International Labour Organization

the approaches used Phatak (1989). Sparrow (2007), described four approaches to international staffing recruitment and they are as follows: centralized control and international recruitment primarily for domestic labour market, centralized control and recruitment primarily for overseas labour markets, decentralized control and recruitment primarily for overseas labour markets and de-centralized control and international recruitment…

Sri Lanka being a state party to the international Labour Organization and United Nations and has ratified a number of International Conventions that help to eliminate sexual harassments from Sri Lankan workplaces some of the conventions are as…

Labour market is the place where workers and employers interact with each other, in which employers compete to hire for the best workers and workers compete for the most satisfying job, either locally of globally. As businesses globalize, it is imperative that international companies hire the best workers at all their business locations. As such, it is important that company location decision consider the local labour pool. The availability of qualified workers is most often the major concern…

long periods of time can lead to permanent joint and back injuries . The 2002 Global Report indicated that the vast majority (70 per cent) of children’s work is concentrated in the agricultural sector and that the informal economy harbours most child labour across all economic…

children aged 5-17 in Bangladesh are engaged in hazardous labour. Children and adults alike are given no choice but to work in unethical factories creating clothing for large international corporations. Developing countries such as India, Bangladesh and China are found with countless amounts of sweatshops. Sweatshops are unjust and unethical because of the unsafe and uncomfortable work conditions, long hours with low wages and the use of child labour. Workers are forced to work in close knit…

though a bargain between the employer and the workmen collectively whether represented through their union or by some of them on behalf of all of them. Ludwing Teller has defined collective bargaining as “an agreement of employers on the one had labour union on the other hand which regulates the terms and conditions of employment.20 The Encyclopedia Britannica 21 defines that collective bargaining is a negotiation between an employer or group of employers and a group of…

with more than a third of the entire population (the International Labor Organization, 2011). To survive in today’s labour market, a remarkable proportion of candidates have equipped themselves with specialized knowledge and competitive spirit guiding them to be employed satisfactorily. Nevertheless, there is no debate on whether the value of specific qualifications outweigh specialized skills, as the primary purpose of participating in the labour market is to achieve self-worth and balance the…

The impacts on information technology change the effective management of human resource training and development activities 
 The rapid changes in technology have brought more pressure to the Human Resource departments in different organizations because now the competition of business has become the competition of knowledge and intelligent employees.HR managers are facing many challenges in present business scenario like Globalization workforce diversity, technological advances and changes in…

Although the International Labour Organization (ILO) at its foundation in 1919 was established which use to abolish child labour, many illegal factories still employ child labour to work for them. These poor young children never have chance to go to school or to get knowledge from school. Most of them are very poor and slavery(Child labour). The most terrible place for child labors is Africa. “59 million children between the…

Human Resource is the most important asset for any organization and it is the source of achieving competitive advantage. Managing human resources is very challenging as compared to managing technology or capital and for its effective management, organization requires effective HRM system. HRM system should be backed up by sound HRM practices. HRM practices refer to organizational activities directed at managing the pool of human resources and ensuring that the resources are employed towards the…