Complete 7 page APA formatted essay: Human Resource Management D7.1, 8, 9.1/2, 10.1.All employees at the company are offered flextime hours that can be varied on a daily basis plus each year, under th

Complete 7 page APA formatted essay: Human Resource Management D7.1, 8, 9.1/2, 10.1.

All employees at the company are offered flextime hours that can be varied on a daily basis plus each year, under the Patagonia Internship Program, employees can leave for one or two months (benefits and salary maintained by the company while the employee was gone) to work for a non-profit organization, on environmental activism. (Edmund R. Gray and Kimberly S. Petropoulos)

To make family needs a top priority Patagonia offers its employees: child care subsidies. paid maternity and paternity leave. parent education programs. a school-support program that allows parents to take off up to five work days to take part in their childs classroom activities. all this in addition to flexible hours and days, job sharing and work-at-home programs have had an especially positive impact on workers who are also parents, who need to take care of their children. (Claudia Miller)

As a result of these policies Patagonia has discovered that helping employees with family responsibilities cuts worker absenteeism and improves the businesses ability to recruit and keep good employees.

Other companies can learn to adopt family-friendly and people-friendly policies like Patagonia. These policies have proven their value time and again at Patagonia, and have set a wining formula for others to follow.

2)Union membership as a percentage of employment has steadily decreased since the 1950s— some of the important factors in this decline were and still are: lack of legal and political support for organizing new union members in the private sector. intensified opposition to unions by employers and from shifts in the economy. What’s more, changes in the U.S. economic environment have considerably curtailed the charisma of unions to workers and the acceptability of unions to employers, especially in the private sector. (Henry S. Farber)

Thousands of jobs were being outsourced or lost to technological