Recommendations Flashcards
1
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Discrimination
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- Watch for disparate treatment and impact
- Use job description, specification and capable worth
- Respect equal opportunity, treatment
2
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Affirmative action
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Only if ordered by court/ gvt because it affects quality of personnel, self esteem, and promotes conflict
3
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Reverse discrimination
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- Part of plan to open up positions for minorities
- No dismissal of majority employees
- No absolute bar of majority
- No obligation to hire minority over majority
4
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Family friendly corporation
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- Provide childcare assistance (if possible)
- Emergency programs for pregnancy
- Implement flexible hours eg. leeway for arriving/leaving hour
- size
- Loss of Productivity-not really a problem when you look across the board
5
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Sexual harassment
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- Clear policy - warn
- Communicate - training
- Procedures - who, what
- Take action
6
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Dismissal
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- Link to cause - individual conduct, business judgement
- Provide help - training, recommendation letter
- Smooth, tactful
- Arbitrators not court
7
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Privacy
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- Legitimate purpose - link to performance
- Means that respect employee dignity
- Ensure accuracy and allow them to access
8
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Safety and health
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Give them the right to:
- Know about hazardous work
- Refuse dangerous work if in “good faith” or there is no other way
9
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Whistle blowing - employee
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- High importance
- All the facts
- Internal channels
- Best way
- Responsibility
- Chance of success
10
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Whistle blowing - managerial
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- Clear statement of responsibility to internally report wrongdoing
- Clear procedure to report
- Trained investigator with authority and confidentiality
- Take action, inform outcome
- Guarantee against retaliation
11
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Good governance
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- Shareholder vote on compensation and replacement of directors
- Separate board and CEO
- Board should be independent from company
- Directors should own company stocks
- Directors should have experience - industry, size
- Directors should be present in 75% of meetings
- Directors should not be members or <4 other boards
- Directors should meet regularly - sometimes w/t management
12
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Product Reliability
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- Due Care Theory: Take Precautions in these areas:
- Design of Product
- Materials used
- Production Methods
- Quality Control
- Packaging
- Labelling
- Notification
- Warnings - Contractual Theory: Difficult because it’s hard to make a contract completely exhaustive and precise.
- Strict Liability: “Always the manufacturer’s fault”
- industry can have a collective insurance where each manufacturer pays annual fee to cover any SL issues.
13
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Trade Secrets
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- Treat Trade Secrets as property.
- use patents, copyright, trademark - Fair Competition
- Use “non-competition agreement” with employees (employees are not allowed to work for competitor for a time/area - Agent Argument
- Use Confidentiality agreement
14
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Competitor Intelligence Gathering
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The Methods are important not to show Intention Don't do: - Theft (Receipt of unsolicited info) - Misrepresentation (false pretence) - Improper Influence eg. bribery - Covert Surveillance
15
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Conflict of Interest
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Don’t Do it.
Try not to end up in this situation