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Diversity In The Workplace: Its Impact And Implications For Human Resource Management, Jennifer A. Goering

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

With the changing demographics in today's labor force, employers are now faced with new challenges in the workplace. The issue of recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce has become both an issue and a challenge for Human Resource departments. The demographics of the labor force are changing with increasing numbers of women and people of color entering the labor market.

Training and development is one of the areas that has seen the most impact through increased levels of diversity in organizations. Through development of diversity training programs, Human Resource departments will be able to impact corporate culture, recruitment, compensation, and …

Fields Of Green: A Proposal To Save Baseball, John Koszala

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

This thesis contains solutions to two of the main issues currently facing baseball: the needs for revenue sharing and cost control. The basic premise behind the system of revenue sharing is that the product of baseball is a game. Therefore, both teams that play in the game should be equally compensated for their input. The issue of cost control is addressed by the creation of a salary cap. The cap would be set at a predetermined amount of revenues (total revenues minus other, non-payroll expenses) and all money designated under the cap would be paid to the players in the …

Passive Activities: An Explanation Of Legislation And Real Estate Tax Planning Strategies, Greg Schlaefer

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

Tax shelters were a sought-after investment in the early and mid 1980's and stil are today. Investments in real estate were commonly tax-shelter type investments. Real estate investments allowed investors to make capital investments up front and depreciate the property quickly, which resulted in losses that would reduce taxable income. However, the passive activity regulations activated through the Tax Reform Act of 1986 minimized the usefulness of these shelters and significantly affected the real estate industry. The passive laws were refined through regulations issued in 1988 and 1989, and the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993. The passive classification losses from …

Legal And Strategic Issues Embodied In And Raised By The Attempted Takeover Of The Dayton Hudson Corporation By The Dart Group Corporation, Tara Sohlman

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

In the 1980s, there was a controversy regarding whether takeovers should be regulated more, and takeovers were more complex with target companies defending themselves better. The debate over regulation centered on state laws that were being passed to protect local companies and on pressure for the federal government to adopt uniform laws regulating takeovers. Takeovers were more difficult because of the strategy now required to be successful. There were many protective strategies that target companies could adopt to defend themselves. A takeover that illustrated the controversy and complexity was the attempted takeover of Dayton Hudson by the Dart Group in …