Exam 1: Introduction

According to equity-efficiency theory, unions usually focus on efficiency.

Name the three contexts of Dunlop's IR system.

A strike is an action by workers in which they stop performing duties and do not report to work.

Although Dunlop focused mostly on the product market, what two areas did he consider to be critical to the employment relationship?

Which of the following are outputs of the industrial relations system model?

Some argue that the term "employee relations" is anti-union, yet some unions use the term for internal staff positions.

Name three labour outcomes of the IR system.

Which document outlines the terms and conditions of employment in a unionized workplace?

Technology is included in the economics subsystem of the IR systems framework of the textbook.

Which term refers to an action by workers in which they cease to perform work duties and do not report to work?

What is a third-party process used when parties cannot reach a collective agreement on their own called?

What subsystem of the IR systems model varies the most in its impact on actors?

Collective bargaining is the process by which management and labour negotiate the terms and conditions of employment in a unionized workplace.

Which type of Dunlop's rules is a collective agreement an example of?

Employee morale is a conversion mechanism in the IR systems framework.

In the IR systems model, which conversion mechanism often addresses health and safety concerns?

Which of Dunlop's concepts are most similar to the outputs of the IR systems model in the textbook?

Which term refers to the employment relationship between employers and individual employees?

Which of the following can be both a conversion mechanism and an outcome in the IR systems model?

What is the goal of Marxism?