How Did Hurricane Rita Affect

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1-16. Which environment factor(s) did Hurricane Rita affect? Discuss
Ans: The environmental factor that was affected because of Hurricane Rita was unanticipated event. Because of such event labor market was one of the environmental area that was affected the most. There was high demand of labor after the event. After the hurricane Rita struck, lots of businesses were trying to find workers, for their business to recover. There was huge opening in different workplaces for job. With this there was economic factor that was also being affected, for instance the workers who were ready to work for minimum wages started to ask for compensation. Fast food restaurant that paid minimum wage started to pay more money to their employees. Since there were not enough workers available in local area. Different company started hiring young people, this also affected in the time-money value. Managers worked overtime to train these young workers and companies were paying more than what they were making in their …show more content…

Staffing, HR development, performance management, compensation, safety and health, and employee and labor relations. I believe all functional area was affected in the case of Lake Charles. The city suffered a crisis, there were lack of resources even though they had opportunity to make things right. For instance, restaurant and store were in crisis of staffs or employees. This is created a high demand of labor market, but there were limited resources to fulfill the need of labor. High demand of wages, extrinsic rewards, unexperienced staffs were one of the reason in the economic crisis. Employee were looking for compensation in their workplace, they started asking for higher wages. Young and unexperienced workers were hired for the job, which is risk for their health and safety in businesses like restaurants. Businesses had also faced in crisis in labor market, which had an adverse effect in economy of Lake

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