Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class

a) What are the main functions of the trade union?

b) What is the reason for trouble in he press room?

c) What are the grounds for Smith’s wage claim?

d) Why does I. Hampden feel that the system of profit sharing should be introduced in the firm?

e) How has I. Hampden managed to make J. Green approve the profit-sharing proposals?

2. Recount the situation as if you were Jack Green, say whether you are in favour of the profit sharing scheme suggested by Ian Hampden.

3. Suppose you are Ted Fielding. Do you approve of the way Ian settled the problem?

4. Speak as if you were Ian Hampden and brief the audience on the chief responsibilities of a Personnel Manager. Is engagement and dismissal of employees his only function?

5. Suppose you are Symes, an employee who stands by the time clock. Brief a trainee on the following matters:

a) what an employee has to do with his time card when he arrives or leaves his place of work;

b) what an employee should expect to happen to his pay if he arrived late at work.

6. Suppose you are the District Organiser of the National Worker’s Union. Say

a) what responsibilities of a shop steward are;

b) if a worker belongs to the union, to whom he pays subscription or union dues;

c) if an employee works late, what extra money he could claim.

7. Act out

a) an imaginary conversation between Ian Hampden and Peter Wiles after Ian’s talk with Jack Green;

b) an imaginary talk between Jack Green and Smith after Green’s talk with Ian Hampden.

Unit13

Risk of a Takeover