Employment Research Papers Samples For Students

Business

Toyota Motor Company, located at 1, Toyota-cho, Toyota City, Aichi 471-8571, Japan, was incorporated in 1937 as Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. It is among the forerunners in passenger car manufacturing, and is today, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of automobiles in terms of both, units sold and net sales. Since the U.S happens to be one of its biggest markets, and the company has been able to almost double its sales in comparison to Honda Motors, it competes with other U.S car manufacturers; General Motors (GM) and Ford Motors for the premier #1 position (Toyoland, 2010). However, Continue reading...

Executive Summary

Gaining Power and influence through organizational politics has been a big issue over the years for the managerial theory and practice. The success of those in the workplace who know the art of organizational politics has made this concept a mystery and interesting subject for others and they want to learn and master this as an art. The management is involved in politics not only in profit oriented organisations but also in public sector or non profit organizations. The People working in a corporate office employ different types of strategies to attain different career benefits. Different activities and tasks Continue reading...

Executive summary

McDonald's Corporation was founded in 1948 with its headquarters in the United States, Illinois. The Company has diversified its operations and customer base, serving over 56 million customers in a day, in 119 countries. McDonald's Corporation deals with food and beverage products such as hamburgers, French fries, milkshakes, chicken, and desserts among others albeit the company's products vary in different countries. McDonald's Corporation has undertaken various strategic business measures in ensuring diversification and expansion across the world. In the recent past, the company has exhibited significant improvement in production capacity, product differentiation, and training and development of employees.
McDonald's Continue reading...

Fair treatment in workplace

The relationship between the employer, employee and all the workers must be conducive. Every player in working place has a responsibility of enhancing the wellbeing of work partners. Much time at work is spent solving conflict that arises. It is not ethical as the manager has a big role in enhancing fair treatment to all employees. The basic legal rights that employees seek involves fair wage, free from discrimination and safety in the working place.
Fair treatment in working place requires manager to exercise authority in making a decision that do not favor. All workers are supposed to be Continue reading...

Landfill has for quite some time now been an economical and simple way for several countries to dispose of their waste materials. However, many things have changed over recent years and there is increased interest in landfill mining. Landfill sites are overstretched and exceeding their capacity at an alarming rate. Consequently, environmental awareness and safety concerns have taken center stage. Land mining refers to the excavation of old landfill sites and re-processing their contents. There are various explanations for this newly-profound interest that transcend the technological, economic and social dimensions of landfill mining. Landfill sites comprise of materials which Continue reading...

This paper limits itself to discussing a wider array of issues regarding Starbucks Company. The paper will first present an overview of Starbucks mission. In addition, the beginning section of the paper will reflect on the scope of this Company with regards to the year it was established. On another note, the paper will dwell on Starbucks Company profile, which typically entails the number of retail stores affiliated to it, as well as the remunerations packages that this firm offers to its employees, from the top management to the lower level employees. Another vital aspect that will be discussed Continue reading...

Human resources and employee relationship is very important and essential for the development and success of the organization and this practice also improve and develop the employees skills for development and betterment. Organization that are following and will follow these practices in future will definitely meet the highest success that is required for any company or organization. The main and essential role of HR is at the beginning and initial stages of the employees career (Butcher, Sparks, & O’Callaghan, 2002).
Raising the awareness among the new and existing employee’s are the part of job of any HR manager Continue reading...

Part I: Decision-making and Philosophy

Unemployment and the legislator’s decision regarding the unemployment benefits
Congressional republicans’ reluctance to extend the unemployment insurance, which led to its expiry on the 28 December last year, is cruel. The high unemployment rate caused by the 2008 recession prompted the government to expand the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program. The expansion was aimed at providing some income for the long-term unemployed persons who had already exhausted the usual 26 weeks of the period of state benefits. The program was extended for a period of up to 99 weeks whiles the federal and states also collaborated to Continue reading...

Introduction

Shift Share is an economic tool kit that is used by economic analysts to determine how much of region growth attributes to national growth and how is accrued to the unique regional factors. Shift share analysis based to answer the growth of employment in a group of regional industries, that is to say, it measures the growing or declining of employment in the regional industries Reynolds, 1980). This paper tends to examine the shift share analysis of certain industries within a region and subject the calculated figures to the Lab for interpretation.

Discussion

The table below shows the shift share Continue reading...

Law

ASSIGNMENT ONE:Memorandum
RE: Employer-employee relationship between Mel and Alice
The issue in this case is whether there was an employer-employee relationship that existed between Mel and Alice that will meet the criteria established in Amarnare.
In this given case, Alice was hired by Ex-See-Lindt Staffing to work as a temporary legal secretary at Mel’s Law Offices, but she was being paid by Ex-See-Lindt. However, Alice got her hours, assignments, and training from Mel’s and was required by Ex-See-Lindt to report to work each day in a timely manner. She was informed that she will get paid and Continue reading...

Abstract

This paper explored age discrimination especially for persons above 40 years of age. The reasons why people are discriminated with respect to their age, where such discrimination is experienced, and who the victim and the perpetrator of age discrimination are were examined. Emphasis was put on the historical background of age discrimination in the United States of America and the progress being made in the protection of citizens against age discrimination. Age discrimination is discouraged in all fields and all places of work both nationally and globally.
Keywords: Age discrimination, employer, worker, employment, ADEA, America.

Introduction

Discrimination against older and Continue reading...

Business Proposal – Induction Program Implementation

Executive Summary
Crude BTL requires an induction program for answering the challenges of remaining competitive and increasing its performances in the light of its resent extension into new emerging markets. The induction program is meant to assure a unitary working process across Crude BTL’s subsidiary, enhancing the employees’ feeling of belonging, their motivation and professional results, which contribute to the overall increased clients’ satisfaction and organizational performances.
The guidance of the induction program should be assigned to the Internal Communications Specialists, making sure to convey to newcomers the company’s history, policies, values, organizational structure and the main Continue reading...

The Americans with Disability Act (ADA) refers to the federal laws that illegalize discrimination against people with disability. It provides civil rights to the disabled and prohibits discrimination in public services, employment as well as in public accommodation. Again, under the same act, there exist certain title-like chapters. For instance, Title 1 prohibits employment discrimination against disabled people by the employers with more than 15 employees. This Title protects the disabled in their area of duty in all way of discrimination. Under Title II of the Americans with Disability Act, the disabled people are defended while outlaying their grievances Continue reading...

The Constitution was written for the purpose of granting the people of the United States their inalienable rights. The constitutional rights were established in the Bill of Rights and the First Ten Amendments that include some of the rights that people and the courts still used every day. This paper is tasked with providing an analysis of the case, Korb v. Raytheon, 707 F. Supp 63 (D. Mass. 1989). This paper will discuss the challenges that were discussed in regards to the Constitutional rights. This paper will provide supporting cases that touch on the same themes in order to Continue reading...

Evaluation of Personnel Policy at Ozero Dessert and Tea and Recommendations

A personnel policy is a plan of action and group of proposals that act as a reference for managers and supervisors in dealing with their employees. The strategic human resource management means that human resource policies and practices, which produce employee competencies and favourable behaviours, must be planned and well executed. The human resource manager requires a practical way to translate the company’s strategy into the necessary employee competencies and behaviours.
This case deals with the human resource plan of Ozero Tea and Desserts, a small privately run business located in Little Tokyo, LA where I work. The Continue reading...

Organizational/industrial psychology has a vital role in employee selection and training. It helps in the improvement of efficiency in the organization environment. During the employment, process the industrial psychologist start by analyzing the required number of people needed for a specific job. The tests that the industrial/organizational psychologists’ designs are very useful in determining the type of employees the organization want (Levy, 2010). The tests determine the right type of people the organization wants.
After determining the type of employees for hiring, the industrial/organizational psychology helps in ensuring that the training programs run in an efficient way possible. It Continue reading...

Sexual Harassment in Workplace

Introduction
Sexual harassment is now emerging out as a major problem in workplace. Every year thousands of females and males report their experiences to their employers. In 1970s, it was found by researchers that every one of two women becomes a victim of sexual harassment. A survey done by Redbook magazine was done asking women if they had experienced sexual harassment in their workplaces. Nine out of ten reported that they had been victims of the sexual harassment .

Sexual Harassment

Sexual harassment occurs in a workplace when an employee acts against another employee’s wishes by making sexual advances, passing offensive Continue reading...

2008 BIPAC MARKET RESEARCH REPORT
2008 BIPAC Market Research Report

The basic reason of conducting a market research is to identify issues affecting business in the employer-driven market. The analysis is based on the employee awareness related to the significance of employer-driven messages that have an increasing impact on business affecting issues. The BIPAC research report of quantitative data using online survey has interviewed with the employees of the major organizations named as Florida Power & Light, members of the American Forest & Paper Association and PPG.
The selection of these organizations was due to their high level innovation and activity Continue reading...

A man was having a conversation with a close friend who was depressed because he had a fight with his girlfriend. The first few minutes of the conversation was dominated by the close friend as he was telling the man what went on with the fight, which was motivated by his desire to have someone sympathize with him. The man listened attentively as indicated by the occasional nods. The close friend was blaming his girlfriend’s being immature and indecisive that caused the argument. This is an example of fundamental attribution error wherein more emphasis was given to the Continue reading...

Introduction

Defining biologically, the reaction of a person in response to his/her environmental condition or towards a stimulus is termed as stress. At work, a person faces stress when there is a mismatch between the resources or capabilities and the demand of the job. However, certain stress at workplaces is normal, but when it exceeds the limit, stress affects a person’s professional life as well as personal life (Jones & Bright, 2001). It reduces the productivity of the employee and often affects the health condition (Jones & Bright, 2001). The paper reflects on the reasons behind stress at the workplace. Then Continue reading...

Abstract

The project deals with the problem of beautism in the workplace, it discriminatory effects on hiring, the extent of spreading, legality, and reasons. The example of college beautism-related employment incident is given a particular focus in the concluding part of the research. The project is based on the opinions of leading legal and employment experts, scientists and analysts.
Keywords: beautism, lookism, hiring, discrimination, termination, workplace, staff
Employment is an integral part of human resource management that deals with attracting and hiring new personnel as well as professional development and rewarding practices. Skilful hiring is prerequisite to the successful functioning Continue reading...

Zappos is a name that originated from zapatos referring to shoes. It is an online retailer having specialized in shoe selling. The company is situated in Henderson, Nevada with a warehouse located in Shepherdsville, KY and it was founded in 1999 as Shoesite.com by Nick Swinmurn. The products offered also include accessories, bags, baby products, clothing, sporting goods, housewares, and watches. It currently operates as a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc. since 2009.
The company sets itself apart from its competitors by providing swift, free shipping and ironclad policy. This policy allows for customers to return the items purchased with Continue reading...

(University Affiliation)

Introduction

The role of any Human Resource Manager in acute care hospitals today is to facilitate and nurture the performance of the company’s employees. To achieve these goals, Human Resource officers must cultivate a conducive working environment that provides opportunities for employees to participate in the organizational planning and goal attainment (Oneal, 2011). Such environments tend to bring about motivation in employees, and high performance leaders. Discussion The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has influenced the essential functionality of human resource management with regard to health care when it comes to putting emphasis on Continue reading...

Introduction

The Employment at Will Doctrine is basically a principle that is applicable to an existing employment agreement between an employer and an employee. The doctrine covers grounds based on ethics and at some point, even morality that is applicable to both the employees and the employer .

Scenario 1

Employees are considered as very important parts of a company. This is why in most cases, every act that a company’s employee commits is generally considered as a representative act of the entire organization . In the case of John, the one who posted a rant criticizing the company’s most important customer, Continue reading...

Introduction

United States Nuclear sector is one of the publicly administrated areas that provides wide employment opportunities and employs various recruitment structure and philosophies that can be attributed to general trends in global business world. That said, it is interesting to observe that the sector works with direct employment, community colleges and international programs that brings this sector in line with international Strategic Human Resource Management (HRM) tendencies and trends. This clash, as one could argue, of public organization and bureaucracy with modern trends receives special attention when it comes to the analysis of US Nuclear sector as a place Continue reading...

Executive summary

The pharmaceutical industry has been target of vast antitrust actions emanating from both the government enforcement agencies to private plaintiffs. Competition further falls within the diverse aspects that deter the performance of organizations and firms operating within the pharmaceutical industry. The study holds into account the various notions that are attached to minimizing, averting competition from oversees or local enterprises and turning the competition to more dynamic entities to achieve the organizational objectives through emphasizing and reflecting on the significant role of human resource management.
The study offers diverse and rich strategic approaches that can be enacted by firms Continue reading...

Human Resource Management

Abstract
This study will provide a compensation package of consumer goods industry such as Procter and Gamble. The research will provide the salary, bonuses, health care plans, and different kinds of compensation for initial entry employees, middle management and senior management. The compensation package will include minimum salary, bonuses, health care, retirement plans, vacation, sick leave, holidays, and paid time off.
The organization that was chosen as the subject matter of for this study is Procter and Gamble, which belong to the consumer goods industry. The mission statement of the company is to uplift the lives of global consumers Continue reading...

Of the 14 states with state-based marketplace healthcare plans, eight have defined contributions options at present or being planned in the near future. These states include California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Rhode Island and Vermont. Other states have no defined contribution plans and these states include Hawaii, Idaho, Maryland, and New York.

A. STATES WITH DEFINED CONTRIBUTION

California
California allows employers to offer defined contribution health plans to their employees. The use by employers of such type of plan requires compliance with ERISA and HIPAA guidelines. This means giving employees the freedom to choose their respective health insurance plans on Continue reading...

Google’s employee Compensation strategy

Companies could be defined as entities that struggle to make profit, and these entities comprise of several different components including shareholders as the owners, directors as the managers, and the third most integral part; their employees who are basically responsible for the transition of inputs into outputs. Another term that is important to grasp before we proceed is a company’s compensation strategy. For a company to run at maximum possible efficiency, it is very important that the employees are highly motivated and loyal to their work and their company, and in order to achieve this aspiration, companies often Continue reading...

The United States of America is a well-established country that has become the world’s most powerful economy due to the growth it has had in its industrial sectors. It is due to this reputation and the different employment opportunities that are in the US that has driven many foreigners to the point of desperations since they would do anything to acquire legal documents that would allow them to live and work in the United States. Individuals who are not born in the U.S but live and work in the country are referred to as immigrants. The United States Continue reading...

Abstract

Employee turnover is an issue that almost all HR managers have to deal with, and it is an area of serious concern. Attrition is something that HR managers address right from the recruitment stage till the time an employee exits an organization. It is ironical that exit, avoidance and retention is addressed even before the first step of recruitment happens. Many HR managers intuitively factor aspects like how long could an individual stay and be committed to an organization while interviewing them. Surprising as it sounds, however, it is a matter of truth and reality in the world of Continue reading...

The bank of America values its employees and for this reason it has a well-developed compensation and benefits programs that seek to motivate the staff members. This includes life management, retirement, time away, flexible time, employee banking and investment as well as health and insurance benefits. The company offers a comprehensive healthcare benefit to its employees that cater for medical cases, dental health and vision. The medical program allows screening of workers and covers lifestyle coaching to ensure that employees are able to detect diseases early. This is a significant boost to the overall performance of the employees at Continue reading...

Introduction

Change management helps an organization in times of deep strategic changes. A good change management process helps an organization successfully plan, communicate and implement a change process to the employees. There are several types of changes that an organization goes through. Change management is required for strategic, visionary, operational, technological and cultural changes. Change Management is a process that involves a planned shift from the way a company is operating to the way it hopes to operate for better performance, productivity and increased output (Cawsey, Deszca and Ingols, 2012). As the overall business process in this global environment is Continue reading...

- Organizational Behavior.
- Introduction
- The aim of this project is to encounter the current issues of Dell company.
- in order to encounter the issues different case studies and research paper and books have been analyzed.
- Two topic that are focus of multiple organization have been chosen to discuss that are diversity and employee engagement.
- Description of problem
In order to apply the theories of organizational behavior Dell has been taken as targeted organization and current issues that have been recognized are as follow:
1. Diversity issues; company is facing age diversity issues that is ongoing Continue reading...

It is undebatable that Human Resource Department is essential to any organization's success. Worth noting likewise is the fact that their functions are equally significant in large and small organizations in the formulation of strategies as well as handling all the workforce activities and aspects. Other significances that would be deduced from the department include but not limited to budget control and conflict resolutions. Employee satisfaction, training and development, steadfast cultures and principles of a company, and value-added cooperate image. In addition, performance enhancements are other additional benefits that would be attributed to the department (Wilkie, Clayton, & Confederation College, Continue reading...

Introduction

Being a manager is never an easy task as it involves the most complicated and complex elements of living. Humans are noted to be rooted along the concept of natural diversity; something that identifies well with the emergence of good concept of development especially when it comes to mandating the way individuals are directed towards achieving more and engaging in well-established policies and rules that are designed to help them function better. Each individual who is expected to perform for an organization based on a certain goal is known to follow a particular pattern of determination on how employees Continue reading...

Introduction

This HR project was initiated by me and my team mate to conduct a live research with an HR professional to learn about the performance management process in his or her organization. The organization chosen for the current study is Google Inc. The interviews were conducted with HR professional at Google and online marketing manager at the organization. The interviews with the professionals were conducted in person. The paper provides details about the performance management systems at Google, their employee appraisal systems and the various parameters on the basis of which the performance of the employees are evaluated. The Continue reading...

Business Expansion & Sustainability

Introduction
Human Resources Management (HRM), which also known as Strategic Human Resources Management (SHRM) is an important field through which the effectiveness of the employees and employers can be analyzed resultantly (Armstrong & Cummins, 2011). As per the theoretical aspect and knowledge of SHRM, hiring and firing, recruitment and selection are the major part of a human resources department, however there are some other parts as well that will be effective for their future consequences including maximizing the level of human interaction and effectiveness. The hiring and firing of individuals get a perfect idea to the organizations as far as Continue reading...

Paid Sick Leave in California

The Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014 was signed by Governor Jerry Brown on September 10, 2014. The Act that required that all employers in both the public or private sector, regardless of size, to allow their employees to accumulate their paid sick time at the rate of one hour for every 30 hours worked (Medical Benefits, 2014). As a result, each employee is entitled to accrue sick leave if he or she is working in California for at least 30 days within one year from the start of employment which will commence on July 1, 2015. The Continue reading...

Executive summary

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) addresses the challenges facing the health industry. The government has been implementing the provisions in incremental stages since 2010 and more changes are still underway. This report discusses the impact that this act has on indoor tanning services by analyzing the indoor tanning services tax, health insurance coverage duty on employers and the additional Medicare tax. Firstly, the indoor services tax applies to businesses offering tanning services as their predominant activity. However, the law provides tax exemptions to providers such as phototherapy services, qualified physical fitness facilities, spray-on tanning services and those selling tanning Continue reading...