Workweek

Over the years women have strived and laboured to be seen as equal to men, but in many ways, it still seems like some people in the past. Modern business women have been facing ignorance and prejudice in the workplace from employers who criticize them more than their male counterparts. In addition to the workplace, women are even judged by society on their personal choices in the home. The modern woman is still seen as the one in the household doing the cooking, cleaning, and taking care of…

Introduction The Great Depression during the 1930s stands as one of the most challenging periods in history, profoundly impacting the lives of Canadians. In the economic collapse, the Canadian government faced a great task in providing relief and assistance to their citizens. Within Canada, the effectiveness of the government’s responses remains a subject of question and debate. However, the government's response to the Great Depression can be described as ineffective in fully addressing the…

In attempts to retain the most effective employees during D-Bart’s downsizing process, Karen Howell met with each department manager to review performance appraisals. “A company that adopts a downsizing strategy reduces the scale and scope of its business to improve its financial performance” (Gomez-Mejia, Balkin, & Cardy, 2015, p. 189). In an interview with the production supervisor, Howell quickly learned the departments did not take the performance appraisals seriously and often overlooks the…

White Goods SSC will use other practices outside of layoffs for downsizing. The use of multiple cost reduction techniques will help ensure the success of the downsizing process. As the restructuring plan needs to cut fifteen percent of costs, alternative cost cutting methods will need to be put into practice to ensure successful results. Such alternatives can not only prove more cost-effective than redundancy in the short term but can also help White Goods SSC become more resilient in coping…

When employees are trying to finish up all the tasks on their to-do lists, 40-hour workweeks can easily morph into 45 or 50--and work can begin to impinge on their leisure time. To ease the stress of not having enough free time, some employees look to job sharing-- the process of splitting one full-time job between two people--in order to…

the origin of “five dollar day” transpired. On January 5, 1914, it was the rise of Henry Ford, when he announced a change that stunned the world. He revealed that Ford Motor Company was doubling its workers’ wages to five dollars a day. Reducing a workweek from six to five days and shifts from nine hours to eight hours. The wealthy industrialist sharing profits with workers on such a scale was unprecedented. Henry ford was a entrepreneur who basically invented the modern age. He was the founder…

“Because employees bring their whole selves to work, SAS strives to reduce stress and distraction so they can do their best.” SAS institute by Ellen Bankert, Mary Dean Lee, and Candice Lange explained a well-organized company with great employees and owners. The CEO and founder of the company are Jim Goodnight who owns two-thirds of the corporation, while the vice president and John Sall, who owns one-third. SAS institute was founded in 1976, where there are 5,400 employees and 3,400 company’s…

asked members to fill out surveys anonymously with books that they wished to read. I picked the two books that had been the most recommended and established a voluntary book club for members. The two books were Drive by Daniel H. Pink and The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss. Over the course of the semester, it was a pleasure to discuss what other members liked and disliked about the examples and studies shown in the two books. After reading these books, I have purchased similar titles such as The…

been multiple studies proving that less working increases productivity that makes up for the loss in time, but employee physical health improves as well. Most recently, countries such as France and Sweden have instituted a thirty-five hour or less workweek and have seen extremely beneficial results. Thus, decreasing the time spent at work daily would not only benefit the employee, but also the employer due to increased productivity and happier, healthier workers. There is next to no debate on…

Sleep is a fundamental piece of human life and life in general, however, to a college student sleep becomes a luxury that has the value of precious jewels and metals. Sleep plays a part in the rejuvenation of the body as well as playing a part in learning only to further justify the importance of sleep to a college student. As an enrolled student who has a sixteen-hour credit load sleep is something important to me so actually observing the hours that I sleep and analyzing my sleep patterns was…