Description

Writing two articles: 1-About business performance and productivity. 2- Article on Industry response to information technology era.

Each article one page of summary and Critique APA STYLE FOR REFERENCE:

Example of reviewing the article:

Sample Journal Review

Sample Journal Review

Course Designation & Title

Student Name
Semester & Date
Keywords: OSHA, ergonomic, injury, syndrome

Journal Review 1

Reference:

Hoover, K. (2000, April 6). Small Businesses Challenge OSHA Ergonomic Proposal. Kansas City Business Journal, pp. 1, 2-3.

Summary:

Business lobbyists are preparing to legally challenge OSHAýs proposed ergonomics regulation requiring employers to place employees on work restriction if they have symptoms of musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) resulting from a job where recordable injury might arise from physical work activities and conditions in the job that are reasonably likely to cause or contribute to the type of MSD reported. These business lobbyists are convinced small and medium-sized manufacturers will incur total costs of $6.7 billion or more if the provision is passed. The provision ýwould require almost 2 million employers to establish programs to protect employees from injuries such as strained backs and carpal tunnel syndrome.ý They say the regulation will cost employers far more than the $4.2 billion OSHA projects, without any guarantee of improving worker safety.

Business lobbyists hope they can persuade the Senate to follow the Houseýs lead forcing OSHA to delay the regulation. They are hoping that the National Academy of Sciences completion of a study to determine if repetitive motion tasks causes musculoskeletal disorders will not happen until 2001 when a ýbusiness-friendly George W. Bush will occupy the White House and kills the ergonomics regulation.ý

Whether the provision can be stymied until then is uncertain. Legislation delaying the regulation is almost certain to be vetoed by President Clinton, so ergonomics opponents are planning to make their final stand in the courts.

In the meantime, OSHA claims that some 600,000 workers will lose time this year because of musculoskeletal disorders. They believe this regulation would cut that number in half.

Small and medium-sized manufacturers, says Rep. Cass Ballenger, R-N.C., would automate to avoid the cost of ergonomics regulation, and others would produce abroad. The regulation, he said, ýwill protect workers whose jobs no longer exist.ý

Critique:

The cost of this regulation for small and medium-sized business could keep new businesses from being able to open their doors. It also could cause existing businesses to shut their doors or find international sites for their businesses. This would create another migration of American manufacturing to foreign lands, therefore, hurting Americaýs commerce, and their ability to compete in the manufacturing arena. This could cause Americanýs the loss of their jobs. Before we take this risk, we should look at ways of compensating employers for developing ergonomic and automated equipment that does not risk American jobs.