Exam 3: Employers: Objectives, Processes and Strategy

A union may agree to participate in an employee involvement program and this agreement is always separate from and outside of the collective agreement.

An employer plans on introducing an employee involvement program outside of the collective agreement. Which of the following is correct:

A cost leadership strategy is:

A union resistance strategy involves the employer providing employee representation mechanisms, such as complaint procedures, to non-union employees.

High-performance practices such as variable pay are welcomed by unions.

Employee involvement programs:

Identify the meaning of "labour relations strategy" and describe four alternative strategies that could be adopted.

A union avoidance strategy involves an employer adopting both legal and illegal means to oppose unionization.

Which of the following are employer objectives;

The predominant approach of employers in Canada is a union avoidance strategy.

A low commitment approach to human resource management emphasizes or includes:

Identify the primary objectives of employers and describe four methods that could be used to achieve those objectives.

Most Canadian firms have widely adopted high-performance policies and practices.

Recently productivity growth has been the same in Canada and the United States.

Cost leadership is a strategy that involves an organization competing on the basis of price.

One strategy or approach to unions that an employer could adopt has been referred to as union substitution / avoidance. Describe the objective of the strategy and outline how the employer could implement the strategy.

An employer's experience with unionization influences the employer's labour relations strategy.

Unions cannot encourage employees to boycott an employee involvement program if the result is a reduction in output.

Which of the following make it more difficult for employers in Canada to oppose unionization than is the case in the United States:

Explain the barriers to employee involvement in a unionized workplace and elaborate on how these barriers could be overcome.