BUS 223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Employee Retention, Sweatshop, Amicus Curiae
8 Sep 2017
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Bus223 lecture 7: how do employers affect employees, employee behaviours -> impact on employees. E. g. compensation, the way they treat you, workload, quality of work, comfort with duties they require you to do, level of independence, the approach to work (i. e. manager"s level of diligence to quality of work), competitiveness. Is ethics needed in labour relations to produce good outcomes: ethics is about restraining your own behaviour, what other forces might do the trick , prudence, law. Ethics & prudence: prudence: to be prudent is to use cautious good judgment"; using due diligence to ensure that you"re not doing anything foolish, sometimes prudence is enough. > not always because in some companies, none of the lower level employees can afford the product they take part in producing. American apparel"s ceo used their sexual culture" to justify sexually harassing employees) Informal" agreement might be illusion: some agreements might be immoral.
