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

Explain the model system of employee "voice" systems,and describe the reality of access that these systems provide.

Employees in nonunion companies have their employment rights determined by their employers.

The _____,in particular,mobilized community leaders and police against organizing and strikes.

The _____ has no provisions regulating the formation or permissible issues of non-union representation groups.

Employers in established industries like autos and steel were heavily _____ and faced substantial economic problems.

Evidence suggests that productivity differences between union and nonunion employers are greatest in retail,where unionized workers have higher skills than nonunion workers.

In unionized organizations,employees are able to exercise their voice on immediate issues through grievance procedures and long-run matters through participation in:

The _____ approach includes about a dozen employees from various levels who are picked at random to meet with the division's president at a monthly meeting.

_____ resistance was greatest and most successful where workers were essentially unskilled,where employers controlled entry to occupations,and where they were the dominant employer in a given location.

Correlate the industrial structure with the possibility of formation and avoidance of union activity.

Explain the employer's versions of "community action" plans that were implemented during the 1920s and 1930s and the implications thereof.

Nonunion employers have higher _____ expenditures.

After unionization,employers reduce their historical levels of investment in:

One problem with smaller plants is that may not be optimally productive given the appropriate:

Some nonunion organizations,particularly those with _____,have constructed elaborate systems enabling employees to voice complaints and get action on them.

Labor is a larger share of total costs in the service sector,so the effects of a given wage increase following unionization would have greater impact.

Campaign tactics depend to an extent on the size and sophistication of the employer.

How are human resource expenditures higher for nonunionized employers?

Elaborate on the unfair management campaign tactics in representation elections and explain their implications.

From the late 1940s through the middle to late 1970s,laws and regulations favored _____ as the method for dealing with industrial disputes.