Labor Relations: Case study

Mathew M.

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Labor Relations, global economic environment, emerging dynamism

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Over the years, the global economic environment has assumed a volatile feature owing to a multiplicity of factors pushing for advancement to new heights of operations. For instance, globalization of market, changing consumer preferences, era of informed clientele, and unforgiving market competition forms part of the set of factors shaping the business economic environment. On that note, an organization competing favorably in the corporate arena characterized by the above factors develops an effective and innovative human resource foundation to enhance survival opportunities and optimize organizational outcomes (Jiang, Leepak, Hu, & Baer, 2013).

In practice, an organization's success majorly depends on the capabilities of its resources including technology, capital and workforce. Given the demands of the current environment, organizations have committed resources in generating capital resources and the incorporation of technology to propel it against the present and emerging dynamism. Nevertheless, the success of the organization despite its commitment to the acquisition of technology and capital resources ties to how appropriately and prepared is its labor force capabilities.

Introduction
Duties of a Labor Relation Officer
Challenges of the Union/ Nonunion Environment
Impact of the Union to the Labor Environment
Conclusion

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[...] Moreover, the relations department must abide and comply with the provisions of the labor legislation. This presents added costs of operations since the organization must engage the services of an in-house relation specialist charged with investigation of workplace complaints and administering opinion surveys to the workforce members. Lastly, the labor relations office is presented with a complex challenge to solve when dealing with collective bargained agreements with the labor unions to adequately prepare for acceptable contracts. This involves services of a compensation specialist to brief and draft various contingent rates before the expiration of the contract. [...]

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