MHR 522 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Independent Contractor, Reservation Wage, Human Resource Management
17 Oct 2017
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Labour relations: the relationship between the management of a company or organization and its workforce. Employment relatio(cid:374)s: co(cid:373)pa(cid:374)(cid:455)(cid:859)s efforts to (cid:373)a(cid:374)age relatio(cid:374)ships (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) e(cid:373)plo(cid:455)ers and employees. Relations, context and factors that shape relationships between individuals (groups) in the workplace. System of organizing labour (productivity) to produce output. Study of employment relations and issues often in unionized workplaces. Substantive: non-managerial position, no authority over organizing decisions. Independent contractor: someone engaged in their own business. Dependent contractor: someone who appears to be an independent contractor, but economically dependent on a single organization. Employed individual that cannot be considered as labour. Managerial authority comes from legal rights attaching to ownership of work organizations. Recognize the inherent dignity of human persons, a fact which makes labour a unique input into production process. That(cid:859)s i(cid:374)terested i(cid:374) all aspe(cid:272)ts of (cid:449)orki(cid:374)g relatio(cid:374)ship. Recognizes that imbalance of power between individual and groups exist and this sometimes causes conflict.
