Discuss the below:
1. You have been asked by the HR manager at your organization to prepare an employee feedback survey. You're aware that similar surveys have been conducted in the past, with little or no follow-up from management. What suggestions can you offer the HR manager to not only obtain useful information from the employees but also to improve the organization's credibility with them?
2. How might an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) aid an organization in improving communication with employees?
3. Do you think it is acceptable for employers to impose on an employee's "personal freedom" for the sake of health and/or safety in the workplace? Consider the example of smoking in the workplace: what is an employer's obligation to nonsmokers?
4 .A member of a restaurant's serving staff is chronically late for work. From the organization's point of view, what fairness issues are involved in deciding how to handle this situation? In what ways might the employees' and other servers' ideas of fairness be different?
5. For the situation above, how would a formal discipline policy help the organization address issues of fairness?
6. Why do employees join labor unions? Did you ever belong to a labor union? If so, do you think the union membership benefited you? If not, do you think a union would have benefited you? Why or why not?
7. Why do managers at most companies prefer that unions not represent their employees? Can unions provide benefits to an employer? Explain.
8. How does a union's organizing drive affect the interests of an organization's employees, owners, and customers? From an ethical perspective, which of these interests should the company's HR staff try to protect?