Week 6: Chapters 16 & 17 Flashcards
Labor Unions
All workers have the right to organize labor unions. They are organizations that represent workers on the job. They negotiate wages, working conditions, and terms of employment. Employers aren’t required to comply to demands, but must bargain in good faith.
Ergonomics
Adapting the job to the worker.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
Has the power to set and enforce safety and health standards.
Employment-at-will
Legal doctrine that means that employees are hired and retain their jobs “at the will of” the employer. Has been curtailed in recent years. (See p. 362).
Social Contract
Implied understanding (not a legal contract, but rather a set of shared expectations) between an organization and its stakeholders.
Privacy Right
Refers to protecting an individual’s personal life from unwarranted intrusion by the employer.
Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs)
Alcoholism programs that offer counseling and follow up for employees
Whistle-blowers
Have some protection by law. See p. 371
Diversity
Refers to variation in the important human characteristics that distinguish people from one another.
Undocumented Immigrant Workers
Noncitizens working without the legally required documents. Make up 5% of the US workforce.
Pay Gap
Disparity between wages of women/minorities and white men.
Occupational Segregation
The inequitable concentration of a group, such as minorities or women, in particular job categories.
Glass Ceiling
An invisible barrier that seems to block the ascent of women and minorities.
Glass Walls
Fewer opportunities to move sideways into jobs that lead to the top.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Equal treatment of employees. See p. 388
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Agency that enforces equal opportunity laws and executive orders.
Affirmative Action
Purpose is to reduce job discrimination by encouraging companies to take positive (affirmative) steps to overcome past employment practices that may have been discriminatory.
Sexual Harassment
Occurs when any employee experiences repeated, unwanted sexual attention or when on-the-job conditions are hostile or threatening in a sexual way.
Racial Harassment
Ethnic slurs, derogatory comments, or other verbal or physical harassment base on race
Diversity Council
A group of managers and employees responsible for developing and implementing specific action plans to meet an organization’s diversity goals.
Parental leave
When parents is granted time off when children are born or adopted and during the important early month’s of a child’s development.
Family leave
Involves caring for elderly relatives.
Family-friendly corporation
Firm that would fully support both men and women in their efforts to balance work and family responsibilities.
