HRM 340 EXAM 1.1 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2026

HRM 340 EXAM 1.1 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2026 The National War Labor Board, created during WWI and WWII, was intended to: - Answers Resolve labor disputes that arose during the wars. In the years immediately following WWII, labor relations in the United States were characterized by: - Answers A two-year period of industrial conflict which was manifested in a great number of strikes. The first U.S. labor unions were organized by - Answers Craft lines, with a focus on local employment issues. in 1886, a Chicago rally to protest police repression of strikers turned violent when a bomb was thrown into the police ranks and police fired into the departing crowd. This incident is known as: - Answers The Haymarket Tragedy. The Homestead strike in 1892 and the Pullman strike in 1894 were representative of the clash between employers and the AFL over who had the right to establish: - Answers Work standards and production decisions. In the Knights of Labor's vision for the future, businesses would be owned by: - Answers Cooperatives made up of the producers of the goods and services they produced. These would include both workers and their employers. The American Federation of Labor arose out of frustration with: - Answers The Knights of Labor's failure to address everyday working issues. The AFL and the CIO merged in 1955 because: - Answers The two unions were expending considerable resources raiding each other for members. unlike the AFL, the CIO's attitude toward women in the union was: - Answers That they should be encouraged to join but relegated to a minor role in leading the union. A key difference between the AFL and the CIO in their early years was: - Answers The CIO relied more heavily on aggressive tactics such as sit-down strikes. The relationship between unions and minority workers in the U.S. is complex but can be summarized as: - Answers Union behaviors toward minorities have reflected larger social patterns of discrimination. The CIO formed as a result of: - Answers Differences with the AFL over unionization by industry, rather than by craft. In the earliest years of our country's formation, work was characterized as: - Answers Self-employed farmers, shopkeepers and craftsman. In the early 1900s, the richest 1 percent of households in America controlled the greatest concentration of wealth in U.S. history at: - Answers 45 percent. A workplace that is open only to workers who belong to the union is known as: - Answers A closed shop. When workers protest wages, hours and/or working conditions by refusing to work or to leave the shop/plant floor it is known as a: - Answers Sit down strike. Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding the Knights of Labor? - Answers It was not concerned with material issues such as better wages. The open shop movement was: - Answers A movement by employers to use the concept of individual liberty to discourage workers from acting collectively and preserve management's right to control its business. The AFL was considered a "business union" because it focused on achieving immediate improvements in the terms of employment such as a wages, hours of work, and working conditions. - Answers True In the Knights of Labor's vision for the future businesses would be owned by: - Answers Cooperatives made up of the producers of the goods and services they produced. These would include both workers and their employers. Industrial unionism seeks to organize all workers by industry or within a given workplace, regardless of their occupations or skill levels. - Answers True The PATCO strike in the 1980's is significant because: - Answers Many believe it created a new environment in which management could once again use aggressive tactics such as hiring permanent strike replacements to fight unionization. The National Labor Union is significant largely because: - Answers It was the first to unite diverse unions into a single federation. Unionization in the public sector did not take hold until the 1960's largely because: - Answers There were no laws protecting public sector rights to unionize. The American Federation of Labor was successful in building and sustaining membership due primarily to its focus on: - Answers Making immediate gains in wages, hours and working conditions through collective bargaining. From a business perspective, the poor working conditions endured by workers in the early part of U.S. industrialization were most problematic because: - Answers Workers lacked purchasing power which kept product demand artificially low.