Exam 2 Employee relations

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A transformational leadership style is one in which the leader transforms his or her leadership behaviors to suit the existing workplace culture

False

Because collective bargaining is a mixed motive conflict, it is recommended that the parties engage first in distributive bargaining to see what they can win followed by integrative bargaining for those issues that they are not likely to win

False

Grassroots movements and mobilization of the working class cannot serve the goals of both social movement unionism and solidarity unionism

False

Moonlighting is an example of job withdrawal

False

One key proposal for transforming U.S. and labor law into something that better meets the needs of our modern society is to prohibit majority unions and replace them with nonmajority unions

False

Since the 1970s, bargaining structure in the U.S. has become more centralized

False

If the union members are unhappy with the terms of a contract settlement and vote to reject it

The negotiators return to the bargaining table to try again or impasse is reached

Relative bargaining power is closely related to

The union's strike leverage

Advocates of deregulating labor laws argue that the decline in unionization in the U.S. is due to the fact that:

There is a reduced need and desire for unions in today's society

Which of the following could not be considered another label for integrative bargaining

Traditional bargaining

A stakeholder perspective argues that while shareholders have important rights, there are other constituents toward whom a company should demonstrate responsibility and concern

True

In the employee empowerment unionism model, unions are more focused on negotiating processes than on outcomes of negotiations

True

The margin of error determines the size of a confidence interval

True

The social information processing approach to understanding employee attitudes suggests that social expectations and norms are influential determinants of an individual's feelings about their job

True

Union leaders are faced with several roles which, at times, conflict with each other, placing them in the role of "navigator"

True

Bargaining power can best be described as

The ability to secure another's agreement on you own terms

_____Pertains to concerns of managing the labor-management relationship, such as creating trust

Attitudinal structuring

The process of producing a legally binding, written contract that specifies wages, benefits, layoff policies, grievance procedures, etc. is called

Collective bargaining

The process of designing an employee opinion survey follows a series of steps as follows

Design, administration, data analysis, feedback, action planning

According to Martinko et. al..< guilt and shame is most likely to lead to which of the following counterproductive work behaviors

Drug/alcohol abuse

Modified integrative bargaining is a term used to describe a process of negotiations where

Integrative bargaining is tried first and, if it fails, distributive bargaining takes place

Which of the following approaches to understanding employee attitudes predicts that employee attitudes are a function of employees work, job, organization, and individual characteristics

Interactional

Unions are beginning to use their power as pension fund investors to support the labor movement by doing all of the following except

Invest in companies overseas to protest the actions of the U.S. companies

Which of the following is generally true regarding the relationship between job satisfaction and productivity

It is insubstabtial

The degree to which a person's work performance affects his or her self-esteem is know as

Job involvement

Which of the following is likely to increase counterproductive work behaviors

Loosely written job descriptions

For an associational unionism model to be effective, unions would have to develop their skills in

Multilateral negotiations

A_____change is when the employer changes wages, benefits, or other term and conditions of employment without bargaining with the union

Unilateral


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