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Career-Planning Websites, 2004.
This paper discusses career-planning websites.
1,560 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper explains that career assessment, important to determining the correct career path, can be attained through many sources including online websites. The author evaluates two sites and finds them defective: Maryland?s CareerNet and a website by the Arizona State University Career Services. The paper suggests that an improved career-planning site includes an online interactive quiz to give people an idea of careers of which they might be interested, links to available jobs in their area, capability to post resumes and to review information about the employer, and has counselors available by telephone and Instant Messenger.
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"The first CareerNet link I followed was to the ?My Future? website (http://www.myfuture.com). The first note about this site is that it is extremely pro-military, while trying to hide behind the facade of a non-biased website, and this not-very-subtle propaganda is undeniably in poor taste. The Career Toolbox section of this site includes assistance with resume and cover letter writing, interview preparation, more military propaganda, and quizzes. The Work Interest Quiz is the main career assessment activity. These 60 statements each have a check box next to them, and if any of these activities line up with the interests of the quiz-taker, they are to be marked."
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Child Labor, 2004.
This paper discusses the problem of child labor, especially in Istanbul, Turkey.
1,735 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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This paper explains that most of the children engaging in child labor live in underdeveloped countries of Latin America, Africa, and Asia, where living conditions for these children are crude and opportunities for education minimal; however, their income is necessary for the survival of their families, providing the basic essentials. The author points out that many small enterprises are completely dependent on child labor, and the bulk of child labor occurs in rural areas and is usually associated with traditional family economic activities, such as farming or animal husbandry. The paper stresses that child prostitution, a worldwide, urban, social phenomenon, is considered one of the worst contemporary forms of slavery and one of the most difficult and dangerous forms of child labor.
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"Industrialization in many countries has created working conditions for children that equal the worst features of the nineteenth century factories and mines. Much of the effort to eliminate child-labor abuses throughout the world has come from the International Labor Organization, ILO, which was founded in 1919 and is now a special agency of the United Nations. The ILO has introduced several child-labor conventions, including a minimum age of sixteen years for admission to all work, a higher minimum age for specific types of employment, compulsory medical examinations, and regulation of night work."
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"Work Sister Work", 2005.
Report on Shields and Shields's book about the place of black women in the American work force.
2,652 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 79.95
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This paper describes the content of the book, "Work Sister Work", its focus, and the authors' intended purpose in writing the book. The paper also explains that, in addition to providing useful information about not only black women in the workplace, but about the place of all women in the workplace and the changes in the American work force, as well as government efforts to improve the situation, the paper also focuses on how black women, in particular, can empower themselves so that they may survive and thrive in today's workplace.
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"The idea of many of establishing a work force that reflects the diversity of the nation was one of the underlying purposes for affirmative action programs to bring more women and members of racial minorities into the work force. For most of America's history, much of the work force consisted primarily of white males. This has long been true especially in white collar jobs and in managerial positions. The composition of the work force did not reflect the reality of the American populace--women comprise slightly more than half the population, and a growing segment of the population consists of racial minorities. Even as these other groups have moved into the work force, they have tended to do so at lower levels and not to rise to managerial positions, where the white male continued to dominate."
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Positive and Negative Consequences of Union Strikes, 2005.
A look at the impact of union labor strikes on labor conditions.
1,124 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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Labor strikes by union workers have become a part of American history. This paper discusses how the consequences of such strikes are positive or negative depending on who is reviewing the outcomes. The writer explains how labor strikes once were usually a matter of human rights; now, more often than not, they revolve around the bottom-line issues of wages and health care.
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"Motivations for strikers vary, such as higher wages, better benefits, bargaining rights, legislation, job control and dignity, as well as to unite for fellow workers of another race, religion, ethnicity, or sex (Strikes pp). And the results of such strikes have been just as varied, from motivating groundbreaking legislation that defined new rights for all citizens as well as the workers, to the destruction of laborers? organization and the loss of livelihoods (Strikes pp). Moreover, strikes have shaped the future of corporations and the overall economy, as well as political culture on the federal and local level (Strikes pp)."
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Rooftop Safety, 2005.
A report on rooftop safety, a major issue in workplace safety.
5,685 words (approx. 22.7 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 137.95
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This paper presents a discussion of the various regulations in place regarding rooftop safety, as well as the safety equipment and programs used by contractors to ensure the safety of their workers. The paper also takes a look at how well different companies comply with the regulations in actual practice.
Rooftop Accidents
Standards
Informal Survey
Conclusion
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"Surveys show the nature and incidence of different accidents in the workplace, and such statistics then serve as the impetus for further regulations, for tightening existing regulations, and for increased enforcement to reduce the problem. A report from 1988 showed how high the rate was at that time, and reports showed that the incidence rate of almost 20 occupational injuries and illnesses per 100 full?time workers in roofing and sheet metal work was much higher than that for all construction, the category considered the most hazardous major industry grouping."
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Telecommuting, 2004.
A discussion on the role of telecommuting in today's workforce.
3,133 words (approx. 12.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 91.95
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This paper examines how telecommuting is the act of periodically working out of the main office one or more days a week, either at home or at a telework center. It looks at how research has found that the benefits of telecommuting include increased productivity, improved familial relationships, and decreases in absenteeism. Telecommuters also appear to have increased job satisfaction and increased motivation. In contrast, it shows how a major hindrance to the implementation of a successful telecommuting strategy is the lack of effective communication technology and how many telecommuting employees often feel isolated and overlooked for promotions.
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Introduction
Review of Literature
Benefits
Communications
Action Plan for Improving Work Group Performance
Methodology
Analysis and Findings
Summary and Conclusion
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"Blackwell et al (2002) argues that many employees also have difficulty with the cost associated with securing communications between telecommuters and employers. Employers explain, ?Employer's concerns about supervising teleworkers, the security of sensitive information and the effect of telecommuting on profits often prevent private sector companies from implementing or using telecommuting programs (Blackwell et al 2002).? The authors explain that the current communication methods such as the internet and email require a great deal of security. Hackers, viruses and worms are very real threats that can devastate the infrastructure of a large organization."
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Psychosocial Hazards, 2005.
A research proposal intended to look at how specific work events lead to health and emotional problems.
2,839 words (approx. 11.4 pages), 19 sources, APA, $ 84.95
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This research proposal provides an analysis of problems with current measures of psychosocial hazards and then investigates the theories that underlie how work events lead to emotional and physical reactions. This research proposal then proposes to help further the theoretical understanding of the interaction between stress and health reactions. Specifically, this proposal attempts to continue to determine the nature of stresses that lead to harm within the context of Siegrist and Peter's earned reward imbalance model. This study also attempts to determine the core expectations, as defined within Siegrist and Peter's earned reward imbalance model, and hypothesizes that these expectations include immediate expectations of specific salary requirements, wage increases, working conditions, and social and emotional feedback, as well as longer-term expectations about status.
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"There is an established link between psychosocial hazards, stress, and physical injuries such as musculoskeletal injuries. Specifically, monotonous work coupled with time pressures and a rate of high perceived injuries are associated with musculoskeletal symptoms. Such symptoms are also closely linked to a lack of social support by colleagues, and low job control, with stress acting as an intermediary between psychosocial hazards and musculoskeletal symptoms (Bongers et al, 1993). Further, high job strain (as determined by the Karasek and Thorell demand-control model) has been linked to back injuries (Myers et al, 1999). A review by Devereux and Buckle (2000) confirmed this existing link between physical symptoms and stress, and noted that neck-shoulder pain and lower back pain were predicted by work-related stress."
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The Minimum Wage, 2004.
This paper argues that the minimum wage should not be abolished in the United States.
830 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 29.95
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This paper argues that the minimum wage law must not be abolished in the United States because it provides advantages both to the labor force and our economy. The author points out that the minimum wage law protects every employee from exploitation in terms of salary. The paper stresses that the view that the minimum wage law reduces jobs is a fallacy because the United States had already experienced quite a number of minimum wage increases with no negative consequences for the nation.
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"Aside from the unemployment problem that might arise if the minimum wage will be abolished, the consequences of such problem will greatly affect our economy. An employee, who is paid only a small amount of money, in an instance when there no longer exist a minimum wage law, will face negative changes in his standard of living. There can be a possibility that his salary can no longer sustain his daily needs."
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McDonald?s Corporation, 2004.
This paper identifies current labor issues facing the McDonald?s Corporation and offers recommendations to improve the situation.
2,205 words (approx. 8.8 pages), 16 sources, APA, $ 68.95
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This paper explains that some of the human resource issues identified for the McDonald Corporation are: Low motivation and a high turnover rate within the lower tier of the workforce, balancing the needs of worker compensation and restaurant profit by the site manager, and training of the lower-tier workers on site. The author proposes a pilot project of 30 restaurants in different locations in the U.S. to test the effectiveness of using local managers and supervisors to train, motivate, and give guidance counseling. The paper stresses that, although all HR policies are the result of testing out a number of plans and strategies, it is important that management be wary of making the employees skeptical by constantly changing HR policies and agendas.
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Introduction
Existing Conditions in McDonald's Corporation
Issues Identified and Discussed
Recommendations
Timeline for Change and Financial Cost
Conclusion
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"Human resource management is becoming a strategic planning medium for many organizations. At McDonalds, ?the corporate ethos and management system are rigidly imposed, detailed operating manuals followed to the letter and an extensive field organization checks on each store to enforce standards. Every foreign operator attends hamburger universities and international sessions with other members of ?McDonald's Family?.? The HR department at McDonald?s, especially at the corporate level, is becoming a strategic partner for the organization, as it is a purveyor of the most important asset a company controls?the human asset. The human element cost is the most variable for the McDonald Corporation worldwide and there are always serious analysis being conducted to ensure that this element is aggressively monitored."
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"The Wealth of Nations", 2004.
Examines how Adam Smith envisioned human harmony in economics in his famous work.
759 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 0 sources, $ 27.95
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Adam Smith?s seminal text "The Wealth of Nations" stands as a tribute to the value of capitalism. Fundamentally, its author espouses an optimistic faith in the essential rationalism of human society and human desires. The paper shows how Smith believes in the ability of human economic impulses to balance one another in a state of equilibrium involving supply, costs, and consumer demand, if there is no interference by outside forces. Smith suggests that there is an 'invisible hand' that guides market forces in a harmonious way and that the state should not interfere with it. The state should only enforce laws so conflict between human beings is kept to a minimum and so the economy can function. The paper explains that the existence of this 'invisible hand' is not generated purely by the economy, but by the nature of modern, human social life that Smith believes is, in its essence, rational and good.
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"Smith allows that there is a different kind of value attached by the market to money, as money has a place setting value rather than a value in its intrinsic utility, as in a barter system of goods. Still, Smith believes that the market will always set a fair natural value for a good, based upon the labor required to make a good and the good?s costs of production, and the rent expended by the manufacturer. Natural prices made up of wages, profit and rent may be distinct from the market price as determined by supply and demand but the natural price and the market price usually or eventually meet in a state of equilibrium."
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Workplace Safety, 2005.
A look at the Total Safety Management (TSM) philosophy and process developed by David L. Goetsch.
759 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 27.95
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This paper describes David L. Goetsch's approach to maintaining and establishing a safe and healthy work environment. The paper explains the rationale of Goetsch's approach, describes his belief that the culture of a company is an important element in the establishment of a safe work environment, and outlines the TSM implementation measures.
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"It is also dependent upon altering the culture of organizations that adopt it, which means altering the organization?s ?customs, tradition, rites and rituals? (Goetsch, 1997, p. 15) if necessary to implant the safety-consciousness needed for TSM to work as envisioned. TSM acknowledges that organizations that rely on conventional safety leadership approaches very often fail to inspire optimal safety-related attitudes and behaviors in their employees. Organizations relying on conventional safety and leadership approaches often fail to inspire the necessary safety-related behaviors and attitudes in their employees. (INEL Web site, 2004, total safety culture page)"
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