Assignment:
As the human resources manager, it is your responsibility to keep all human resources employees informed about current employment law. You want to empower employees with resources that they can use independently to research employment law issues and policies. Using Excel, create a table that will be placed on the company's Intranet as an employment law reference. You and your employees will be able to add to this document, so you will focus on the following 4 areas of employment law to begin:
• Wages and Hours of Work
• Safety and Health Standards
• Family and Medical Leave
• Whistleblower Protection
For each area of employment law, complete the following:
• List the federal agency (or agencies) that regulates this area.
• Describe how the agency implements the relevant law and policy.
• Provide a link to the agency's Web site.
• You should organize the information within your table so that it is logical and able to be edited in the future.
You are employed at a large global high-tech company that has offices worldwide in such places as Tokyo, London, Bombay, Toronto, Mexico City, Chicago, and Seattle to name a few. Although sales have been reasonable these past few months even with the global economic crises, an internal crisis exists related to employee morale being at an all-time low. There are many different beliefs on what is right and what is wrong across the board, especially when it comes to the cultural and communication differences and the technological equipment challenges. There are also concerns regarding the selfishness of the employees; where the employees do not enjoy working as a team. Your supervisor has tasked you as the as the VP of the Service Department to prepare a research paper that will communicate information and solutions as well as provide a foundation of knowledge so that you can work with your peers and employees to solve these problems. At a minimum, your research paper must:
• What steps can management take to make the teams cohesive? Evaluate the steps that are necessary in this scenario to create high performing teams.
• Evaluate the importance of the internal environmental factors that include the cultural, language, political, and technological differences that will affect the team building process.
• What can be done to overcome the communication barriers between locations? What are the best practices that should be implemented going forward?