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• BUS 372 Entire Course (Ash Course)
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• BUS 372 Week 1 DQ 1 The Role of Unionization
• BUS 372 Week 1 DQ 2 Meeting Member Needs
• BUS 372 Week 2 DQ 1 Profit Interest and Employee
  Interest
• BUS 372 Week 2 DQ 2 Union Requirements

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• BUS 372 Week 1 DQ 1 The Role of Unionization
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• The Role of Unionization
• Assess the changing complexion of the U.S. labor
  force and how it directly affects the role of
  unionization in the workplace. Respond to at
  least two of your classmates' postings.

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• BUS 372 Week 1 DQ 2 Meeting Member Needs
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• Meeting Member Needs
• Given today's globally competitive work
  environment, assess whether larger, more powerful
  unions (similar to AFL-CIO and SEIU) favorably
  represent their members or whether smaller, more
  targeted unions would better meet the needs of
  their members. Respond to at least two of your
  classmates' postings.

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• BUS 372 Week 2 Assignment Changing Landscape of
  Unions
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• Changing Landscape of Unions
• At the inception of unions, its members consisted
  of "blue-collar" workers concentrated in the
  manufacturing sector. Today, only about 35 of
  union members remain in this sector, requiring
  unions to expand beyond manufacturing to broaden
  their membership ranks.

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• BUS 372 Week 2 DQ 1 Profit Interest and Employee
  Interest
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• Profit Interest and Employee Interest
• "Capitalism is directed towards the pursuit of
  profits and unions are directed towards the
  rights of its workers." Discuss how these
  opposing viewpoints can be advantageous, yet
  destructive, to the business community. Respond
  to at least two of your classmates' postings.
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• BUS 372 Week 2 DQ 2 Union Requirements
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• Union Requirements
• A basic requirement of unions is for members to
  give up their individual rights (e.g., raises
  based on performance) to benefit the collective
  (e.g., cost of living increases to all
  employees). Discuss your opinion on whether this
  is equitable and fair. Respond to at least two of
  your classmates' postings.

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• BUS 372 Week 2 Quiz
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• 1. Question Most senior pilots at major U.S.
  airlines annually earn
• 2. Question In a recent year, non-union
  workers in the United States had median weekly
  earnings of 699
• 3. Question Labors successes have always
  emanated from
• 4. Question By 2005 an estimated 22 million
  public employees were in union ranks.
• 5. Question The roots of management opposition
  to unionism are essentially rational ones as
  judged by management values
• 6. Question E. O. 10988 provided for

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• BUS 372 Week 3 Assignment Contract Negotiations
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• Contract Negotiations
• Contract negotiations require considerable
  education, experience, and training. Trained
  negotiators have a solid set of knowledge and
  skill that often enables them to garner a more
  favorable contract for their party.

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• BUS 372 Week 3 DQ 1 Strikes
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• Strikes
• Strikes affect the income of members, the
  reputation of the union, and the financial
  position of an employer. Describe the
  circumstances where a strike would be an
  appropriate bargaining tactic and where it would
  be inappropriate. Respond to at least two of your
  classmates' postings.

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• BUS 372 Week 3 DQ 2 Grievance and Arbitration
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• Grievance and Arbitration
• Discuss how the use of the grievance and
  arbitration processes and procedures can enhance
  the relationship between a union and management,
  and where it can be destructive. Respond to at
  least two of your classmates' postings.

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• QNT 351 Week 1 DQ 6
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• What are the four data measurement scales?
  Provide two examples and explain the importance
  of each in business research.

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• BUS 372 Week 3 Quiz
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• 1. Question Which of the following is not a
  responsibility or personal quality needed in an
  arbitrator?
• 2. Question In Canada, where card checks are
  widely used, union membership is
• 3. Question
• Which of the following constitutes an unfair
  employer practice?
• 4. Question When past practice and clear-cut
  contractual language conflict
• 5. Question When an employer promises to raise
  the wages of a worker if he/she will agree not to
  join a union, the action is considered to be
• 6. Question The grievance procedure
• 7. Question In addition to being orderly and
  efficient, the grievance procedure can be
  regarded as a means for

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• BUS 372 Week 4 DQ 1 Strategy Analysis
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• Strategy Analysis
• Assess the circumstances when it would be more
  appropriate for an organization to follow the
  comparative norm strategy to determine an
  employees' wage rate, versus the ability-to-pay
  or the cost of living strategy. Respond to at
  least two of your classmates' postings.

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• BUS 372 Week 4 DQ 2 Organizational
  Competitiveness
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• Organizational Competitiveness
• Employees represented by a union are paid
  approximately 30 more (in terms of pay and
  benefit costs) versus those employees not
  represented by a union. Discuss how an
  organization whose employees are represented by a
  union can remain competitive against an
  organization whose employees are not represented
  by a union, especially when it must commit more
  monies towards its employees, which often
  requires lower investment in research and
  development and raising the price of its products
  and services. Respond to at least two of your
  classmates' postings.

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• BUS 372 Week 4 Quiz
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• 1. Question In many collective bargaining
  agreements
• 2. Question Dismissal pay is
• 3. Question Negotiators commonly use at least
  three different standards when determining basic
  wage rates at the bargaining table.

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• BUS 372 Week 5 DQ 1 Agency Shop
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• Agency Shop
• Unions state that individuals should be free to
  join, yet then argue that those organizations
  represented by a union should enforce the agency
  shop. Illustrate why this is not a contradictory
  practice and is consistent with U.S. legal
  principles. Respond to at least two of your
  classmates' postings.

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• BUS 372 Week 5 DQ 2 Evaluating Conflict
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• Evaluating Conflict
• Analyze and evaluate whether unionized
  organizations reduce the level of conflict
  between management and labor, or exacerbate this
  conflict. Defend your case with appropriate
  examples. Respond to at least two of your
  classmates' postings.

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• BUS 372 Week 5 Final Assignment Working Together
  Unions and Management
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• Final Paper
• Some unions feel that the organization does not
  compensate its members fairly, or the
  organizational working conditions are less than
  desired. Conversely, some employers feel unions
  interfere with management decisions and impede on
  a positive relationship between managers and
  employees.

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