚ in many cases. A marketing professional may have the opportunity
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