1. Companies and managers often perceive unions as troublesome. However, the changes in employment practices that unions helped to achieve have expanded to become standard across the U.S.

Name three specific ways in which unions have benefitted society.

2.How could you as a manager develop a strategy for increasing employees' motivation to work more safely?

3. Why has violence in the workplace become a larger problem for organizations? What recommendations would you offer to a company to ensure that it does not experience violence? Be specific.

4.Aside from the laws your learned about in the textbook and the pending legislation you researched, if you had sole authority to implement a completely new HR-related law nationwide, what would it be? Think big. Get creative.

For example, I'd make reverse age discrimination illegal in the workplace and in employment-related decisions. This would basically expand the Age Discrimination in Employment Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of age, whether the complainant is older or younger than the referent(s).