Category: Essays

Coursework Title:

A 3000 word essay on any ONE of the following topic:

Critically examine the role of the State (government) as an actor in employment relations.

OR

Can employment relations be politically neutral? ? Discuss

Task Details/Description:

Students are expected to write an essay not exceeding 3000 words on the given essay topic.

Module Learning Outcomes Assessed:

1. Demonstrate understanding of basic concepts, theories and perspectives of employee relations
2. Critically evaluate the impact of local, national and global contexts shaping employee relations.
3. Examine the roles and functions of different groups or stakeholders in employment relationship

Assessment Criteria

1.Ability to engage in a critical review of relevant literature
2.Demonstrate wider reading and ability to engage in independent research which goes beyond lecture materials.
3.Ability to think laterally across topics covered on this module to answer the essay question
4.Argue analytically, logically and coherently.
5.Wherever possible, support arguments with evidence from published sources
6.Cite and/or quote sources of information appropriately in the main body of the essay. Provide full list of bibliographic references at the end of the essay.

Ethical Requirements

Students are not expected to collect primary data for this essay. However, if they choose to do so, they will be required to follow the University?s ethical regulations and seek written approval from the tutor.

Essential Reading for Coursework Task
(if in addition to reading provided in the module outline):

Please note that this is not intended as an exhaustive or definitive list of readings for this piece of coursework. Instead, the articles/chapters listed below should be viewed as core or essential readings that may act as a start point as you prepare to tackle this assignment:

Frege, C. and Kelly, J. (2013) ?Comparative Employment Relations in the Global Economy? Routledge, London and New York

Williams, S. (2014) ?Introducing Employment Relations ? A Critical Approach?, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

Dundon, T. and Rollinson, D. (2011), ?Understanding Employment Relations? 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill, Berkshire, England.

Frege, C. and Kelly, J. (2004) ?Varieties of Unionism ? Strategies of Union Revitalization in a Globalizing Economy? Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Badigannavar,V. and Kelly, J. (2012) ?Do Labour Laws Protect Labour in India? Union experiences of workplace employment regulations in Maharashtra, India? Industrial Law Journal vol.49 (4): 439-470

Badigannavar, V. and Kelly, J. (2005) ?Why are some union organizing campaigns more successful than others?? British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 43(3): 515-535

Workplace Employment Relations Survey 2011-12.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-2011-workplace-employment-relations-study-wers

Website of the Trades Union Congress UK https://www.tuc.org.uk/

Website of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) https://www.ituc-csi.org/

Website of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) https://www.aflcio.org/

China Labour Bulletin https://www.clb.org.hk/en/

Solidarity Federation https://www.solfed.org.uk/

European Trade Union Confederation https://www.etuc.org/european-trade-union-confederation

Confederation of British Industry (CBI) https://www.cbi.org.uk/

Involvement and participation association of UK https://www.ipa-involve.com/

Institute of Directors www.iod.com

Institute of Employment Rights www.ier.org.uk

This is not an exhaustive list of readings or internet sources. Please do your own independent research in addition to the readings & information sources listed above.

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Director Liability Law/ Fiduciary Duty/ Breach Of Duty Care & Loyalty
Q1) Ethan, Joshua and Daniel are all directors of quality sofa & bed Ltd. The company desperately needed to purchase a warehouse. At a board meeting, Daniel successfully persuaded Ethan and Joshua that on particular warehouse was perfect for the company and that it was worth $140,000. Ethan and Joshua later discovered that Daniel was the owner of the warehouse and it was worth $145,000.
Daniel who is a chartered accountant, is in charge of insuring the company’s warehouse against burglary and fire. He signed an insurance form without checking the content of its policy. The warehouse was burgled and the company suffered a loss of $30,000. The insurance company claimed that the insurance policy did not cover burglary and therefore refused to pay.
Ethan and Joshua recently found out that Daniel offered a cheaper price to a company’s client, Paul Ltd, from which he obtained a personal benefit of $3,000.

Advise Ethan and Joshua as to whether Daniel breached any of his duties as a director of Quality Sofa & Bed. Discuss duty of care and duty of loyalty 350 words

Financial Crisis & Corporate Governance
Q2) The current financial crisis has shown that corporate governance failed to adhere to its objectives. Discuss the failures that were exposed in the prevailing corporate governance practices.

Q3) One of the attributes to the current financial crises is the failure of corporate governance principles and practices. Discuss

Rentier State Theory
Q4) Discuss how external rent influence the business behavior in a rentier state.
Q5) Discuss the impact of rentier economies on business environment.
Q6) Rentier State is an obstacle for business growth and development. ( Discuss )
Q7) The fact that Kuwait is a rentier state is impacting the business environment negatively.

Model of Professional Board
Q8)Legal systems and regulations can have a negative or positive influence on business. Discuss

Case Samples
Case 1
On October 25 2011, the Chairman and directors of Petrotin (a Trinidad based oil company) was called on by the lawyers of the Ministry of the Attorney General to pay damages totalling $1.2 billion (US$190 million) within 28 days. The lawyers are alleging breach of duty of care in the GTL project, which in September had a project cost of US$136 million and the costs have now escalated to US$240 million. The board are accused of making decisions to continue the project by approving 33 payments related to a guarantee of the project without due diligence to determine if the company could afford the payments or if the project can be finished on time. This decision was taken despite enough warnings of the cost escalation dangers. The case also claims that there was no “proper and detailed front end engineering design and clear development verification of the process” which clearly pointed to a breach of the board’s responsibility to apply due diligence in its handling of risk.
Q9) What is the lesson learned from the cases
Case 2
An article that appeared in the Washington Post on January 9 2005 reported that former directors of both Enron and World.com agreed to settle shareholders lawsuits out of their own pockets. WorldCom directors paid $18m and Enron’s paid $168m. These lawsuits claimed that the directors failed to “properly supervise executives” as an independent investigation concluded that even though the directors were unaware that the financial records were false, they “rarely challenged top executives or inquired seriously into the details of major transactions”. This case is significant because it set a strong precedent in relation to the minimum duty of care expected from directors to shareholders. The article stated that in the past, directors were protected from legal responsibility for bad decisions or frauds done by managers as long as the directors depended on the advice of gatekeepers. The settlement by these directors is regarded as legal exposure that will affect the ability of companies to attract and keep good directors.
Q10) What is the lesson learned from the cases

Case 3
News Corporation is another major multinational company that is faced with questions about the lack of oversight by its directors. This case also involves the issue of separation of control from ownership as its CEO Rupert Murdoch is also the chairman of the group. In July of 2011 the group was faced with the scandal of phone tapping where it was found that victims of phone tapping had been “paid off” in 2007, but the CEO claims he did not about these illegal phone tapping activities. As well as this scandal, there is another law suit against News Corporation’s board for approving a $618m acquisition of a film production company wholly owned by the daughter of Rupert Murdoch. The article explained that the board’s role is a monitoring one and that it is the responsibility of the board to make sure there are systems for risk management and that the News Corporation’s board has “failed to discharge this duty”. The article also explains that the structure of the board may be a problem at News Corporation and needs to be changed. While they have started 3 separate enquiries into the phone hacking scandals, their actions are seen as “too little, too late”,
Q11) What is the lesson learned from the cases

Case 4
Delaware Supreme Court created the “entire fairness” test almost 25 years ago for analyzing transactions where the controlling stockholder is involved as a party in both sides as a buyer and a seller of a transaction. In this case the transaction was the acquisition of a subsidiary that is wholly owned by the controlling stockholder . This test requires a controlling stockholder to show fair price and dealings. The responsibility of proving entire fairness shifts to a plaintiff under special circumstances where the transaction was approved by
a) the majority or a special committee of independent directors or
b) an informed vote of a majority of minority stockholders.
Applying the “entire fairness test” in the recent decision by the Delaware Chancery Court in relation to Southern Peru Copper Corp, the court found that the company’s “controlling stockholder breached its fiduciary duty when it forced a publicly traded company to pay for the controlling stockholder’s over priced subsidiary.” The court ruled for the payment of damages of $1.263 billion which is the second largest ever in the USA and the largest in the history of Delaware fiduciary duty cases. Despite the company’s poor performance i was found that the special committee and accountant worked hard to justify the inflated price of the acquisition of the subsidiary at the level originally demanded by the controlling shareholder. This case shows that a controlling stockholder’s proposal must find a balance between getting a fair value in this type of transaction without breaching its fiduciary duty.

Q12) What is the lesson learned from the cases

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Paper should include illustrative examples using data, tables, charts and etc.
Real life examples should include well known companies, preferably UK based.

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WATCH THE VIDEO: The obesity epidemic.
Globesity: Fat’s new frontier. (2012). [Video file, 60:00 minutes]

Next, you will respond to the following questions, using what you have learned in the module so far and by conducting your own research. Format and reference citation for this assignment must follow the American Psychological Association (APA) style. Page limit does not include title page, abstract or references. There is no limit for references.
1.Briefly outline the key points presented in this topic..
2.Evaluate how well they are supported, outlined, and balanced..
3.Do you agree or disagree with the position taken by the producers of the program?.
4.What did you learn about this topic beyond your current understanding? Provide 3 examples from the presentation..
5.Describe how what you saw or heard is relevant to public health?.

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An important segmentation technique for a variety of industries as mentioned by Masiero and Nicolau (2012) is price sensitivity. Do you think that this is restricted to industries such as tourism or are there other industries that this is applicable to as well? Why are these industries so sensitive to price while others are less?

Please use an example of a company from the tourism industry and possibly another in comparison.

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All answers must be in english and relate to english law and cases. Please could you complete each question using the IRAC technique, using relevant cases to back up the issues.
Please use Land Law Book by Mark Davys ISBN(9781137475688) and Landlord and Tenant by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN (9781403917546) and any other sources relevant.

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Purpose: – Demonstration excellence in communication through writing.
– Make a clear case for a change you would like to see in business.
– Use valid, applicable research/sources to help make your case.

The Paper: – Three pages in length minimum, 1.5 line spacing, Times New Roman & 12 point font, one inch left and right margins; 1 inch top and bottom margins
(No exceptions).
– Must contain a Title and Your Name on the first page in the header.
– You must include a bibliography with at least three sources and citations within the paper.

The Essence: You pick a circumstance that you currently observe in private or public sector business that you think needs to be changed. Demonstrate how you would change or improve that situation and justify the change with research and logic. Think LOGOS, PATHOS & ETHOS.

*** YOU DETERMINE THE SITUATION / PROBLEM TO SOLVE / PART TO MAKE BETTER, AND THAT BECOMES YOUR CENTRAL IDEA FOR THE PAPER***

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To what extent has the Human Rights Act 1998 fully implemented the European Convention on Human Rights into the UK legal system?

OBJECTIVE:

The objective of this written assignment is for the candidate to provide a comprehensive description of the extent to which rights granted under the European Convention on Human Rights, (“the ECHR”), have been incorporated into UK law by virtue of the Human Rights Act 1998, (“HRA 1998”).

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In “Why I Live at the P.O.” by Eudora Welty, Sister, the story’s protagonist, leaves her family home largely because she feels that they are showing favoritism to her younger sister, Stella Rondo. Using Welty’s story and two peer-reviewed journal articles, write an 850-word, MLA formatted essay arguing either in favor of or against Sister leaving the family home. This essay requires that you examine the reasons why Sister left and whether she and her family are better off with her living at the post office (P.O.).

Make sure that you follow the instructions clearly and provide a citation page for the essay and please give me out the first copy of each peer review article since the teacher want to know the details about the journal articles in more detail.

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This assignment requires you to conduct some observations of real stores using retail anthropology. Your report should explain what you found in 4-5 pages. All summary tables must be included at the end of your paper. Samples and grading sheets will be provided and discussed in class.

Professional retail analysts often hire consulting firms to conduct studies that watch how consumers act and move in store settings. This is called “Retail Anthropology.” There are several issues that can help retailers make sure that their store design is optimized for their customers. We’ll look at three specific ones: accessibility by persons with disabilities, customer traffic flow, and overcrowding.

You will compare three similar clothing retailers on these attributes. For this exercise, use simple rating scales from 1-10, where a “10” is best and “1 “is worst. Make a chart like the one below to summarize your findings. Feel free to expand the summary table.

Introduction: Describe this project in your own words

Sample of stores: Visit three retail stores in the clothing industry. One store must be Hollister as discussed in class. Other stores should be similar in merchandise and demographic. Describe the industry, the other stores you selected, their addresses, and tell why you selected each.

Accessibility: are all the stores equally accessible to people with disabilities? Can customers enter and leave conveniently? Does the store have automatic doors, ramps, handicapped accessible restrooms, water fountains, fitting rooms (if applicable), checkout counters? Are displays accessible to people in wheelchairs? If needed, is braille used? Hearing devices?

Customer traffic flow (can people move through the store?): In each store, first watch how people move inside the store. Do they follow similar paths? Are they attracted by certain displays or areas of the stores? Is the traffic flow efficient?

Overcrowding: compare how crowded/overcrowded each store is. Are the aisles wider in one store versus the other? Do customers get in each other’s way? Can customers reach and examine the merchandise?

Your assessment: Cut and paste the chart below into your report and expand it to include your responses. Briefly discuss your findings within the report. Were there patterns in the ways that customers behaved? Were certain stores “better” than others? What would you recommend if you were a consultant?

Conclusion: What can a retail analyst learn through simple observation when comparing and contrasting stores in the same industry? What recommendations can you make to improve each store’s design? To improve shoppers’ experiences?

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