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BUS 405 Labor Relations

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Assignment 2: Labor Relations

Due Week 8 and worth 300 points

Use the Internet or Strayer Library to research a publicly traded U.S.-based company with a focus on its labor negotiating practices and any specific labor-related issues the company may be experiencing.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

  1. Discuss the company’s stance toward labor and any specific labor-related issues it may be experiencing.
  2. Formulate a strategy for negotiating a labor agreement and dealing with potential impasses in the bargaining process.
  3. Analyze the principle economic and administrative issues addressed during collective bargaining with your labor force and develop a bargaining position.
  4. Recommend policies and procedures to administer a labor contract and resolve disputes.
  5. Determine the most likely interest dispute and determine how you could leverage economic pressure to help resolve that dispute.
  6. Based upon your understanding of the entire course, predict the next evolutionary step in labor-management relationships (in terms of laws, key participants, or union organization) and how that step will affect the company you researched.
  7. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
  • Analyze the actions of unions and management to determine basic compliance with the major U.S. federal labor laws.
  • Explain the process for organizing and for decertifying unions.
  • Formulate a strategy for negotiating a labor agreement and dealing with potential impasses in the bargaining process.
  • Analyze the principle economic and administrative issues addressed during collective bargaining and develop a bargaining position.
  • Develop policies and procedures to administer a labor contract and resolve disputes.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in labor relations.
  • Write clearly and concisely about labor relations using proper writing mechanics.

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Running head: LABOR DISPUTES IN MICROSOFT COMPANY

Labor Relation Issues, Collective Bargaining and Labor Disputes in Microsoft Company
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LABOR DISPUTES IN MICROSOFT COMPANY

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Labor Relation Issues, Collective Bargaining and Labor Disputes in Microsoft Company
Microsoft is a technology company, founded 43 years ago, involved in the production,
licensing and sale of software, electronic gadgets and personal computers among other products.
The company has its headquarters in Redmond, Washington in the United States of America.
Microsoft has a large workforce of people with different qualification, assigned to perform
different tasks. It has its own unique system of paying workers, motivating workforce and
imposing discipline within its human resources (Jason and Melisa, 2016). Microsoft thus has its
position when it comes to labor and labor related issues.
Microsoft company assigns employees to different departments, where they work under
the close supervision of departmental managers (Jason and Melisa, 2016). The managers give
commands and prescribe procedure of completing tasks, and their subordinates are expected to
strictly adhere to these rules and commands in their daily activities (Jason and Melisa, 2016).
Employees feel that they are not involved in decision making and that strict adherence to
the top down instruction is demoralizing and demeaning. The employees are not afforded an
opportunity to be innovative and to find out the most efficient and effective means of completing
their daily tasks. Indeed, Microsoft employees are justified to feel demotivated because, as argued
by Draft (2010), following a prescribed procedure given in a top-down fashion is monotonous,
limits innovation and is linked to low levels of job satisfaction.
Microsoft company also has a unique method of assessing employee performance and
ranking them. As noted by Jason & Melisa (2016) the employees' salaries, bonuses, awards, and
career promotions are based on the assessment and ranking done by the management of the
Microsoft company. While employees are not opposed to a payment system that is based on the

LABOR DISPUTES IN MICROSOFT COMPANY

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assessment of their work, they are opposed to the fact that the assessment and ranking of employees
is not done in an open and a transparent manner (Jason and Melisa, 2016). As a result, the system
does not award meritocracy because only a few employees are awarded...


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