Article Summary's Article # 1- Is a story coming from the perspective of Paty Leyva who works in a sweatshop in Mexico. Paty say's " with maquiladora wages, we can't afford milk, meat, chicken, fruit, or new clothes, and building a house with more than two rooms is luxury" she added. There are close to 1 million maquiladora workers in Mexico. A big percent of the workers are girls and ... me realize that most of the clothing made in these sweatshops are for big name company's that you see a lot of kids these days walking around in. Article # 5- Bill Clinton announced the introduction of a ne...

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... to set their roots wherever they choose, but research shows they"re looking for communities with plenty of amenities (NOWIB 2003). New Orleans is offering these industries a new home filled with affordable housing, unparalleled culture and history, and an energetic work force well equipped for the global economy ( ... for qualified employees. Now the balance has shifted with more jobs available and less qualified applicants. Searching the web for jobs in New Orleans, over 60% of all jobs required some type of computer literacy. Many of these jobs required special concetrations, such as .....

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... robots and automation replaced many blue-collar workers. Furthermore, the rise of microelectronics such as computers, software, fiber optics and robotics created demands of new kind of skills. The jobs created by these advancements needed specialized education that the displaced blue-collar workers were not able to meet. As these ... could not find jobs at all. Those 15 percent, who did not find jobs, constitute the "new poor" who, unlike "old poor", had little hope for breaking out of poverty. These new poor are trapped in poverty because hard physical labor is not usually needed in a...

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... the market alive. The best choice is a win-win relationship whereas you can conciliate your goals with the company's purposes. The only way to find this out is playing this new managerial game. ...

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... Providing opportunities to explore different positions within the company creates openness and growth. A great example is a chemical company that I read about in a consulting magazine. They place new scientists in the Research Assignments Program, which provides an introduction to various company research positions. These new hires spend 12-16 months exploring different research areas before they accept a specific position in a laboratory. These ... . At the end of the program, each person transfers to a position that is chosen based on the individual's preference and performance and the ...

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... religious beliefs or any belief for that matter. People should be evaluated based on their job performance and not their sexual orientation or religion. While reading the article, "Religion in the workplace", I came across some very valid points on how companies can approach religion in the workplace. Some of these points include spreading ... them from that. Times are changing now. According to the article Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Workplace, there are 13 states that have laws prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination in both private and public jobs: California, Connec...

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... the Fair Labor Standards Act, as a result, a minimum hourly wage of 25 cent was inaugurate. Over a century later, Americans are still debating the merits of this fundamental portion of the New Deal. The question is, is it necessary for government to ensure that, low skills worker receive a decent paycheck, or would the economy and low wage earners be better off without ... first argument is, minimum wage will escalate the raise of unemployment rate. –Its basic economics. If the price of labor increase, the demand will plummet. According to James A. Dorn article, Obama Minimum wage hik...

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"Living Wage" Roulette: A Bigger Paycheck, Or a Pink Slip? The New York City Council is thinking about passing a law that will raise the wages of workers receiving low pay from city contractors and companies that receive large tax breaks from the city. ... have to pay these people more will have to cut some jobs as well to keep their profit margin at a reasonable level. There is a good example of this in the article "Rick Frederico, chairman of a restaurant chain, P.F. Chang's China Bistro, said he might lay off 40 of the 125 employees at his upscale restaurant in Santa Monica if he is force...

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... are not used to bribery and corruption. "A fifth of executives surveyed by Ernst & Young claim they lost business to a competitor who paid bribes." (Transparency International, the New York Times) According to the Corruption Perceptions Index of 2012, published by Transparency International, China outscored all the other three democratic countries, ranking 80th in the world (the lower the number ... and liberalize the markets, more and more privately-owned companies start growing into big multination corporations that can compete with state-owned enterprise or township and village enter...

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... is not giving people in alternative, which is causing a lack in social interaction with people they care about and changing their family values. In his article, Sennett ran into an old friend named Rico at the airport, whose father, Enrico did an interview for Sennett's book about fifth teen years ago ... Sennett 308). When the disasters of the mid 20th century stopped, people could rely on their jobs. The span of thirty year's, shows that the new capitalist economy has thrown away job security. Jobs now want workers to become more flexible with their job and work ethics for employees is ...

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... 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. Finally, the article identifies theft prevention strategies at each level of analysis, incorporating both procedural and interactive strategies. Definition of Employee Theft Employee theft is included in the general class of "deviant behaviors ... activity, and another 3 to 5% for potential use of prohibited substances (Drinkard, 1996). Procedural Strategies at the Social Level At the social level, strategies are geared toward h...

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... work. But what if the mother is also employed? The situation this time would be different and this matter is being discussed in the article "Of Mothers, Work and Family. With the continuing trend of women empowerment and the reality of sustaining financial stability, mothers nowadays are working ... by which through time, I became a little adjusted or perhaps as I mature, things are being managed properly. It is well explained in the article as it talks about the antecedents of work-family conflict, which are work stress, number of hours spend in work and age. These predictors mentioned...

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... committed to rebuilding the wage floor for low-wage workers in the US. Minimum wage can also promote more productivity from employees. The author James Sherk explains this in the article, "Productivity and Compensation: Growing Together". Minimum wage should be raised to keep Americans out of poverty/help economy, to help struggling college students and to promote more productivity ... will spend. Which will help the economy through businesses. Additionally, strengthening the minimum wage can help build a sustainable economic recovery- without increasing costs for tax payers. For exampl...

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... they deserve. Through observation, trial and error, and often physical and verbal assistance from others, blue collar workers develop their skills. "Blue-Collar Brilliance" is an article that makes us realize that formal education does not always measure the level of intelligence of a person. Blue Collar jobs require just as much intelligence as jobs that require formal ... academic credentials (e.g. a College Diploma) and hence should be recognized for their work. In the article, "Blue-Collar Brilliance", Mike Rose disagrees with the assumption that "Intelligence is closely associated w...

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... found to be the main reason that women in the United States are more likely to be poor than women in other countries." This article looks at two feminist explanations for the feminization of poverty. First, there is the issue of household structure. He talks of how parenthood ... sex segregation. He states "If women are systematically excluded from higher-paying occupations, their wages and incomes will be lower than the wages of men". Throughout his article, Pressman displays a wide array of data: Tables 1, 2, and 3. In Table 1, he focuses on non-elderly households. Table 2 he display...

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... had much exposure or experience in dealing with people in this group, so I found this article very helpful in getting me educated on things concerning compliance with the ADA. There is a lot of information in this article to assist me in implementing an ADA plan in my organization. It gives guidelines to developing ... a plan and implementation of that plan. Some of the guidelines the article gives are to immerse oneself in ADA literature. This is obviously important to build an understanding of ADA. Secure support from top management. ... but were found to create an undue hardship on t...

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... at the end in order to show that although they are all very different they all show how training is the key to running a successful company. In Phyllis Tharenou's article, "The Relationship of Training Motivation to Participation in Training and Development", the question being asked is how motivation through the expectation and motivation to learn may explain certain participation in ... the desire to learn helps explain their participation in training and development. Support from their supervisors was the main job factor that enhanced participation in training and development. The sec...

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... points and made some observations which could give a basis for discussion and further research in the field of employment relations, their article was biased and contained some misrepresentation of data from other authors analysis on the effectiveness of labour standards of MNCs from countries of ... too narrow as they failed to define terms such as better labor standards, higher wages, more rights, association and collective bargain. The article did not look at specific sectors or industry and rather took a more generalized approach. The authors implied that MNCs as legal personas ... ...

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... the growth of unemployment is a inability of supply side to respond quickly on the adverse labour market behavior demand. At the begging of article the author compare and explain situations of unemployment which were formed at labour market of USA and Europe, especially, Euro-11 nations. At ... was versatility of factors that contributed to the rise of unemployment and non-existence of main on this issue. As I meant earlier this article was based on the alternative bargaining models by McDonald and Slow (1981). The main idea of this models is that bargain over wages ... with better resu...

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... now there is talk of fifteen dollars an hour. Less people will buy the product because to make a profit, prices will have to be raised. In James Sherks article "higher fast food wages: higher fast food prices" he writes "The typical restaurant has a profit margin of just 3 percent before taxes" (Sherk ... ? Secondly raising minimum wage to fifteen an hour we would be making people lose their jobs and hurt our fragile economy even more. Tim Worstall states in his article "the absurdity of a $15 minimum wage" that "This is simply an absurd demand. There would be very large unemployment effe...

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Hiring Without the Guesswork / http://www.inc.com/magazine / 8 pages I choose this article because I thought it related well to module 13, Recruitment and Selections. This in-depth article that deals with how to go out and recruit new employees over the old standard way of advertising, resumes, and job experience. It explains six different approaches on ways to over come stereotypical hiring methods were ... produce a profile. Step five is keep score with the right goal in mind. Lastly, step six check references and reach past them by asking for further references. Overall I like the article ...

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Reaction Paper # 3 is based on the Article, "Labor Economics and Labor Relations", by Loyd Reynolds, Stanley Masters, & Colletta Moser. This article offers a number of economical viewpoints, which although justifiable and scientifically proven, are still subject to debate. The first disagreeable point made by the author's was their belief that an employee ... seeks an overall "employment package", apart from wage, in determining their future employer. According to the article, the employee does not seek the highest wage available in their particular market. Instead, they search for the job th...

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... is that it focuses on employees as individuals. There is something that makes it wrong for employers to treat them incorrect. In this article, it states that having goals and interests is of moral importance. Individuals have the right to be treated equally, the right to freedom ... marketplace and complex legal environment, employers face the challenge of attracting, developing, and retaining the best employees. Employee practices are also mentioned in this article where their may be some misinterpretation to at-will-employment. Sometimes employers put into effect a grievance procedure a...

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... not always been thought of as good. The employees chooses between Management, Negotiators, and Administrators; as to the Union Negotiators and Administrators. Some may be neutral. As stated in the article, most people look at the labor unions as the villainous Indians and the management as the white-hatted Cowboys. Both the labor unions and management deal with the legislative, executive ... , and judicial systems; on a state, local, and federal basis. The article talked about illegal acts when the workers would go to the bathrooms, or other places of secret meetings, talking behind the ...

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... important that this trend continues to grow. Women as managers are very beneficial to firms and corporations. The percentage of women managers is directly related to firm performance. In the article by Susan Cordeiro and James Sites there are many topics discussed. Women managers are important to the performance of organizations. The economic results provide strong initial evidence that gender diversity ... do not. As more women are becoming executives this study will continue. The authors state that further research will provide even more information. The authors go on to conclude the ...

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