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Human Resource Management
1. What are the strengths of TRW’s approach to widespread organisational change aimed at performance improvements?2. What are the limitations of this approach?
What, if any, are the ethical implications of wireless real-time production and employee performance measurement?
Why is employee involvement described as unitarist?
1. Why do critics argue that employee involvement as part of a wider HRM approach represents ‘pseudo-participation’?2. Do employees in British workplaces have the ability to influence key
Do organisations make most use of formal or informal modes of voice?Might the balance be related to the size of the organisation?What are the advantages of each?
Consider an organisation with which you are familiar. To what extent is there evidence of the use of HPM practices?
If HRM genuinely seeks to empower workers, why should it be associated with ‘employee involvement rather than participation’?
Trade union membership has declined significantly over the last 30 years or so. Does this indicate that unions no longer have an important role to play in the workplace?
How might the collapse in trade union membership best be explained? Is the form of ‘voice’ provided by the presence of strong and autonomous trade unionism always compatible with organisational
Does the collapse of collective bargaining in the private sector indicate that workers have ‘lost their voice’ or are there effective alternatives?
1. Was New Labour’s ‘third way’ (1997–2010) a genuine departure from Conservative policy (1979–97)?2. Did New Labour adopt a ‘unitary’ or ‘pluralist’ approach as the basis for their
Do the data on trade union membership indicate that the unions are in terminal decline? What opportunities exist for the rejuvenation of their fortunes?
Do workers in non-union organisations have the same ability to influence their terms and conditions of employment as their unionised counterparts?
1. Are EWCs likely to result in European level collective bargaining?2. Does the evidence suggest that the EWC directive has significantly increased the degree of employee influence in MNCs? If
1. Why might employers object to employees having legally mandated rights to consultation?2. How might consultation improve the quality of the decision-making process?3. Could the ICE directive form
1. What does Toyota’s commitment tell us about the embeddedness of the Japanese Business and HR model in some Japanese Firms?2. What is it that enables Toyota and other firms such as Honda and
1. Why is it necessary for Mercedes to do this in its global operations?2. Does the global rollout of a German approach to VET represent a strong country-of-origin effect or Mercedes’s aspiration
1. How are informal workers defined? What are the different categories of informal workers?2. Why are the informal workers so ‘visible’ in the region? Where does their dissatisfaction stem from?
To what extent are the growth trajectories of China and India sustainable in the face of rising inequalities?
1. How did the negotiations begin? Which side talked the most in the beginning? Does each side have a clear understanding of the purpose of the negotiations?2. What behaviors of the negotiators seem
16-10. Your best friend is considering a job offer from a foreign-owned firm. He knows you have studied this issue at your university and asks for your assessment of the pros and cons of accepting
What steps should multinational companies take to ensure that their suppliers meet at least minimum standards for workplace health and safety?
It’s sometimes been said, “The best union organizer is the boss.” Do you agree? Why or why not.
Prepare three arguments to support each of the following positions:(a) Unions are no longer relevant today, and(b) Unions are still relevant today.
What changes might you suggest to Social Security to ensure that it can meet the needs of younger generations?
If you could change just one feature of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to make it more effective, what would you suggest?
Develop a research question or hypothesis where talent analytics might reveal the financial and nonfinancial effects of diversity.
What steps can you take as a manager to become more effective in a work environment that is more diverse than ever?
Collect two policies on EEO, sexual harassment, or family and medical leave from two different employers in your area. How are they similar (or different)? Which aspects of the policies support the
Does investing in the safety of employees pay off for employers or not?
How did McWane deal with workers’ compensation claims?
Why wasn’t OSHA more effective in dealing with McWane? Are the penalties that OSHA can impose sufficient to deal with employers like McWane?
What do you think about the growing use of payroll cards by employers? Should this be legal? Why or why not?
What are the effects of Hooters’ employment policies on women? Do they foster an environment in which harassment is more likely?
Would a bar whose clientele is primarily gay men be justified in limiting server and bar tender jobs to men?
Why have the EEOC and courts not produced a more definitive statement regarding the legality of the practices of firms like Hooters? Are males being disadvantaged by Hooters’ employment practices
How do we determine the essence of a business, particularly one that combines sex-neutral job tasks (e.g., waiting tables) with elements of sexuality and sex appeal? To what extent should the
A number of cities and states have removed questions about prior criminal convictions from applications for public employment. Advocates of this approach, which has been dubbed “ban the box,”are
Choose a few different types of occupations (e.g., police officer; systems analyst; nurse’s aide; janitor).a) How would you assess the foreseeability of harm that attaches to each of these
1. What source of power does Judi have, and what type of power is she using?2. (a) What source of power does Chris have, and(b) What type of power is he using during the meeting?(c) Is the memo a
Explain at least three tips to get ahead that you can use to improve your chances of getting a job, raises, and promotions.
Define the following 14 key terms.
Identify five human relations objective for the course.
Identify your personal low and high human relations ability/skill levels.
How would you approach human resource management if you were starting a company like Technology Consultants?
Which human resource practices would you recommend that Technology Consultants change?
Why do you think employee satisfaction leads to customer satisfaction?
How would you summarize the most important concepts you have learned about human resource management?
What advice do you think would be helpful for someone beginning a career as a human resource professional?
How do you believe current societal trends will influence future human resource strategies and practices?
What specific methods of selecting and compensating employees do you think a small business should use?
Which do you think is more important: vertical alignment or horizontal alignment?
If you were a graduate student at State University, would you vote for the union? Why?
Do you think the administration’s response is appropriate?
Do you think a union would help resolve the complaints of the teaching assistants?
Which of the 13 principles do you think was most difficult for management to accept? Which principles do you think are most critical for making the partnership work?
What issues make some labor strikes more successful than others? What factors do you think make it difficult for the National Hockey League players’ union to be effective in advocating the
What do you think causes younger male workers who are highly skilled to file more grievances?
Although you are probably not a union member, think about ways in which unions have influenced your life. What have unions done to improve your life? What have they done to make your life
Why do you think fewer union organizing campaigns are successful today than in the past?
Do you think union membership will decrease in the public sector? Why or why not?
Is new legislation needed to better regulate relationships between organizations and labor unions? What legal reforms do you think might be helpful?
What issues do you think are responsible for declining union membership? Do you believe membership will increase in the future? Why or why not?
If you were a union organizer, where would you focus your efforts? What type of people do you think are most likely to join a union today?
Many news articles discuss high compensation for CEOs. What justification do organizations have for paying CEOs millions of dollars each year? Do you think CEOs are paid too much? Why?
Is it a good idea for the government to give tax incentives to organizations for providing employee benefits? Why or why not?
Do you think social security has benefited or harmed workers? Do you think social security will be available when you retire?
What type of person do you think might be attracted to work in an organization that has relatively low wages but extensive benefits?
What are some specific jobs in which you would be comfortable having a high percentage of pay at risk? What are some jobs in which you would prefer having guaranteed pay? What is the
Do minimum wage laws help society? Why or why not? Do you think the current minimum wage is set at the right level? If not, what do you think a fair rate might be?
Do you think child labor laws are really necessary in modern countries like the United States?
Which do you think is most fair: job-based pay or skill-based pay? Why?
How would you react if you learned that your professor was going to pay $100 to the two individuals with the highest scores on the next exam? Would your study effort change? Would your
What things other than compensation might encourage you to have a long career with a specific organization?
In organizations where you work, or will work, would you prefer compensation to be variable or uniform? Why?
How might you react if you learned that a co-worker who is new to the organization makes more money than you, even though you have five years’ experience? What theoretical perspectives
Have you ever attended an orientation program for work or for school? How useful was the orientation? Did the orientation cover everything it should have covered? What things were left out that you
Brainstorm a list of jobs in which you might be interested. Classify these according to the World of Work map. Is there a pattern to these jobs? Does the placement on the map give you other ideas for
Choose a particular job in which you are interested. Research the job to see if licenses are required or certificates are offered. If so, why do you think this is the case? If not, what does that
Consider the difference between a traditional career and a Protean career. Does one sound more appealing to you? If so, why? If you choose traditional career, can you think of industries and
If you were asked to develop a training program for these sales agents, what content, method, and media would you choose?
Consider the classes you have taken throughout school. How have they been evaluated? What purpose or purposes do you think these evaluations have served?
Have you ever taken an online course or another form of distance education, such as a correspondence course? How was the experience different from a traditional face-to-face class?
Consider the classes you have taken throughout school. Which classes were the most beneficial for you? Do you attribute that to the classes’ content, methods, media, or some other factor?
It is often easy to confuse training methods and training media. Consider the human resources course you are currently taking. What are the methods and what are the media being used?
How do you react to negative feedback? What might you do to help yourself and others benefit more from negative feedback?
What are some situational influences that affect your performance as a student? Would it be fair for professors to take into account situational influences when assigning grades?
Why do you think instances of counterproductive performance are rising? What do you think should be done to decrease counterproductive performance? Is teaching ethics in management classes a good
Which do you think is most important: task performance, citizenship performance, or counterproductive performance? Why?
Would you prefer working under a merit-based or parity-based performance management system?
How do you think you would personally react to the task of laying off workers?
Can you identify a time when a low-performing individual has not been disciplined by a leader? How did the lack of discipline affect the poor performer? How did it affect other workers or team
What things keep you embedded in your current situation? Are there personal and family factors that encourage you to keep your life as it is? Can you identify social relationships that might
Which dimensions of job satisfaction are most important to you? Would you accept less pay to work in a job with better coworkers? How important is doing work that you find enjoyable?
What are some specific events that might cause you to leave an organization without having found a different job?
What factors have influenced your perceptions about these companies?
Do you think you would be successful in a job that allowed you to do telework? What challenges do you think you would face?
Would you like to work a compressed work week? Why or why not?
Do you think any of the four job design approaches (mechanistic, motivational, perceptual, biological) will become more important in the future? Why? Do you think any of the approaches will become
Would you rather work in an organization using mechanistic job design principles or an organization using motivational principles?
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