Continous Improvement A Need for Growth Creation of a learning culture through out the economy is seen as essential for economic growth and to keep up with the changing needs. Firms need to become learning organization that have the capacity to continually learn from their experiences and t...
An example of this would be the "sweat shops" operating in South East Asia who employ young children to work long hours in sub standard conditions for minimal pay in order to manufacture goods that will generate profit for a business organisation. ...
For example, Apple's supplier Foxccon, a Taiwanese multinational company, it has to be reported abusing their stuffs in Mainland China recently, their working condition was poor, and although the legal limit in China is 36 hours of overtime a month, many stuffs complained they often exceeded and without extra payment (Barboza 2010), those kind of unethical and hard HRM approaches are not only caused high people turnover in the firm, also damaged to the company's reputation. ...
Herzberg believed that majority of the workers were not only motivated by money but factors such as responsibility, achievement , working hours and conditions can make people happier at work despite these factors do not motivate them. ...