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The Labor Movement
The Labor Movement The Labor Movement's number one concern is to address problems associated with social inequality. The labor movement
was created in order to fight for the rights of labor workers. The goal was to have better wages, safe working conditions, and reasonable working
hours. Unions were formed in order to achieve this. However, this was always enough. Workers reached a point where they came together and
participated in strikes which the main goal was to have their employers listen to them and come to an agreement. The film, The Salt of Earth is
great example of this movement. The main character, Esperanza Quintero a pregnant wife of a miner, wishes her unborn child would not be born
into the world she is living in. She is aware of the oppression the miners face due to the color of their skin. They didn't have the same rights as the
white miners and are threated to be fired if they don't do as they're told. Their working conditions were inhumane and therefore, Ramon Quintero,
Esperanza's husband, decided to lead a strike against their employer. Although they were already part of a union, their union was not enough to get
them what they needed and wanted. However, in a turn of events, Esperanza began to stand up for the rights of the Mexican women. She began to
strike with a group of other women and in the end, after many struggles, came to an agreement with the employers. Through this film, the idea of the
effort of the collective versus individual effort is
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Labour Market Context
4 The Labour Market Context of HRM Chapter Objectives To define internal and external labour markets To outline the role of HRM as the interface
between an organisation and its labour markets To identify the changing labour market conditions under which contemporary organisations operate To
critically evaluate the implications for HRM of the 'knowledge economy' To outline how labour market trends are impacting upon how organisations
utilise labour and how HRM practices are driving labour market change To outline the various ways that firms can respond to different labour market
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The latter 90 04–Wilton–4081–CH–04.indd 90 HRM IN CONTEXT 25/08/2010 7:10:18 PM refers to a strategy of recruiting required labour from
outside the firm as and when needed. A 'make' strategy is, therefore, internally–focused whilst a 'buy' strategy is externally–focused. The internal labour
market The internal labour market refers to that which exists within a single organisation and represents its internal supply or stock of labour. In its
broadest sense, the internal labour market is the mechanism by which existing employees are attributed particular roles within a firm. The specific
characteristics of an organisation's internal labour market are reflective of a number of HR policy emphases, for example, the level of investment in
employee training and development, the availability of career development opportunities and the extent to which employee retention and job security
are prioritised. Contextual factors, particularly the types of skills, knowledge and attributes required, also act to shape the 'type' of internal labour
market that exists within a firm. Depending on its characteristics, an internal labour market can fulfil a number of functions for an organisation. For
example, in seeking to retain employees the internal labour market can act as a source of motivation and contribute to a
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The Literature On Women 's World
rstly review the literature on women andindustrialisation world–widely. However, as the routes to and features of industrialisation are very different in
the developed countries and the developing ones (see Butschek, 2006; Stoneburner and Angelos, 2005; Myrdal, 1970), the following review will have
a greater focus on the developing countries, which have more comparative value to China. It offers both a theoretical framework and a bigger context
for china's case to stand against.
1. 1 To be or not to be?
Industirialisation normally refers to the process by which economy becomes more dependent on factory production and concentration of industries
(DHG, 2013; BD, no date). For many countires, industrialisation has been taken as an important path to economic growth (Kaplinsky, 1998, p.3). In the
pre–industrialisation era, women's work had been "home–based and largely seasonal" that agreed by most researchers (McBride, 1977, p.282; ). But
the role of women in industrialisation appeared to be a controversial issue as early as the start of industrialisation.
For some researchers, women had been excluded from the industrialisation process, for not only biological reasons but also social reasons (Outram,
2013; Ogilvie, 1990; McBride,1977). First, the traditional ways to industrialised production by mechanisation and manufacture (The Economists, 2012;
Hughes, 1968) unfavours women, as biologically women are considered weaker than men in strength. Moreover, the subordination of
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Stay Or Go? By Daniel Murphy
Stay or Go? The Wall street Journal recently told the story of Daniel Murphy, a New York Mets baseball player, who took a three day paternity
leave to be with his first born child and wife after her cesarean section. The baseball player received a great deal of criticism for this decision from
sports fans and sports broadcasters, however Murphy stuck by his decision and gained support from his fan base and author of the article Catherine
Pearlman of the Wall Street Journal. Pearlman called Murphy brave for taking the time off to be with his family and insisted, "when Murphy isn't
playing ball, he and his wife will certainly remember the special moments when they were together as a family for the first time."
When a baby is born it is a life changing event. There is a lot to learn when a new life is added to a family, but not only that a baby can not care for
itself so one must be there to tend to the baby's needs. In many cases the mother is the parent to stay home with the baby, in fact 69% of mothers stay
home with their babies (Forbes). Although Daniel Murphy only took three days of leave one must question are there benefits from a father taking
paternity rather than a mother taking maternity leave?
Oxford University states paternity leave as "a period of absence from work granted to a father after or shortly before the birth of his child." When a
father takes paternity leave it allows bonding between himself and the child. After examining the positive affects paternity
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Unpaid Work : An Outdated Social Norm Essay
Unpaid work is a key theme emphasized in Stanford's text Economics for Everyone. The importance of unpaid work is explained in a variety of ways
throughout the chapters. The unequal distribution of unpaid work, towards women, is highlighted for being an outdated social norm. Stanford
enlightens readers on the reality of how unpaid work significantly affects economics. The content shows that if unpaid work within the economy was
properly understood, it could influence a change within economic evaluations. The current economic evaluation tool, Gross Domestic Product (GDP),
strongly influences social policies particularly for women, affecting their ability to participate fully in the paid workforce. Stanford expresses changes
that need to be made concerning how economists view unpaid work. The author stresses this issue in the final chapter by listing unpaid work within his
"A Dozen Big Things to Remember About Economics". The following will go further in depth about why unpaid work is a crucial issue within the
economy. Socialization is a main cause that has influenced unequal distribution of unpaid work within a household. Throughout the chapters of
Stanfoods book, it is mentioned numerous times that the majority of unpaid work including, household chores, care for young children or elderly
family members (Stanford, .... p.119), is completed by women. Statistics Canada has provided statistics on unpaid work, "men reported spending on
average 8.3 hours on unpaid domestic
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How Did the Working Class Prosper Under the Nazis from...
This essay explores whether the working class prospered during the Nazis from 1933 to 1938. To determine if the working class was better off under
the Nazis I will look specifically at 'unemployment' , 'Beauty of Labour' and ' Strength through Joy' which were initiatives which aimed at improving
the working class. On the whole, although the working class was given paid work and took part in organised activities, their situation did not really
improve as I will demonstrate in the course of this essay. If we take into account the statistics relating to unemployment at first glance it appears that the
trend was positive – unemployment reduced significantly from 2,151,000 in 1935 to 119,000 in 1939 (source 5). Also as Source 10 highlights the fact
that wages increased among three categories of workers – farmers, industrial workers and big business. One comment by a motorway construction
worker confirmed that under Hitler 'miracles had been accomplished and things were getting better.' (source 9). Source 6 is a photograph from
1933 of workers constructing a motorway. The photo is staged as everyone is looking at the camera and looking like they are not exhausted.
Likewise, if we look at the description of the programme from the RAD camp in 1938 although it indicates a long day (getting up at 4:45 and ending
with lights out at 22:00) it shows a balance of activities such as parade at 19:15 and sing–songs and leisure activities after supper. However, in reality
the workers were
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Proposal for Artemis Sportswear Company Essay
Proposal for Artemis Sportswear Company for cutting operational expenses to increase profit margins; some ideas.
As a business, Artemis can cut down the operational costs by down–sizing the labor force so the company can compete with other sportswear
companies.
There are two ways a company can down–size the labor costs, one of these is down–scaling the direct labor, and the other one would be to relocate the
labor and obtain cheaper labor force. Reduce Employee Costs. Outsource any jobs where a full–time employee is not necessary. This will cut your
payroll expenses, health–care costs and space requirements. Introduce a reward scheme for employees who do not take any sick days in a year or
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Meeting with long–distance clients is costly and it can be expendable for some businesses, but travel can also be the most beneficial expense for a
business. Fortunately, modern technology can replicate the experience at a much lower cost; such as communicating through Skype or some other
form of video chat link. Cut out the landline and fax line –– with Blackberry's and iPhones, and everything compatible for email, who needs them?
Conceder free advertising whenever possible, try piggybacking your advertising. Including advertising material in other mailings, such as in invoices,
saves postage and other costs, says J. Donald Weinrauch, co–author of The Frugal Marketer. Likewise, make the most of your point–of–purchase
opportunities by tucking coupons, newsletters or other promotional fliers in the bag with customers' purchases.
Hire independent contractors or temporary workers as needed. Outsource your payroll, benefits and HR. Consider a virtual assistant or answering
service to reduce payroll.
Some IT Department solutions, Process Automation allows a smaller management team to effectively handle a larger number of systems
Intelligent Software Delivery allows companies to more accurately assess how many licenses they will need when purchasing software
Endpoint Virtualization reduces downtime for application conflicts and provides a secure workspace when roaming
Power Management Capabilities documents compliance with
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Is The Labor Shortages Fear?
Introduction
For years now, we have been hearing about labor shortages that will occur as a result of the retirement of baby boomers. However, baby boomers
have been retiring in large number for several years already, and labor shortages, except in a few highly specialized occupations, are hardly a
noticeable problem in most mature economies. This raises the question: Is the labor shortages fear overblown? We do not think so. Our motivation for
writing this report is rooted in our belief that most mature economies are likely to experience tight labor markets, a higher wage bill, and a squeeze on
the bottom line of many businesses in the next 15 years. If not for the global financial crisis and its aftermath, many mature economies would ... Show
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In coming years, the job of many human capital professionals is likely to become tougher as recruiting and retaining workers becomes even more
difficult, and controlling labor costs (without losing labor quality) will emerge as a major challenge. In such an environment, looking a few years into
the future is not a luxury, but an essential business practice. Better planning and prompt reaction to future workforce trends could make a significant
difference in business performance and reduce the impact on corporate profits.
When planning ahead, organizations should make the distinction between the short run and long run. Some countries, such as Italy, are at an especially
high risk of labor shortages in the long run, but for the short term they are expected to experience loose labor markets.
On the other hand, other
countries, such as Canada, which are now experiencing relatively tight labor markets, are at relatively lower risk of labor shortages in the longer run.
Labor shortages are already an issue in many emerging markets, but the discussion of labor shortages in those markets varies greatly from the
discussion in mature economies. Given the difference, a discussion of labor shortages in emerging economies is beyond the scope of this report.
A Unique Point in History:
The Working Age Population Is Shrinking
Mature economies are at a unique point in history–
the working age population (people aged 15 to 64) is declining,
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Gender Wage Discrimination in Pakistan
| Gender Wage Discrimination in Pakistan| Evidence from Pakistan 2008/09 and 2010/11| | | |
Table of Contents Introduction2 Literature Review2 Methodology3 Variables Used– Characteristics of Workers5 Results7 Discussion7 Bibliography8
Appendix A9 Selectivity Bias Logit Regression Results:9
Introduction
This paper explores the dynamics of gender wage discrimination in Pakistan for two data sets; Labour Force Survey for the year 2008/09 and 2010/11.
We will explore whether or not women are discriminated against, as it has been suggested for a predominantly Islamic country like Pakistan.
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The signs of education are expected. For the data set of 2008/09, signs for education are positive which does not support theory. Even after efforts to
remove multi–colinearity, they still show positive signs. Most of the variables in the regression are also insignificant.
However, when we take the data for LFS 2010/11, and correct it for selectivity bias, we get much better results. Most of the variables are significant
as well as show the correct signs. (The same algorithm was applied to both the data sets, and the same variables have been taken).
Results of Logit models for correcting selectivity bias are attached in Appendix A.
Variables Used– Characteristics of Workers Summary tables from LFS 2010/11 1. Age * Theory suggests that this is one of the most important
determinants of people's decision to work.
2. Marital Status * This variable was taken as a dummy variable in the regression. * It is a significant variable in the decision to work, especially in
developing economies like Pakistan. 3. Province * This is also taken as a dummy. The Baluchistan province was omitted from this analysis. However,
the calculations of the Oaxaca Blinder method take this omitted variable into account. This is because the method takes the vectors of the estimated
regression equation.
4. Region * Whether a person is from a Rural or urban background has impact on the
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Liberalization And The Economic Growth
Liberalization or the 1991 economic reforms marks 25 years this year. Debates continues on whether growth precede or followed liberalization. India
has experienced unprecedented growth over the past three decades. However this growth has co–existed with increase in inequality, unemployment
across the country as certain regions, sectors and social groups have disproportionately benefitted from the growth. At least 38 percent in India continue
to live below the national poverty lines (Ruparelia et al 2010). It has not been able to generate employment growth, which is one of the most important
cornerstones to translating economic growth into poverty reduction and promoting social equality. 'India is and for some time will remain one of the...
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Section 3, will discuss the factors that decreased the demand for labour. Section 4, will discuss several factors, which decrease the effective supply of
labor. Section 5, will be used for conclusions.
1.Jobless growth: The Paradox.
The liberalization theory suggests in order to generate employment and achieve greater social equity in countries like India where labor is abundant
and relatively cheap, significant openness to the global market is essential. The 1991 economic reforms marked 'a clear break from the country's
socialist strategy of state–directed, heavy–industry based, and import substitution industrialization' (Chamarbagwala 2006:1997). India implemented a
range of economic policy since the mid 1980s. Reforms brought changes in the economic growth rates. Though a section of economists reject the role
of liberalization in injecting growth. Neo–liberals like Panagariya claims that the most surprising myth, current among a few economists, is that growth
was not a result of the post–1991 reforms and that it could be traced back instead to the 1980s(Panagariya 2012). Whereas the economic historian
Delong (2003) argue that the post–1991 reforms followed, rather than preceded, the growth acceleration. Nonetheless, the Indian economy has been
enjoying a relatively positive growth rate since the 1980s.The annual growth rate in the pre–reform period
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The Similarities And Differences Between A Basketball...
I will be talking about in this essay is the similarities and differences between a basketball trainer and a football trainer. This will help the reader be
able to understand what a basketball trainer does with workouts, the intensity they do it at and the type of atmosphere they work in. The same would
go for a football trainer as well just differently with some similarities. There are similarities and differences in Basketball trainers and Football trainers
are the type of workouts they do, the intensity they do it at and the type of atmosphere they work in.
The type of workouts that a basketball trainer and a football trainer would do for the basketball and football player because that is what they need to do
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Their trainers will mostly do high intensity because it gets the player more in shape better and faster so they can get better at what they are doing.
Trainers for both sides have to know if you have a high intensity workout one day, then you have a low intensity the next day. The intensity levels are
very similar but at the same time they can be a little difference. For a basketball player and for a football player what sport they are playing that is
there life so it is a everyday grind for them. The intensity level then will be very high most of the time and then very low on like off days for both
athletes. The intensity for both a basketball player and a football player is more similar than it is different.
The third and last thing for the similarities and differences for a basketball player and a football player would be the type of atmosphere they workout
or play in. The atmosphere that trainers work with basketball players is different than the atmosphere that a trainer for a football player would work
in because basketball players play inside and football players play outside. We all know the places of which a basketball player and a football player
play in of course. The basketball players are more inside training, then outside training. That does not mean that they can not train outside, epically if
they have a basketball hoop outside with a court. When it gets cold though basketball trainer would rather go inside. That is very obvious. The
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mba assignment Essay
1 . (a) What do you understand by the concept of conservatism ? Why is it also called the concept of prudence? Why is it not applied as strongly
today as it used to be in the Past ?
(b) What is a Balance Sheet ? How does a Funds Flow Statement differ from a Balance Sheet ? Enumerate the items which are usually shown in a
Balance Sheet and a Funds Flow Statement.
2 . (a) Discuss the importance of ratio analysis for inter–firm and intra–firm comparisons including circumstances responsible for its limitations .If any
(b) Why do you understand by the term 'pay–out ratio'? What factors are taken into consideration while determining pay–out ratio? Should a company
follow a fixed pay–out ratio policy? Discuss fully.
5 .
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he president of Geeta & Company believed the standard should be set at a high level to motivate the workers and to provide adequate information for
control and reasonable cost comparison. After much discussion, management decided to use a dual standard. The labor standard of one unit every 30
minutes, recommended by the consulting firm, would be employed in the plant as a motivation device, while a cost standard of 40 minutes per unit
would be used in reporting. Management also concluded that the workers would not be informed of the cost standard used for reporting purposes. The
production vice–president conducted several sessions prior to implementation in the plant, informing the workers of the new standard cost system and
answering questions. The new standards were not related to incentive pay but were introduced when wages were increased to Rs7 per hour. The
standard cost system was implemented on January 1, 19––. At the end of six months of operation, these statistics on labor performance were presented
to executive management:
JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJune
Production (units)5,1005,0004,7004,5004,3004,400
Direct labor hours3,0002,9002,9003,0003,0003,100
Quantity Variances:
Variancebased on labor standard
(one unit each 30 minutes)Rs3150 U*
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Product vs Process Layout
II.Introduction
Product Layout is not always better than process layout. I disagree with the statement. To understand the reasons behind why this is not true, this paper
details the concept of layout, differences between the layouts and applicability of product and process layout.
Facility layout is the physical arrangement of equipment, offices, rooms and other resources within an organization. It describes the location of
resources and their relationship to each other. Layout planning aims to organize the physical arrangement of facilities so that operations run as
efficiently as possible. The content section describes the reasons behind why the statement is not true.
III.Content
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Each product uses the facilities in a different sequence. Departments are arranged in such a way that each department performs the same activities or
processes. A common objective in designing such a layout is to arrange workcenters that have high interaction closer to each other so as to minimize
the flow of material.
Materials move between different departments depending on the process stages. For e.g they may go from Dept 3 to Dept 6 to Dept 4 and then again
to Dept 3 for some other process.
4.ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES OF PROCESS LAYOUT
Advantages of process layouts include:
A variety of products can be made on the same facilities.
Operations continue if some equipment cannot be used because of breakdown or planned maintenance.
It is suitable for low volumes and variable demand.
People work in cohesive groups and generally enjoy the environment.
General purpose & flexible resources
Lower capital intensity & automation
Higher labor intensity
Resources have greater flexibility
Disadvantages of process layouts include:
Small batches give lower utilization of equipment and unit costs can be high.
Movement of jobs between operations is complicated, with larger stocks of work in progress.
Scheduling work on equipment is complicated and must be done continuously.
Controlling the work is difficult.
There is a lot of handling of products and materials.
Processing rates are slower
Material handling costs are higher
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Michael Jordan Family Tree
8 Finland Portugal Budget $100 $100 Costof production: Cell phone/piece $1 $20 Cost of production:Wine/gallon $5 $10 Maximum consumption
underno–trade condition (other combinations are possible) 50 cellphones 10 gallons 4 cell phones 2 gallons Trade (Other combinations are possible.
This oneis preferred but not optimal. Maximumspecialization yields maximum utility) Make: 60 cell phones 8gallons of wine Sell: 5 phones $15/piece
= $75 Buy: 6.25 gallons @ $12 Endresult: 55 cell phones (+5) 14.25 gallons (+4.25) Make: 10 gallons of wine Sell: 6.25 gallons @ $12 = $75 Buy: 5
cell phones @ $15 Endresult: 5 cell phones (+1) 3.75 gallons (+1.25) Real–Life Explanation Michael Jordan has a clogged toilet. He is considering
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26 Basic factors (spark initial production)–geography, climate, natural resources, large workforce; e.g., tile was more available and less expensive than
wood, ceramic tile industry started in Italy Advanced factors (sustain competitive advantage)–Result of investing in education and innovation: skill of
workforce segments, technological infrastructure, market knowledge–e.g., a network of professional schools, community colleges and apprenticeship
programs ensured Italy's leadership 1/11/2016 14 FACTOR CONDITIONS 27 Notes: Both Basic and Advanced factor conditions are changeable. E.g.,
today's climate of South Wales (Great Britain) resembles that of ... Burgundy (France) 200 years ago. пѓ the UK is becoming a serious player in wine
industryE.g., with China having tremendous investment in education and research, number of scholarly publications authored by professors form
Chinese universities doubles every year! пѓ China likely to gain a competitive edge in high–tech within 10
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Technology Has Changed The World
Technology has changed the world we live in and has had a significant impact on the way society works and performs their jobs. Constant rises in
innovations such as advanced computers, communications systems, industrial robots, computer–assisted manufacturing, and computer–assisted design
have created shifts in the structures of many industries. These new technologies and innovations have been universally introduced and used through
various industries to modernize, reduce costs and to compete more efficiently in both domestic and overseas markets. Changes in technology have
helped to change the structure of many existing occupations as well as helped to create new technologically based occupations. In addition, wages for
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Using economic theory and information gathered from prior academic research, this paper will address how technological changes have affected the
demand for skilled and unskilled workers.
There has been a long debate throughout various forms of literature related to this topic over whether technology is destroying or creating jobs. Taking
economic theory into consideration, I have come to the hypothesis that technological changes have shifted the demand for both skilled and unskilled
workers; causing a downward shift in demand for low/unskilled workers and causing an upward shift in the demand for skilled workers. Based on
substitution and scale effects, technological change creates shifts in labor demand. Because innovation and automation reduces the cost of capital, this
also results in substitution and scale effects.
In this paper, I will first review three sources of economic research related to my topic. I will summarize their research question, methods and findings.
I will then summarize my findings and present some future points to consider. After assessing the various information gathered from prior academic
research, I have come to the conclusion that overall skill–biased technological change does exist and does in fact affect the demand for skilled and
unskilled workers.
In "Computing Inequality: Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?," Autor, Katz and Krueger (1998), expand on previous literature
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Business Management Improves the Efficiency of an...
Management approaches and practices are core to the concept of business management due to the insight it offers on various aspects of improving
the efficiency of organizations. There have been a lot of researchers that have devoted a great deal of time to the study of these practices and
approaches. Two very famous amongst these contributors are Fred W. Taylor and Henry Ford. Taylor had advocated that the task and priority of factory
management was to determine the most efficient way for a worker to do his job, to provide all the necessary equipment and training to complete the
job and to make sure that the task at hand is done achieving optimal efficiency by providing workers with incentives. He broke down each job into its
individual motions, analyzed the importance of each and then timed the workers with a stopwatch. He then eliminated unnecessary motion and asked
the workers to perform machine–like routine, which increased the efficiency. On the other hand Fordism was a specific stage of economic
development in the 20th century. The term gained popularity as it was recognized by firstly, the system of mass production that was pioneered in the
early 20th century by the Ford Motor Company and secondly, the typical postwar mode of economic growth and its associated political and social
order that advanced capitalism. In this essay we will critically discuss and analyze the impact of Taylorism and Fordism on contemporary management
approaches and practices.
As an engineer,
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`` The Yellow Wallpaper `` And The Court Cases Like Ellen...
From short stories like "The Yellow Wallpaper," to the court cases like Ellen Pao's Suit vs. Kleiner Perkins, and even a data book like Women in
the Labor Force, it is clear to see that inequality and mistreatment of women still exists today. People often say that inequality is a thing of the past,
however it has been a serious problem since the dawning of civilization itself, and it is still so today. Women are often seen as lesser beings than
men, and are treated accordingly. It is getting better, and women are starting to take their rightful places as equals in the workforce, and as equals in
general. However, the world still has a long way to go before the inequality and mistreatment of women comes to a complete stop. In "The Yellow
Wallpaper," the authors explores the world through the eyes of the narrator. The narrator is a woman who has been taken away to live in the
countryside for the summer due to "temporary nervous depression (Gilman)." This diagnosis was done by her husband, a physician, who treats her
more like a possession than a spouse. Though he has diagnosed her with this, he is seen saying that she is not really sick at all. He gives her
incorrect medicines, not believing her when she says something is wrong. Throughout the story, it is shown that she is not ever taken seriously, her
husband even going so far as to say that "she shall be sick as she pleases (Gilman) " this implying that she is making up her illness for attention, and
that it is all
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Discuss The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Division Of Labor
For supporting trade as well as economic interdependence, division of labor creates opportunities for individual cooperations to cooperate and improve
manufacturing and individual labor productivity. While the corporations can maximize their benefits through surplus value owing to selling product,
the workers have opportunities to get job more easily as well as professional working enviroment by using modern technology, however, exploitation,
effecting workers' health and uninspiring job significantly influence on the workers and even labor productivity. It can be argued that the benefits,
workers get from division of labor, is not considerable.
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The workers, who have wide and deep knowledge and skill at a particular field, will shorten working time as well as increasing labor productivity.
Beside that, in order to concentrate on renovated product including structure and system, the factory will recruit and retain highly qualified and skilled
employees to maintain the top of industrial position ((Liu & Shang, 2012). For the workers, the firms carry out new invested trategy, which supply
them with "long–term employment security, stable salary expectations and better welfare in order to achieve their long–term development goals" (Liu
& Shang, 2012). However, they have to do the same work day by day, gradually, they are lost interest and enthusiastic in their work.
"To coordinate with the machine technology investment, advanced corporate employers will invest a lot in skills traning for workers. Substantial
investments in turn exhance employers' ability to improve human resources management policies to guarantee the long–term contractual relationship
between workers does not mean a reduction in their ptofits but is a premise for capital to earn profits. Under such conditions, technological workersm
as an important way for value–added, are favourably treated by capital in some extent, and become the core labor group.
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The Album Ep By Jeff Buckley
Grace, the only album released by artist Jeff Buckley, due to his untimely death, contained a number of his original songs as well as some covers.
This album released in 1994, sold "only modestly but was warmly received by critics" (Simon and Schuster, 2001), and gained Buckley immense
respect as an artist. His song "Lover, you should've come over" was evidence that Buckley was a talented artist who was not only an excellent
performer but an excellent songwriter who could craft melodies and words as well. '"Lover" is essentially a soul ballad" (Beviglia, 2014), with
moments of intensity and moments of release as well. Through analyzing this song one may begin to explore the song's virtual experience also known
as the "story, or narrative of a musical work" that is "influenced by the artist' perspective" (Sellnow, 2007), as well as the virtualtime, and understand
the overall message and congruency or incongruences of the song. "Lover" by Jeff Buckley is a song with an interesting message due to its hopeful
lyrics and soulful tone and instrumentation, which create a congruent depiction of the message. Jeff Buckley's song "Lover You Should've Come Over"
expresses a storyline through its virtual experience of a protagonist beating all odds and seeking a resolution. Through the incorporation of dramatic
illusion and comic rhythm, this song additionally creates a virtual story with feelings of suspense. Virtual experience is categorized into rhythm and
illusion with
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Temperament Characteristics Of Child Development
Temperament is defined as the individual behavioral style of the child, the way in which he characteristically reacts to environmental stimuli.
Temperament is distinct from the child's innate abilities and motivation. Their are nine temperament traits; activity being the first which is based
on the level of motor component in a child's functioning, rated as regular,variable, or irregular. I would rate myself as moderate. I prefer to be
independent; I rather do a task myself so that I don't have to watch someone else do it. I also don't like to be confined I prefer to explore the areas
and things that surround me. Rhythmicity being the second temperament trait is all about the regularity or predictability in the timing of recurrent
activities, rated as regular,variable, or irregular. Regular best describes me because I stick to a routine everyday and if it is changed I have a very hard
time dealing with it. I eat the same thing everyday and at the same time everyday. I wake up every morning at the same time, but I fall asleep at
different times depending on what I did that day. And lastly I have a difficult time adjusting to different time zones whenever I go away on vacation.
The Approach/Withdrawal is the third temperament it is about the nature of a child's response to a new stimulus, rated as approach, variable, or
withdrawal. Withdrawing child best fits me; it takes me awhile to warm up to new things, I'm cautious with new people, things and places. I prefer to
surround
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Child Labor Is The Lack Of Intergenerational Human Capital...
Introduction
Developed countries have a conception that child labor is highly exploitative and is driven by long hours in deplorable conditions in sweat shops,
prostitution rings, and rebel armies. While this perception has been very effective at raising awareness and action on the issue of child labor, it is quite
misleading as only a small percentage of wage labor is of such an exploitative nature. It is imperative to take a more nuanced view of child labor and
accept that it is not inherently bad as the current stigmatized view of the issue would suggest. I will argue that while there are necessary, and at times,
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Then, I will discuss how the informal sector is intimately tied to child labor and presents unique obstacles for creating effective change. Lastly, I will
take up considerations in the policy process revolving around child labor and ultimately offer policy initiatives that would be effective at limiting rates
of child labor.
Child Labor as a Crucial Development Issue
It is undeniable that some children work in circumstances that are highly exploitative and detrimental to their well–being. Most economists,
policymakers, and even laypersons throughout much of world will agree that swift policy is necessary to minimize the suffering of these children.
Although there are moral considerations in the most deplorable of these scenarios, many instances of child labor fall outside the purview of this narrow
conception. A large portion of child labor is characterized by children working limited hours in conditions dictated by parents or other family members.
Although these circumstances are not universally better, it seems reasonable to expect that parents would protect their children to some
extent–especially considering maximizing rates of return on their investments to the child. Child labor, thus, must be considered not as undoubtedly
negative, but as a morally neutral necessity in some developing countries. Nonetheless, we must consider that there is indeed a toll that is not just
physical but also psychological for these children; even at the
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Human Impacts Toward Soil Biodiversity
METHODS
Data Collation
Data was collected from published studies or in–press studies that focused on human impacts toward soil biodiversity. Potential relevant studies must
compare multiple sites which having different land use type and/or intensity. In addition, species abundance, richness, occurrence, or other diversity
metrics must be present in the study, so that diversity can be estimated. Furthermore, the information of the sites location is also very important, studies
which have the sites coordinates are more preferable. The coordinates are very useful not just to pinpoint the exact location on the map, but also to
help us acquire other information, e.g. climate, biome, and ecoregion (all paper criteria similar to Newbold et al. 2015). To find these potential relevant
studies, I used Web of Science (http://webofknowledge.com/) and Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.co.uk) as the search engine with "soil
invertebrate", "land–use", "pitfall trap", and "ground invertebrate" as my search term.
The corresponding authors of the suitable studies were contacted, asking whether they are willing to share their raw data (which were not usually
made fully available in the paper or supplementary files). From the total of 24 authors contacted, five of them agreed to give me the raw data. After
receiving the data, they were coded into a structured pdf form and excel spreadsheet. The pdf form captured the site– and species–specific information
provided by the papers or
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Life Cycle : Wages And Incomes Have Effects On The Labor...
Life cycle
Wages and incomes have effects on the labor supply of people. Changes in wages has unclear effects on preferred work hours since income usually
have effects on income and substitution effects in the reverse directions unless leisure is seen as an inferior good. The study on the supply of labor is
focused on how the changes in the salaries and the wages affects the preferences that people have on the hours of work that is by untangling the income
effects apart from those of the substitution effects (Furaker and Hedenus 2009). The estimations that are carried out on the labour supply elasticity go
through a number of problems. The major problems that occur are as a result of the measurements of the errors in the non–labor income and wages, the
endogeneity as a result of the non–labor income and wages or the occurrence of the correlation of the tastes that people have for work and the lack of
observability of the wages of the non–workers. Therefore the labor supply will change due to the changes that occur in the non–labor income, these
changes can be informative in that it tells us the income effect though such changes may occur endogenous. People, therefore, who have a resilient
fondness for work and are not so fond of leisure may be in a position to mount up more wealth in terms of assets and have a higher non–labor income.
Furaker and Hedenus (2009) were able to find an uncertain result that showed the effect of a person winning a lottery on their work behaviour
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Descriptive Essay About Volleyball
Counting down the seconds in a crowded dark hallway, listening behind doors to the song Welcome to the Jungle blasting in the gymnasium mixed
with the sounds of the crowds roaring. The only thoughts going through everyone's head, is that this might be the last time we ever play together
again. As soon as the song gets to the que we run out of the hallway under a tunnel made of arms, running into the moment that can make it or break it.
A timeless sport filled with –– rapid movements, sweat, anxiety, and team cheering –– volleyball is a sport that many underestimate. There are
countless people that say "Volleyball is a girl sport" or "volleyball is not even that hard". Also you may come across an egotistical varsity football
team that refuse to attend any volleyball games, because they are mad that varsity volleyball made it to state championships and they did not.
However, volleyball is a sport that requires intense drills, training, and a strong team bond. For instance if you do not dive right when hitting the
floor you can seriously injure yourself. I have had torn a ligament in my shoulder diving for the ball, because as a volleyball player you are taught to
always chase after a ball even if it means running into a wall. But the best and the greatest experience of all time is when it is a game day, or even better
yet the last game that can determine your title in Norcal Championships. Norcal Championship finals is the game that all 14 teams strive for during the
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A Common Explanation Of The Crisis Of Labor Movements
"A common explanation of the crisis of labor movements is that the hypermobility of productive capital in the late twentieth century has created a
single labor market in which all the world 's workers are forced to compete. "(Silver, 2003, p3) This statement suggested that the single labor market
causes the employers to hire the enormous amount of unorganised workers due to the production line demand more workers. For instance, the new
president of Unite State (U.S.), Donald Trump, claims "Reducing taxes from 35% to 15% will be a job creator" (Donald Trump, 2016). By doing
this, it has the huge positive effect on companies, small and big businesses. Since the reduction in taxes drops 20%, the companies can use that 20 %
to move production line back to the country and hire the same amount of workers or even more.
Silver structured the book into five sections introduction, labor movements and capital mobility, labor movements and product cycles, labor movements
and world politics and contemporary dynamics in worldhistorical perspective. The first section the writer briefly explain what cause the labor
movement and what impact has it bring into the industries. Next section, she analysed the unstable of world scale dynamics of labour. Till this second
section, the readers have understood a bit more about labor movements, focused on the leading capitalist industry of the twentieth century. The third
part she used "The Automobile
Product Cycle" graph as a description that vary of
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The Standard Economic Theory ( Robbins )
Traditionally, standard economic theory (Robbins 1930) dictates that time–use is allocated between labor and leisure; however, Kimmel and Connelly
point out this model simply does not hold true for mothers. Kimmel and Connelly posit that mothers presumably face another category of household
work, separated into caregiving time and household production. Kimmel and Connelly modify this economic model to expand the time–use choices of
mothers to include five various categories: labor (paid market work), leisure, home production, caregiving time (parental childcare), and other (sleeping,
education, etc.–which will be ignored from here on out since personal care time is too diverse to calculate). The distinction of household work into two
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. ." which causes mothers to allocate more time to childcare than household production (p. 667). These findings open up discussion of mothers'
time–use as it relates to the price of childcare, which would have important considerations and implications for policymakers. Hoffman examines the
effect of children and marriage on women's labor force participation between the years of 1984 and 2004 using data from the Current Population
Survey (CPS). The data is valuable since it looks at the same years as recent work by Boushey of the Center for Economic and Policy Research,
which suggested that the negative impact of children on mothers' labor force participation has actually declined. Moreover, the sample sizes analyzed
by Hoffman are large varying between 56,000 and 70,000 women 25–44 years old. Using a regression analysis, Hoffman's various models allow for the
interaction of marriage with children with the year to be taken into account. Hoffman is thus "able to compare the labor force participation of single
women with children to single women without children . . . and married women with children to married women without children" (p. 8). Hoffman
concludes that the negative impact of children on women's labor force participation is almost the same as it was back in 1984 in that "children
reduced the labor force
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West Jest vs Air Canada Essay
How serious is the threat from conventional airlines that want to imitate the westjet culture? What does it take to imitate organizational culture? Can
Air Canada compete against westjet's employee productivity and its relationship with its employees?
Ever since its establishment in 1996, WestJet has aimed to operate as a low–cost carrier while employing non–unionized members in a unique
organizational culture. In its simplest form this unique organizational culture can be labeled as a labor managed firm. In a labor managed firm
employees are owners, and they are affected by the company's performance through profit sharing. Then it should not be surprising that in labor
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A labor force in its most basic form, through profit maximizing practices, must be minimized, due to the cost associated with it, in order to drive up
profit. And it is because of this outlook that WestJet has managed to outperform their competition, for exampleAir Canada. This theory is in sync with
the findings of Jeffery Pfeffer in his 1995 paper "Producing sustainable competitive advantage through the effective management of people."
As described above, the organizational culture, the foundation of WestJet's success, is heavily weighted on its people. Where as the competition, sees
the workforce as a cost and aims to minimize it, WestJet looks at their work force as an asset and an investment. Conventional airlines run their
business as any other company. They look out for the shareholder's best interest and do not pay the slightest attention to their workforce. In WestJet's
culture, the workforce consists of the shareholders due to profit–sharing and co–operative environment. By nature capital managed firms will have a
hard time converting to labor managed firm. They will have to change a lot of rules and regulations that governs their everyday operations. They will
face a large number of opposition by their shareholders. According to Fernandez Guadano (2009) even if they do manage to adopt similar practices
as labor managed firms, they will never be able to achieve the same rate of employee ownership and profit–sharing as their counterparts,
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Essay about Work in Modern America
Work in Modern America The modern day American society hosts a broad spectrum of industries with various occupations and professions to engage
today's workforce. America, much like most first world countries is a service economy based on the exchange of knowledge and expertise rather than
materials and products. People have a long history of work and work evolution that has ultimately brought America to a service economy producing
both strengths and weaknesses within the society and its economy. As America has moved to a service economy, much of the manufacturing and
production jobs have moved oversees to third world countries creating a reliance on other economies. This globalization of the workforce as well as
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These large companies swept the nation buying out and replacing smaller, regional companies; eventually creating a monopoly. This amassed to a
hand full of wealthy and influential people holding the majority of economic and political power. As these companies have gained in size, so have their
political influence and development of bureaucracy and "depersonalization of the work environment" (Hodson, R. & Sullivan, T.A., 2008, p. 26).
One of the most influential concepts and innovations to come out of the early twentieth century to change the face of production was the assembly
line developed by Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company and first used in production in 1913 (National Academy of Engineering, 2010) . With
assembly–line production, job skills become highly specific to the technology and procedures used in a given plant. Such jobs are considered
semi–skilled because they require a specific skill but one that can be learned in a relatively short time... The organizations of production around an
assembly line...and other forms of advanced mechanization are organized under scientific management [where]...the worker was to execute diligently a
set of motions engineered to ensure the most efficient performance of a given task. (Hodson, R. & Sullivan, T.A., 2008, p. 27) Assembly line
production quickly caught on to other manufacturing
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Workers of the Progressive Era
Progressive Era: Working Class
Workers during the gilded age were marginalized by their working conditions, low income, and limited working hours. To overcome the marginalization
for the working class, they created labor movements and went on strikes. Although the workers had created many strikes and labor unions, they were at
the least successful. Workers were marginalized by the poor working conditions they had. A lot of the time the workers feared going to their workshops
because they knew what they were getting themselves into. In 1906, Upton Sinclair, a writer during the gilded age, wrote a novel, The Jungle, in which
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They would have no nails,–they had worn them off pulling hides; their knuckles were swollen so that their fingers spread out like a fan."(Sinclair,
1906) He stated this to point out that the workers had horrible conditions in the workshops and they needed to be justified in that state. Similarly, a
recent article ,Labor in Progressive Era Politics, expressed an event of deaths in a workshop located in New York in 1911; this event is well known
by the name The Triangle Fire. In the article it states that the "Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York killed 146 garment workers in 1911, public
outrage prompted the creation of a state commission to study the origins of the fire and the conditions of industrial workplace."(Unknown) This event
was not only tragic, but also a huge spark of the idea that the marginalization shall be no more. They were going to do what they needed to overcome
the working conditions.
To overcome the harsh and terrible working conditions, workers decided to go on strikes to catch the attention of the "big guys" so they can make
improvements in the workshops. Many of the strikes were unsuccessful, stopped, or ignored. The strikes went on for about twenty years, a few of
them were: The Great Strike,1877; Haymarket Riot,1886; Homestead Strike, 1892; Pullman Strike, 1894. In a Speech given by Eugene Debs he had
said "To realize this great social ideal is a work of education, and organization. The working classes
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The Wage Gap, Worker Discrimination And Varying...
In terms of attributing to the wage gap, worker discrimination and varying preferences occurs largely based on views surrounding what jobs are male
or female dominated. Although worker discrimination and wage discrepancies are a reality in Brazil, the labor market conditions for women are
becoming better over time. Despite gender segregation in the labor market, the wages of women are sometimes evenly or positively affected. For
instance, "For industries and occupations where women receive higher remuneration than men, we observe that women have higher education levels,
indicating that their higher remuneration is due to individual characteristics" (Madalozzo 165). Even though a positive correlation has been observed
regarding women's education level and wage, in general, men still benefit more based on their individual characteristics, which is why they are
generally paid more. According to Madalozzo, "This difference in pay is decreasing but was still a significant 15.4 percent, on average, in 2007,"
and "...the present study improves the quantification of this wage gap, showing that the trend of a decreasing gap remains, but is losing pace
overtime" (165–66). In order to combat the presence of the wage gap, policies regarding bettering women's education and incentivizing women to enter
the labor market should be implemented because the current system discourages women to enter the market. According to Galor and Weil,
"...increasing women's relative wages reduces fertility by
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The Value Of Symbolic Analysts
The Value of Symbolic Analysts
Robert Reich categorizes America's workforce into three distinct groups, routine producers, in–person servers, and symbolic analysts. Reich defines the
first two groups as principally manual laborers, and the third group as people who work and create value using their minds. This would include
occupations such as engineers, attorneys, scientists, professors, executives, et al. Symbolic analysts are objectively and quantifiably more valuable
than the other two groups combined. To establish anoperational definition of value, we recognize value as the amount of revenue and/or opportunities
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They argue that without them, the CEOs would not have a working company to run. While the union workers are technically not mistaken, they are
however neglecting a number of factors, the first being that an individual's compensation is directly correlated with the amount of value that the
individual brings to the corporation. When we break down the responsibilities of a lowly sales associate, their only task is to assist customers in
purchasing items. An executive manages everything from negotiating with suppliers, organizing facilities, creating new departments, delegating tasks
to aforementioned departments, et al. The real value that executives add to the company is exponentially greater than that of the average worker; this
fact is quantifiable. Another issue that union workers do not take into consideration is the fact that sales associates and other manual laborers in a
broader sense are largely expendable, as such is the nature of a low skill job. The fact of the matter is that the minimum–wage workers need their CEO
more than their CEO needs them. The brutal reality is that if workers are unsatisfied with their wages the executives can simply replace them with
people that are satisfied, leading us to the issue of scarcity and surplus of labor supply.
The issue of scarcity is a basic concept in the study of economics, and furthers contributes to the value of symbolic analysts. Reich discusses how
demand for symbolic analysts grows with the advent
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Global Business Cultural Analysis Of International Business
GLOBAL BUSINESS CULTURAL ANALYSIS
Winter Harris
BUSI604_B01
July 3, 2015
Dr. Stephen Preacher
Abstract
International business has been a part of society for centuries. With the introduction of modern technological advances, countries have moved from
participating in business ventures primarily by land or boat and advanced to virtual environments and acquiring passports that enable flights all over
the world. This impact has challenged businesses to improve their cultural relations as they venture into unknown markets that are on the opposite end
of their cultural spectrum and perspective. The world is a vast melting pot of all walks of life. The business world is no different and requires even
sharper skills, especially when entering environments that may be tense or chaotic. This paper examines the country of Italy and how its culture impacts
business domestically and internationally. It discusses the various strengths and weaknesses of its economic environment and the potential gains or
losses a foreign investor may consider when deciding whether or not enter the Italian market.
Keywords: Italy, culture, business, SWOT analysis,labor, markets
Global Business Cultural Analysis
Italy is a peninsula situated in the southern part of Europe, primarily surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea. It is estimated to be home to more than 58
million people. While Italians make up a large part of the population, immigration has played a major role in the steady
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Sports : The Negative Side Of Youth Sports
Many people think that sports help children develop teamwork, self–confidence, moral character, and other personal strength but others see the
negative side of youth sports, believing young athletes develop aggressive traits such as bullying and the need to dominate their opponents not just on
but off the field as well. Youth sports have become far too intense, especially in contact sports.
It is true that participation in youth athletics has a number of benefits such as the building self–confidence and moral character but is it all worth the
possibility of severe trauma to the body or even worse, the mind. Sports induced concussions alone have doubled for kids ages 8–13 in the past decade.
In just 2012 alone, there were 3,800,000 reported. Other injuries that are common in young athletes are knee injuries and sprains. Dehydration is also a
major concern. It has been shown that single sport athletes are prone to more injuries than multiple sport athletes. Actions need to be taken to lower
these numbers, such as restrictions on the number of practices, the intensity at practice, and more information given to coaches, parents and athletes on
how to prevent injuries. These restrictions should consist of limiting the number of pitches a pitcher may pitch in a single game, more sufficient
screening being done before an athlete returns from a concussion or limitations on how tackles can be performed are a few examples.
Sports need to have a balance of sportsmanship, positive
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Sociology
Lecture 6: The Deskilling Thesis
H. Braverman – Labor and Monopoly Capital (1974)
The central text in what has come to be called the labour process approach.
Context for Braverman:
вќ‘ Braverman associated with Monthly Review journal – founded in 1949 by Paul Sweezy and Leo Huberman. An influential journal but little impact
on American sociology. Best known product of this school is Baran and Sweezy's Monopoly Capital (1966). Indeed, Braverman's analysis of work is
predicated theoretically upon Baran and Sweezy's analysis of 'Monopoly Capital' [ie oligopolistic, 'organized' capitalism.
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Furthermore, Braveman argued that the affluence that Marcuse made so much of was little more than the froth on the surface of capitalist societies
and that, within the labour process of advanced capitalist societies, the same factors identified by Marx as operative in the mid–19th century remained
just as central in the 1970s in the USA.
Braverman argued that the labour process (process of production whereby labour power is applied to raw materials and machinery to produce
commodities) in advanced capitalist economies is determined by capitalist social relations and is not the result of technical / organizational factors.
Braverman's Assumptions:
that labour creates all value;
that social relations not technical relations determine the conditions of work.
According to Braverman, Labour Processes reflect, in their organization, the antagonistic relations inherent in capitalist societies. In particular,
managers cannot rely on labour to work efficiently of its own accord and therefore managers look to maximize their control over the labour process and
minimize the autonomy of workers.
This is a straight fowardly Marxist account.
Within Braverman's model Capital needs to dominate the labour process and weaken the ability of workers to resist. Braverman placed considerable
emphasis on the role of Scientific Management (Taylorism) as a quintessential method of achieving this. In particular, Scientific Management
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Management of Business
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The business traditionally produces sugar cane but between the period 1982–1995 the land was converted to citrus. The varieties of citrus produce by
the business include: Parson Brown , Valencia, Pineapple, Ortaniques and limes. PURPOSE OF STUDY The purpose of this study is to find out the
different factors that are involve in the production of Tru–juice and to gasp a fair knowledge of how they are implemented and also the changes that
have take place in these factors over the past years. The researcher would also want to know the vital roles each factor's play when relating to the
production level of the business and other decisions METHODOLOGY The researcher used both primary and secondary source to obtain
information. The primary source used is questionnaires. A questionnaire may be defined as a written set of questions answered by a number of people
to provide information for a survey. A total of ten (10) questionnaires were issued to workers, nine males and one female in the production and other
department of Tru–juice Company limited was issue on a particular day and all were collected back within ten working days. The reasons the
researcher decided to use written questionnaires are: * Questionnaire allows data to be collected from a large number of people. *
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China's Factories and Sweatshop
China Sweatshop
When you go shopping to Walmart or Apple ask yourself where your product is coming from. China has numerous sweatshop factories assembling
USA's products from stores as Apple and Walmart. China's Sweatshop tends to violate human labor's rights by forcing overtime and going under the
mandatory minimum wage and other violations as long hour without pay, sexual, and physical harassment. China's sweatshop factory tends to be quite
popular because is cheap labor, free trade zone, or low fee rates in taxes. The reason store as Apple and Walmart has their product to be assembled in
China's factory is to avoid high export fees. Since Walmart and Apple factory's locations was identified and it came public in the media it shocked the
world of its employee's cruel working's condition. Factors in China are located in Guangdong Province Songang or in Shenzhen. For example Foxconn
is a factory located in Shenzhen where Apple send their electronic to be assembled and made. In China the majority workers in factories is occupy by
women and children. The percentage of women in China's Sweatshops is ninety percents. In China, the majority working in sweatshop are women
which are young and not educated; in addition, forcing them to be ignorant of their own legal rights. Young women in China are attached to numeral
discrimination and unfair pay. China's sweatshop is popular on violating labor rights, especially against women and underage minor women and men. It
is unfortunate
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How We Understand The Decline?
How to understand 'decline'? It is always a question how to conceptualize something so inevitable; as inevitable as prosperity. But of whose decline is
the question? Before going deeper on the subject matter, it becomes thus important to introduce the characters of the story and those norms that give
them substance. In this case the actors will be nations. But as nation we shall not mean the set of those who have an imagined idea of belonging to a
certain territory, customs and history (Scaritt, 2008); in this instance nation will mean a piece of an interconnected world system of other nations, and
at the same time it will mean a person's psyche, one that is embedded in a unified social system of universal beliefs and norms. The system of nations
is interconnected in a normative sense; something that Wallerstein first developed; in his own way the world system can be envisaged as a
multicultural conglomeration in a single division of labor (Wallerstein, 2011). This singularity is the core of the notion of interconnectedness.
The interconnectedness is normative; it cannot be debated any further! After you go to primary school you will get an exam, then you will go to
secondary school; you will pass your exam and then you will go to university studying in depth something. And then you will start realizing that you
are either too rich and you might indulge yourself in seeking further study, or you will have to 'get a job like everybody else'. This is not necessarily a
path to
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Human Capital Theory
To what extent can Human Capital Theory provide a plausible explanation for inequalities in the labour market? Illustrate your answer with examples
of labour–market segmentation tied to race or gender or social class.
Introduction:
Human capital theory can be identified as studies of organisations, individuals or nations which accumulates stock of productive skills and technical
knowledge from study of investments (Becker, 1964).By following the judgement of human capital theory it can be said that it represents a path for
the individual to develop his or her charisma to the labour market .Human capital theory is used as a analysis of theoretical frame , development of
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Provisions such as results in working women or women workers being left with the last option that is into dead–end jobs, although first to lay off but
still paid low wages, This overcome women's incentive to remain in labour force to human capital. Treatment for the married workers in the family can
be strengthen the traditional specialization of labour with in the statistical discrimination and household .From the perspective of Cigno (1994) there is
existence of gender biases in various forms, more often in family treatment as a tax creates disincentives to work for women and taxation due to joint
tends women to stay at home rather than separate taxation due to the higher marginal taxes that the earnings of worker which is considered secondary
or usually, the wife attract .taxation if separated may increase incentives of women while working and might result in greater participation as compare
to the husband in domestic activities.
Apart from this area Gustaffson (1995) believed that divorce laws not to oblige fathers to support their children. Additionally, the financial ability was
lacked by women to access the courts .while enabled legal provisions that equal sharing of responsibilities and child care among parents, on work
constraints women's are relaxed and eased so poverty declined among mothers for an example authorities in Sweden serious attempts are made to
identify the fathers to make them share the cost of finance for the child
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Gender Wage Gap
The gender wage gap, while not always taken so seriously, is an ongoing problem in almost every occupation. Although many view this topic as not
prominent anymore, there is tons of evidence to show that the wage gap is still detrimental even today. There are other factor that play into the gender
wage gap, like gender specific job preferences and the different opportunities given to the opposite genders (Joy). While some might think that it is
only these factors that play into the difference in salaries, there are many studies to prove that even in the same job field a man and woman would make
different salaries for doing the exact same tasks. The primary problem of wage differences in America is that women don't receive as many
opportunities for raises or promotions when compared to men. Therefore, with less opportunities it is significantly harder for success which then leads
to lower paying occupations.
Throughout history the gender wage gap hasn't always been as much of a dilemma as it is current day. In fact from the 1800's to the 1930's the female
to male earnings ratio had stayed pretty steady. Although women's roles were viewed a lot differently than they are now, back then not very many
women went to work every day, so therefore there wouldn't be as many women in the work force to contribute to the gender wage gap. More recently
the wage gap has become a much bigger problem. "The progress over the past few decades has been dramatic: Blau (forthcoming) reports that
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The Labor Movement

  • 1. The Labor Movement The Labor Movement The Labor Movement's number one concern is to address problems associated with social inequality. The labor movement was created in order to fight for the rights of labor workers. The goal was to have better wages, safe working conditions, and reasonable working hours. Unions were formed in order to achieve this. However, this was always enough. Workers reached a point where they came together and participated in strikes which the main goal was to have their employers listen to them and come to an agreement. The film, The Salt of Earth is great example of this movement. The main character, Esperanza Quintero a pregnant wife of a miner, wishes her unborn child would not be born into the world she is living in. She is aware of the oppression the miners face due to the color of their skin. They didn't have the same rights as the white miners and are threated to be fired if they don't do as they're told. Their working conditions were inhumane and therefore, Ramon Quintero, Esperanza's husband, decided to lead a strike against their employer. Although they were already part of a union, their union was not enough to get them what they needed and wanted. However, in a turn of events, Esperanza began to stand up for the rights of the Mexican women. She began to strike with a group of other women and in the end, after many struggles, came to an agreement with the employers. Through this film, the idea of the effort of the collective versus individual effort is ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 2. Labour Market Context 4 The Labour Market Context of HRM Chapter Objectives To define internal and external labour markets To outline the role of HRM as the interface between an organisation and its labour markets To identify the changing labour market conditions under which contemporary organisations operate To critically evaluate the implications for HRM of the 'knowledge economy' To outline how labour market trends are impacting upon how organisations utilise labour and how HRM practices are driving labour market change To outline the various ways that firms can respond to different labour market conditions To outline the notion of organisational flexibility and how various forms of flexible working practices impact... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The latter 90 04–Wilton–4081–CH–04.indd 90 HRM IN CONTEXT 25/08/2010 7:10:18 PM refers to a strategy of recruiting required labour from outside the firm as and when needed. A 'make' strategy is, therefore, internally–focused whilst a 'buy' strategy is externally–focused. The internal labour market The internal labour market refers to that which exists within a single organisation and represents its internal supply or stock of labour. In its broadest sense, the internal labour market is the mechanism by which existing employees are attributed particular roles within a firm. The specific characteristics of an organisation's internal labour market are reflective of a number of HR policy emphases, for example, the level of investment in employee training and development, the availability of career development opportunities and the extent to which employee retention and job security are prioritised. Contextual factors, particularly the types of skills, knowledge and attributes required, also act to shape the 'type' of internal labour market that exists within a firm. Depending on its characteristics, an internal labour market can fulfil a number of functions for an organisation. For example, in seeking to retain employees the internal labour market can act as a source of motivation and contribute to a ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 3. The Literature On Women 's World rstly review the literature on women andindustrialisation world–widely. However, as the routes to and features of industrialisation are very different in the developed countries and the developing ones (see Butschek, 2006; Stoneburner and Angelos, 2005; Myrdal, 1970), the following review will have a greater focus on the developing countries, which have more comparative value to China. It offers both a theoretical framework and a bigger context for china's case to stand against. 1. 1 To be or not to be? Industirialisation normally refers to the process by which economy becomes more dependent on factory production and concentration of industries (DHG, 2013; BD, no date). For many countires, industrialisation has been taken as an important path to economic growth (Kaplinsky, 1998, p.3). In the pre–industrialisation era, women's work had been "home–based and largely seasonal" that agreed by most researchers (McBride, 1977, p.282; ). But the role of women in industrialisation appeared to be a controversial issue as early as the start of industrialisation. For some researchers, women had been excluded from the industrialisation process, for not only biological reasons but also social reasons (Outram, 2013; Ogilvie, 1990; McBride,1977). First, the traditional ways to industrialised production by mechanisation and manufacture (The Economists, 2012; Hughes, 1968) unfavours women, as biologically women are considered weaker than men in strength. Moreover, the subordination of ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 4. Stay Or Go? By Daniel Murphy Stay or Go? The Wall street Journal recently told the story of Daniel Murphy, a New York Mets baseball player, who took a three day paternity leave to be with his first born child and wife after her cesarean section. The baseball player received a great deal of criticism for this decision from sports fans and sports broadcasters, however Murphy stuck by his decision and gained support from his fan base and author of the article Catherine Pearlman of the Wall Street Journal. Pearlman called Murphy brave for taking the time off to be with his family and insisted, "when Murphy isn't playing ball, he and his wife will certainly remember the special moments when they were together as a family for the first time." When a baby is born it is a life changing event. There is a lot to learn when a new life is added to a family, but not only that a baby can not care for itself so one must be there to tend to the baby's needs. In many cases the mother is the parent to stay home with the baby, in fact 69% of mothers stay home with their babies (Forbes). Although Daniel Murphy only took three days of leave one must question are there benefits from a father taking paternity rather than a mother taking maternity leave? Oxford University states paternity leave as "a period of absence from work granted to a father after or shortly before the birth of his child." When a father takes paternity leave it allows bonding between himself and the child. After examining the positive affects paternity ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 5. Unpaid Work : An Outdated Social Norm Essay Unpaid work is a key theme emphasized in Stanford's text Economics for Everyone. The importance of unpaid work is explained in a variety of ways throughout the chapters. The unequal distribution of unpaid work, towards women, is highlighted for being an outdated social norm. Stanford enlightens readers on the reality of how unpaid work significantly affects economics. The content shows that if unpaid work within the economy was properly understood, it could influence a change within economic evaluations. The current economic evaluation tool, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), strongly influences social policies particularly for women, affecting their ability to participate fully in the paid workforce. Stanford expresses changes that need to be made concerning how economists view unpaid work. The author stresses this issue in the final chapter by listing unpaid work within his "A Dozen Big Things to Remember About Economics". The following will go further in depth about why unpaid work is a crucial issue within the economy. Socialization is a main cause that has influenced unequal distribution of unpaid work within a household. Throughout the chapters of Stanfoods book, it is mentioned numerous times that the majority of unpaid work including, household chores, care for young children or elderly family members (Stanford, .... p.119), is completed by women. Statistics Canada has provided statistics on unpaid work, "men reported spending on average 8.3 hours on unpaid domestic ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 6. How Did the Working Class Prosper Under the Nazis from... This essay explores whether the working class prospered during the Nazis from 1933 to 1938. To determine if the working class was better off under the Nazis I will look specifically at 'unemployment' , 'Beauty of Labour' and ' Strength through Joy' which were initiatives which aimed at improving the working class. On the whole, although the working class was given paid work and took part in organised activities, their situation did not really improve as I will demonstrate in the course of this essay. If we take into account the statistics relating to unemployment at first glance it appears that the trend was positive – unemployment reduced significantly from 2,151,000 in 1935 to 119,000 in 1939 (source 5). Also as Source 10 highlights the fact that wages increased among three categories of workers – farmers, industrial workers and big business. One comment by a motorway construction worker confirmed that under Hitler 'miracles had been accomplished and things were getting better.' (source 9). Source 6 is a photograph from 1933 of workers constructing a motorway. The photo is staged as everyone is looking at the camera and looking like they are not exhausted. Likewise, if we look at the description of the programme from the RAD camp in 1938 although it indicates a long day (getting up at 4:45 and ending with lights out at 22:00) it shows a balance of activities such as parade at 19:15 and sing–songs and leisure activities after supper. However, in reality the workers were ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 7. Proposal for Artemis Sportswear Company Essay Proposal for Artemis Sportswear Company for cutting operational expenses to increase profit margins; some ideas. As a business, Artemis can cut down the operational costs by down–sizing the labor force so the company can compete with other sportswear companies. There are two ways a company can down–size the labor costs, one of these is down–scaling the direct labor, and the other one would be to relocate the labor and obtain cheaper labor force. Reduce Employee Costs. Outsource any jobs where a full–time employee is not necessary. This will cut your payroll expenses, health–care costs and space requirements. Introduce a reward scheme for employees who do not take any sick days in a year or six–month period. The cost of the reward is ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Meeting with long–distance clients is costly and it can be expendable for some businesses, but travel can also be the most beneficial expense for a business. Fortunately, modern technology can replicate the experience at a much lower cost; such as communicating through Skype or some other form of video chat link. Cut out the landline and fax line –– with Blackberry's and iPhones, and everything compatible for email, who needs them? Conceder free advertising whenever possible, try piggybacking your advertising. Including advertising material in other mailings, such as in invoices, saves postage and other costs, says J. Donald Weinrauch, co–author of The Frugal Marketer. Likewise, make the most of your point–of–purchase opportunities by tucking coupons, newsletters or other promotional fliers in the bag with customers' purchases. Hire independent contractors or temporary workers as needed. Outsource your payroll, benefits and HR. Consider a virtual assistant or answering service to reduce payroll. Some IT Department solutions, Process Automation allows a smaller management team to effectively handle a larger number of systems Intelligent Software Delivery allows companies to more accurately assess how many licenses they will need when purchasing software Endpoint Virtualization reduces downtime for application conflicts and provides a secure workspace when roaming Power Management Capabilities documents compliance with ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 8. Is The Labor Shortages Fear? Introduction For years now, we have been hearing about labor shortages that will occur as a result of the retirement of baby boomers. However, baby boomers have been retiring in large number for several years already, and labor shortages, except in a few highly specialized occupations, are hardly a noticeable problem in most mature economies. This raises the question: Is the labor shortages fear overblown? We do not think so. Our motivation for writing this report is rooted in our belief that most mature economies are likely to experience tight labor markets, a higher wage bill, and a squeeze on the bottom line of many businesses in the next 15 years. If not for the global financial crisis and its aftermath, many mature economies would ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... In coming years, the job of many human capital professionals is likely to become tougher as recruiting and retaining workers becomes even more difficult, and controlling labor costs (without losing labor quality) will emerge as a major challenge. In such an environment, looking a few years into the future is not a luxury, but an essential business practice. Better planning and prompt reaction to future workforce trends could make a significant difference in business performance and reduce the impact on corporate profits. When planning ahead, organizations should make the distinction between the short run and long run. Some countries, such as Italy, are at an especially high risk of labor shortages in the long run, but for the short term they are expected to experience loose labor markets.
On the other hand, other countries, such as Canada, which are now experiencing relatively tight labor markets, are at relatively lower risk of labor shortages in the longer run. Labor shortages are already an issue in many emerging markets, but the discussion of labor shortages in those markets varies greatly from the discussion in mature economies. Given the difference, a discussion of labor shortages in emerging economies is beyond the scope of this report. A Unique Point in History:
The Working Age Population Is Shrinking Mature economies are at a unique point in history–
the working age population (people aged 15 to 64) is declining, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 9. Gender Wage Discrimination in Pakistan | Gender Wage Discrimination in Pakistan| Evidence from Pakistan 2008/09 and 2010/11| | | | Table of Contents Introduction2 Literature Review2 Methodology3 Variables Used– Characteristics of Workers5 Results7 Discussion7 Bibliography8 Appendix A9 Selectivity Bias Logit Regression Results:9 Introduction This paper explores the dynamics of gender wage discrimination in Pakistan for two data sets; Labour Force Survey for the year 2008/09 and 2010/11. We will explore whether or not women are discriminated against, as it has been suggested for a predominantly Islamic country like Pakistan. Labour theory addresses many reasons for wage discrimination. For the purposes of this research we will ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The signs of education are expected. For the data set of 2008/09, signs for education are positive which does not support theory. Even after efforts to remove multi–colinearity, they still show positive signs. Most of the variables in the regression are also insignificant. However, when we take the data for LFS 2010/11, and correct it for selectivity bias, we get much better results. Most of the variables are significant as well as show the correct signs. (The same algorithm was applied to both the data sets, and the same variables have been taken). Results of Logit models for correcting selectivity bias are attached in Appendix A. Variables Used– Characteristics of Workers Summary tables from LFS 2010/11 1. Age * Theory suggests that this is one of the most important determinants of people's decision to work. 2. Marital Status * This variable was taken as a dummy variable in the regression. * It is a significant variable in the decision to work, especially in developing economies like Pakistan. 3. Province * This is also taken as a dummy. The Baluchistan province was omitted from this analysis. However, the calculations of the Oaxaca Blinder method take this omitted variable into account. This is because the method takes the vectors of the estimated regression equation. 4. Region * Whether a person is from a Rural or urban background has impact on the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 10. Liberalization And The Economic Growth Liberalization or the 1991 economic reforms marks 25 years this year. Debates continues on whether growth precede or followed liberalization. India has experienced unprecedented growth over the past three decades. However this growth has co–existed with increase in inequality, unemployment across the country as certain regions, sectors and social groups have disproportionately benefitted from the growth. At least 38 percent in India continue to live below the national poverty lines (Ruparelia et al 2010). It has not been able to generate employment growth, which is one of the most important cornerstones to translating economic growth into poverty reduction and promoting social equality. 'India is and for some time will remain one of the... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Section 3, will discuss the factors that decreased the demand for labour. Section 4, will discuss several factors, which decrease the effective supply of labor. Section 5, will be used for conclusions. 1.Jobless growth: The Paradox. The liberalization theory suggests in order to generate employment and achieve greater social equity in countries like India where labor is abundant and relatively cheap, significant openness to the global market is essential. The 1991 economic reforms marked 'a clear break from the country's socialist strategy of state–directed, heavy–industry based, and import substitution industrialization' (Chamarbagwala 2006:1997). India implemented a range of economic policy since the mid 1980s. Reforms brought changes in the economic growth rates. Though a section of economists reject the role of liberalization in injecting growth. Neo–liberals like Panagariya claims that the most surprising myth, current among a few economists, is that growth was not a result of the post–1991 reforms and that it could be traced back instead to the 1980s(Panagariya 2012). Whereas the economic historian Delong (2003) argue that the post–1991 reforms followed, rather than preceded, the growth acceleration. Nonetheless, the Indian economy has been enjoying a relatively positive growth rate since the 1980s.The annual growth rate in the pre–reform period ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 11. The Similarities And Differences Between A Basketball... I will be talking about in this essay is the similarities and differences between a basketball trainer and a football trainer. This will help the reader be able to understand what a basketball trainer does with workouts, the intensity they do it at and the type of atmosphere they work in. The same would go for a football trainer as well just differently with some similarities. There are similarities and differences in Basketball trainers and Football trainers are the type of workouts they do, the intensity they do it at and the type of atmosphere they work in. The type of workouts that a basketball trainer and a football trainer would do for the basketball and football player because that is what they need to do to get better. One of ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Their trainers will mostly do high intensity because it gets the player more in shape better and faster so they can get better at what they are doing. Trainers for both sides have to know if you have a high intensity workout one day, then you have a low intensity the next day. The intensity levels are very similar but at the same time they can be a little difference. For a basketball player and for a football player what sport they are playing that is there life so it is a everyday grind for them. The intensity level then will be very high most of the time and then very low on like off days for both athletes. The intensity for both a basketball player and a football player is more similar than it is different. The third and last thing for the similarities and differences for a basketball player and a football player would be the type of atmosphere they workout or play in. The atmosphere that trainers work with basketball players is different than the atmosphere that a trainer for a football player would work in because basketball players play inside and football players play outside. We all know the places of which a basketball player and a football player play in of course. The basketball players are more inside training, then outside training. That does not mean that they can not train outside, epically if they have a basketball hoop outside with a court. When it gets cold though basketball trainer would rather go inside. That is very obvious. The ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 12. mba assignment Essay 1 . (a) What do you understand by the concept of conservatism ? Why is it also called the concept of prudence? Why is it not applied as strongly today as it used to be in the Past ? (b) What is a Balance Sheet ? How does a Funds Flow Statement differ from a Balance Sheet ? Enumerate the items which are usually shown in a Balance Sheet and a Funds Flow Statement. 2 . (a) Discuss the importance of ratio analysis for inter–firm and intra–firm comparisons including circumstances responsible for its limitations .If any (b) Why do you understand by the term 'pay–out ratio'? What factors are taken into consideration while determining pay–out ratio? Should a company follow a fixed pay–out ratio policy? Discuss fully. 5 . What ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... he president of Geeta & Company believed the standard should be set at a high level to motivate the workers and to provide adequate information for control and reasonable cost comparison. After much discussion, management decided to use a dual standard. The labor standard of one unit every 30 minutes, recommended by the consulting firm, would be employed in the plant as a motivation device, while a cost standard of 40 minutes per unit would be used in reporting. Management also concluded that the workers would not be informed of the cost standard used for reporting purposes. The production vice–president conducted several sessions prior to implementation in the plant, informing the workers of the new standard cost system and answering questions. The new standards were not related to incentive pay but were introduced when wages were increased to Rs7 per hour. The standard cost system was implemented on January 1, 19––. At the end of six months of operation, these statistics on labor performance were presented to executive management: JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJune Production (units)5,1005,0004,7004,5004,3004,400 Direct labor hours3,0002,9002,9003,0003,0003,100 Quantity Variances: Variancebased on labor standard (one unit each 30 minutes)Rs3150 U*
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  • 14. Product vs Process Layout II.Introduction Product Layout is not always better than process layout. I disagree with the statement. To understand the reasons behind why this is not true, this paper details the concept of layout, differences between the layouts and applicability of product and process layout. Facility layout is the physical arrangement of equipment, offices, rooms and other resources within an organization. It describes the location of resources and their relationship to each other. Layout planning aims to organize the physical arrangement of facilities so that operations run as efficiently as possible. The content section describes the reasons behind why the statement is not true. III.Content Every organization has to consider the ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Each product uses the facilities in a different sequence. Departments are arranged in such a way that each department performs the same activities or processes. A common objective in designing such a layout is to arrange workcenters that have high interaction closer to each other so as to minimize the flow of material. Materials move between different departments depending on the process stages. For e.g they may go from Dept 3 to Dept 6 to Dept 4 and then again to Dept 3 for some other process. 4.ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES OF PROCESS LAYOUT Advantages of process layouts include: A variety of products can be made on the same facilities. Operations continue if some equipment cannot be used because of breakdown or planned maintenance. It is suitable for low volumes and variable demand. People work in cohesive groups and generally enjoy the environment. General purpose & flexible resources Lower capital intensity & automation Higher labor intensity Resources have greater flexibility Disadvantages of process layouts include:
  • 15. Small batches give lower utilization of equipment and unit costs can be high. Movement of jobs between operations is complicated, with larger stocks of work in progress. Scheduling work on equipment is complicated and must be done continuously. Controlling the work is difficult. There is a lot of handling of products and materials. Processing rates are slower Material handling costs are higher ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 16. Michael Jordan Family Tree 8 Finland Portugal Budget $100 $100 Costof production: Cell phone/piece $1 $20 Cost of production:Wine/gallon $5 $10 Maximum consumption underno–trade condition (other combinations are possible) 50 cellphones 10 gallons 4 cell phones 2 gallons Trade (Other combinations are possible. This oneis preferred but not optimal. Maximumspecialization yields maximum utility) Make: 60 cell phones 8gallons of wine Sell: 5 phones $15/piece = $75 Buy: 6.25 gallons @ $12 Endresult: 55 cell phones (+5) 14.25 gallons (+4.25) Make: 10 gallons of wine Sell: 6.25 gallons @ $12 = $75 Buy: 5 cell phones @ $15 Endresult: 5 cell phones (+1) 3.75 gallons (+1.25) Real–Life Explanation Michael Jordan has a clogged toilet. He is considering whether he should fix the problem... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... 26 Basic factors (spark initial production)–geography, climate, natural resources, large workforce; e.g., tile was more available and less expensive than wood, ceramic tile industry started in Italy Advanced factors (sustain competitive advantage)–Result of investing in education and innovation: skill of workforce segments, technological infrastructure, market knowledge–e.g., a network of professional schools, community colleges and apprenticeship programs ensured Italy's leadership 1/11/2016 14 FACTOR CONDITIONS 27 Notes: Both Basic and Advanced factor conditions are changeable. E.g., today's climate of South Wales (Great Britain) resembles that of ... Burgundy (France) 200 years ago. пѓ the UK is becoming a serious player in wine industryE.g., with China having tremendous investment in education and research, number of scholarly publications authored by professors form Chinese universities doubles every year! пѓ China likely to gain a competitive edge in high–tech within 10 ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 17. Technology Has Changed The World Technology has changed the world we live in and has had a significant impact on the way society works and performs their jobs. Constant rises in innovations such as advanced computers, communications systems, industrial robots, computer–assisted manufacturing, and computer–assisted design have created shifts in the structures of many industries. These new technologies and innovations have been universally introduced and used through various industries to modernize, reduce costs and to compete more efficiently in both domestic and overseas markets. Changes in technology have helped to change the structure of many existing occupations as well as helped to create new technologically based occupations. In addition, wages for high technology ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Using economic theory and information gathered from prior academic research, this paper will address how technological changes have affected the demand for skilled and unskilled workers. There has been a long debate throughout various forms of literature related to this topic over whether technology is destroying or creating jobs. Taking economic theory into consideration, I have come to the hypothesis that technological changes have shifted the demand for both skilled and unskilled workers; causing a downward shift in demand for low/unskilled workers and causing an upward shift in the demand for skilled workers. Based on substitution and scale effects, technological change creates shifts in labor demand. Because innovation and automation reduces the cost of capital, this also results in substitution and scale effects. In this paper, I will first review three sources of economic research related to my topic. I will summarize their research question, methods and findings. I will then summarize my findings and present some future points to consider. After assessing the various information gathered from prior academic research, I have come to the conclusion that overall skill–biased technological change does exist and does in fact affect the demand for skilled and unskilled workers. In "Computing Inequality: Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?," Autor, Katz and Krueger (1998), expand on previous literature ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 18. Business Management Improves the Efficiency of an... Management approaches and practices are core to the concept of business management due to the insight it offers on various aspects of improving the efficiency of organizations. There have been a lot of researchers that have devoted a great deal of time to the study of these practices and approaches. Two very famous amongst these contributors are Fred W. Taylor and Henry Ford. Taylor had advocated that the task and priority of factory management was to determine the most efficient way for a worker to do his job, to provide all the necessary equipment and training to complete the job and to make sure that the task at hand is done achieving optimal efficiency by providing workers with incentives. He broke down each job into its individual motions, analyzed the importance of each and then timed the workers with a stopwatch. He then eliminated unnecessary motion and asked the workers to perform machine–like routine, which increased the efficiency. On the other hand Fordism was a specific stage of economic development in the 20th century. The term gained popularity as it was recognized by firstly, the system of mass production that was pioneered in the early 20th century by the Ford Motor Company and secondly, the typical postwar mode of economic growth and its associated political and social order that advanced capitalism. In this essay we will critically discuss and analyze the impact of Taylorism and Fordism on contemporary management approaches and practices. As an engineer, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 19. `` The Yellow Wallpaper `` And The Court Cases Like Ellen... From short stories like "The Yellow Wallpaper," to the court cases like Ellen Pao's Suit vs. Kleiner Perkins, and even a data book like Women in the Labor Force, it is clear to see that inequality and mistreatment of women still exists today. People often say that inequality is a thing of the past, however it has been a serious problem since the dawning of civilization itself, and it is still so today. Women are often seen as lesser beings than men, and are treated accordingly. It is getting better, and women are starting to take their rightful places as equals in the workforce, and as equals in general. However, the world still has a long way to go before the inequality and mistreatment of women comes to a complete stop. In "The Yellow Wallpaper," the authors explores the world through the eyes of the narrator. The narrator is a woman who has been taken away to live in the countryside for the summer due to "temporary nervous depression (Gilman)." This diagnosis was done by her husband, a physician, who treats her more like a possession than a spouse. Though he has diagnosed her with this, he is seen saying that she is not really sick at all. He gives her incorrect medicines, not believing her when she says something is wrong. Throughout the story, it is shown that she is not ever taken seriously, her husband even going so far as to say that "she shall be sick as she pleases (Gilman) " this implying that she is making up her illness for attention, and that it is all ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 20. Discuss The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Division Of Labor For supporting trade as well as economic interdependence, division of labor creates opportunities for individual cooperations to cooperate and improve manufacturing and individual labor productivity. While the corporations can maximize their benefits through surplus value owing to selling product, the workers have opportunities to get job more easily as well as professional working enviroment by using modern technology, however, exploitation, effecting workers' health and uninspiring job significantly influence on the workers and even labor productivity. It can be argued that the benefits, workers get from division of labor, is not considerable. According to Adam Smith (1976), there are three main advantages of the division of labor. Firstly,... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The workers, who have wide and deep knowledge and skill at a particular field, will shorten working time as well as increasing labor productivity. Beside that, in order to concentrate on renovated product including structure and system, the factory will recruit and retain highly qualified and skilled employees to maintain the top of industrial position ((Liu & Shang, 2012). For the workers, the firms carry out new invested trategy, which supply them with "long–term employment security, stable salary expectations and better welfare in order to achieve their long–term development goals" (Liu & Shang, 2012). However, they have to do the same work day by day, gradually, they are lost interest and enthusiastic in their work. "To coordinate with the machine technology investment, advanced corporate employers will invest a lot in skills traning for workers. Substantial investments in turn exhance employers' ability to improve human resources management policies to guarantee the long–term contractual relationship between workers does not mean a reduction in their ptofits but is a premise for capital to earn profits. Under such conditions, technological workersm as an important way for value–added, are favourably treated by capital in some extent, and become the core labor group. ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 21. The Album Ep By Jeff Buckley Grace, the only album released by artist Jeff Buckley, due to his untimely death, contained a number of his original songs as well as some covers. This album released in 1994, sold "only modestly but was warmly received by critics" (Simon and Schuster, 2001), and gained Buckley immense respect as an artist. His song "Lover, you should've come over" was evidence that Buckley was a talented artist who was not only an excellent performer but an excellent songwriter who could craft melodies and words as well. '"Lover" is essentially a soul ballad" (Beviglia, 2014), with moments of intensity and moments of release as well. Through analyzing this song one may begin to explore the song's virtual experience also known as the "story, or narrative of a musical work" that is "influenced by the artist' perspective" (Sellnow, 2007), as well as the virtualtime, and understand the overall message and congruency or incongruences of the song. "Lover" by Jeff Buckley is a song with an interesting message due to its hopeful lyrics and soulful tone and instrumentation, which create a congruent depiction of the message. Jeff Buckley's song "Lover You Should've Come Over" expresses a storyline through its virtual experience of a protagonist beating all odds and seeking a resolution. Through the incorporation of dramatic illusion and comic rhythm, this song additionally creates a virtual story with feelings of suspense. Virtual experience is categorized into rhythm and illusion with ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 22. Temperament Characteristics Of Child Development Temperament is defined as the individual behavioral style of the child, the way in which he characteristically reacts to environmental stimuli. Temperament is distinct from the child's innate abilities and motivation. Their are nine temperament traits; activity being the first which is based on the level of motor component in a child's functioning, rated as regular,variable, or irregular. I would rate myself as moderate. I prefer to be independent; I rather do a task myself so that I don't have to watch someone else do it. I also don't like to be confined I prefer to explore the areas and things that surround me. Rhythmicity being the second temperament trait is all about the regularity or predictability in the timing of recurrent activities, rated as regular,variable, or irregular. Regular best describes me because I stick to a routine everyday and if it is changed I have a very hard time dealing with it. I eat the same thing everyday and at the same time everyday. I wake up every morning at the same time, but I fall asleep at different times depending on what I did that day. And lastly I have a difficult time adjusting to different time zones whenever I go away on vacation. The Approach/Withdrawal is the third temperament it is about the nature of a child's response to a new stimulus, rated as approach, variable, or withdrawal. Withdrawing child best fits me; it takes me awhile to warm up to new things, I'm cautious with new people, things and places. I prefer to surround ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 23. Child Labor Is The Lack Of Intergenerational Human Capital... Introduction Developed countries have a conception that child labor is highly exploitative and is driven by long hours in deplorable conditions in sweat shops, prostitution rings, and rebel armies. While this perception has been very effective at raising awareness and action on the issue of child labor, it is quite misleading as only a small percentage of wage labor is of such an exploitative nature. It is imperative to take a more nuanced view of child labor and accept that it is not inherently bad as the current stigmatized view of the issue would suggest. I will argue that while there are necessary, and at times, good utilizations of child labor, high rates of this phenomenon tend to be ultimately detrimental to the child, household, ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Then, I will discuss how the informal sector is intimately tied to child labor and presents unique obstacles for creating effective change. Lastly, I will take up considerations in the policy process revolving around child labor and ultimately offer policy initiatives that would be effective at limiting rates of child labor. Child Labor as a Crucial Development Issue It is undeniable that some children work in circumstances that are highly exploitative and detrimental to their well–being. Most economists, policymakers, and even laypersons throughout much of world will agree that swift policy is necessary to minimize the suffering of these children. Although there are moral considerations in the most deplorable of these scenarios, many instances of child labor fall outside the purview of this narrow conception. A large portion of child labor is characterized by children working limited hours in conditions dictated by parents or other family members. Although these circumstances are not universally better, it seems reasonable to expect that parents would protect their children to some extent–especially considering maximizing rates of return on their investments to the child. Child labor, thus, must be considered not as undoubtedly negative, but as a morally neutral necessity in some developing countries. Nonetheless, we must consider that there is indeed a toll that is not just physical but also psychological for these children; even at the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 24. Human Impacts Toward Soil Biodiversity METHODS Data Collation Data was collected from published studies or in–press studies that focused on human impacts toward soil biodiversity. Potential relevant studies must compare multiple sites which having different land use type and/or intensity. In addition, species abundance, richness, occurrence, or other diversity metrics must be present in the study, so that diversity can be estimated. Furthermore, the information of the sites location is also very important, studies which have the sites coordinates are more preferable. The coordinates are very useful not just to pinpoint the exact location on the map, but also to help us acquire other information, e.g. climate, biome, and ecoregion (all paper criteria similar to Newbold et al. 2015). To find these potential relevant studies, I used Web of Science (http://webofknowledge.com/) and Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.co.uk) as the search engine with "soil invertebrate", "land–use", "pitfall trap", and "ground invertebrate" as my search term. The corresponding authors of the suitable studies were contacted, asking whether they are willing to share their raw data (which were not usually made fully available in the paper or supplementary files). From the total of 24 authors contacted, five of them agreed to give me the raw data. After receiving the data, they were coded into a structured pdf form and excel spreadsheet. The pdf form captured the site– and species–specific information provided by the papers or ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 25. Life Cycle : Wages And Incomes Have Effects On The Labor... Life cycle Wages and incomes have effects on the labor supply of people. Changes in wages has unclear effects on preferred work hours since income usually have effects on income and substitution effects in the reverse directions unless leisure is seen as an inferior good. The study on the supply of labor is focused on how the changes in the salaries and the wages affects the preferences that people have on the hours of work that is by untangling the income effects apart from those of the substitution effects (Furaker and Hedenus 2009). The estimations that are carried out on the labour supply elasticity go through a number of problems. The major problems that occur are as a result of the measurements of the errors in the non–labor income and wages, the endogeneity as a result of the non–labor income and wages or the occurrence of the correlation of the tastes that people have for work and the lack of observability of the wages of the non–workers. Therefore the labor supply will change due to the changes that occur in the non–labor income, these changes can be informative in that it tells us the income effect though such changes may occur endogenous. People, therefore, who have a resilient fondness for work and are not so fond of leisure may be in a position to mount up more wealth in terms of assets and have a higher non–labor income. Furaker and Hedenus (2009) were able to find an uncertain result that showed the effect of a person winning a lottery on their work behaviour ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 26. Descriptive Essay About Volleyball Counting down the seconds in a crowded dark hallway, listening behind doors to the song Welcome to the Jungle blasting in the gymnasium mixed with the sounds of the crowds roaring. The only thoughts going through everyone's head, is that this might be the last time we ever play together again. As soon as the song gets to the que we run out of the hallway under a tunnel made of arms, running into the moment that can make it or break it. A timeless sport filled with –– rapid movements, sweat, anxiety, and team cheering –– volleyball is a sport that many underestimate. There are countless people that say "Volleyball is a girl sport" or "volleyball is not even that hard". Also you may come across an egotistical varsity football team that refuse to attend any volleyball games, because they are mad that varsity volleyball made it to state championships and they did not. However, volleyball is a sport that requires intense drills, training, and a strong team bond. For instance if you do not dive right when hitting the floor you can seriously injure yourself. I have had torn a ligament in my shoulder diving for the ball, because as a volleyball player you are taught to always chase after a ball even if it means running into a wall. But the best and the greatest experience of all time is when it is a game day, or even better yet the last game that can determine your title in Norcal Championships. Norcal Championship finals is the game that all 14 teams strive for during the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 27. A Common Explanation Of The Crisis Of Labor Movements "A common explanation of the crisis of labor movements is that the hypermobility of productive capital in the late twentieth century has created a single labor market in which all the world 's workers are forced to compete. "(Silver, 2003, p3) This statement suggested that the single labor market causes the employers to hire the enormous amount of unorganised workers due to the production line demand more workers. For instance, the new president of Unite State (U.S.), Donald Trump, claims "Reducing taxes from 35% to 15% will be a job creator" (Donald Trump, 2016). By doing this, it has the huge positive effect on companies, small and big businesses. Since the reduction in taxes drops 20%, the companies can use that 20 % to move production line back to the country and hire the same amount of workers or even more. Silver structured the book into five sections introduction, labor movements and capital mobility, labor movements and product cycles, labor movements and world politics and contemporary dynamics in worldhistorical perspective. The first section the writer briefly explain what cause the labor movement and what impact has it bring into the industries. Next section, she analysed the unstable of world scale dynamics of labour. Till this second section, the readers have understood a bit more about labor movements, focused on the leading capitalist industry of the twentieth century. The third part she used "The Automobile Product Cycle" graph as a description that vary of ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 28. The Standard Economic Theory ( Robbins ) Traditionally, standard economic theory (Robbins 1930) dictates that time–use is allocated between labor and leisure; however, Kimmel and Connelly point out this model simply does not hold true for mothers. Kimmel and Connelly posit that mothers presumably face another category of household work, separated into caregiving time and household production. Kimmel and Connelly modify this economic model to expand the time–use choices of mothers to include five various categories: labor (paid market work), leisure, home production, caregiving time (parental childcare), and other (sleeping, education, etc.–which will be ignored from here on out since personal care time is too diverse to calculate). The distinction of household work into two ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... . ." which causes mothers to allocate more time to childcare than household production (p. 667). These findings open up discussion of mothers' time–use as it relates to the price of childcare, which would have important considerations and implications for policymakers. Hoffman examines the effect of children and marriage on women's labor force participation between the years of 1984 and 2004 using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The data is valuable since it looks at the same years as recent work by Boushey of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, which suggested that the negative impact of children on mothers' labor force participation has actually declined. Moreover, the sample sizes analyzed by Hoffman are large varying between 56,000 and 70,000 women 25–44 years old. Using a regression analysis, Hoffman's various models allow for the interaction of marriage with children with the year to be taken into account. Hoffman is thus "able to compare the labor force participation of single women with children to single women without children . . . and married women with children to married women without children" (p. 8). Hoffman concludes that the negative impact of children on women's labor force participation is almost the same as it was back in 1984 in that "children reduced the labor force ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 29. West Jest vs Air Canada Essay How serious is the threat from conventional airlines that want to imitate the westjet culture? What does it take to imitate organizational culture? Can Air Canada compete against westjet's employee productivity and its relationship with its employees? Ever since its establishment in 1996, WestJet has aimed to operate as a low–cost carrier while employing non–unionized members in a unique organizational culture. In its simplest form this unique organizational culture can be labeled as a labor managed firm. In a labor managed firm employees are owners, and they are affected by the company's performance through profit sharing. Then it should not be surprising that in labor managed firms, the employees can voice their opinions and actually ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... A labor force in its most basic form, through profit maximizing practices, must be minimized, due to the cost associated with it, in order to drive up profit. And it is because of this outlook that WestJet has managed to outperform their competition, for exampleAir Canada. This theory is in sync with the findings of Jeffery Pfeffer in his 1995 paper "Producing sustainable competitive advantage through the effective management of people." As described above, the organizational culture, the foundation of WestJet's success, is heavily weighted on its people. Where as the competition, sees the workforce as a cost and aims to minimize it, WestJet looks at their work force as an asset and an investment. Conventional airlines run their business as any other company. They look out for the shareholder's best interest and do not pay the slightest attention to their workforce. In WestJet's culture, the workforce consists of the shareholders due to profit–sharing and co–operative environment. By nature capital managed firms will have a hard time converting to labor managed firm. They will have to change a lot of rules and regulations that governs their everyday operations. They will face a large number of opposition by their shareholders. According to Fernandez Guadano (2009) even if they do manage to adopt similar practices as labor managed firms, they will never be able to achieve the same rate of employee ownership and profit–sharing as their counterparts, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 30. Essay about Work in Modern America Work in Modern America The modern day American society hosts a broad spectrum of industries with various occupations and professions to engage today's workforce. America, much like most first world countries is a service economy based on the exchange of knowledge and expertise rather than materials and products. People have a long history of work and work evolution that has ultimately brought America to a service economy producing both strengths and weaknesses within the society and its economy. As America has moved to a service economy, much of the manufacturing and production jobs have moved oversees to third world countries creating a reliance on other economies. This globalization of the workforce as well as unionization, and the ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... These large companies swept the nation buying out and replacing smaller, regional companies; eventually creating a monopoly. This amassed to a hand full of wealthy and influential people holding the majority of economic and political power. As these companies have gained in size, so have their political influence and development of bureaucracy and "depersonalization of the work environment" (Hodson, R. & Sullivan, T.A., 2008, p. 26). One of the most influential concepts and innovations to come out of the early twentieth century to change the face of production was the assembly line developed by Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company and first used in production in 1913 (National Academy of Engineering, 2010) . With assembly–line production, job skills become highly specific to the technology and procedures used in a given plant. Such jobs are considered semi–skilled because they require a specific skill but one that can be learned in a relatively short time... The organizations of production around an assembly line...and other forms of advanced mechanization are organized under scientific management [where]...the worker was to execute diligently a set of motions engineered to ensure the most efficient performance of a given task. (Hodson, R. & Sullivan, T.A., 2008, p. 27) Assembly line production quickly caught on to other manufacturing ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 31. Workers of the Progressive Era Progressive Era: Working Class Workers during the gilded age were marginalized by their working conditions, low income, and limited working hours. To overcome the marginalization for the working class, they created labor movements and went on strikes. Although the workers had created many strikes and labor unions, they were at the least successful. Workers were marginalized by the poor working conditions they had. A lot of the time the workers feared going to their workshops because they knew what they were getting themselves into. In 1906, Upton Sinclair, a writer during the gilded age, wrote a novel, The Jungle, in which took place inside work factories. He expressed the fact that the work was ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... They would have no nails,–they had worn them off pulling hides; their knuckles were swollen so that their fingers spread out like a fan."(Sinclair, 1906) He stated this to point out that the workers had horrible conditions in the workshops and they needed to be justified in that state. Similarly, a recent article ,Labor in Progressive Era Politics, expressed an event of deaths in a workshop located in New York in 1911; this event is well known by the name The Triangle Fire. In the article it states that the "Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York killed 146 garment workers in 1911, public outrage prompted the creation of a state commission to study the origins of the fire and the conditions of industrial workplace."(Unknown) This event was not only tragic, but also a huge spark of the idea that the marginalization shall be no more. They were going to do what they needed to overcome the working conditions. To overcome the harsh and terrible working conditions, workers decided to go on strikes to catch the attention of the "big guys" so they can make improvements in the workshops. Many of the strikes were unsuccessful, stopped, or ignored. The strikes went on for about twenty years, a few of them were: The Great Strike,1877; Haymarket Riot,1886; Homestead Strike, 1892; Pullman Strike, 1894. In a Speech given by Eugene Debs he had said "To realize this great social ideal is a work of education, and organization. The working classes ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 32. The Wage Gap, Worker Discrimination And Varying... In terms of attributing to the wage gap, worker discrimination and varying preferences occurs largely based on views surrounding what jobs are male or female dominated. Although worker discrimination and wage discrepancies are a reality in Brazil, the labor market conditions for women are becoming better over time. Despite gender segregation in the labor market, the wages of women are sometimes evenly or positively affected. For instance, "For industries and occupations where women receive higher remuneration than men, we observe that women have higher education levels, indicating that their higher remuneration is due to individual characteristics" (Madalozzo 165). Even though a positive correlation has been observed regarding women's education level and wage, in general, men still benefit more based on their individual characteristics, which is why they are generally paid more. According to Madalozzo, "This diп¬Ђerence in pay is decreasing but was still a signiп¬Ѓcant 15.4 percent, on average, in 2007," and "...the present study improves the quantiп¬Ѓcation of this wage gap, showing that the trend of a decreasing gap remains, but is losing pace overtime" (165–66). In order to combat the presence of the wage gap, policies regarding bettering women's education and incentivizing women to enter the labor market should be implemented because the current system discourages women to enter the market. According to Galor and Weil, "...increasing women's relative wages reduces fertility by ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 33. The Value Of Symbolic Analysts The Value of Symbolic Analysts Robert Reich categorizes America's workforce into three distinct groups, routine producers, in–person servers, and symbolic analysts. Reich defines the first two groups as principally manual laborers, and the third group as people who work and create value using their minds. This would include occupations such as engineers, attorneys, scientists, professors, executives, et al. Symbolic analysts are objectively and quantifiably more valuable than the other two groups combined. To establish anoperational definition of value, we recognize value as the amount of revenue and/or opportunities an individual provides. The reason symbolic analysts command much more wealth and are inherently more valuable than the ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... They argue that without them, the CEOs would not have a working company to run. While the union workers are technically not mistaken, they are however neglecting a number of factors, the first being that an individual's compensation is directly correlated with the amount of value that the individual brings to the corporation. When we break down the responsibilities of a lowly sales associate, their only task is to assist customers in purchasing items. An executive manages everything from negotiating with suppliers, organizing facilities, creating new departments, delegating tasks to aforementioned departments, et al. The real value that executives add to the company is exponentially greater than that of the average worker; this fact is quantifiable. Another issue that union workers do not take into consideration is the fact that sales associates and other manual laborers in a broader sense are largely expendable, as such is the nature of a low skill job. The fact of the matter is that the minimum–wage workers need their CEO more than their CEO needs them. The brutal reality is that if workers are unsatisfied with their wages the executives can simply replace them with people that are satisfied, leading us to the issue of scarcity and surplus of labor supply. The issue of scarcity is a basic concept in the study of economics, and furthers contributes to the value of symbolic analysts. Reich discusses how demand for symbolic analysts grows with the advent ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 34. Global Business Cultural Analysis Of International Business GLOBAL BUSINESS CULTURAL ANALYSIS Winter Harris BUSI604_B01 July 3, 2015 Dr. Stephen Preacher Abstract International business has been a part of society for centuries. With the introduction of modern technological advances, countries have moved from participating in business ventures primarily by land or boat and advanced to virtual environments and acquiring passports that enable flights all over the world. This impact has challenged businesses to improve their cultural relations as they venture into unknown markets that are on the opposite end of their cultural spectrum and perspective. The world is a vast melting pot of all walks of life. The business world is no different and requires even sharper skills, especially when entering environments that may be tense or chaotic. This paper examines the country of Italy and how its culture impacts business domestically and internationally. It discusses the various strengths and weaknesses of its economic environment and the potential gains or losses a foreign investor may consider when deciding whether or not enter the Italian market. Keywords: Italy, culture, business, SWOT analysis,labor, markets Global Business Cultural Analysis Italy is a peninsula situated in the southern part of Europe, primarily surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea. It is estimated to be home to more than 58 million people. While Italians make up a large part of the population, immigration has played a major role in the steady ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 35. Sports : The Negative Side Of Youth Sports Many people think that sports help children develop teamwork, self–confidence, moral character, and other personal strength but others see the negative side of youth sports, believing young athletes develop aggressive traits such as bullying and the need to dominate their opponents not just on but off the field as well. Youth sports have become far too intense, especially in contact sports. It is true that participation in youth athletics has a number of benefits such as the building self–confidence and moral character but is it all worth the possibility of severe trauma to the body or even worse, the mind. Sports induced concussions alone have doubled for kids ages 8–13 in the past decade. In just 2012 alone, there were 3,800,000 reported. Other injuries that are common in young athletes are knee injuries and sprains. Dehydration is also a major concern. It has been shown that single sport athletes are prone to more injuries than multiple sport athletes. Actions need to be taken to lower these numbers, such as restrictions on the number of practices, the intensity at practice, and more information given to coaches, parents and athletes on how to prevent injuries. These restrictions should consist of limiting the number of pitches a pitcher may pitch in a single game, more sufficient screening being done before an athlete returns from a concussion or limitations on how tackles can be performed are a few examples. Sports need to have a balance of sportsmanship, positive ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 36. Sociology Lecture 6: The Deskilling Thesis H. Braverman – Labor and Monopoly Capital (1974) The central text in what has come to be called the labour process approach. Context for Braverman: вќ‘ Braverman associated with Monthly Review journal – founded in 1949 by Paul Sweezy and Leo Huberman. An influential journal but little impact on American sociology. Best known product of this school is Baran and Sweezy's Monopoly Capital (1966). Indeed, Braverman's analysis of work is predicated theoretically upon Baran and Sweezy's analysis of 'Monopoly Capital' [ie oligopolistic, 'organized' capitalism. вќ‘ After mid–1960s increasing interest in neo–Marxism in the US – partly result of social conflicts evident ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Furthermore, Braveman argued that the affluence that Marcuse made so much of was little more than the froth on the surface of capitalist societies and that, within the labour process of advanced capitalist societies, the same factors identified by Marx as operative in the mid–19th century remained just as central in the 1970s in the USA. Braverman argued that the labour process (process of production whereby labour power is applied to raw materials and machinery to produce commodities) in advanced capitalist economies is determined by capitalist social relations and is not the result of technical / organizational factors. Braverman's Assumptions: that labour creates all value; that social relations not technical relations determine the conditions of work. According to Braverman, Labour Processes reflect, in their organization, the antagonistic relations inherent in capitalist societies. In particular,
  • 37. managers cannot rely on labour to work efficiently of its own accord and therefore managers look to maximize their control over the labour process and minimize the autonomy of workers. This is a straight fowardly Marxist account. Within Braverman's model Capital needs to dominate the labour process and weaken the ability of workers to resist. Braverman placed considerable emphasis on the role of Scientific Management (Taylorism) as a quintessential method of achieving this. In particular, Scientific Management ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 38. Management of Business Name: Christopher Stephenson Grade: 5 bus sci 2 (lower six) Centre #: 100028 School: Dint hill Technical Teacher: Mr. Johnson CONTENT TITLE PAGE Topic––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 3 Title–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 3 Aims and Objectives––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 4 Research... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The business traditionally produces sugar cane but between the period 1982–1995 the land was converted to citrus. The varieties of citrus produce by the business include: Parson Brown , Valencia, Pineapple, Ortaniques and limes. PURPOSE OF STUDY The purpose of this study is to find out the different factors that are involve in the production of Tru–juice and to gasp a fair knowledge of how they are implemented and also the changes that have take place in these factors over the past years. The researcher would also want to know the vital roles each factor's play when relating to the production level of the business and other decisions METHODOLOGY The researcher used both primary and secondary source to obtain information. The primary source used is questionnaires. A questionnaire may be defined as a written set of questions answered by a number of people to provide information for a survey. A total of ten (10) questionnaires were issued to workers, nine males and one female in the production and other department of Tru–juice Company limited was issue on a particular day and all were collected back within ten working days. The reasons the researcher decided to use written questionnaires are: * Questionnaire allows data to be collected from a large number of people. * ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 39. China's Factories and Sweatshop China Sweatshop When you go shopping to Walmart or Apple ask yourself where your product is coming from. China has numerous sweatshop factories assembling USA's products from stores as Apple and Walmart. China's Sweatshop tends to violate human labor's rights by forcing overtime and going under the mandatory minimum wage and other violations as long hour without pay, sexual, and physical harassment. China's sweatshop factory tends to be quite popular because is cheap labor, free trade zone, or low fee rates in taxes. The reason store as Apple and Walmart has their product to be assembled in China's factory is to avoid high export fees. Since Walmart and Apple factory's locations was identified and it came public in the media it shocked the world of its employee's cruel working's condition. Factors in China are located in Guangdong Province Songang or in Shenzhen. For example Foxconn is a factory located in Shenzhen where Apple send their electronic to be assembled and made. In China the majority workers in factories is occupy by women and children. The percentage of women in China's Sweatshops is ninety percents. In China, the majority working in sweatshop are women which are young and not educated; in addition, forcing them to be ignorant of their own legal rights. Young women in China are attached to numeral discrimination and unfair pay. China's sweatshop is popular on violating labor rights, especially against women and underage minor women and men. It is unfortunate ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 40. How We Understand The Decline? How to understand 'decline'? It is always a question how to conceptualize something so inevitable; as inevitable as prosperity. But of whose decline is the question? Before going deeper on the subject matter, it becomes thus important to introduce the characters of the story and those norms that give them substance. In this case the actors will be nations. But as nation we shall not mean the set of those who have an imagined idea of belonging to a certain territory, customs and history (Scaritt, 2008); in this instance nation will mean a piece of an interconnected world system of other nations, and at the same time it will mean a person's psyche, one that is embedded in a unified social system of universal beliefs and norms. The system of nations is interconnected in a normative sense; something that Wallerstein first developed; in his own way the world system can be envisaged as a multicultural conglomeration in a single division of labor (Wallerstein, 2011). This singularity is the core of the notion of interconnectedness. The interconnectedness is normative; it cannot be debated any further! After you go to primary school you will get an exam, then you will go to secondary school; you will pass your exam and then you will go to university studying in depth something. And then you will start realizing that you are either too rich and you might indulge yourself in seeking further study, or you will have to 'get a job like everybody else'. This is not necessarily a path to ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 41. Human Capital Theory To what extent can Human Capital Theory provide a plausible explanation for inequalities in the labour market? Illustrate your answer with examples of labour–market segmentation tied to race or gender or social class. Introduction: Human capital theory can be identified as studies of organisations, individuals or nations which accumulates stock of productive skills and technical knowledge from study of investments (Becker, 1964).By following the judgement of human capital theory it can be said that it represents a path for the individual to develop his or her charisma to the labour market .Human capital theory is used as a analysis of theoretical frame , development of competence , formal education and job tenure probably are the ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Provisions such as results in working women or women workers being left with the last option that is into dead–end jobs, although first to lay off but still paid low wages, This overcome women's incentive to remain in labour force to human capital. Treatment for the married workers in the family can be strengthen the traditional specialization of labour with in the statistical discrimination and household .From the perspective of Cigno (1994) there is existence of gender biases in various forms, more often in family treatment as a tax creates disincentives to work for women and taxation due to joint tends women to stay at home rather than separate taxation due to the higher marginal taxes that the earnings of worker which is considered secondary or usually, the wife attract .taxation if separated may increase incentives of women while working and might result in greater participation as compare to the husband in domestic activities. Apart from this area Gustaffson (1995) believed that divorce laws not to oblige fathers to support their children. Additionally, the financial ability was lacked by women to access the courts .while enabled legal provisions that equal sharing of responsibilities and child care among parents, on work constraints women's are relaxed and eased so poverty declined among mothers for an example authorities in Sweden serious attempts are made to identify the fathers to make them share the cost of finance for the child ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 42. Gender Wage Gap The gender wage gap, while not always taken so seriously, is an ongoing problem in almost every occupation. Although many view this topic as not prominent anymore, there is tons of evidence to show that the wage gap is still detrimental even today. There are other factor that play into the gender wage gap, like gender specific job preferences and the different opportunities given to the opposite genders (Joy). While some might think that it is only these factors that play into the difference in salaries, there are many studies to prove that even in the same job field a man and woman would make different salaries for doing the exact same tasks. The primary problem of wage differences in America is that women don't receive as many opportunities for raises or promotions when compared to men. Therefore, with less opportunities it is significantly harder for success which then leads to lower paying occupations. Throughout history the gender wage gap hasn't always been as much of a dilemma as it is current day. In fact from the 1800's to the 1930's the female to male earnings ratio had stayed pretty steady. Although women's roles were viewed a lot differently than they are now, back then not very many women went to work every day, so therefore there wouldn't be as many women in the work force to contribute to the gender wage gap. More recently the wage gap has become a much bigger problem. "The progress over the past few decades has been dramatic: Blau (forthcoming) reports that ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...