LABOR RELATIONS - CHAPTER 1-5 (EXAM 1 UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Labor Movement
Answer:
a social movement in which workers and unions fro multiple workplaces join together to pursue common
interests, more frequently in the political and social areas
Question:
2. Labor Union
Answer:
a group of workers who join together to influence the nature of their employment
Question:
3. Efficiency
Answer:
the productive, profit-maximizing use of labor to promote economic prosperity (this is a standard of
economic of business performance)
Question:
4. Equity
Answer:
fairness in the distribution of economic rewards, the administration of employment policies, and the
provision of employee security (this is a standard of fair treatment for employees)
Question:
5. Voice
Answer:
the ability of employees to have meaningful input into workplace decisions (this is a standard of employee
participation)
Question:
6. Industrial Democracy
Answer:
a term that captures the belief that workers in a democratic society are entitled to the same democratic
principles of participation in the workplace
Question:
7. Collective Bargaining
Answer:
representatives of the employer and the employees negotiate terms and conditions of employment that will
apply to the employees
, Question:
8. Major subjects of bargaining (4)
Answer:
Compensation: wages, benefits, vacations, holidays, shift premiums, profit sharing Personnel policies and
procedures: layoff, promotion, and transfer policies, overtime and vacation rules Employee rights and
representatives: seniority rights, job standards, workplace rules Employer rights and representatives:
management rights, just cause discipline and discharge, subcontracting, safety standards
Question:
9. Union Density
Answer:
the percentage of workers who are union members
Question:
10. Representation Gap
Answer:
The gap between the representation in the workplace from what they have and don't have (employees say
they want more representation in the workplace than they have)
Question:
11. Mainstream Economics School
Answer:
This school focuses on the economic activity of self-interest agents, such as firms and workers, who
interact in competitive markets
Question:
12. Human Resource Management School
Answer:
(Formally called personnel management school): The school of thought here is that it believes that the
labor problem stems from poor management
Question:
13. Industrial Relations School
Answer:
(Formally called the institutional labor economics school): In this school, the labor problem is believed to
stem from unequal bargaining power between corporations and individual workers
Question:
14. Critical Industrial Relations School
Answer:
(traditionally labeled: Marxist industrial relations): The critical school emphasizes that capitalist
institutions do not simply exist but are created by society. This school of thought focuses our attention on
how dominant groups design and control institutions to serve their own interest, albeit imperfectly due to
resistance from competing groups
Question:
15. Unitarist View
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Labor Movement
Answer:
a social movement in which workers and unions fro multiple workplaces join together to pursue common
interests, more frequently in the political and social areas
Question:
2. Labor Union
Answer:
a group of workers who join together to influence the nature of their employment
Question:
3. Efficiency
Answer:
the productive, profit-maximizing use of labor to promote economic prosperity (this is a standard of
economic of business performance)
Question:
4. Equity
Answer:
fairness in the distribution of economic rewards, the administration of employment policies, and the
provision of employee security (this is a standard of fair treatment for employees)
Question:
5. Voice
Answer:
the ability of employees to have meaningful input into workplace decisions (this is a standard of employee
participation)
Question:
6. Industrial Democracy
Answer:
a term that captures the belief that workers in a democratic society are entitled to the same democratic
principles of participation in the workplace
Question:
7. Collective Bargaining
Answer:
representatives of the employer and the employees negotiate terms and conditions of employment that will
apply to the employees
, Question:
8. Major subjects of bargaining (4)
Answer:
Compensation: wages, benefits, vacations, holidays, shift premiums, profit sharing Personnel policies and
procedures: layoff, promotion, and transfer policies, overtime and vacation rules Employee rights and
representatives: seniority rights, job standards, workplace rules Employer rights and representatives:
management rights, just cause discipline and discharge, subcontracting, safety standards
Question:
9. Union Density
Answer:
the percentage of workers who are union members
Question:
10. Representation Gap
Answer:
The gap between the representation in the workplace from what they have and don't have (employees say
they want more representation in the workplace than they have)
Question:
11. Mainstream Economics School
Answer:
This school focuses on the economic activity of self-interest agents, such as firms and workers, who
interact in competitive markets
Question:
12. Human Resource Management School
Answer:
(Formally called personnel management school): The school of thought here is that it believes that the
labor problem stems from poor management
Question:
13. Industrial Relations School
Answer:
(Formally called the institutional labor economics school): In this school, the labor problem is believed to
stem from unequal bargaining power between corporations and individual workers
Question:
14. Critical Industrial Relations School
Answer:
(traditionally labeled: Marxist industrial relations): The critical school emphasizes that capitalist
institutions do not simply exist but are created by society. This school of thought focuses our attention on
how dominant groups design and control institutions to serve their own interest, albeit imperfectly due to
resistance from competing groups
Question:
15. Unitarist View
