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"DOWNSIZING AT AT&T
Company Selection & Research Question
During the 1990s, most Fortune 1000 firms in the United States have engaged in downsizing (Kets de Vries & Balazs, 1997). Further, the trend appears to be continuing. The ardent positions on each side of the downsizing phenomenon justifies the interest in downsizing as a research focus. Because the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) is a giant corporation and because the company is highly profitable, questions arose in relation to both motivations and possible outcomes when the company announced a massive downsizing initiative in 1995 that involved the elimination of 40,000 jobs (Norris, 1995). These questions motivated the selection of AT&T as the company for the focus of research on the downsizing issue."

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"DONS IN THE CONTEMPORARY NURSING HOME ENVIRONMENT
Introduction
This research examines some of the issues affecting the position and role of the Director of Nursing (DON) in contemporary nursing home environments. DONs are experiencing increasing difficulties in their attempts to fulfill their responsibilities as the health care environment in the United States continues in a period of transition.

DONs and Transition in the Health Care Environment
An increasing number of nursing homes, in the pursuit of goals related to both efficiency and effectiveness, are implementing reorganization schemes that frequently involve downsizing, decentralization, or some combination of downsizing and decentralization (Barrett, 1995). Among health care.."

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"Employee retention is a serious concern for the modern organization. In the past, employers had no need to focus on retention; workers competed for scarce employment resources. Now that the labor market is tight, employers are the competitors, and the competition is fierce. Key personnel are actively pursued by corporate headhunters, which has resulted in high employee turnover in some sectors. Savvy employers respond to the problem of employee retention by creating corporate cultures where employees are valued and empowered.
Employers are devising strategies to retain employees because of the high cost of losing them. Companies lose an average of $1 million for every 10 professional and managerial employees who leave (Fitz-Enz, 1997, p. 1). This estimate is based on an analysis of potential customer retention costs..:

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" This paper addresses the issues of a career in physical therapy. It deals with the day-to-day tasks of a physical therapist, the qualifications and training involved in becoming a physical therapist, the working conditions and rewards, both financial and personal, of a career spent helping people recover from injury or illness, and the conditions under which physical therapists work.
Physical therapy can be a very rewarding career because the therapist deals daily with people who are permanently or temporarily disabled. A physical therapist has the opportunity to make a positive difference in the quality of peoples' lives, in many cases restoring their independence and their ability to return to work, or at least lead a productive and satisfying life ("A Hands-on", 1998; "The Physical Therapist", 1992). The.."

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"Until the late 1800s, employees throughout the world had little protection available to them. The Industrial Revolution brought with it increasingly unsafe working conditions and wages which were, in many cases, barely sufficient for employees to live on. The Industrial Revolution also brought with it a new type of business organization in which employees were increasingly removed from not only the owners of an enterprise, but also the new "managers" who were brought in to oversee day to day operations. As companies grew larger and employed more workers, those workers saw the value of banding together in order to work toward common goals; this idea was not new, but the sheer size of the workforce and the magnitude of the problems in the workplace gave the emerging unions (as they were called) more power than in the past."

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"WORKFORCE 2010 & EMPLOYER RESPONSES
Introduction
The Hudson Institute issues the Workforce 2000 report in 1987 (Johnston & Packer, 1987). That report warned that the nation's employers must prepare to deal with a future workforce that was characterized by much greater diversity"gender, ethnic, and racial"than existed in the workforce of the mid- to late-1980s. Employers were slow to react to the warning, and many are just now in 1998 being forced to deal with diversity issues.

At about the same time that most employers were beginning to deal effectively with the issue associated with diversity in the workplace, however, the Hudson Institute issued a new report"Workforce 2020 (Judy & D"Amico, 1997). Workforce 2020 alerts the nations and its employers to some newly emerging issues with.."

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Violence in the workplace is a major security concern. In providing safety for building occupants, security managers must address a wide range of considerations. Prevention through environmental design, physical barriers, perimeter security, and interior physical security are all factors that deter potential criminal acts.

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"Violence in the workplace is a major security concern. In providing safety for building occupants, security managers must address a wide range of considerations. Prevention through environmental design, physical barriers, perimeter security, and interior physical security are all factors that deter potential criminal acts. Electronic security systems and devices play an increasingly large role in the reduction of workplace violence. The key is to maximize uncertainty for the potential violent offender.

Workplace violence can be classified by its three types of perpetrators: strangers, clients, and employees. Stranger violence includes such acts as robbery and shooting of gas station attendants or retail workers. Client violence is typified by the shooting of a lawyer by a plaintiff. Employee ..."

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The growing power and flexibility of the Internet has been well documented in numerous articles. However, the actual impact of the Internet on the workplace has yet to be examined fully, possibly because the Internet is less than five years old.

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"Influence of the Internet on Information Technology Careers

Introduction
The growing power and flexibility of the Internet has been well documented in numerous articles. However, the actual impact of the Internet on the workplace has yet to be examined fully, possibly because the Internet is less than five years old. Without a clear understanding of the implications of the Internet on the workplace, it is difficult to lucidly ascertain the subsequent effect on labor/management relations that the Internet is having, or will have on the entire field of labor/management relations. The Internet, however, is old enough to be greatly responsible for the growth of a new industry, that of information technology, a field that requires both a new kind of worker and ..."

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"This study will examine the 1994 strike in major league baseball in 1994 and the long-term results of that strike. The argument of the study is that while the strike was devastating to baseball in 1994, shortening two seasons in 1994 and 1995, by 1998 the long-term damage done to the game had been almost entirely eliminated.


The basic issue of the salary cap was one which in the first place was not of great interest to fans, and whatever damage was done by the strike was undone in large part because of the excitement generated in 1998 by the home-run race between Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire, but also because. for better or worse, baseball remains the national pastime and fans of the sport eventually forget, or at least forgive, and return to the game with as much fervor as ever."

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Jewish immigrants in America brought with them a sense of involvement in political action far stronger than many other immigrant groups. Large numbers of early immigrants either imported or adopted an interest in Socialism as a political system that promised alleviation of social and economic injustice.

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" Jewish immigrants in America brought with them a sense of involvement in political action far stronger than many other immigrant groups. Large numbers of early immigrants either imported or adopted an interest in Socialism as a political system that promised alleviation of social and economic injustice. But it was the post-1900 generation of Eastern European Jews--actively persecuted and severely restricted in movement and most freedoms in Russia, Poland, the Ukraine, and other locales--who raised the level of activism in America, often being forced to take action against German Jewish immigrants who owned the large factories in which they labored. On emigrating to America they found that their marginalized status and restricted opportunities continued the need for political action while, at the same time, greater freedom in most respects allowed..."

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"Managing Diversity in the Workplace: Diversity Mangement at the City of Miami, Florida Police Department
Executive Summary
This study examined the management of diversity in the workplace. The focus organization of this examination was the City of Miami, Florida Police Department. The analytic framework within which this examination is performed was cost-benefit analysis.
The two major diversity management issues confronting the City of Miami Police Department involve the training of Department personnel to be sensitive to the wide scope of needs and values of a highly diverse population and the introduction of greater racial and ethnic diversity into the ranks of the Department. Together, these two issues create a diversity..."

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"The Pilots Strike Against American Airlines-February 1999
Introduction
This research examines the Allied Pilots Association strike against American Airlines in February 1999. Technically, the labor action by the Allied Pilots Association was not a formally called strike, as the services of pilots were denied to American Airlines by individual pilots in the hundreds calling in as sick and unable to work. Legally, however, the federal court system treated the actions of the pilots against American Airlines as a strike.


Presentation of the Findings
The findings of this examination are presented in three major discussions. The topical foci of these discussions are (1) the issues precipitating the strike, together with the..."

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This paper discusses the Ford Motor Company from the first automobile sold in 1903 by Henry Ford to its shutdown in 1921 and its revival during the Great Depression. It looks at the ups and downs of the industry up until World War II and examines Henry Ford's methods for an effective production line and employee motivation and how he went from one of the highest paying employers in the business to one of the lowest.

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"This illusion was shattered with the onset of the postwar recession. New-car sales slackened with the general decline in purchasing power. The Ford Motor Company closed its plants "for inventory" on Christmas Eve 1920 and remained closed until 1 February 1921, while the company disposed of "stocks on hand." Unlike most of his competitors, ford maintained full production up to the shutdown of his plants, curtailing only the purchase of raw materials. The strategy implemented at Ford was foremost to turn the huge inventory of raw materials that had been bought at inflated prices into a reservoir of finished cars, then to stop production until those cars were disposed of at a profit and raw-material prices had declined."

Tags: recession, depression, cars, automobile, production, line, employee, wages

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"The purpose of this research paper is to discuss reverse discrimination. The background of the Allan Bakke case of 1978 will be given. There will be a discussion of affirmative actin programs, the issues involved, and other points relevant to reverse discrimination. The emphasis of this research paper will be placed on current trends in judicial policy making that cite Bakke. The evidence presented in this research paper will examine current judicial decisions and indicate whether the trend is towards or away from affirmative action.

In writing about the Allan Bakke case, the Connecticut Bar Journal chose to open its statement of facts with a Mark Twain quote: ?Get your facts first, then you can distort them as much as you please.? The Journal regards the facts of the Bakke case as crucially important irregardless of the case outcome. Such ... "

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" Government involvement in labor relations has been varied in form over the history of the country. In the nineteenth century, the government often sided with management as a matter of course, protecting the rights of owners and refusing to admit that the labor force had any right to organize for the protection of its rights. After a century of struggle over this issue, Congress settled the matter with the National Labor Relations Act, also known as the Wagner Act, in 1935. The underlying conception of the Wagner Act was affirmed in subsequent legislation, notably the Taft-Hartley Act of 1949 and the Landrum-Griffin changes of 1959. Morris (1987) writes: "Although there may be room for wide debate as to the extent of the influence which labor legislation has on shaping the(...)"