HRM 320 Week 2 Assignment
HRM 320 Week 2 Assignment
Please answer the following questions in an MS
Word document using APA style formatting. For those which you need research to
answer, please provide the citations.
1.
What do you think are some of the
factors in the modern workplace that contribute to a theft of time? How can
those factors be managed?
2.
What does the word Whistleblower mean
(legally speaking)? Give an example of whistleblowing.
3.
“Retaliation” has become one of the
most often cited reasons for employees filing charges with the EEOC against
their employers. Please define “retaliation” in the legal, employment sense –
and explain when it is illegal. What can an employee do when they feel they
have been retaliated against and for what reasons does retaliation rise to the
level of an EEOC lawsuit?
4.
During the course of a day, employee
Jennifer Anniestown (an accountant) constantly opens and updates her Facebook
account on her iPad, checks on her lottery ticket numbers, calls and talks to
her mother for 30 minutes, her children for 10 minutes (she makes sure they get
home safely every day) and her husband every afternoon for 15 minutes to see if
he or she is making dinner that night. Her employer, Billybob Thornblower
listens to each of her phone calls to make sure that she isn’t talking to his
wife, one of her good friends, about his actions at work. (He is always hitting
on the salesgirls, in a good-natured way.) Billybob ends up being fired for
sexual harassment when one of the salesgirls complains. Jennifer’s new boss,
Tracy, notices that Jennifer is doing a ton of personal work during company
time. There is no written policy about this issue at the company. To date,
Jennifer’s work is exemplary. She always has everything done in a timely manner
and her books balance at the end of every day. What should Tracy do about this
situation?
5.
Last month, Steven Smith was hired as
the secretary for lawyer Wayne Wright, who has a drinking problem. Wayne’s last
secretary quit when Wayne tried to get her to go out with him on a date. So
far, Steven and Wayne have gotten along peachy. Steven is subpoenaed to testify
in the harassment lawsuit of Wayne’s former secretary, and says (under oath)
that Wayne has treated him great, but that Wayne also admitted he had asked the
secretary out on dates regularly and grabbed her inappropriately. Steven is
telling the truth. A few weeks later, Wayne and his firm lose the harassment
case and have to pay the prior secretary back pay and reinstate her to her job
as part of the damages in the case. The firm terminates Steven so that they can
put the old secretary back in her job. Steven asks you what you think he should
do. What do you say?
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