Industrial relations is named a field of employment relationship, which should be equal between employers and employees (management and unions). Industrial relations pressure is always shown as pay and conditions. Industrial relations in 2011 will be remembered for the dramatic October grounding of the Qantas fleet of aircraft due to disagreement with pay and conditions between Qantas management and unions. As a role of Qantas management, facing with global financial crisis 2008 the company f...
Reward presents all the tangible benefits and provisions an employee obtains as a part of "employment relationship" (Milkovich and Newman, 2004); while Malhotra et al. (2007) illustrate that "work rewards" indicate the benefits workers receive from their workplace and are considered the determinants of job commitment and satisfaction. Bratton and Gold (2003) also define "rewards" as all the cash, non-cash and psychological payments provided by an organization to employee in return for their c...
Huawei Technologies was founded in 1998 by Ren Zhengfei who is a former People's Liberation Army officer and telecom engineer. It was incorporated as a private enterprise which manufactures telecommunications equipments for domestic Chinese companies at a much lower price than its international competitors. And since the beginning, Zhengfei's vision was to build innovation capability into the company. However, contrary to the China's policy of "exchanging market for technology," Zhengfei is c...
How Has The Management Of Industrial Relations In Britain Changed In The Last Three Decades? What Does This Tell Us About The Respective Roles And Influence Of Employers, Management, Trade Unions And The State In Industrial Relations? This paper attempts to examine the changes which have taken place during the 1980s, the 1990s and the period 2000-2010 within the field of industrial relations. According to Edwards (2003:9) The employment relationship is by definition a relationship between an ...
For the employment relations, there is complicate and compelling area of study which involves relationships with employees, employers, trade unions and government on a regular basis. At the same time, there are three perspectives which are unitarism, pluralist and radical, each offers a special perception of workplace relations and explain the actions, statements and employers behaviours and trade unionists, such as workplace conflict, role of unions and job regulation vary differently. Based...
Abstract One requirement of dynamic business environment now a day is the retention of honest, qualified, skilled and hardworking human resource. In an established organization the human resource/workers are provided on-the-job trainings, foreign courses and other professional related experience at the cost of company's expenditure. Such a well trained and highly professional staff's turnover is actually very shocking and is a great loss for the company. This study is an examination of effect...
Introduction Socometal is joint ventures were 52% owned by French company and 48% by Senegalese it deals with metal container and can. 150-800 are working in the company for the past 20 years with the profit of $144 million. Analysis In this case study we can find three important people they are Diop is a Senegalese engineer (Asst Production Manager), Mr Olveir Bernard is a production Manager from France and N'Diaye is a factory worker. African Management systems are followed in running the c...
A London based company which deals with the chemical products named Allied Ltd has all together seventy staff members and almost thirty of the staff members are doing the same type of administration or clerical work and the other forty employees are related to the technical work in the production of the chemical. Company is bearing heavy losses since last two years only the reason is that there is an incompetent person who cannot develop good policies for the smooth working of the company. Co...
This report briefly discusses the concept of Toyota Production System/ Lean manufacturing that Japanese Methodology introduced by Saichi Toyoda, the concept of value chain established by Professor Michael Porter in 1985 and lower waste and competitive advantages of the Lean Manufacturing. All through this report discus about the Toyota Company. In the first part of this report describe about the Lean Manufacturing of selected company. It is critically evaluate the Lean Production which is see...
This first group assignment constitutes 30% of your overall grade for this module. All questions must be answered satisfactorily. The case study set below is about Opito oil and Gas Company that has over the years transformed its fortune to one of the most successful organisations in the industry. Using this case study, you are required to produce a report which demonstrates your understanding of the basic reasons behind the organisation success. This report should clearly indicate in princip...