Exam 12: Dealing With Employeemanagement Issues

In the future, unions are likely to leave training and recruitment of workers to management, and focus instead on encouraging those workers to join the union.

Alcohol and drug abuse are serious workplace issues but they involve far fewer workers than violence does.

The union movement in the United States was an outgrowth of the economic transition caused by the

Epic Electronics recently launched a program to evaluate the relative levels of skills, education, and training needed to perform various jobs. Based on the results of this evaluation, Epic intends to adjust pay scales so that jobs requiring similar levels of skills, abilities, and education will receive similar pay. Epic Electronics's program is an attempt to deal with the issue of

Melvin has been a member of the American Arbitration Association and long-standing faculty member of the business school of a university for over a decade. Right now, he is on a plane headed for Detroit, where he will serve as an arbitrator between members of the United Auto Workers union and management of a major auto manufacturer. His responsibilities will deal with

The strike historically has been the most powerful weapon unions use to achieve their objectives in labor disputes.

Collective bargaining is the process whereby union and management representatives negotiate a labor-management contract for workers.

A(n) ________ is a union official who works permanently in an organization and represents employee interests on a daily basis.

Daniel remembers his grandfather telling him about going to work at 16 years of age in the coal mines of West Virginia. In order to get the job, he had to agree to a yellow-dog contract. Essentially this meant he would only get the job if he agreed not to join a union.

The Norris-LaGuardia Act prohibits firms from requiring workers to agree not to join a union as a condition of their employment.

Critics of labor unions argue that unions are no longer needed to protect workers from abusive and unfair treatment because

The Supreme Court ruled in 1938 that employers had the right to hire strikebreakers.

The first national labor organization in the United States was the

The Taft-Hartley Act authorizes the U.S. president to ask for a cooling-off period to temporarily prevent a strike in a critical industry.

According to noted economist Thomas Piketty

On the average, today's CEO of a Fortune 500 company makes over 344 times what the lowest-paid employee earns.

Sharon's company, where she is a human resources manager, recently hired 100 new workers, 10 of whom were involved in workplace accidents soon after they were hired. It was determined that alcohol usage was the cause of these accidents. Top management has asked Sharon to do a better job in screening potential workers for alcohol abuse to avoid this in the future. Sharon should point out that in fact the 10 percent of the recent hires with alcohol issues is actually much lower than the overall percentage of employees with alcohol issues that are involved in industrial injuries and fatalities in the U.S.

The process by which a union is recognized by the NLRB as the authorized bargaining agent for a group of workers is called collective bargaining.

At one time, as a condition of employment, the employer could make the employee sign a statement prohibiting the worker from joining a union. What was this called?

As an advisor to a company setting up its sexual harassment policy, which of the following tactics would you suggest?