Exam 10: Managing Human Resources and Labour Relations

A labour union is an organization that represents workers in their disputes with management over wages,hours,and working conditions.

If the workers do not have to join the union,and they do not pay dues or fees to the union,a unionized company has which of the following type of shop?

Which of the following is a type of on-the-job training?

Dallas Walz is an electrical engineer.He works as a temporary worker for a contracting company that needs his talents only about nine months out of the year.While he likes the extra income,he would much rather stay home with his two preschoolers.His wife earns a six-digit salary selling computers,so Walz has no need to work.Walz is an example of which of the following?

Which of the following is the process of negotiating labour agreements between union members and management?

In a(n)____________________ shop,only union members can be hired.

Mentoring is a form of off-the-job training.

Which of the following is the primary benefit of on-the-job training?

____________________ training involves setting up a separate room with the equipment the trainees will be using on the job,like pilots training on a simulator.

There are no economic advantages associated with the management of diversity-only legal ones.

Which of the following is the attempt to find and attract qualified job applicants in the external labour market?

What is a contingent worker?

What might recruitment involve?

Kent Lockhart has been hired by Owings Enterprises to work on an assembly line in its small engine division.He understands that he will be on probation for 30 days and then must join the union.Owings Enterprise has which of the following type of shop?

Which of the following is the settling of a labour-management dispute by having a third party make a binding decision?

DeShaun Hardin works for a lumber company.His employer requires that all employees wear steel-toed shoes and hard hats when on the work site.Hardin's employer is complying with which federal law?

The union and management agreement that allows non-union people to be hired but requires that they join the union after a probationary period creates which of the following type of shop?

Which of the following statements about HR demand forecasting is MOST accurate?

Performance appraisals are comparisons of actual performance with expected performance.

Robin Banyan applied for a job at Shane Printing,which is unionized.She was told that she need not join the union and did not have to pay union dues if she did not want to.Shane Printing's labour contract supports which of the following type of shop?