The various causes of employee theft are explored, from employee personality characteristics, to the social environment, to flaws in the organization's control system. ... Second, it discusses the causes of employee theft as they apply to three levels of analysis in organizations: (1) the personal level, (2) the social level, and (3) the systemic level. ... Social psychologists examine the relationship between the employee and management as the source of theft, with emphasis on the social exchange relationship or the perceived psychological contract between them, as well as group norms an...

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According to NCEUS(2007), more than 90 percent of the workers without privileges are working in non-agricultural industry, they do not write contracts with the companies and often be paid less than the social minimum wages. ... The Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act which settled in 1970 is another important piece of labour legislation in India (Errol 2010). This law allows the companies hire employees on short-term contracts. It also provides for the fair payment of wages to contract employees and manage the employers to abide by the Contract Labour Act. It asks the companies to ...

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Abstract This dissertation is attempting to delve into the prevailing attitudes and employee engagement with Topaz South Dublin service stations. The importance of employee engagement is highlighted in relation to the concept of Human Capital Management. The data collection was based on a survey which was carried out by the CIPD (2006) on employee engagement in the UK. The research seeks to understand aspects of working life at the Topaz service stations within the South Dublin catchment area. Aspects such as meaningfulness of tasks within the role, aspects of feelings towards the role, indivi...

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These initiatives can be found at the core of the new social contract being negotiated between employers and employees. "The basic outline of the social contract, as it has emerged during the past several years, calls for workers to commit their best contributions and greatest energies to the job in return for interesting work, respectful treatment, developmental opportunities, and an environment that responds to individual needs. ...

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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. In most cases the harassment began while the person bringing the complaint had been working for that employer for less than one year, and their work tended to be low paid (e.g carers, shop and factory workers, office staff). Shift work was a factor in a third of cases. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate