Holley/Ross/Wolters eBook: THE LABOR RELATIONS PROCESS
ISBN: 9781337025959
Please answer any 19 of the first 22 questions below and question #23 for a total of 20 questions. Please submit your assignment via elearn by the submittal deadline of 11:59 p.m. January 19, 2022.
1, How can unions help improve an “organization’s culture? How can they make it “worse”?
2. Many employers today are testing for drugs. How should unions respond to this trend?
3. What is a “psychological contract? Why is this concept important for an understanding of the future of labor-management relations?
4, Some people have argued that unions are “unnecessary.” Are they? If unions are unnecessary, then who will insure that workers’ rights and interests are considered? How? If unions are necessary, then why are the alternatives to unions inadequate?
5, Think about a job you have performed and discuss some of the external variables (see the outer circle of Exhibit 1.1) that influenced the work rules required on that job.
6. Discuss your opinion regarding whether unions are still relevant and necessary in todays work environment. What other means might be used to ensure employee voice in the workplace?
7. Can an individual be both pro-union and pro-employer, or does being pro-union mean one has to be anti-employer?
Can an individual be anti-union and still legitimately claim to support pro-employee interests?
8. ______occurs when two or more groups or individuals have or think they have different goals, values, beliefs, or ideas about the way things should be
9. Why is conflict resolution important to leadership development?
10. Technology has four dimensions. They are:
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
11, What are worker centers?
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12, Please describe what the Employee at Will Doctrine is?
13, For approximately 12 to 13 years the Knights of Labor operated in secrecy? Why was that?
14, Samuel Gompers believed that union members should work for equitable treatment within industrial society rather than revolt against it. T / F
15. Describe some paternalistic practices by employers that occurred in the 1920s.
16, What is the IWW, why was it formed and what was its political ideology?
17. What led to the Haymarket riot?
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18. Name at least three administrative agencies involved in labor law and provide a brief sentence describing the purpose of each.
19. What does the WARN Act require of employers?
20. What is FLSA and what does it protect?
21. What is a Yellow Dog Contract?
22. What is the purpose of the NLRB?
23. Please react to the following statement. Address it in the context of the labor relations process.
According to Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher, Anybody can become angrythat is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right waythat is not within everybodys power and is not easy.
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