Essays on Labour Relations

The four schools of thought in regard to labour relations

The handling of day-to-day labour relation and interactions is complex and uniquely elaborate in contemporary societies. In most cases, it comprises the use of human power, resources, and the integration of voices of reason that strive to retain the rights and privileges that are bestowed upon the workers. Indeed, there are numerous challenges that confront the labour sector across world. The aforementioned challenges are complimented by the reality of existent solutions to issues that affect workers in the work place contexts. Ergonomic experts have developed schools of thought that are designed to evaluate and ultimately contextualize the essence of ...

Executive Summary

After comprehensive evaluation of the implication of public sector unionization and collective bargaining, we find that these public sector employees were undercompensated than being overcompensated. This calculation also takes into account modest overpayment as low skill and educational level, and modest underpayment at high skill and educational level. Next, it can be inferred that public sector bargaining units have worked well in reducing strikes and in achieving equitable outcomes. Though, care should be taken such that the arbitration process does not take long enough to cause hardship to parties involved. Regarding a response to financial crisis, there are several ...

Globalization – is a complex social process that has all-pervasive nature and that changes the world we live in. We are talking about globalization, implying changes in society, modern lifestyle and intensification of all processes. Globalization changes the whole system of social relations, including labour relations as part of them. System of values ​​and interests of social development, system of interests and values ​​at the workplace changes in a qualitatively different manner. Workers see each other not as competitors with hostile intentions, but as peace partners. The labour market due to globalization became not a constant race for a leader, but a system of ...

John Lennon Working Class Hero-Musical and Labour Analysis

‘Working Class Hero’ by John Lennon is regarded by many one of the most prolific protest songs of its generation in large part to the way that writer could express his ideas through simple lyrics and song writing to people from all classes. This paper will examine the goals, perspective and struggles of workers communicated through the song ‘Working Class Hero’. It will examine how the ‘worker’, ‘owner/boss’ or workplace environment is portrayed within the song. Furthermore it hopes to clarify how employment-related activities are portrayed in the song. It will mention the geographical and historical context in which ...

Executive Summary

HWNS is a service provider for members of the physically challenged community with disabilities. The HWNS facilities are located in ACT, Queensland and NSW. These facilities supply a diverse scope of services and supports to a population of three thousand physically challenged people who possess disabilities. . One years and three months ago, in July 2013, the National Disability Insurance System initiated pilot programs and continued expansion with the pilot program until July 2014. The comprehensive implementation of the plan will not be in effect for another four years. This initiative is a primary social reform that is intended to be one of the ...

BUSINESS ECONOMICS: THE UK ECONOMY

- Introduction3 - Reasons for Economic Downturn in 2008/094 a). Financial Crisis4 b). Business Cycle4 c). Government Policy before Crisis5 - Analysis of the Effects of the Downturn6 a). Microeconomic Effects6 1). Effects of Households6 2). Effects on Businesses6 b). Macroeconomic Effects7 1). Effect on Unemployment7 2). Effect on GDP and Inflation7 3). Effect on Share Prices and Company Profits8 - Government Policies Aimed at Recovery8 a). Fiscal Policy8 b). Monetary Policy9 c). Austerity9 - Actions/Steps Taken by the Government9 - Expectations of the Government Actions10 ...

Human resources management (HRM) has its own set of challenges in each different environment; even in other countries, a sense of organizational justice is often missing. The nation of South Africa is no exception; in order to understand the impact that organizational justice would have in HRM settings in South Africa, it is necessary to learn the politics of the practice as it pertains to South African municipalities. A number of political factors come into play that impact, for good or ill, the effectiveness of HRM to create a safe and productive work environment for municipalities. Service delivery is one ...

Introduction

Traditionally, the human resource department was mandated with administrative roles such as preparation of payrolls and calculation of leave days. Increased competition coupled with a myriad of other factors such as globalization, structural reforms, privatization, and technological changes have led to the rise of strategic human resource management. Additionally, adoption of strategies such as total quality management that advocates for employee empowerment has contributed to immense changes within the human resource department. Further, most firms seek to ensure productivity and profitability within the market at large. One of the core factors that determine a firm`s profitability is the contribution made ...

Question 1

Collective bargains and labour relations are usually associated with adversarial approaches. However, there are also ways the adversarial approach can be avoided. Normally, there are two opposing sides, each seeking to have its terms accepted in the collective bargains. In other cases, the labour relations are aggressive such as holding demonstrations. However, the compliance and collaboration strategy can be used effectively without causing adversarial impacts. In this case, both parties agree to comply with the terms and conditions of the bargaining process or labour agreements. The parties then collaborate in working towards achieving the collective bargains or improving labour ...

Public policies which have developed over past 10 to 20 years have included polices which deal with a whole range of issues from labour relations to health care and globalisation. However, key questions remain as to how the American system of government is informed of the need to take actions on such policy issues and who is responsible for developing solutions and setting the public policy agenda in government.

In considering a range of public policy issues, one cannot ignore the responsibility for the development of solutions and the setting of public policy agenda which comes right from the top of ...

i. Introduction (Select a career) Just like any other person can choose to be a nurse, a mechanical engineer or a lawyer, I chose to pursue Bachelor of Business and Commerce that will eventually lead to a major in human resource management. Human resource management fundamentally encompasses the management of human capital. It is the management of the organization’s workforce. The career in human resource management presents me typically with the understanding of practices like manpower planning, training and development, performance management, staff relations, and the management of information systems. In fact, I may eventually end up becoming a personnel manager, an organization’ ...

A major economic depression that engulfed the world during early thirties of the twentieth century is commonly referred to as ‘The Great Depression’. Wikipedia defines depression as a sustained decline in the economic activities of one or more economies. The general characteristics of a depression are substantial increase in unemployment rates; credit crunch, mostly due to impact of depression on the banking system; and increased volatility in currency’s relative value. It also has a deep and devastating impact on the financial system of a country. Depression is an extreme form of long term downturn. Sometimes, it is also described as recession of a ...