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IRE244 Test #1 Questions and Answers
(Expert Solutions)
Q: Industrial Relations, 🗹🗹: -often used in the narrow sense of labour-management
relations at unionized workplaces
-Study of all aspects of the employment relationship.
Q: Employment Relations, 🗹🗹: -ER is sometimes used in a narrow sense to refer to
employment issues at non-union workplaces.
-Study of all aspects of the employment relationship.
Q: Human Resources, 🗹🗹: Study of relations between
employees & management in
nonunion (or all) workplaces
Q: Labour Relations, 🗹🗹: Study of relations between
labour & management in
unionized workplaces.
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Q: Neoliberal, 🗹🗹: -goal is to maximize efficiency
- perfect information to all buyers and sellers
-labour is homogenous
-relatively equal power in the market, markets set an equilibrium
-Pareto principle: allocating resources in which it is impossible to make any one
individual better off without making at least one individual worse off
-conflict is resolved by market forces
-unions would have negative impact
-goal is to try to reduce government, union and collective interference in markets
Q: Managerialist, 🗹🗹: goal: maximizing loyalty!
- good treatment produces productivity and loyalty
-minimal role of government involvement
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Q: Orthodox Pluralist, 🗹🗹: goal: balance between efficiency and fairness (equity)
- conflict results from economic issues
-management has more power in ER creating an imbalance of power
- UNIONS and CB counter this imbalance
-unions can increase quality of production and productivity
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Q: Liberal Reformist, 🗹🗹: goal: to eliminate inequalities and injustices produced by
market and power concentrations.
- the social side
-need government intervention on many fronts
-unions are not as effective if they don't get a share of the power
- need strong ER standards
-protections against unfair, arbitrary or discrimination
Q: Radical, 🗹🗹: comes out of belief that capitalism exploits workers (inherent
conflict)
•interests of labour and capital diametrically opposed
•Webbs / socialists / Marxist theory
•advocates large-scale political solutions: social-democratic, socialist, communist
•role of unions: necessary but often implicated in the existing system
Q: What is the supply of labour?, 🗹🗹: Number of people who want to work in any
given
occupation.
depends on : wage rate, working conditions, amount of training requried, and the
preferences of employees.
IRE244 Test #1 Questions and Answers
(Expert Solutions)
Q: Industrial Relations, 🗹🗹: -often used in the narrow sense of labour-management
relations at unionized workplaces
-Study of all aspects of the employment relationship.
Q: Employment Relations, 🗹🗹: -ER is sometimes used in a narrow sense to refer to
employment issues at non-union workplaces.
-Study of all aspects of the employment relationship.
Q: Human Resources, 🗹🗹: Study of relations between
employees & management in
nonunion (or all) workplaces
Q: Labour Relations, 🗹🗹: Study of relations between
labour & management in
unionized workplaces.
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Q: Neoliberal, 🗹🗹: -goal is to maximize efficiency
- perfect information to all buyers and sellers
-labour is homogenous
-relatively equal power in the market, markets set an equilibrium
-Pareto principle: allocating resources in which it is impossible to make any one
individual better off without making at least one individual worse off
-conflict is resolved by market forces
-unions would have negative impact
-goal is to try to reduce government, union and collective interference in markets
Q: Managerialist, 🗹🗹: goal: maximizing loyalty!
- good treatment produces productivity and loyalty
-minimal role of government involvement
-
Q: Orthodox Pluralist, 🗹🗹: goal: balance between efficiency and fairness (equity)
- conflict results from economic issues
-management has more power in ER creating an imbalance of power
- UNIONS and CB counter this imbalance
-unions can increase quality of production and productivity
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Q: Liberal Reformist, 🗹🗹: goal: to eliminate inequalities and injustices produced by
market and power concentrations.
- the social side
-need government intervention on many fronts
-unions are not as effective if they don't get a share of the power
- need strong ER standards
-protections against unfair, arbitrary or discrimination
Q: Radical, 🗹🗹: comes out of belief that capitalism exploits workers (inherent
conflict)
•interests of labour and capital diametrically opposed
•Webbs / socialists / Marxist theory
•advocates large-scale political solutions: social-democratic, socialist, communist
•role of unions: necessary but often implicated in the existing system
Q: What is the supply of labour?, 🗹🗹: Number of people who want to work in any
given
occupation.
depends on : wage rate, working conditions, amount of training requried, and the
preferences of employees.
