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RESEARCH PROPOSAL

: EMPLOYERS VERSUS EMPLOYEES CONFLICT : A CASE STUDY OF U .S WAL-MART

Aims of the Research

This research is aimed at answering the following fundamental questions :Why employers /employees conflict

What forms /natures , if any , exist of employers /employees conflict ? And which one bedeviled Wal-Mart company

What are the effects of employers /employees conflict to the workers themselves , the employer and the economy in general

What are the applicable ways to avoid or solve employers /workers conflict

Introduction

To appreciate the prevalence of the employers /employees conflict

, look at a daily news . Each day , one is likely to find news of workers threatening to go on strike , staging work boycotts or strikes or employers threatening labour force with a sack or interdiction

Each day , the courts are handling civil cases related to employers /workers conflict

Terms

Conflict : Can be defined as an open clash between two opposing groups or individuals . It is a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests

Oxford advanced learners dictionary defines conflict as a serious disagreement or argument ' It also defines it as a serious difference of opinions and wishes

Employer : Oxford advanced learners dictionary defines employer as a person or company that give work to somebody or people for payment

Worker : A worker in this research is considered as a person who works for somebody or for a company in return for wages or a salary

The underlying fact is that employers are faced with myriad of challenges in day to day running of their work , business , or company The employers have what they expect from their worker (s ) on daily basis .On the other hand , employees have certain expectations of their employers . In some cases , the expectations and wishes of these two groups collide resulting to conflict

Sometimes , there are threats of violent confrontation pitting the employees and their employers . In other cases , these threats actually materialize

In other cases , employers may issue s of eviction against the employees especially those occupying the employer 's houses . Arrest s are in other cases common as employers push to end the conflict

The choice of the study has largely been influenced by the high prevalence of employers /employees conflict and the need to explore the most effective and efficient way of dealing with the issue

One of the major global employers /workers conflict is that involving a retail giant company - Wal-Mart , which this research project takes it as the case study

In February 2005 , a watchdog group , WakeUpWalMart .com released a shocking new study Wal-Mart 's health care crisis entitled "America Pays , Wal-Mart Saves

The main highlights of the report were

That a world 's largest company , did not have health insurance

That the health care spending per worker by the world 's largest retail giant had declined by 3 .5 . Wal-Mart had sales of 312 billion and profits of 11 .2 billion in 2005

That only 43 of all associates (employees ) had company health care coverage

That in 18 of the...