MGT 3211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Whistleblower, Protected Group, Civil Rights Act Of 1964
Document Summary
Business focus on hierarchy and stockholders, but should also focus on treating employees fairly. Labor relations are now more important than cutting costs with machinery. Employment-at-will principle: in the absence of a contract, and employer may hire, fire, demote, or promote someone whenever and however they wish. They may act with justification or none at all. Employees may quit whenever and however they wish. Unions and collective bargaining have strained this principle, but unions on the decline: removing contracts and manuals to prevent due process. Worker safety, occupational risk, and the right to know. Ignorant and uninformed worker are factors for illness and injury. Osha aims to regulate and protect the work environment. Employees morally obligated to respect the property of the corporation, to abide contracts, etc. Also responsible to be loyal to the company, law of agency. Whistle-blowing allows employees to act with integrity. Relationship between employee in company is of mutual-self interest, no obligation to loyalty.
