Work Teams Should Not Be Given Too Much Autonomy
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This 5 page paper looks at work teams and examines applicable literature to support the position that work teams should be controlled by an outside authority. Various points are discussed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Worker and Management Relations: Scientific Management, Historical Managerial Challenges, the Hawthorne Experiments and Elements of Motivation
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This is a 5 page paper discussing various aspects of management including scientific management theories, the Hawthorne Experiments and other areas including an example of a social structure found within a work setting. Over the course of history, work, mainly manufactured work, has been studied in terms of the various elements required needed for the production of an item and the time it would take workers to complete this task. In addition, with the introduction of certain industrial technologies over time, manufacturing and the management of manufacturing systems and teams have been altered to accommodate new trends and technologies. Management, within an historical perspective, had little to do direct contact within the employees which was generally left to the foremen. However, Frederick Winslow Taylor in the 19th century began to think in terms of �scientific management� in which production management became important to improving the overall production of any manufacturing area. While scientific management looked mainly to efficiency in production, the Hawthorne experiments in the 1920s found that work places are very much social systems and workers reacted accordingly. Lastly, employee motivation need to be established by owners and managers in order to initiate recruitment for firms and retain employees once recruited. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Working in a Real Estate Investment Firm
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A 35 page paper in two parts. The first section discusses internal operation of the investment firm in terms of management principles, including the value of workplace diversity, creativity and innovation. The second part addresses the specific conditions of rental property management in New York City. Conditions in the housing market in the city are such that there is an extreme shortage of affordable apartments in safe areas. Rent stabilization laws prevent landlords from charging rents that allow them more than minimal return on their investment yet allow a substantial increase when an apartment is turned over to a new tenant, with the result that responsible landlords with long-standing tenants are penalized while others are able to extract rents above market value in problem areas. Revision of current laws and attitudes is unlikely; the paper concludes that corporate creativity provides a means of effecting change within the law. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
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Workplace Safety: A Prerequisite to Employee Retention and Fair Compensation
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An 8 page discussion of the relationship between workplace safety, and employee perception of that workplace and employee satisfaction and pay requirements. Contends that employees will either refuse to work in an environment which they consider unsafe or they will demand such unrealistically high wages as compensation for their risk that business profitability will be adversely impacted. Maintains that the ethical employer is an employer who provides sufficient compensation for workers and a safe working environment. Suggests that the most expedient manner of accomplishing this is through careful attention to employee needs and workplace design. Emphasizes that training, above all, is critical to workplace safety. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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�Empowerment of Else� by Robert Frey
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This 5 page report discusses the purchase and turnaround of Cin-Made Corp, a small manufacturing company in Cincinnati, Ohio. �Empowerment or else,� published in the Harvard Business Review in 1993 discusses issues of employee empowerment and the processes a business owner, manager, or worker must go through in order to truly empower co-workers and employees. Bibliography lists one source.
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�Leading Minds� by Howard Gardner and Stories of Leadership
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This 10 page report discusses the idea that leadership has certain key components that determine the characteristics and qualities of a leader. Howard Gardner demonstrates this fact through the use of the stories of great leaders in modern history. Then the report takes advantage of Christopher Vogler�s �The writer�s journey : Mythic structure for writers,� and Robert Brawer�s �Fictions of business: Insights on management from great literature,� to demonstrate how such stories support what Gardner is saying regarding the role of a leader and his or her story. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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�The New American Workplace, Transforming Work Systems in the United States�: A Review of the Book by Applebaum and Batt
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A 6 page overview of the content and ideology presented in this extensive book about workplace evolution. These authors condense the findings of over two-hundred studies of the numerous changes which have occurred in the American workplace since the early years of our industrial history and identify common lessons which are available in these case studies. No additional sources are listed.
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