Exam 13: What Should Labor Relations Do

One of the key reasons advocates for transforming the NLRA give to justify their position is the culture of conflict or adversarialism that exists in the U.S.

Businesses that adopt the shareholder model must, by definition, pursue short-run profits.

A proposed change in union strategy that is consistent with a solidarity model of unionism is to increase occupational unionism.

What is social movement unionism and how might this approach be used to increase labor's bargaining power and protection for workers.

If the trend toward increased use of contingency and temporary workers continues, the _________________ model of unionism might be very appropriate.

The New Public Management movement has been criticized for an undue emphasis on:

Among critics of the NLRA, the most common belief is that the NLRA is vulnerable to management efforts to exploit deficiencies in the law to their own advantage.

Fortress unionism refers to a labor strategy where unions aggressively try to bring new unions into one "fortress" or one large union.

The associational unionism model is based on a model of exclusive representation.

Union pension funds are prohibited from using their standing as stockholders to influence corporate strategies and governance.

For an associational unionism model to be effective, unions would have to develop their skills in:

When a company needs to implement a new employee wellness program, HR's role is most likely one of navigator.

Alt-labor movements utilize all of the following strategies except:

The argument against a shareholder model and in favor of a stakeholder model rests in part on the notion that:

Although there are not many ESOPs in the U.S. at the present time, those that exist usually have employee representation on corporate board of directors.

Explain the concept of corporate social responsibility, its foundations, and its implications for labor relations systems.

The shareholder value model has been criticized for its tendency to foster a management preoccupation with _______________________________.

Under the solidarity unionism model, unions are seen as a needed force of worker power and protection whose job it is to mobilize workers to fight for a larger share of the returns of business.

The representation gap has been used to support the argument that the National Labor Relations Act is too weak to protect worker interests.

Training programs put on by unions to improve the skill sets of workers are an example of the tactics used by solidarity movement unionism.