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wage-rate bargain - Ans--How much someone will be paid for the work that
they agree to do.
- the first agreement of employment
capitalist economy - Ans--private ownership of capital, allocation of
resources through market mechanisms, and profit imperative
Profit imperative - Ans--The need to profit or fail
- puts pressure on organizations to cheapen labour
Employer's interests - Ans--Maximize profits and profitability while
controlling working conditions
Worker's interests - Ans--making the most money for the least amount of
work while being safe
social relationship - Ans--Organizations require the cooperation from both
workers and employers to be successful
labour market - Ans--The market where labour is bought and sold. People
supply their labour and it is in turn demanded by firms.
wage-effort bargain - Ans--how hard employees agree to work, given the
terms and conditions of the contract
conflict of interests - Ans--employers seek to maximize outputs and
minimize costs while employees seek maximum wages and minimum
workload
Human Resource Management - Ans--consists of the activities managers
perform to plan for, attract, develop, and retain an effective workforce
- intended to maximize the profitability of employing workers
,parts of HRM - Ans---Job analysis
-recruitment and selection
- skills training and orientation
Two perspectives of HRM - Ans--1. competitive advantage depends on
happy and committed workplace
2. tight control of labour costs combined with close supervision of workers
create profitability
human capital - Ans--Employee's talents, training, experience, judgement,
and intellect
- adds economic value
return on investment - Ans--human capital grows within the organization
and creates profits and return on the investment from the employer
Unatarist perspective - Ans--workers and employees have common
interest
- HRM decisions reflect the best way to achieve common goal
Pluralist view - Ans--conflict between employers and workers is endemic
because of the diverging interests
- distribution of profit and control of the workplace creates conflicts
social reproduction - Ans--social construct that women are responsible for
bearing, raising, and educating children.
- also for taking care of the elderly
male norms - Ans--many aspects of the industry are suited for men and not
women.
- job design, safety, management design
- job design assumes that employment is primary task and that social
reproduction will be taken care of by someone else
common law contract - Ans--when an employer and an individual employee
negotiate a contract covering pay and conditions
- duties, remuneration, wage rate bargain
, Employer common law obligation - Ans--1. work and remuneration
2. notice of termination
3. safe worksite
4. vicariously liable
workers common law obligations - Ans--1. good faith and fidelity
2. the duty to obey
3. perform work competently
4. provide resignation notice
good faith and fidelity - Ans--a worker must act in a manner that is consistent
with advancing the employer's interests
statutory law - Ans--extension of common law that creates new laws and
obligations for employers and employees
types of statutory law - Ans---employment standards
- labour relations
- occupational health and safety
- worker's compensation
-privacy legislation
-pay and employment equity
direct discrimination - Ans--when someone is treated unfavourably
because of a personal characteristic protected by the law
- gender, race ,age
Indirect discrimination - Ans--employment policies that discriminate against
an individual or a group based on criteria that is neither job related nor
required for safe and efficient operations
Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ) - Ans--a necessary (not
merely preferred) qualification for performing a job
Duty to accommodate - Ans--Requirement that an employer must
accommodate the employee to the point of "undue hardship"