Exam 7: Union Avoidance: Rationale,Strategies,and Practices

Which of the following issues is LEAST salient for successful organizing?

_____ changes the policies and practices employers can use to promote,transfer,and lay off employees.

Which of the following sector's secular relative growth rate could be a primary contributor to the increased resistance of employers in general to union organizing?

Unionized firms are more profitable than nonunion firms and more profitable subsequent to unionization.

What is a key reason employers may locate in lightly unionized areas?

A philosophy-laden company has no unions,but the lack of success in organizing is because of the organization's:

Industries with a large proportion of white-collar workers,such as finance,are more likely to be unionized.

Where unionization seemed unavoidable,employers worked with sympathetic employees to help establish so-called _____ that would not be affiliated with a larger international and would be less militant and more familiar and sympathetic with the employer's situation.

While _____ have been found following unionization for represented employees,this may not carry over to nonunion employees who also received increased pay.

In the reciprocal employment relationship,employees may come to feel that a(n)_____ exists between them and their employer.

For employers,the introduction of monopoly power leads to increased profitability.

If unionization leads to lower shareholder returns,other things being equal,top managers could be expected to try to _____ in their firms,particularly if a substantial proportion of their compensation is in the form of stock options.

Employees are entitled to a role in determining how the social system in which they are involved should be operated.

Nonunion procedures in the public sector are relatively similar to:

What factors have contributed to nonunion employee representation at Delta Air Lines,especially after its merger with Northwest Airlines?

To gain flexibility in the design of work and employee assignments,and to reduce wage levels,employers embarked on a variety of union-free strategies.

In unionized organizations,union representation and the negotiated contract take the place of many _____ devised by nonunion employers.

Capitalists use their resources to create mechanisms that will enable them to develop and sell goods and services in the marketplace at prices great enough to yield a higher return than that from other alternative investments.

_____ occurs more often in small units that lack local leadership,have low member involvement in union activities,and a higher frequency of strikes.

U.S.employers invest less in and are less likely to locate operations in developed economies that resist unionization more strongly than do firms that are headquartered in Europe or Japan.