Recommendations Flashcards

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Discrimination

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  1. Watch for disparate treatment and impact
  2. Use job description, specification and capable worth
  3. Respect equal opportunity, treatment
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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

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Reverse discrimination

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  1. Part of plan to open up positions for minorities
  2. No dismissal of majority employees
  3. No absolute bar of majority
  4. No obligation to hire minority over majority
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Family friendly corporation

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  1. Provide childcare assistance (if possible)
  2. Emergency programs for pregnancy
  3. Implement flexible hours eg. leeway for arriving/leaving hour
    - size
    - Loss of Productivity-not really a problem when you look across the board
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Sexual harassment

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  1. Clear policy - warn
  2. Communicate - training
  3. Procedures - who, what
  4. Take action
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Dismissal

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  1. Link to cause - individual conduct, business judgement
  2. Provide help - training, recommendation letter
  3. Smooth, tactful
  4. Arbitrators not court
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Privacy

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  1. Legitimate purpose - link to performance
  2. Means that respect employee dignity
  3. Ensure accuracy and allow them to access
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Safety and health

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Give them the right to:

  1. Know about hazardous work
  2. Refuse dangerous work if in “good faith” or there is no other way
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Whistle blowing - employee

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  1. High importance
  2. All the facts
  3. Internal channels
  4. Best way
  5. Responsibility
  6. Chance of success
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Whistle blowing - managerial

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  1. Clear statement of responsibility to internally report wrongdoing
  2. Clear procedure to report
  3. Trained investigator with authority and confidentiality
  4. Take action, inform outcome
  5. Guarantee against retaliation
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Good governance

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  1. Shareholder vote on compensation and replacement of directors
  2. Separate board and CEO
  3. Board should be independent from company
  4. Directors should own company stocks
  5. Directors should have experience - industry, size
  6. Directors should be present in 75% of meetings
  7. Directors should not be members or <4 other boards
  8. Directors should meet regularly - sometimes w/t management
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Product Reliability

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  1. Due Care Theory: Take Precautions in these areas:
    - Design of Product
    - Materials used
    - Production Methods
    - Quality Control
    - Packaging
    - Labelling
    - Notification
    - Warnings
  2. Contractual Theory: Difficult because it’s hard to make a contract completely exhaustive and precise.
  3. Strict Liability: “Always the manufacturer’s fault”
    - industry can have a collective insurance where each manufacturer pays annual fee to cover any SL issues.
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Trade Secrets

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  1. Treat Trade Secrets as property.
    - use patents, copyright, trademark
  2. Fair Competition
    - Use “non-competition agreement” with employees (employees are not allowed to work for competitor for a time/area
  3. Agent Argument
    - Use Confidentiality agreement
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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
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Conflict of Interest

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Don’t Do it.

Try not to end up in this situation

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Multinational/Globalisation

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Both Home and Host Country Rules cause cultural differences problems

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Multinational/Globalisation: Minimal Duties

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  1. transactional corporations should not add to local suffering (“negative harm principle”)
  2. Do not violate human rights
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Multinational/Globalisation: Maximal Duties

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As a TNL, use your influence locally to promote the following rights (inside the country you are operating):

  1. Physical freedom
  2. Property
  3. No torture
  4. Fair trial
  5. No discrimination
  6. Physical security
  7. Free speech
  8. Minimum of education
  9. Political participation
  10. Subsistence (basic necessities)
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Bribery

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  1. Participate if you have to (if you can’t avoid it) but try to reduce it from within
  2. Train within the company the employees involved in areas subject to bribery (overseas activities)
  3. Transnationals can help in influencing local government to pay more fewer people to avoid “power with no pay”
20
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Social Actions

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1.Help charitable organisations
   Take care of employees
   Get involved in one major social problem
2. If you are able to get involved in social actions, consider the following:
- Urgency of need
- Proximity of company
- Capability of company
- If you’re the only one doing it