Those HRM activities associated with the movement of employees within the organization.
What is Internal Employee Relations?
100
Compensation designed to assist laid-off employees as they search for new employment.
What is Severance Pay?
100
Invoking a penalty against an employee who fails to meet established standards.
What is Disciplinary Action?
100
Basic element in the structure of the U.S. labor movement.
What is the Local Union?
200
Organization composed of local unions, which it charters.
What is a National Union?
200
Bargaining unit that consists of all the workers in a particular plant or group of plants.
What is an Industrial Union?
200
A procedure whereby laid-off employees are given assistance in finding employment elsewhere.
What is Outplacement?
200
Means of revealing the real reasons employees leave their jobs; it is conducted before an employee leaves the company and provides information on how to correct the causes of dissent and reduce turnover.
What is an Exit Interview?
300
Procedure whereby the employee and the company agree ahead of time that any problems will be addressed by agreed-upon rules.
What is ADR or Alternative Dispute Resolution?
300
Central trade union Federation in the United States.
What is the AFL-CIO or American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations?
300
Organizing approach by labor unions in which employees sign a card of support if they want unionization, and if 50% of the workforce plus one worker sign a card, the union is formed.
What is a Card Check?
300
Document indicating that an employee wants to be represented by a labor organization in collectie bargaining.
What is an Authorization Card?
300
Bargaining issues that fall within the definition of wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment.
What are Mandatory Bargaining Issues?
400
Arrangement making union membership a prerequisite for employment.
What is a Closed Shop?
400
Requirement that all employees become members of the union after a specified period of employment (minium 30 days) or after a a union shop provision has been negotiated.
What is a Union Shop?
400
Approach to disciplinary action designed to ensure that the minimum penalty appropriate to the offense is imposed.
What is Progressive Disciplinary Action?
400
Process in which a worker is given time off with pay to think about whether he or she wants to follow the rules and continue to work for the company.
What is Disciplinary Action Without Punishment?
500
Laws that prohibit management and unions from entering into agreements requiring union membership as a condition of employment.
What are Right-To-Work-Laws or Right-To-Work-States?
500
Unwritten contract created when an employee agrees to work for an employer but no agreement exists as to how long the parties expect the employment to last.
What is Employment At Will?
500
Agreement by which a company agrees to withhold union dues from members' paychecks and to forward the money directly to the union.
What is Checkoff Of Dues?
500
Process in which a dispute is forwarded to an impartial third party for a binding decision; an arbitrator basically acts as a judge and jury.