HRM
Which is NOT an objective of labor relations?
a. Efficiency
b. Voice
c. Wages
d. Equity
c. Wages
Group of workers who join together to influence the nature of their employment:
a. Labor Unions
b. Labor Relations
c. Collective Bargaining Agreement
d. Companies
a. Labor Unions
The provisions of a bargain that are written down and bound into a legally enforceable collective bargaining agreement is a(n):
a. Labor Relation
b. Union Contract
c. Collective Bargaining Agreement
d. Labor’s Perspective
b. Union Contract
The first federation was the National Labor Union which was founded in:
a. 1877
b. 1866
c. 1870
d. 1873
b. 1866
Standard of fair treatment for employees:
a. Voice
b. Unionization
c. Equity
d. Efficiency
c. Equity
This term represents the concept of seeking to win worker loyalty:
a. Welfare Capitalism
b. Revolutionary Unionism
c. Business Unionism
d. Craft Unionism
a. Welfare Capitalism
Outlawed discriminatory practices by both employers and unions
a. Wagner Act
b. Union Act of 1965
c. Civil Rights Act of 1964
d. American Federation of Labor
c. Civil Rights Act of 1964
Labor relations involves all of the following diverse factors EXCEPT:
a. Market Forces
b. Representation
c. Individual Emotions
d. Forms of Work Organization
b. Representation
Representatives of the employer and employees negotiate employment terms and conditions.
a. Union President
b. Manager
c. Collective Bargaining
d. The Government
c. Collective Bargaining
National Labor Unions emphasize:
a. Political activity to bring about legal reform
b. Government
c. Economic History
d. Lower Wages
a. Political activity to bring about legal reform
The belief that workers in a democratic society are entitled to the same democratic principles of participation in the workplace.
a. Human Dignity
b. Industrial Democracy
c. Societal Rights
d. Labor Relations
b. Industrial Democracy
Believes that the Unions are seen as labor market monopolies that interfere with the invisible hand of free market competition; distort efficient outcomes.
a. Industrial Relations School
b. Human Resource Management School
c. Neoliberal School
d. Critical Industrial Relations School
c. Neoliberal School
This Act encourages unionization, enacted legal protections for workers, d outlawed company unions:
a. Federal Act
b. Wagner Act
c. Civil Rights Act
d. Taft–Hartley Act
b. Wagner Act
A solution to the labor problem from the Human Resource Management School was:
a. Lower Wages
b. Better Management
c. More Training
d. Perfect Competition
b. Better Management
Welfare capitalism is:
a. Sought to win worker loyalty
b. Sought to lose worker loyalty
c. Divide and conquer
d. Lower Wages
a. Sought to win worker loyalty
Productive use of scarce resources for economic prosperity:
a. Efficiency
b. Equity
c. Voice
d. Building Relations
a. Efficiency
Employee representation plans are the most controversial aspect of welfare capitalism was this attempt to provide nonunion industrial democracy
a. TRUE
b. FALSE
a. TRUE
Labor Law tries to balance property and labor rights to promote a balance between all of the following EXCEPT:
a. Efficiency
b. Equity
c. Unionization
d. Voice
c. Unionization
In 1981, President Raegan fired the air traffic controllers during the illegal:
a. AFL-CIO Strike
b. PATCO Strike
c. Pullman Strike
d. Homestead Strike
b. PATCO Strike
The percentage of workers who are union members:
a. Union Density
b. Union Membership
c. Public Sector Density
d. Private Sector Density
a. Union Density
This historical strike is notable because black sanitation workers demanded improved wages and working conditions, civil rights and respect.
a. PATCO Strike
b. Memphis Sanitation Strike
c. The Great Strike
d. Taft–Hartley Act
b. Memphis Sanitation Strike
Believes that the labor problem stems from unequal bargaining power between corporation and individual workers.
a. Industrial Relations School
b. Human Resource Management School
c. Neoliberal School
d. Critical Industrial Relations School
a. Industrial Relations School
The AFL’s biggest victory in 1912 was:
a. The Great Strike
b. Memphis Sanitation Strike
c. Homestead Strike
d. Massachusetts Textile Workers Strike
d. Massachusetts Textile Workers Strike
Which of the following schools has employees and employers have some inherent conflicts of interests and some mutual interests:
a. Pluralism (IR School)
b. Unitarism (HR School)
c. Class- Based (Critical IR School)
d. Neoliberal School
a. Pluralism (IR School)
The Private sector union density is:
a. Less than 10%
b. More than 25%
c. 100%
d. 50%
a. Less than 10%