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Recruitment And Selection Oxford Blackwell
1,809 words... e a woman, but the same argument gained credibility in employer-led Opportunity 2000 launched by Prime Minister John Major in the early 1990 s (Life, 1995). Line managers prefer informal sources of recruitment such as word-of-mouth recommendations or purchasing peoples names off the Professional and Executive Register and contacting them directly. This enables autonomy and unaccountability over the choice of successful applicant, and the stereotyped ideal recruit is white, male, aged 30 to 4...
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Personnel Managers Industrial Relations
3,214 wordsThis paper is the result of research into and reflection on the roles carried out by those who are responsible for managing the 'people' function within organisations. Whether these incumbents are called personnel or HR managers is not necessarily important; it is however critical to give recognition to the complexity of the task that faces those who have to take responsibility for this function. This paper raises two inter-related issues. First, in what sorts of activities do personnel managers...
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Personnel Managers Industrial Relations
3,155 words... inhering modern development schemes and who are accustomed to relating their activities directly to the company's Operational Plans, but also from engineers, currently in line management, who recognise in this post the opportunity to develop their own abilities in preparation for top general management posts within the Group in the future. (p. vii) Irish Times, Friday 13 September 1996... You will maintain specific global information standards and ensure ongoing systems integrity after imple...
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Collective Bargaining Trade Unions
2,227 words... ely presumed not to have been intended by the parties to be a legally contract unless the agreement - (b) contains a provision which (however expressed) states that the parties intend that the agreement shall be a legally (2) Any collective agreement which does satisfy these conditions in subsection (1) (a) and (b) above shall be conclusively presumed to have been intended by the parties to be a legally enforceable There are four main advantages claimed for the legal enforcement of (a) colle...
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Power The Federal Government And Union Movement
2,743 wordsWhen discussing power and its implications, one must take into account several key things: who the proponents are, what positions they hold, and what they have to gain from exercising power. Generally, it is obvious when power is employed, it is one group contesting the other, and an outcome is achieved by the exercise of power, usually by the group in the strongest position. However, often, relations become distorted when institutionalised power is at play, and likewise with people power groups...
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2,772 words... r the election in 1996, due to the fact that the industries concerned have a extraordinarily large union membership percentile (CMFEU 2001, web). The government saw these two unions as a threat to Industrial reforms, and formulated strategies to break their grip on the industries they represented. By the very force of their membership, the government knew that these unions were powerful enough to negate most attempts to shut them down. The government is generally reluctant to use the full ex...
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The General Strike Of 1926
1,224 wordster> Why did the General Strike of 1926 fail and what were the effects the strike had upon industrial relations in Britain? The General Strike of 1926 lasted only nine days and directly involved around 1. 8 million workers. It was the short but ultimate outbreak of a much longer conflict in the mining industry, which lasted from the privatisation of the mines after the First World War until their renewed nationalisation after the Second. The roots of the General Strike in Brita...
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Hospitality Industry Industrial Relations
1,201 wordsThe Food and Hospitality Industry has become one of the biggest employers in our state. It now has attained a much higher status in society and demands high standards of work from its employees. Employment opportunities are many, but eagerly sought by a vast majority of people. For this reason as in any other established business, interviews are conducted. Through these interviews, the interviewer looks for personal qualities and interpersonal skills in a prospective employee to fulfill the job ...
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The Role Of Conciliation In Industrial
1,213 wordsRelations Traditionally, Industrial relations in Australia has been governed by the process of arbitration. Dispute resolution and collective bargaining arrangements were all determined by the courts and / or Industrial Relations Tribunal. However, throughout the last three decades, the process of conciliation (mediation) has gained greater favour as a mechanism to maintain industrial harmony. This essay will be structured in 6 main divisions. Firstly, the introduction will provide a background ...
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Hard Times By Charles Part 1
2,522 wordsHard Times by Charles Dickens Outline I. Introduction. 1) Hard Times is essentially a didactic satire upon the Victorian social, industrial and educational systems. 2) Charles Dickens wrote Hard Times in 1854. 3) Dickens illustrates his condemnation of Victorian England through number of examples. II. Body 1) Dickens offers a wide range of characters from the upper class factory owner to the lowest class factory workers. 2) Bounderby's values and attitudes are indicative of the era of the indust...
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2,861 wordsHRM, soft and hard model. Human resource management is a distinctive approach to employment management which seeks to achieve competitive advantage through the strategic deployment of a highly committed and capable workforce, using an array of cultural, structural and personnel techniques (Storey J. , Human Resource Management - A Critical Text) First of all it should be noted that human resource management, or HRM, emerged as a practiced personnel function, promising flexibility, responsiveness...
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Collective Bargaining Collective Agreements
4,482 wordsBritain has one of the most developed systems of collective bargaining in the world, especially amongst manual workers. Its sophistication is one of the main reasons why British workers traditionally pressed less for the statutory provision of basic rights in the work place than their Continental colleagues. Most trade unionists prefer to put a grievance through procedure rather than go to an industrial tribunal. Dubin has described collective bargaining as the great social invention that has in...
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1,731 wordsTOPIC The major issue tody facing the Australian trade union movement has been the decline in union density. What have been the causes, and how have the unions responded to the challenge. Figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) in 2000, show that the decline in Australian union membership continues, despite the efforts of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), to stop the slide. The ABS reports that trade union membership has dropped to 28 percent of the total workf...
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1,704 wordsFigures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) in 2000, show that the decline in Australian union membership continues, despite the efforts of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), to stop the slide. The ABS reports that trade union membership has dropped to 28 percent of the total workforce, compared to 1992, where there was 40 percent. (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2000. ) Previous ABS findings show that these recent figures are part of a general trend, with no sligh...
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Industrial Relations Relations Act
1,353 wordsThe 1998 Waterfront Dispute was described by John Howard as a defining moment in Australia s industrial relations history. Do you agree with this statement? Support your view by discussing the events and outcomes of this dispute. John Howard s comment on the 1998 Waterfront dispute between the Maritime Union of Australia and Patrick Stevedores was a hypocritical and ignorant description of one of Australia s worst industrial relations disputes. The Australian Government considers that Australia ...
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Trade Union Movement First World War
2,437 wordsThe General Strike of 1926 Essay written by Michael Funk Why did the General Strike of 1926 fail and what were the effects the strike had upon industrial relations in Britain? The General Strike of 1926 lasted only nine days and directly involved around 1. 8 million workers. It was the short but ultimate outbreak of a much longer conflict in the mining industry, which lasted from the privatisation of the mines after the First World War until their renewed nationalisation after the Second. The ro...
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Labour Movement Economic Union
2,601 wordsP. 1 Unions are groups of working people who join to talk to employers about wages and conditions of work instead of workers talking to employers on an individual basis. 1 Because they speak for everybody, unions can get a better deal for each worker than one employee could by negotiating with the employer. As seen in the short movie WHY UNIONS? , non-unionized workers talks about the unfair treatment they experience in the work place. Through collective action, workers formed unions so they cou...
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Quot Quot Communist Manifesto
2,314 wordsEurope began the nineteenth century dominated by the romanticists. The realists changed the face of Europe once more by the middle of the nineteenth century. The importance of science and the industrialization of Europe characterized their movement. Where the romanticists believed in feelings, intuition, and imagination, the realists believed in a movement known as positivism, which applied the scientific method to the study of society. The authors of this period also changed their style of writ...
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5,526 wordsWhen discussing power and its implications, one must take into account several key things: who the proponents are, what positions they hold, and what they have to gain from exercising power. Generally, it is obvious when power is employed, it is one group contesting the other, and an outcome is achieved by the exercise of power, usually by the group in the strongest position. However, often, relations become distorted when institutionalised power is at play, and likewise with? people power? grou...
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1,455 wordsThe process of labor-management bargaining has evolved since its beginning in the early years of labor negotiations. Since the parties involved in collective bargaining are negotiating a formal contract that both are to be bound by, there are many stresses and tensions that permeate the process. Most early negotiations were filled with drama and emotionalism. The struggle has continued today to move toward a more rational process, whereby negotiations are conducted and settled on the facts and m...
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