Ideas in this flowchart

• Ethics activities on managing human resources and labor relations
• Team activity: debate whether employees are an expense or an asset
• Select two teams of five.
• One team argues that employees are a business expense to be managed.
• The second team argues that employees are an asset to be developed for competitive advantage.
• The remainder of the class judges which team provides the stronger argument.
• Information activity: investigate union membership and union characteristics.
• Report whether you or a family member has ever been a union member.
• Describe the union using key membership, labor-relations, and contract information.
• Membership size
• Membership characteristics
• Strike history
• Recent bargaining issues
• Employers under union contracts
• Team activity: debate whether workers should be required to join unions and pay dues
• Divide the class into two groups.
• The groups present opposing positions on compulsory union membership.
• One group argues that workers should be required to join unions and pay dues.
• The other group argues that workers should not be required to join unions.
• A spokesperson from each group has 10 minutes to present the group’s arguments.