Amazon HR Business Report

You may have heard about The New York Times article, “Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace published on August 17, 2015. The critical expose brought to light some unflattering aspects of Amazon’s workplace dynamics for its white-collar workers. Although there has been some rebuttal to the article, including a response by CEO Jeff Bezos, the article has caused a firestorm of criticism over working conditions at Amazon. In fact after The New York Times article was published, The Morning Call rereleased an article from 2011 on poor conditions for Amazon’s blue-collar warehouse workers. Whether the articles are representative of the majority, or a small minority, of employees at Amazon, they show that there are definitely some employees who are unsatisfied. Therefore, your task is to read The New York Times article (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html?_r=0)

and The Morning Call article http://www.mcall.com/news/local/amazon/mc-allentown-amazon-complaints-20110917-story.html and write a business report identifying HR problems at Amazon and formulating recommendations to solve these problems. You should read and refer to only the two assigned articles as you complete your analysis. You should not find or use any additional articles.

As you write your HR business report, you must include appropriate references to concepts, theories, and ideas from the textbook including parenthetical citations with page numbers; for example, (Noe, 263). References to the articles should also be parenthetical citations but as there are no page numbers on the articles, you should just include the authors last names &date; (Kantor and Streitfeld, 2015) for The NY Times article and (Soper, 2011) for The Morning Call article. At the end of your report you should include a list of works cited.

Your report should include an overall introduction, body, and conclusion as well as effective transitions. The body of your report must include the following four sections:

1. Summaryof the facts presented.
2. Analysisof the problems.
3. Recommendationsfor solutions to the problems.
4. Implications your recommendations will have on the operation of the organization.