MHR 523 Final: MHR 523 Week 11 Notes
30 Nov 2016
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The termination of an individual"s employment with the organization. Voluntary turnover eg. quits, retirements or resignations. Activities undertaken to improve organizational efficiency, productivity, and/or competitiveness that affects the size of the firm"s workforce, its costs, and its work processes. Conditions: no work available, situation expected to be temporary, management intention to recall employees. Alternatives: pay reduction, use of vacation time, contingent workers, work sharing. Recall organizational justice: distributive justice, procedural justice, interactional justice. Organization must set fair and clear expectations, behavioural norms and performance standards. In canada, in non unionized workplaces where employment contracts have no definitive end date (most cases), employees can be dismissed for any reason ie. with or without just cause. If an employee is dismissed without just cause, they must be given either a reasonable notice or payment in lieu of notice. Required when terminating an employee if just cause doesn"t exist.
