1. Why do organizations and individuals enter into employment relationships?

2. What does the wordresourcein the termhuman resource management suggest about the nature of the employment relationship?

3. In what ways are women typically disadvantaged in employment relationships? What factor explains this disadvantage?

4. What employee and employer rights and obligations flow from common law and from statutory law?

5. How is the issue of workplace health and safety both technical and political?

6. Why are employers increasingly organizing work in non-standard ways? What effect does this have on women?

7. How is job analysis related to other HRM functions?

8. Why might employees resist job analysis?

9. How can job analysis and design negatively affect women?