Answer the questions below. Within your post, support your responses with information from at
least two reputable sources (library and/or Web-based) and provide the full citation at the end. Use APA format for your references. Bring in your own personal experiences, if applicable.
1) Assume that senior management has just learned that there is a union organizing effort going on. This is
the second time in four years that the hourly employees have tried to unionize. As an HR manager in this
unionfree company with 500 plant (hourly) employees located in a large industrial city, what actions would
you recommend to senior management to remain union-free? Why?
2) Assume there has been a discussion about using an employee participation program (EPP) in the
workplace. What is your opinion of using an EPP? Why?
3) What are the advantages of an EPP?
4)What are the disadvantages of an EPP?
Be sure to consider anti-union prohibitions under the National Labor Relations Act and other pertinent
legislation.
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