Employee representatives may be chosen by their fellow employees or appointed by management. Their roles vary but most: 1  receive information from and give information to management.  pass on information more widely within the workforce.
Confidence votes 11. The fork was invented in the Middle East before the year 1000. In the 11th century it made its way to Italy through the Byzantine empire. Then it became popular there in the 14th century, being used by upper classes in 1600s.Then it spread to Northern Europe and ultimately to the world. Although some use chopsticks.
Historical Background. It is considered by some that the screw thread was invented in about 400BC by Archytas of Tarentum (428 BC - 350 BC). Archytas is sometimes called the founder of mechanics and was a contemporary of Plato. One of the first applications of the screw principle was in presses for the extraction of oils from olives and juice from grapes. The oil presses in Pomeii were worked by the screw principle. Archimedes (287 BC - 212 BC) developed the screw principle and used it to construct devices to raise water.