Collective action

Jung believed the unconscious to be of great importance to personality development, arguing that in order to develop a one’s fullest potential, there must be a synthesis between the consciousness and unconscious elements. The development of consciousness and inner development are equally important throughout life. However, we often neglect the unconscious, considering our consciousness functions as superior for meeting the demands of society (e.g., in developing a respected and professional…

Is Mary an independent contractor or an employee? Based on the scenario, Mary is considered to be an employee of the Little Lamb Company. After evaluation of the significant legal differences between being an Independent contractor and an employee, the results were very clear. Mary transitioned to an employee of Little Lamb Company when she was requested to work on a new project and help the company to complete the entire project. At that time, Mary began taking instructions from the enterprise…

Did you ever think how the plantation life was? Life on Hawaii’s sugar plantations in the 1800’s was very cruel and unfair! It had an unbalanced schedule, they got whipped, plantation owners or Lunas was racists towards the lower races. The people had an unbalanced schedule because the workers had little time to sleep and do something while they were done with their work. The women also had a difficult time. They had to prepare the food for their husbands or child (if they have any.) So, they…

After reading the chapter “Project Classroom Makeover”, readers may have spotted that expert knowledge and collective knowledge, as well as crowd sourcing, were mentioned in the story, and more importantly, were being labeled as two completely different forms of knowledge acquisition that are in constant battle with each other. In fact, Cathy Davidson, the author of the story, stated how “crowd sourcing is suspicious of expertise, because the more expert we are, the more likely we are to be…

Triangle fire claimed the lives of 146 people, most being Italian and Jewish immigrants and most young women and girls. The people that operate on the margins of society are the most vulnerable, needing protection and often not heard unless it is a collective voice. Mary Harris “Mother” Jones once said “Mourn the dead, but fight like hell for the living”. This approach is the approach that has to be taken to protect worker’s rights. Regulation and policy are the tools to protect workers and…

form of psychology that uses people’s egos and personality to form a basis for the human mind. Jung refers to the human mind as the psyche, which he believes is divided into three parts: 1) The conscious ego, 2) The personal unconscious and 3) The collective unconscious. He proposed the idea that humans contain a series of inborn archetypes. As defined by Carl Jung, archetypes are emotional symbols that are common to all people and have been formed since the beginning of time (Freidman &…

employment contract requires them to do so. Advantages of Being a Union Member Employees who are members of unions enjoy more job security than their non-unionized counterparts since unions make the final decisions regarding termination and disciplinary action. Further, unionized workers enjoy the benefit of filing grievances with their union representatives, who represent them to the management on behalf of the workers. Workers in unions have higher chances of enjoying better working…

Strengths of each practise: Recruitment and selection The goal of this HR practice is to assist the Toronto Public Service (TPS) to attract and retain skilled, high performing and diverse workforce. The Toronto Public Service uses many programs to achieve this goal. The Toronto Public Service uses the career edge program that is run by the career edge organization. The career edge program has three different paid internship programs to attract talent from the globe and provide employment to all…

opinion the number most important reason, is job security. Nonunion employees are typically hired "at will," and can be fire at will as well. Union workers can only be terminated for "just cause," and the misconduct must be serious enough to merit such action. Even when being terminated seems to be appropriate before that can take place that person can go through a grievance procedure, and if necessary, arbitration. Some organizations rather not deal with unions for multiple of reasons, one…

approach towards high-performance work systems, suggesting not only managerial failure but locating a paradigm weakness because of the institutional breakdown arising out of the liberal market economic model. Godard’s argument for high-performance work system failure has a strong resonance in how the extant literature is equally misguided in its treatment of the psychological contract as a paradigm shift that seeks to explain contemporary (or new) employment relationships. The core of this…