Employment relationship

Question 1

Employment relationship

Answer 1

The way in which people interact with one another in the jobs they do

Question 2

The employment relationship is a dynamic of what?

Answer 2

A dynamic equilibrium of conflict and cooperation

Question 3

What are the core features of the employment relationship (4)

Answer 3

• Effort reward bargaining
• Asymmetrical Power
• The commodity status of labour
• Economic interdependence

Question 4

Effort reward bargain

Answer 4

Expectations of how much work from employees leads to a reward.

Question 5

What are the issues around reward bargain in the employment relationship

Answer 5

Can be vague, monetary or non-monetary

Question 6

Asymmetrical power

Answer 6

Power is centralised at the top of the organisation

Question 7

What do employers want in the employment relationship?

Answer 7

Compliance from empoyees and freedom to implement decisions

Question 8

What do employees want a say in?

Answer 8

How the organisation work, decision making, grievance and dispute

Question 9

Commodity status of labour

Answer 9

The exchange value of labour when sold to an employer

Question 10

What is the value of labour to the employee

Answer 10

Verry little as they can not derive money from it without the employer

Question 11

Economic interdependence

Answer 11

Right to withdraw labour and the right for employers to withdraw employment

Question 12

What are the 3 objectives of the employment relationship

Answer 12

Efficiency, equity, choice

Question 13

Efficiency

Answer 13

Economic production of goods

Question 14

Equity

Answer 14

Giving employees fair and compensation

Question 15

Voice

Answer 15

Giving employees a say individually and collectively

Question 16

Macro influences on the employment relationship (4)

Answer 16

Political legal, social and economic environment
Labour market
Technological developments
Skills and educational elements

Question 17

3 micro influence on the employment relationship

Answer 17

Managerial ideology
Communication and representation structures
Reward strategies and mechanisms

Question 18

Power

Answer 18

The ability to get somebody to do something they otherwise wouldn’t have done against their will

Question 19

How do employees counter the asymmetry of power?

Answer 19

Collective bargaining

Question 20

Structured antagonism

Answer 20

Where the employers give autonomy but at the same time have control over employees who will be antagonistic to attempts to minimise their discretion

Question 21

Distributive justice

Answer 21

Fairness in outcomes received in relation to what other get

Question 22

Procedural justice

Answer 22

Policy in the organisation are applied across the org

Question 23

International justice

Answer 23

The way in which results are explained and how people are communicated to

Question 24

Standard employment relationship assumptions (4)

Answer 24

• Full-time work
• Physical workplace
• Environment is fixed and permanent
• Employment contract is protected by legislation

Question 25

Non-standard relationship

Answer 25

• Temporary work
• Part-time/on-call
• Multiparty employment - more than one employer
• Depending on self-employed

Question 26

Hard flexibility

Answer 26

Efficient use of labour, numerical flexibility

Question 27

Soft flexibility

Answer 27

Employee involvement with manager, functional flexibility accepting redeployment