The Supreme Court has ruled that where state law permits, union as well as nonunion employees have the right to sue over their discipline and dismissals. ... For example, federal laws limit an employer's right to terminate or discipline at-will employees for reasons such as age, sex, race, religion, union activity, or disability (Ivancevich 476). ... One exception is the public policy exception, which means an employer may not be fired or disciplined because he or she refuses to commit an illegal act (Ivancevich 476). ... One final exception allows employees to seek damages for outrage...

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The employee focus of the personnel function covers counseling individuals on such issues as development, career moves and discipline, ensuring privacy and confidentiality of personal information and ensuring that current staff and job applicants are given full and accurate information concerning their employment within the organization. ...

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Dell, Inc., formerly Dell Computers, based in Round Rock, TX has recently decided to create a business unit focusing on global expansion in Costa Rica, Central America. For over 28 years, Dell has maintained the goal of finding ways to enable customers, communities and individuals to utilize technol...

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I would also be upholding the employees" rights to free expression by letting the employee express their own opinion about a topic without being disciplined for doing so. ... Without this rule, the employees could risk getting disciplined if they chose to refuse treatment. ...

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Communication is the process by which people send and receive information. In order for a supervisor to communicate with their employees to motivate them they must use clear communication free of noise. Noise can interfere with the communication process by distorting messages you are trying to comm...

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Conflicts occurs in several forms, some of the conflicts that we have are Personality disputes between employees, Sexual harassment, discrimination, Disagreements between employees and supervisors regarding performance evaluation and expectations, forms and levels of supervision, discipline, and inappropriate workplace behavior. ...

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Nike faces many challenges that are due to all of the accusations being made about their products being made in "sweatshops". The case study will show the description of the legal, ethical, and cultural changes affecting Nike and the claims made of them running a sweatshop. This case study will deci...

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There seems to be a yearning toward learning what is out there, when a career person becomes so specialized in their respective areas and loses the ability to integrate other disciplines and modes of study into their lives. ...

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Managing Absenteeism at Work With each new employee that is hired, they bring a totally new set of expectations, needs and problems. It takes more time and skill to manage today's workforce. Bad managers are the biggest cause of high turnover, low attendance and low morale. Absenteeism and latene...

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Introduction Key employees are the staff who have a strong impact on the production and management of the enterprise, and can hardly be replaced within a short period. They are the undertakers of the core competence, and they are the foundation on which enterprise existence and development should re...

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Definition A clear definition of sexual harassment defines the stance of the company, provides feeling and experiences concerning sexual harassment and draws the line on questionable behavior. A policy on harassment also helps the employees decipher their observations on the job. This combined with...

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Blue collar workers are the backbone of America. In the article, "Blue-Collar Brilliance," author Mike Rose emphasizes his belief that blue collar jobs should not be viewed as mindless tasks, but rather should be acknowledged for the amount of skills and intelligence these tasks truly require. What ...

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My occupation of choice for exploration is that of an educational guidance, school, and vocational counselor. Educational, school, vocational and guidance counselors, assist learners in developing the social aspects of their lives for the development of their careers. Vocational guidance is helping ...

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"For example, in an earlier case establishing this judicial exception, the Michigan Supreme court held that if an employee handbook states the offenses for which an employee may be disciplined, and gives assurances indicating that an employee will not be dismissed without cause, then a discharge which does not follow the employee handbook is a breach of contract (Toussaint v. ...

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Drug Testing in Employment Drug testing in companies has become a bigger issue than most realize. According to a survey taken in DesJardins and Duska article, nearly half of all Fortune 500 companies were planning to administer drug tests to employees and prospective employees by the end of 1987...

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Pink slipping or disciplining an employee are actions that employers must take after careful consideration, making sure that the actions stick to company employment policies and laws regarding employee dismissal. ... Obviously, there are situations where an employee who participates in one of the protected activities described above may require discipline for a following and unrelated action. ...

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Staffing Plan and Recruitment Strategies Developing and staffing plan for the SMC Company. Determining how many people will be need to hire, and in what functional areas. Develop a strategic plan to recruit the appropriate applicants. The legal requirements in aspect for staffing Managing work...

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Introduction Title VII is viewed as one of the most effective and influential tools used to fight discrimination in today's work environment. It was originally drafted as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and since that time it has continued to grow and develop as society continues to change ...

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The key to managing conflicts is first to recognize that conflicts are inevitable. On the job, there will always be different personalities, tasks, and issues that arise, that may all ultimately lead to conflict. Conflicts can, however, be resolved to a level where everyone is agreeable. To get ...

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Management has sole discretion and flexibility in deployment and discipline issues and maintains the right to assign measures to people within the company, as it deems appropriate, as long as the language of the agreement does not explicitly limit the action. ...

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Kahn's study started with the work of Goffman (1961), as well as looking across disciplines such as psychology (Freud 1922), sociology (Merton 1957) and group theorists (Slater 1966, Smith & Berg 1987) who all documented the natural resistance of an individual, concerning becoming members of on-going groups and systems. ...

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One of the reasons that China's GDP has been growing at a yearly average of ten percent for the past two decades is the large amount of Foreign Direct Investment coming from Hong Kong, Taiwan and the West. However, China's GDP growth rate dropped to 8.7 percent during 2012 with a slow down in export growth from 26% to 7%. A lot of economists started to doubt that this might be the end of the phenomenon of the Chinese export miracle. With other developing countries emerging in East Asia, many investors have begun to consider moving their factories and investments out of China and into...

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Tribunals The EOC has looked at 54 employment tribunal decisions, in sexual harassment cases that were heard between 1998 and 2001, to see what those cases revealed. Successful cases The employee Thirty-four cases were successful. In three of those cases the person making the complaint was male...

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