Exam 3: Employers: Objectives, Processes and Strategy

High-performance organizations emphasize reducing costs by lowering compensation.

Employers who adopt a high commitment human resource management strategy will develop and rely on the skills of the workforce.

The extent of unionization of the industry in which a firm competes influences a firm's labour relations strategy.

Most Canadian firms adopt a strategy of union removal.

Labour relations strategy:

A high-performance work system includes:

Employee involvement programs pose a dilemma for union leaders.

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

Employers use public relations efforts as one of the methods to achieve their objectives.

A high commitment approach to human resource management has been associated with:

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

The premise of a union avoidance strategy is that employees will not turn to a union if they are treated fairly.

The values or personal beliefs of some managers lead them to pursue control of the workplace.

Which of the following are measures that an employer could pursue to increased efficiency:

Which of the following features would be emphasized by an organization employing a differentiation strategy:

Which of the following forms of employee involvement provides for the largest amount of authority being delegated to employees:

An employer has undertaken an employee involvement program without the participation of the union. The employer is seeking ways to redesign compensation so that it is more effective. Which of the following is correct:

Union resistance is a labour relations strategy that involves an employer attempting which of the following:

Comparing employers in Canada and the United States, it is more difficult for employers in Canada to oppose unions.

Wal-Mart is an example of a firm using a differentiation strategy.