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    Labor Contracts

    1.Describes the advantages and disadvantages of coordinating labor contracts in the three selected countries. India, Mexico and China. 2.From an HR perspective, explains which of the selected countries is or are ideal for coordinating labor contracts. 3.Uses references to support your analysis of global labor contracts.

    Human resource management

    1.What is employee/labor relations? What is HR's role in maintaining effective working relationships with unions? How can HR develop proactive policies that reduce the likelihood of union organizations? 2.Does anyone have Standard Operating Procedures to document training? 3.What are some common problems when administer

    Union spillover: analyze effect of union agreements on wage issues

    Research your chosen subtopic *Union SPillOVER* and find a journal article published in the last five years on your topic. Summarize the significant findings of the article, including an explanation of the historical significance of emerging trends in wages. The summary on your findings should include the following. Analy

    Explain the importance of 3 health care issues for GM (Delphi) and their union

    Benefits One of the most important and challenging issues facing employers in the United States today is the cost of health care. Remembering what you read in the article about GM, reflect on the following observation from the National Review in November, 2005: Delphi may be the world's largest maker of car parts, but that

    Direct labor and direct material variance, missing data - Morro Bay Surfboards

    Morro Bay Surfboards manufactures fiberglass surfboards. The standard cost of direct materials and direct manufactures labor is $100 per board. This includes 20 pounds of direct materials, at the budgeted price of $2 per pound, and five hours of direct manufacturing labor, at the budgeted rate of $12 per hour. Following are t

    Bargaining powers and factors in union and non-union environments

    Bargain Powers In a brief statement, describe how the negotiation interests of the employee and the employer interact in the bargaining environment with the understanding that the employee may or may not be represented by a union. Who has more bargaining power in what types of situations? Bargaining Factors Describe o

    Why are CEO's of large companies being paid so much money?

    Why are CEO's of the world's biggest companies being paid such large sums of money? Is this just compensation for an enormously difficult task or does the logic of rewards seem distorted? Discuss the argument that performance should be linked to pay - your discussion should include references to stock-option schemes, bonuses and

    Age Discrimination in Employment Act, labor law, incorporation, OSHA, agency

    1) The age Discrimination in Employment Act make it illegal for: A) employers to have a seniority system (B) employers to have a mandatory retirement age for most jobs (C) employers to know the age of job applicants before making a hiring decision (D) employers to hire only employees who are 40 and over (E) employers to have a

    Criticism of Unions

    Consider just one of the union's criticisms that accuses management of squandering funds. Is this any different than some of the white collar crime we read about? If you were consulting with a CEO of a national union or of a corporation, what advice would you give him or her to avoid the corruption of the past? Be specific with

    National Union Organizations

    This solution explores the concept of the National Union and discusses the advantages and disadvantages associated with national unions. Further, this solution investigates the three toughest hurdles that local bargaining units will face in the coming 5 - 10 years.

    National Union Issues

    Analyze the relevancy of today's top 3 issues critical to the two national unions. What are the issues? Are the issues the same for both unions? What is the source of the statement presenting the issue: a particular political representative? A recent poll or some other source? Is this source reliable? Do you think the iss

    Organized Labor Rationale

    Organized Labor Rationale Considering the economic and social conditions of the 1930s, take on the role of a leader within a budding organized labor movement., prepare a proposal to management, which outlines the rationale to create an organized labor movement for an organization. Highlight specific concerns and current avenue

    Arrival of new manufacturing techniques and labor variance

    Arrival of new manufacturing techniques such as automation, flexible manufacturing systems, and cluster or cell manufacturing has? Emphasized the importance of direct labor variances. Not had an effect on the importance of direct labor variances. De-emphasized the importance of direct labor variances. Ma

    Frank Fountain and Paula Banks: Corporate Power

    Women and people of color face unique challenges in acquiring power and influence in corporations. Read the following chapter: Cracking the Corporate Code The Revealing Success Stories of 32 African-American Executives By Price M. Cobbs, Judith L. Turnock http://www.amanet.org/books/catalog/0814407714_ch.htm What did

    The South and support for slavery

    Why did the South continue to support slavery while the North had shifted to wage labor by this time? If there had not been a civil war do you believe that slavery would have died out on its own?

    Manager / Employee relations

    This solution provides the learner with an understanding of the need to maintain good management / employee relations. This particular solution utilizes the example of maintaining employee morale to effect positive performance throughout the organization.

    Multi Factor and Labor Productivity

    Sud and Duds laundry washed and pressed the following number of dress shirts per week. week work crew total hours shirts 1 sud and dud 24 68 2 sud and dud 46 130 3 sud, dud, and jud 62 152 4 s

    Legal Union Question

    This is all I can filter out from your given website. Is there anyway you can help me to use this law and tie with this question and response. I am having so hard time to put it and tie with this question. One or two paragraph should be fine THank you Q#3 Some of the employees of Alpha Computers, Inc., decide that they

    Cost Accounting

    I need assistance with the following problemS: Looker Hats is planning to sell 600 felt hats, and 700 will be produced during June. Each hat requires ½ yard of felt and ¼ hour of direct labor. Felt costs $3.00 per yard and employees of the company are paid $20 per hour. How much is the total amount of budgeted direct labo

    Direct Labor Hour Costs

    Co allocates overhead on the basis of direct labor hours. It allocates overhead costs of $4,000 to two different jobs as follows: Job 1:(10 hours)=$2,000 Job 2:(10 hours)-$2,000 Assume, that the production process for Job 1 was automated. Now Job 1 requires only 2 hours of direct labor but 4 hours of mechanical processing. As

    Human Resource Manager

    I need help in developing what a HR manager would want to see for Fresh graduate from college HR management would want to see on attached skill sets. Please just look at the skills required as they are outline and help present ideas of what I can use to sell myself with your expert experience. I really want this job but I have n

    Union Avoidance

    Labor unions provide valuable protection and representation for workers in many industries. The management in almost all companies would prefer not to have unions to deal with. Unions complicate management's relationship with their workers and add regulations and procedures that must be followed. In many cases, management also o