BUS 082 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Walmart

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Business (BUS)
• Course: BUS 082
• Professor: Tootle

Document Summary

What are the effects of unions on managing the workforce. Management has a responsibility to produce a profit through maximum productivity. Labor: non-management employees want fair and competent management treatment with respect. Unions are employee organizations with the purpose of representing its members in employee-management bargaining over job-related matters. Better wages, hours, working conditions, and benefits (i. e. healthcare) Belief that management acts unfairly or without just or proper cause. Sense of powerlessness; unions give workers say over their work lives. In agricultural and industrial era, working conditions were horrible: kids working 80 hour weeks, if someone was sick they were fired, working conditions were unsafe and miserable. By combining, unions created a voice for the workers. Management flexibility: terminating workers off payroll, firing. Make managing harder: managing a diverse workforce and a diverse workplace. Employment projections total employment projected to increase by 10% or 15. 6 million jobs for a total of 166. 2 million jobs in 2016.