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The Role of the Social Worker

may treat addicts and want them to achieve sobriety, but a harm reduction approach may be much easier to achieve and actually acco...

International Trade : Threat or Opportunity

of 766,000 jobs in the U.S. (Campbell, Salas and Scott, 2001). This job loss had the most impact on unskilled and semi-skilled wor...

Against Trade Liberalization

to the extent that they are dealing with ethical companies. In far too many instances - the old Nike sweatshops, Union Carbide in...

Governmental Policies That Affect Workforce Development Networks In Adult Education

development necessarily flourish from assuming they want to and will fit into what is needed or what exists" (Schimel, 2008). ...

Problems in the Meat-Packing Industry

problems in the industry. Yet, while it is arguable as to the degree of safety problems inherent in the industry, it is safe to sa...

CAREER DEVELOPMENT PATHS FOR EMPLOYEES

communication. For example, Carol Stanleys e-mail to Janet Durham is right on - the message needs to be gotten out that no one is ...

Employment Legal Issues

protected. The statement from Newcorps Personnel Manual suggests that progressive discipline would be implemented prior to a perso...

The Importance of Unions: Construction Workers

where they are not discriminatory at all, nor can they be. Unions raise the wages of people who do not have college degrees, but c...

Contemporary Workforce and Flexibility

In ten pages a flexible workforce and its signficance are discussed in a comparative analysis of worker flexibility in Germany, Gr...

LINKING PRODUCTIVITY TO EMPLOYEE EMPOWERMENT

This 5-page paper explains the tie-in between employee empowerment and an increase in worker productivity. A research model is als...

Groupware Essentials

then utilizing a group is the human element and overcoming the resistance that will be present. Employees may need to read a conce...

Redesigning Jobs After a Merger

reveals these are two of their primary complaints (Koprowski, 2003). For example, the managers may offer nurses in this newly-merg...

Ethics at Nike

Nike is often criticized, with the accusation that they are an unethical company exploiting low paid workers in developing countri...

Reviewing Burawoy's Text on Manufacturing Consent

had in the early part of the twentieth century when workers rights were important and factory work was paramount. Today, much of t...

Are Less Developed Countries' Workers Exploited?

exploiters whilst the workers in the third world or developing nations, have been seen as the exploited. Whilst this may be seen a...

Tough Economic Times and Corporate Ethics

(2002). Although that is the case, there is still at least some attention to the feelings and needs of employees and a bit more re...

Michael K. Honey's Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights Organizing Memphis Workers

from different classes and races integrating with the mainstream. These barriers extended into practically every aspect of Memphi...

Leaders of Social Movements and Their Challenges

good work in his book appropriately titled Good Work. Authors essentially provide a review of controversial professions, like gene...

Brazil's Landless Workers Movement Overview

rural poverty to urban poverty (Plummer and Ranum, 2002). Between 25 and 50 percent of every citys population live in shantytowns ...

1911's Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

hours and poor pay" (Kovacik, 1998, p. 137) - had decided to stay late that particular March Saturday in 1911. With a standard we...

The Workers Group in the Banana Time Case

a particular task. There are also several types of work groups which are consistent within work places. The additive work group oc...

Airlines and Macroeconomics

different prices for it. Then there is the difference between First Class and Coach - for thousands of dollars more, a select grou...

Social Workers Leadership and Management

purposes; cost savings achieved through process improvement; or marketing innovation emerging from a "brainstorming" session. The...

Laborer Impacts of Changes to the Economy

and early 20th centuries that workers began believing that they, too, had rights. Throughout the prosperous 20s and into the Depre...

Background and Events of the Wars of the Roses

we start with the last king of the Plantagent line we have a good starting point. Edward III had seven sons, although two died ear...

Public Sector and Challenges of Human Resources

that mandate all adults work. The old paradigm where there is a stay at home mom is no longer relevant. By and large, workers must...

Downsizing Problems in the Delaware Valley

has only happened in J.C. Penney or in the Delaware Valley. It is a trend that seemingly began to peak in the 1990s, but today, ma...

Human Service Workers and Ethical Decisions' Guidelines

someone in human services. After all, the most fundamental component of human services work is the fact that it is grounded in mor...

Distribution of Wealth and Democracy

1929. While profits soar, wages have steadily decreased and workers systematically laid off. The United States is predicated u...

Effects of Acquisitions and Mergers on Workers

because they are in such demand, the owners are able to command a premium price. In an acquisition, the biggest problem both compa...