Downgrading
The practice of moving an employee to a job that has a lower pay grade or level of responsibility or skill.
Downshifting
Refers to employees who choose to accept or remain in lower level or lower paying jobs in order to satisfy their personal and family needs.
Downsizing
The process of reducing the employer’s workforce through elimination of positions, management layers, processes, functions, etc.
Eighty-percent rule
Method of determining adverse impact. Selection rates for any group that are less than 80 percent (four-fifths) of the rate for other groups is evidence of a violation of this rule
Featherbedding
An unfair labor practice occurring when a union requires an employer to pay an employee for services he or she did not perform.
Hawthorne effect
A term produced as a result of an experiment conducted by Elton Mayo whereby he concluded that expressing concern for employees and treating them in a manner that fulfills their basic human needs and wants will ultimately result in better performance
Maslow's Pyramid:
Physiologial needs
safety needs
love,belonging, social needs
Esteem needs
growth needs -Cognitive, aesthetic, self actualization
From the slides

Fredrick taylor - scientific management theory
frank and lilian gilberth refined it- studied fatigue etc
max weber- bureaucracy
Theory X workers lazy- mechanistic -centralised authority
Theory Y workers wanna do work-organistic- decentalised
behavioural managemnt -worke knws best mark parker follet
MIS management information system
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Whistle blowers- reporing unethical stuff
BRIC -Jim O neil
The Communist Party of India was founded in Tashkent on October 17, 1920, soon after the Second Congress of the Communist International. The founding members of the party were M.N. Roy, Evelina Trench Roy (Roy’s wife), Abani Mukherji, Rosa Fitingof (Abani’s wife), Mohammad Ali (Ahmed Hasan), Mohammad Shafiq Siddiqui and M.P.B.T. Acharya.[1][2]
Russell Roberts, "The Invisible Heart",The Choice"
Steven Landsburg, "Fair Play"
David Henderson, "The Joy of Freedom"
James Gwartney and Dwight Lee, "Common Sense Economics" (2005).
Milton and Rose Friedman, "Capitalism and Freedom" (1962
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