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Fair Labor Standards Labor Standards Act
1,861 wordsAlternative Schedules offer both the employer and employee a versatile and innovative work scheduling program in the work place. In recent years, the importance of flexible and compressed work schedules have been enhanced by the emergence of work and family issues. As the workforce ages, becomes more culturally diverse, and women make up a greater percentage of the work force, management officials are grappling with ways to resolve conflicts that arise when an employee's work and family responsi...
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Flexible Work Arrangements Employee Satisfaction
1,056 wordsNeeds, values and priorities of employees and employers have changed dramatically over the last decade. On all rungs of the corporate ladder, men and women are seeking new ways to manage the time they spend working so they can spend more time living. In the boardrooms, executives are seeking ways to attract - and retain - the best employees so they can continue to survive and thrive in a highly competitive global economy. Interestingly enough, solutions to the changing needs and priorities of bo...
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Stress Management In The International Workplace
1,314 wordsIn the context of a burgeoning economy and the growing influence of "Americanised" work cultures and practices in a number of workplaces, stress at work has increased in Ireland in recent years. The management of workplace stress is thus an important contemporary issue in 2001. Recent research indicates that deficiencies in the management and organization of work are the main causes of stress at work, and that workplace stress may have a number of negative consequences for workers and employers,...
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Total Quality Management Product Or Service
2,566 wordsRe-engineering, lean and agile production, Total Quality Management (TQM), team concept, flexibility. These are the buzzwords of late 20 th Century capitalism and they are having a profound impact on the lives of working people around the world. These are practices that over the last decade have become entrenched in large-scale manufacturing. While the auto industry was the first to pioneer and perfect many of the concepts associated with lean production, they have spread to other industries. Pu...
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How To Balance Quality Of Life And Work
1,641 wordsHow to Balance Quality of Life and Work Organizational behavior as a science is based on several important aspects of management, such as management from the position of psychology and human relations, and behavioral concepts. The main components of organizational behavior are: social interaction, motivation, power and leadership, organizational and communicative system, substantive ness of the work and quality of life (Hammer, 1994). The effectiveness of organization directly depends on effecti...
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Flexible Work Arrangements Reduce The Amount
1,589 wordsIf the workplace of today could be characterized by a single theme, it would most likely focus on the continual presence of change. Dramatic changes in technology, the marketplace and the workforce have compelled organizations to re-evaluate not only the competitiveness of their products, but also the core ways in which work is performed. It is out of this pursuit for continued survival that organizations have been faced with the notion of varying work-schedules beyond the traditional hours of n...
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Human Resource Department Desert Storm
1,377 wordsNON-TRADITIONAL WORKING HOURS IMPROVE EMPLOYEE MORALE 038; INCREASE PRODUCTIVITYPrepared for Mr. Robert Pigg, President Lakedale Manufacturing 1 Desert Storm Drive Niceville, FL 33870 Prepared by Human Resource Department Lakedale Manufacturing 320 Ardennes Street Arabia, NC 28357 Lakedale Manufacturing Human Resource Department 320 Ardennes Street Arabia, NC 28357 Mr. Robert Pigg, President Lakedale Manufacturing 1 Desert Storm Drive Niceville, FL 33870 Dear Mr. Pigg: Here is the report on t...
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Flexible Work Arrangements Hewlett Packard
2,797 wordsExecutive Summary For years, workers have been searching for a way to balance their personal and professional lives. Finally, companies have implemented a solution for this problem, flexible work schedules. The impact flexible work schedule s have had on organizations have been quite positive, benefiting both the employer and the employee. Such benefits include increase in productivity, employee retention, motivation, and a decrease in absenteeism, tardiness, stress, and turnovers. Companies tha...
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Conflict Resolution Mission Statement
4,758 wordsLewis 038; Lewis, P. C. is a small, Jackson-based accounting firm that employs thirty-five people and was founded by Phil Willis in 1968. It exhibits many interesting aspects of organizational behavior, which we will examine below from several perspectives. After examining the companys current policies and practices, we will evaluate its status in the transition from the old to the new model of organization, and recommend some changes that may improve the way Lewis 038; Lewis operates. Fro...
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