Chapter 24 - People at Work Flashcards
Work
Any activity that requires effort e.g. doing homework
Employment
Work carried out in return for payment e.g. having a job at a supermarket
Employees
People who work for others in return for payment
Employers
People who hire others to work for them in return for payment
Labour force
Consists of all the people who are available for work
Who does the labour force not include
Retired
In school, college or a training course
Do not wish to work outside the home
What are the three main areas of employment in Ireland?
Agricultural
Industrial
Services
What people does the agricultural sector employ?
Includes all people employed in farming, forestry and fishing
What employment sector has the fewest people employed in it?
Agriculture
Why has the number of people employed in the agricultural sector fallen?
○New technology
○Young people not as interested
○Lot of agricultural produce is imported
What people does the industrial sector employ?
Includes all people employed by firms who manufacture goods or are involved in building and construction
What sector employs the most people in Ireland
Services
What people does the services sector employ?
Includes all who work for firms and organisations providing services to the consumer e.g. finance, transport, gardaí etc and all those employed in the tourism industry e.g. hotel workers, car rental and air travel
Unemployment
When people are willing and able to work but are unable to find a suitable job
What help is offered to the unemployed?
○Jobseeker’s benefit
○Retraining programmes
○Back-to-work programmes
○Medical cards, fuel/food vouchers, rent supplements etc
Give some reasons for unemployment
○Competition between firms
○New technology
○Recession
What’s the difference between redundancy and being sacked?
When you are sacked it means you were unable to do your job or because of your bad behaviour. However, sometimes firms must let some staff go because there is no work for them to do. They are not bad at their job and they’re not being fired. It is called being made redundant
What are the rights of an employee?
○Receive fair wage ○Given safe and healthy working conditions ○Join a trade union if they wish ○Receive correct number of days holiday ○Treated same as other employees
What are the responsibilities of an employee?
○Should be honest and trustworthy
○Should do a fair day’s work
○Should be on time
○Should respect property of the employer
Self-employed
People who work for themselves
Why would somebody want to be self-employed?
►Want to be their own boss
►Want to become more successful than they can n their current job
►Want to make more money than possible in their current job
►They want to turn a hobby into a career
►May be unemployed and unable to find another job
What are the rewards of being self-employed?
○Are your own boss
○Make all decisions
○Choose your own working hours
○Keep all profits
What are the risks of being self-employed?
○Provide all the money needed to start the business
○Could loose money if things go wrong
○Might have long hours
○Responsible for all areas of the business
What is the public sector? Give examples
Refers to all people employed by the state e.g. Civil servants, politicians, teachers, Gardaí etc
What is the private sector?Give examples
Refers to all people not employed by the state e.g. Engineers, carpenters, plumbers, accountants, lawyers etc
Organisation structure
Shows the position of each person in the business, from the owners right down to the most junior employees
Supervisor
Person on the factory floor who is given responsibility to make sure others are carrying out their job properly
Managing director
Most senior employee in the firm and is in charge of the day-to-day running of the bsuiness
What are the main functions of the managing director/
- Run business each day
- Keep board of directors fully informed about what is happening in the firm
- Appoint other senior managers to run each department of the firm
- Make sure each department works together
What are the main duties of the marketing manager?
- Responsible for running the marketing department
- Responsible fir all the firm’s advertising and sales promotion
- Tell human resources department what staff are needed in the marketing department and what qualifications they should have
- Keep within the budget set for the marketing department
What are the main duties of the HR manager?
- Interview and recruit new staff
- Provide training courses for new and existing employees
- Make sure the workplace is safe and healthy
- Talk to trade union representative if there are problems in the workplace
What are the main duties of the sales manager?
- Try to increase sales
- Employ and train sales people
- Keep in regular contact with the production manager so enough goods are produced to fill the orders made by sales department
What are the different types of jobs in a firm?
Manual Clerical Technical Administrative Services Creative
How may the skill levels of employees in the firm be divided?
Professional
Skilled
Semi-skilled
Unskilled
