MAN 4410 - Union-Management Relations: MAN4410 Quiz Questions & Answers (QUIZ 1-5). 100% correct.

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MAN4410 Quiz Questions & Answers (quiz 1-5). Quiz 1 ● The ____ Act makes it illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex. Also, according ... to this act it is illegal to retaliate against a person who complained about discrimination, or participated in a lawsuit ● The Employee Free Choice Act is a proposed law which, if implemented, will require that_____ ● Which of the following is the only wholly owned government corporation that falls under the jurisdiction of the NLRB? ● The NLRB oversees most labor relations activities in the private sector and was created by the ____ Act ● Which of the following workers can become a member of a craft union? ● Which of the following is most likely to be considered a “soft” union-management issue? ● Transportation unions in the airline industries are governed by the ____ Act? ● A collective bargaining agreement is negotiated under the provision of the ___ Act. ● A written and signed document between an employer entity and a labor organization specifying the terms and conditions of employment for a specified period of time is knowns as a(n) _____ bargaining agreement ● The term “labor relations” refers to_____. ● According to ____, covered employers are required to recruit and advance qualified minorities, women, persons with disabilities, and covered veterans ● Which of the following workers is under the jurisdiction of the NLRB? ● As defined by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), a(n) _____, is any employee committee or other organization of any kind in which employees deal with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, hours, or working conditions. ● Which of the following acts banned child labor in the US? ● The Employee Polygraph Protection Act ____. ● ___ programs involve union and management representation that meet to improve communications and their general quality of life in the workplace. Quiz 2 ● Which of the following was the first national association dedicated to organizing women in America? ● The ____ were a group of union organizers who were prosecuted and either executed or imprisoned after an 1875 strike against anthracite mine owners failed. ● Which of the following organizations eventually merged with the American Federation of Labor? ● The ____ Act is a proposed amendment to the National Labor Relations Act. ● Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding company unions? ● The _____ stated that the existence of labor unions was not prohibited by antitrust. ● Under a “yellow-dog” contract, _____. ● Which of the following statement is true of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)? ● The Labor-Management Relations Act is also known as the ____ Act. ● Which of the following acts is also known as the Wagner Act? ● The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act is also known as the ____ Act. ● The Railway Strike of 1877 was provoked by ____. ● An organization of workers dedicated to protecting their interests in the workplace and improving wages, hours, and working conditions is referred to as a _____. ● The leader of a democratic socialist workers’ movement in the US, Eugene V. Debs established the _____. ● Which of the following is TRUE of women’s trade unions in the US? Quiz 3 ● ________ allows a third party panel to make a final and binding decision on a negotiation dispute. ● Which of the following public sector unions is the largest professional organization in the world? ● Which of the following terms refers to the flexible grant of powers from the state to municipalities to determine their own goals without interference from the state legislature or state agencies? ● Under which of the following circumstances in the public sector is an employer allowed to take unilateral action? ● Which of the following entities was established under Executive Order 11491? ● The federal court has three levels, district court, ________, and the Supreme Court. ● ______ refers to a process in which governmental employees are replaced with other workers through a contract with a non-government employer for the purpose of reducing overall costs. ● Which of the following terms generally refers to negotiations in the public sector where the authority to commit to a collective bargaining agreement may be shared by the executive and legislative branches, and thus three parties are involved in negotiations? ● Which of the following statements is TRUE of the Federal Labor Relations Act? ● Which of the following is an example of a mixed union? ● Which of the following statements is TRUE of the federal government? ● Which of the following are the three branches of the federal government? ● The Civil Service Reform Act is also known as the ____. ● ____ are employees who are covered by a collective bargaining agreement but cannot be required to become union members. However, they are required to pay something to the union for the bargaining and representation services they receive. ● According to the ____ shop provision, an employee is required to support a union financially even if the employee is not a union member Quiz 4 ● Which of the following is true of decertification petitions? ● Picketing a neutral party in order to have that neutral party pressure the targeted employer on the union's behalf is known as ________ picketing. ● ________ units consist of employees left unrepresented after the bulk of the employees are organized, such as janitors and sales people ● Which of the following terms refers to a program during which union members are encouraged by their union to seek employment at a nonunion company and once hired, they promote unionization in the nonunion company? ● Which of the following statements is true regarding an appropriate bargaining unit? ● At the time of an election, an employer can ________ without violating the NRLA. ● Which of the following doctrines refers to a criterion used by the NLRB to evaluate a group of employees and determine whether they constitute an appropriate bargaining unit? ● An employer who entertains a good-faith reasonable doubt whether a majority of its employees supports an incumbent union can, under established NRLB precedent, ________. ● An RD petition is filed with the NLRB to ________. ● Which of the following terms refers to a movement initiated by dissatisfied employees or a salaried staff member of a union to submit a representation petition to the NLRB and win a representation election? ● If a company and a union in the company agree on the bargaining unit represented by the union and inform the NLRB about it then the NLRB accepts the bargaining unit, provided it does not violate principles in the National Labor Relations Act or established board policy. The bargaining unit thus formed is known as the ____ unit. ● An employer can implement a “no-solicitation” policy for employees during both work and nonwork hours if that policy ____. ● Which of the following national unions is a part of the Change to Win Coalition? ● The successive election help when a representation election involving three or more choices results in no one choice receiving the majority vote is known as a ___election. ● The first step in the election process to attain union certification is to ____. Quiz 5 ● Presenting an issue to the other side in a negotiation in a way that is convincing and causes the other side to "see" the proposal in a different light is known as ________. ● The opening offer is also known as a(n) ________ because negotiation researchers have shown that people irrationally fixate on the first number put on the table in a negotiation regardless of how arbitrary it may be. ● In a negotiation, the reservation price is ________. ● The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that if management rejects a union's proposal on grounds of inability to pay, ________. ● Which of the following negotiation norms promotes the distribution of resources based on the proportional input of the parties? ● An integrative bargaining approach is preferable to a distributive bargaining approach when ________. ● Which of the following is an inappropriate and unethical bargaining tactic? ● People seek to minimize the difference between the benefits they provide others and the benefits received from others. This tendency to respond to the actions of others with equal or similar actions is the source of the ________ norm in negotiation. ● In the case of distributive bargaining, the limited resource is known as a(n) ________. ● Which of the following statements is true of integrative bargaining? ● What is a BATNA? ● John Stuart Mills, an English philosopher, believed that one could only judge the moral value of an action by its result. If an action benefits more people than it harms then it is a moral action. This approach to ethics is known as ethics of ____. ● Which of the following should negotiators follow during a negotiation process? ● The ___ clause in many collective bargaining agreements precludes reopening negotiations on any mandatory or permissive bargaining subject that could have been brought up at the negotiations table. ● Aristotle, a Greek philosopher, believed that the inherent nature of human beings was “good”. He believed that a human being’s ultimate nature was to try to realize a good end with the help of good means. Aristotle promoted a fairness or justice approach to ethics that is known as ethics of _____. ● According to the ____ clause, if a term in the contract is deemed unenforceable by a court, the contract as a whole will not be deemed unenforceable. ● Which of the following subjects must be negotiated during collective bargaining if one of the parties requests its inclusion? ● Which of the following aspects of employment is included under the management-union relationship? ● As it offers confidentiality and takes place in a private forum, ___ is generally preferred over other methods of dispute resolution and about 85 percent of labor-management grievance disputes are resolved through it. ● ___ contracts required that the employees should agree not to join unions in order to get hired. These contracts are considered illegal now. ● If an employer withholds employment to resist union demands with the help of layoffs, shutting down, or bringing in nonunion workers, it is known as a(n) _____. [Show More]

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