Labor Relations

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Student: ___________________________________________________________________________

1. The basis for the practice of labor relations within a unionized employer is a contract negotiated by the parties.

True False

2. Stock markets create the opportunity to make ownership highly liquid by providing an institutionalized mechanism for the purchase and sale of shares.

True False

3. Operational decisions are made by the managers hired by the shareholders' elected board of directors.

True False

4. Unions are developed to take over companies.

True False

5. In democracies, laws and regulations ultimately reflect the will of the electorate.

True False

6. Unions can exist without employers, but employers cannot exist without unions.

True False

7. A lockout occurs when a unionized employment practice is adopted by nonunion employers in order to avoid unionization by copying what unions have won for their members.

True False

8. Unionization provides employees a voice in how the employment relationship is implemented in their workplace.

True False

9. Spillover is a pervasive phenomenon that occurs when a group perceives danger.

True False

10. Workers in companies with innovative human resource management practices are less likely to desire unions.

True False

11. Employees are more likely to vote for unions due to job task characteristics rather than dissatisfaction with employment conditions.

True False

12. Dissatisfaction is consistently associated with turnover.

True False

13. Local community attitudes have no effect on union power.

True False

14. Union action cannot influence public policy decisions on potentially favorable tax abatements for employers.

True False

15. The policies of large national unions are influenced strongly by the actions of majorities of local union members.

True False...