Chapter 1 – A Framework for Analyzing Collective Bargaining and Industrial
Relations
True/False
[QUESTION]
1. The process of industrial relations involves only two parties -- labor and management.
Ans: False
Page: 3
Difficulty: Easy
[QUESTION]
2. Industrial relations and human resource staff professionals are part of management,
not labor.
Ans: True
Page: 4
Difficulty: Easy
[QUESTION]
3. Collective bargaining rarely yields any positive gains because labor and management
lack common interests.
Ans: False
Page: 5
Difficulty: Medium
[QUESTION]
4. According to the three-tiered approach, the collective bargaining process is rarely
affected by environmental factors.
,Ans: False
Page: 5
Difficulty: Easy
[QUESTION]
5. It is widely believed that in order to limit the damage that poor industrial relations can
have on the economy, public policy should require collective bargaining and unionization
for all workers.
Ans: False
Page: 5
Difficulty: Hard
[QUESTION]
6. The concept of class consciousness is identified most closely with John R. Commons
and other economic institutionalists.
Ans: False
Page: 7
Difficulty: Medium
[QUESTION]
7. Institutional economists, Marxians, and other social reformers all believed that, under
conditions of "free competition," individual workers would deal with the employer from a
position of unequal bargaining power.
Ans: True
Page: 7
Difficulty: Easy
[QUESTION]
,8. Collective bargaining is the only feasible process by which employment conditions can
be regulated and administered.
Ans: False
Page: 8
Difficulty: Medium
[QUESTION]
9. A law which grants employees the right to strike illustrates how the external
environment can affect the bargaining power of the parties involved.
Ans: True
Page: 9
Difficulty: Medium
[QUESTION]
10. The three-tiered model assumes that labor strategies and structures have less
influence on the course of Industrial relations than management strategies and
structures.
Ans: False
Page: 10
Difficulty: Medium
[QUESTION]
11. Bargaining structure refers to the scope of employees and employers who are
affected by the terms and conditions of a labor agreement.
Ans: True
Page: 11
Difficulty: Easy
, [QUESTION]
12. According to the three-tiered model of industrial relations, the functional tier is the
arena in which the process of contract negotiations takes place.
Ans: True
Page: 11
Difficulty: Easy
[QUESTION]
13. During the 1970's, unions in the United States did not fare well in representation
elections.
Ans: True
Page: 11
Difficulty: Easy
[QUESTION]
14. Bargaining structures in the United States tend to be highly centralized.
Ans: False
Page: 11
Difficulty: Easy
[QUESTION]
15. According to the three tiered model of industrial relations, bargaining outcomes are
rarely affected by the bargaining process.
Ans: False
Page: 12
Difficulty: Medium
[QUESTION]
Relations
True/False
[QUESTION]
1. The process of industrial relations involves only two parties -- labor and management.
Ans: False
Page: 3
Difficulty: Easy
[QUESTION]
2. Industrial relations and human resource staff professionals are part of management,
not labor.
Ans: True
Page: 4
Difficulty: Easy
[QUESTION]
3. Collective bargaining rarely yields any positive gains because labor and management
lack common interests.
Ans: False
Page: 5
Difficulty: Medium
[QUESTION]
4. According to the three-tiered approach, the collective bargaining process is rarely
affected by environmental factors.
,Ans: False
Page: 5
Difficulty: Easy
[QUESTION]
5. It is widely believed that in order to limit the damage that poor industrial relations can
have on the economy, public policy should require collective bargaining and unionization
for all workers.
Ans: False
Page: 5
Difficulty: Hard
[QUESTION]
6. The concept of class consciousness is identified most closely with John R. Commons
and other economic institutionalists.
Ans: False
Page: 7
Difficulty: Medium
[QUESTION]
7. Institutional economists, Marxians, and other social reformers all believed that, under
conditions of "free competition," individual workers would deal with the employer from a
position of unequal bargaining power.
Ans: True
Page: 7
Difficulty: Easy
[QUESTION]
,8. Collective bargaining is the only feasible process by which employment conditions can
be regulated and administered.
Ans: False
Page: 8
Difficulty: Medium
[QUESTION]
9. A law which grants employees the right to strike illustrates how the external
environment can affect the bargaining power of the parties involved.
Ans: True
Page: 9
Difficulty: Medium
[QUESTION]
10. The three-tiered model assumes that labor strategies and structures have less
influence on the course of Industrial relations than management strategies and
structures.
Ans: False
Page: 10
Difficulty: Medium
[QUESTION]
11. Bargaining structure refers to the scope of employees and employers who are
affected by the terms and conditions of a labor agreement.
Ans: True
Page: 11
Difficulty: Easy
, [QUESTION]
12. According to the three-tiered model of industrial relations, the functional tier is the
arena in which the process of contract negotiations takes place.
Ans: True
Page: 11
Difficulty: Easy
[QUESTION]
13. During the 1970's, unions in the United States did not fare well in representation
elections.
Ans: True
Page: 11
Difficulty: Easy
[QUESTION]
14. Bargaining structures in the United States tend to be highly centralized.
Ans: False
Page: 11
Difficulty: Easy
[QUESTION]
15. According to the three tiered model of industrial relations, bargaining outcomes are
rarely affected by the bargaining process.
Ans: False
Page: 12
Difficulty: Medium
[QUESTION]
