HRM-586 labor Relations · · · · · Labor Relations Course Project Guidelines | Course Project Topics | Grading Rubrics Guidelines Back to Top There is a written Course Project due at the end of Week 6. It should be 15–20 pages in length (excluding the cover and reference pages). Your work must be double spaced with 1-in. margins and should use one of the five approved style formats (APA or MLA are preferred). You may select one topic from the list below. You should choose a labor relations topic that is of interest to you. This could be (a) an idea that comes out of one of the class case studies, (b) something you have wanted to investigate for a long time and have not had time for, (c) a labor relations issue that is pressing at work and needs a solution, or (d) a recommendation that you want to make to your organization's labor relations professionals or to your union. Your paper should be organized in such a way that you integrate the following elements into your work. · A clear thesis that consists of at least two main points · An introduction section with a detailed background or history of the topic · A literature review that incorporates research supporting your assertions on the topic · A recommendation section in which you will explain what you have learned and how you propose to alter or amend the situation discussed · A conclusion Course Project Topics Back to Top 1. The Relation of Job Satisfaction to Union Involvement 2. Managing in a Union Environment 3. Should Labor Unions Be Expanded or Restricted? 4. Collective Bargaining and Contract Administration: Present and Future 5. The Future of Unions in the United States 6. Right-to-Work Laws: Where Are They Headed in the Future? 7. Labor Unions' Influence in the Political Arena 8. Written Employment Contracts: Are They Right for a Company? 9. White-Collar Unionism in the United States in the Next Decade: An Attempt to Predict its Future Size and Shape 10. Managerial Resistance to Unionism: How Deeply Rooted, How Widespread, and How Logical Is It? 11. An Evaluation of Organized Labor's Relationship With the Black Community 12. The Influence of Bill Clinton's Presidency on Organized Labor 13. Management's Replacement Worker Strategy After the Air Traffic Controller Strike: How Potent and How Fair a Weapon? 14. The Declining Incidence of Strikes in the United States and Some Possible Explanations 15. Mediation: An Assessment of its Potential Value 16. Technological Innovation as a Cause of Strikes 17. The Role of Violence in Strike and Lockout Situations 18. Legal Issues in the Private Arbitration Process 19. Effective Use of the Grievance Procedure for Settlement of Disputes 20. Trends in the Area of Management Prerogatives 21. Quality of Work-Life Programs: Are They Nothing More Than a Fad? 22. Plant Closedowns and WARN 23. Union Mergers: Problems and Opportunities 24. History of a Particular Labor Union With Which You Are Familiar Grading Rubrics Back to Top Content (60%) Point.

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Labor Relations Course Project
Guidelines | Course Project Topics | Grading Rubrics
Guidelines
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There is a written Course Project due at the end of Week 6. It
should be 15–20 pages in length (excluding the cover and
reference pages). Your work must be double spaced with 1-in.
margins and should use one of the five approved style formats
(APA or MLA are preferred). You may select one topic from the
list below.
You should choose a labor relations topic that is of interest to
you. This could be (a) an idea that comes out of one of the class
case studies, (b) something you have wanted to investigate for a
long time and have not had time for, (c) a labor relations issue
that is pressing at work and needs a solution, or (d) a
recommendation that you want to make to your organization's
labor relations professionals or to your union.
Your paper should be organized in such a way that you integrate
the following elements into your work.
· A clear thesis that consists of at least two main points
· An introduction section with a detailed background or history
of the topic
· A literature review that incorporates research supporting your
assertions on the topic
· A recommendation section in which you will explain what you
have learned and how you propose to alter or amend the
situation discussed

2. · A conclusion
Course Project Topics
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1. The Relation of Job Satisfaction to Union Involvement
2. Managing in a Union Environment
3. Should Labor Unions Be Expanded or Restricted?
4. Collective Bargaining and Contract Administration: Present
and Future
5. The Future of Unions in the United States
6. Right-to-Work Laws: Where Are They Headed in the Future?
7. Labor Unions' Influence in the Political Arena
8. Written Employment Contracts: Are They Right for a
Company?
9. White-Collar Unionism in the United States in the Next
Decade: An Attempt to Predict its Future Size and Shape
10. Managerial Resistance to Unionism: How Deeply Rooted,
How Widespread, and How Logical Is It?
11. An Evaluation of Organized Labor's Relationship With the
Black Community
12. The Influence of Bill Clinton's Presidency on Organized
Labor
13. Management's Replacement Worker Strategy After the Air
Traffic Controller Strike: How Potent and How Fair a Weapon?
14. The Declining Incidence of Strikes in the United States and
Some Possible Explanations
15. Mediation: An Assessment of its Potential Value
16. Technological Innovation as a Cause of Strikes
17. The Role of Violence in Strike and Lockout Situations
18. Legal Issues in the Private Arbitration Process
19. Effective Use of the Grievance Procedure for Settlement of
Disputes
20. Trends in the Area of Management Prerogatives
21. Quality of Work-Life Programs: Are They Nothing More
Than a Fad?
22. Plant Closedowns and WARN
23. Union Mergers: Problems and Opportunities

3. 24. History of a Particular Labor Union With Which You Are
Familiar
Grading Rubrics
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Content (60%)
Points
The background component provides any necessary historical
information and assumptions used in the paper and any other
information the reader might need to better understand the
forthcoming elements of the paper.
15
Scope and depth of research—literature review: You should
research on the Internet and in other sources to provide support
for your opinions and assertions. The literature might exist in
your organization.
50
Recommendations: Write a large recommendation or solution
part. Explain what you have learned and how you would change
or fix the situation.
46
Use sound logic.
15
Total
126
Editing (10%)
Points Deduction (Per Occurrence)
Spelling error
-8
Punctuation or grammatical error
-6
Sentence meaning unclear
-5
Misstatement of fact
-2
Total (Not to Exceed)
21

4. Organization (20%)
Points
Introduction: Thesis statement contains at least two main points.
16
Body text follows order of topics and main points are derived
from the thesis statement.
10
Content subdivisions follow outline.
8
Conclusion summarizes and complements thesis; it contains new
information.
8
Total
42
Documentation: Incorrectly Cited or Missing (10%)Note: All
must appear in approved format.
Points Deduction (Per Occurrence)
Title page
-2
Abstract
-5
Citations in text
-6
References
-8
Total (Not to Exceed)
21
Category Totals
Possible Points/%
Content
126/60%
Organization and cohesiveness
42/20%
Editing
21/10%
Documentation and formatting

5. 21/10%
Total
210/100%
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The Chipotle Company
Overview
Chipotle is a fast casual dining experience committed to fresh
and high quality meats and vegetables. The menu is limited in
serving tacos, burritos, and bowls in a customizable style with
its organized line of meats, vegetables, beans, rice, and salsas
of preference. Each store cooks and prepares the food daily with
no frozen ingredients. “Whenever possible, it uses meat from
animals raised without the use of antibiotics or added hormones.
And when practical, it uses local and organic produce” (Munch,
2011, 2014). The company emphasizes their philosophy of
“Food with Integrity”. As stated by Founder Steve Elis
(Chipotle, 2014) "it is our commitment to always look closer,
dig deeper, and work harder to ensure that our actions are
making things better, not worse. It’s our promise to run our
business in a way that doesn’t exploit animals, people or the
environment” (ND, 2014).
History
CEO Steve Ellis opened Chipotle in Denver, Colorado. Steve’s
original ambition was to open a high-end restaurant, and
Chipotle was a means for start-up funds. “Horrified by the
confinement conditions at factory farms, he started to use
naturally raised livestock. He bought organic when he could and
vowed to avoid products with hormones” (Kaplan, 2011). Steve
realized that genetically modified vegetables and factory grown
livestock was not right for Chipotle and this initiated the

6. company motto, “Food with Integrity”. As the company grew,
McDonalds grew an interest in the franchise, and “at one point
had invested $360 million” (Kaplan, 2011). McDonald’s large
investment in the company helped Chipotle grow fast, but Elis
did not feel as if it was the right fit for Chipotle. The companies
reached an agreement to terminate the investment and Chipotle
went public. “Chipotle’s stock price doubled its first day of
trading on the New York Stock Exchange. In the end
McDonald's walked away with a profit of more than $650
million” (Kaplan, 2011).
Elis has yet to open up his fine dining restaurant, but he
certainly surpassed his goal of original startup funds. “The
company recorded revenues of $3,214.6 million in the financial
year ended December 2013 an increase of 17.7% over FY2012”
(Mint Global, 2014). Instead Elis kept expanding the company.
Since the initial public offering, the company has continued to
expand into new markets. “As of December 31, 2012, the
Company operated 1,410 restaurants, including Chipotle
restaurants throughout the United States, as well as five in
Canada, five in London, England, and one in Paris, France, and
also one Shop House Southeast Asian Kitchen, a restaurant in
Washington, D.C.” (Mint Global, 2014).
Recent Expansion
The company has been busy expanding it’s brand and locations
by opening an Asian style food venue, expanding into Europe
and adding spirits to their existing Chipotle menu. The company
used their business model and customizable line-up style to
open an Asian style location called Shop House. Shop House
serves the same fresh meats and vegetables but with Vietnamese
and Malaysian flavorings. The company recently expanded
internationally with their first overseas location in London in
2010 and a second in Paris, France. The company feels their
affinity for quality no hormone meats helps them do well
overseas. “Chipotle's cooking methods would serve it well in

7. Europe, where people are more attuned to where their food is
sourced and what's in their food than most Americans are. Also,
there's a bigger supply of naturally raised foods in Europe,
making sourcing more efficient for Chipotle” (Munch, 2011
March 3). Chipotle has recently added spirits to select locations
by adding premium margaritas. “The new margarita is hand-
made using Patron Silver tequila, triple sec, a blend of fresh
lime and lemon juices, and organic agave nectar” (Kaplan,
2011).
Strengths
The strengths of Chipotle are their ingredients are from
sustainable sources and they keep low marketing costs. Chipotle
does not waste money on advertising, with only about 1.75% of
total revenue allocated to the expense. This is low compared to
most companies which spend about 3-5% of their revenue on
marketing (Gariaga, 2014, August 12). Chipotle explains that
they are able to keep the costs this low by not offering new
products. With new products comes the training of employees,
developing, and marketing the product. “Chipotle is not
pursuing the kinds of gimmicks that fast-food companies
pursue, such as new products. Those are very expensive; a lot of
R&D goes into developing new menu items, then you have to
spend a lot of money on marketing" (Gariaga, 2014, August 12).
The naturally raised meats and GMO free products the company
prides themselves on helps greatly with their brand image and
customer loyalty. The brand has become a trend through word-
of-mouth marketing, which has been doing wonderfully for the
company.
Weaknesses
A disadvantage of this model is with better ingredients comes
higher cost. Naturally with higher supply cost comes at higher
prices to consumers, and this will make it difficult to compete

8. with nearby competitors. “Chipotle food ranges from $7 to $8,
whereas its competitors such as McDonalds, Taco Bell and KFC
have options such as value menus that start from $1” (Mint
Global, 2014).
The Chipotle Company also offers a limited amount of items on
the menu. The items served are limited to the ingredients in a
burrito, with choices being if you want your meal served in a
taco, salad, or bowl. The limited menu can hinder sales due to
other fast causal restaurants offering a much larger variety.
Values in Expansion
The Chipotle Company prides themselves on their high-quality
ingredients. When deciding on new locations to expand, it is
necessary to consider the local farming and livestock
communities available. When committing to sustainable food
products, it would be most preferable to have organic or free
raised farms nearby. The menu options at Chipotle are centered
on their proteins, whether it be a burrito, salad, or bowl.
Therefore, it is vital that they enter in a location where there are
carnivorous consumers. Chipotle’s meals are at a medium price
range of about $10-$15 per dish, and wherever they expand the
population would need to have enough purchasing power to be
able to afford the higher-end fast food. The company needs to
enter into an economically stable environment. Lastly, Chipotle
needs to be in a densely populated region to generate enough
business to support each of the store’s locations.
The Fast Casual Industry
Industry
Chipotle is a part of a new market trend called “Quick-Casual”
which take high quality ingredients and homemade items of
restaurants and combine it with the quick service of fast food
joints. Some examples of the quick casual eateries are Panera

9. Bead, The Habit, Flame Broiler and Boston Market. “Fast
casual” emerged in the 1990s as a refinement of conventional
fast food. The fast-casual segment remains a small part 3% of
the overall restaurant market, but has doubled its share over the
past decade (Kaplan, 2011).
Current Threats
Current threats in the industry involve the rising price of food,
an unhealthy economy and large competitors in the industry.
Food costs are rising and chipotle’s demand for farm raised,
GMO free quality ingredients can come at a high price. The
company's food, beverage and packaging cost as a percentage of
revenue increased to 33.6% in the quarter ended September 30,
2013 from 32.6% in the quarter ended September 30, 2012(Mint
Global, 2014). The situation can epically be grave when the
competition is paying a third of the price for their magic meats.
Consumers themselves have been put on a budget. Growth in the
casual dining segment has been hurt in the past year primarily
by rising fuel prices and fears about the general economy which
have put a strain on most family budgets (Hoover, 2014). A
limited budget means customers will turn to eating at home or
to cheaper venues that offer a $.99 cent menu in lieu of a $10
Chipotle burrito.
Not only are the other fast food guys paying less for their
ingredients and charging lower prices but they are major players
in the game. Chipotle’s main competitors are McDonalds Corp,
Yum Brands Inc, Darden restaurants, Jack in the Box, Sodexo,
and OSI Restaurant (Mint Global, 2014). “Most of its
competitors grow faster than the company through franchising
which the company doesn't undertake” (Mint Global, 2014).
This can be a big deal when there are numerous Subways
franchised on every corner when compared to the limited arm of
Chipotle storefronts.

10. Opportunities
Contrary to the poor economic situation, consumers seem to be
hopping on the quality ban wagon. The big dining chains, as
well as the fast-food giants, are monitoring the growth (and
possible threat) of small fast-casual or quick-casual chains.
Growth for these upstarts has been brisk, but it may be too early
to tell if large numbers of people are willing to trade shrimp
feasts and Bloomin' Onions for artisan bread and Asian-style
noodles (Hoover, 2014).
“Chipotle is a niche in a huge market. American fast food is
dominated by burger joints” (Kaplan, 2011).Also, the fast food
present in today’s fast food market is typically unhealthy with
high fat and sodium contents. Chipotle’s home-style cooked
meats loaded with vegetable toppings and fresh condiments of
salsas and guacamole set the restaurant apart from the
McDonald’s and Taco Bell’s in the industry.
Fall 2014 BUAD 301 Exam #3
Purpose: This exam requires you to demonstrate case analysis
method by creating a document with a problem statement, a
well-developed analysis paragraph, a criteria statement, two
well-developed alternative paragraphs demonstrating possible
solutions to the problem, and a well-developed comparative
recommendation. Your document should adhere to all section
requirements, and principles of sentence mechanics, paragraph
construction, document continuity we explored this semester.
Materials: As per one online reminder and two in-class
reminders, you were allowed to bring your printed Baxter case,
a 1 to 3 page article on international communications in
business (or a copy of the Diversity and International
Communications chapter from our text), and your company and
industry overview from your team’s global expansion report.

11. You can still do well on this test without these materials if you
know the case, chapter, and your team’s report well, which you
should since the first two were required reading, and you spent
almost two months researching your report’s company.
Task: Assume your clients accepted your team’s
recommendation in your global expansion report. Now they’ve
hired you again to help implement their increased presence in
any country your team looked at for the report. They already
have experts who can take care of the money, logistics,
building, and legal issues. The clients specifically assigned you
to suggest one action they should take regarding the impending
interaction between its current employees and the new and
future employees in the new location.
What can be done for the good of the company in anticipation of
this future interaction between employees from different parts
of the world?
The actions you propose in your alternatives may be designed to
cover any time range in the future: one time actions, permanent
plans, or anything in-between.
If your company already has a presence there, you may either
ignore it or use it.
You do not have to educate the reader about the company or
place, but a few company-specific or place-specific claims can
bolster your credibility. Higher scoring plans will at least
briefly acknowledge specific realities of the company, industry,
or new place.
Do not propose “schnitzel day,” “taco day,” “spaghetti day” or
any other let’s-party-and-try-out-each-other’s-food days.
Assessment: CLASS rubric.

12. The Required Sections
Problem: In exactly one declarative sentence, state the decision
maker, the decision faced, and minimal context pertaining to the
decision so the reader can at least picture the basic situation. Do
not use punctuation like semicolons or dashes to attach a second
independent clause to the sentence.
Analysis: In exactly one well-developed paragraph, provide
your reader with:
Exposition of the case facts most relevant to the problem
statement you just wrote.
Your problem sentence is a promise to the reader. This
paragraph should stick to that promise. When you are done with
this paragraph, ask yourself if it matches the problem sentence.
Interpretation of the significance of the facts you are
discussing.
Case facts are needed to establish a starting point with the
reader, but they are not as valuable as your commentary on
them. Anyone can repeat; it is the lowest tier on the academic
pyramid. I want what YOU think to be the star of this
paragraph, not what the casebook already told us both. Just look
at the name of the paragraph. It is the "analysis" paragraph, not
the "story" paragraph.
A beginning in the past or present; an end in the future.
The rest of the document will be about solutions for the future,
so the analysis paragraph is the best place to have significant
discussion about the past or present.
Forcing yourself to end with forward looking content will also
force you to stop repeating case details.
This paragraph"s summarizing topic sentence may be either the
first or last sentence. We already have a transitional device
(section titles) so we do not need transitional sentences.

13. Criteria: In exactly one declarative sentence, say what two to
four criteria the decision maker should use to select a course of
action. Given all the possible courses of action, and what you
just claimed matters, what variables matter most going forward?
A mix of qualitative and quantitative criteria is most persuasive.
Measurable criteria are comfortable and easy to define, but tend
to paint a narrow and/or shallow picture.
Quantitative criteria might include: cost of X, return on
investment, market share, risk of X, productivity, turnover, time
needed to X, effort, inventory, chance of X, delay, staff hours,
or any items you might find on a balance sheet.
Qualitative criteria might include: competition, customer
satisfaction, employee morale, image, ethics, goodwill,
motivation, safety, or a culture of X.
First Alternative: In exactly one well-developed paragraph with
its own sectional title, announce a possible course of action,
detail it, and argue its merits. This is a conditional action the
decision maker could take. In addition to having an opening
topic sentence which announces the action, it should also be:
Viable: The plan you describe should be possible, practical, and
appropriate. Can it be done? Is it the right scale? Does it target
or use the correct things?
Valuable: Say how the plan creates or increases positives and/or
decreases or halts negatives. Why should the decision maker
even bother?
Vivid: The reader must be able to picture your plan. There is
not enough room in a paragraph to write deeply into the finest
details about implementing a plan, but reader must be given
enough specifics to feel confident you know where you would
begin if this alternative is selected. The key word here is
"specific." Specific language will create a specific image.
Second Alternative: Write another alternative paragraph. The
two alternatives should be distinct, proposing very different
actions. If the actions are similar in cosmetics, then force them

14. to be different in goal or approach.
Recommendation: End your document with a well-developed
paragraph that announces your selected alternative from the two
above. This paragraph should, in any order:
Compare: Use comparative and/or superlative language to make
claims about how the two alternatives meet or do not meet the
criteria you selected earlier, relative to each other.
Criticize: The two plans have not had their flaws mentioned yet,
so you may want to mention them here. This not only has the
usual benefits of bringing up a counterpoint (shows breadth of
knowledge, shows confidence), but it also generates more
comparative claims.
Champion:Without repeating the alternative"s merits, defend
your choice.
Some mention of implementation of the recommended
alternative can be a nice touch and often separates an A from a
B, but should be included only if and after the three C"s above
are handled well.
Added on 30.11.2014 04:02
The company the prompt is talking about is chipotle
in this class, I wrote a report about why chipotle should expand
to spain. I will upload the sections you will need for this paper