Finals Flashcards
Craft union
An organization of skilled specialist in a particular craft/trade
Ex)
American federation of labor (AFL) 1886
American Federation of Labor (AFL) 1886
An organization of craft unions that championed labor issues
Industrial union
Labor union of unskilled or semiskilled workers in mass production industries
Ex)
Congress of industrial organization (CIO)
Congress of industrial organization (CIO)
Union organization of unskilled or semiskilled workers; who broke away from the AFL IN 1935 and rejoined in 1955
Wagnar Act (NLRA)
National Labor Relations Board
Oversees labor-management issues and provides guidelines for unionization
Certification (considering NLRB)
NRLB recognizes the union as the bargaining agent for employees
“We want them to represent us”
De-certification (considered NLRB)
Employees take way unions right to represent them
“We don’t want them to represent us”
Norris La Guardia Act
Prohibits the use of yellow-dog contracts
Basically prohibits (that employees are required to agree to not to join union)
Taft Hartley Act of 1947
Granted the state the power to outlaw closed shop agreements
- pass right to work laws
Right to work laws
Gives workers the right to join or not to join a union
Shop steward
It is a union official who represents employees
A person elected by workers to represent them in dealing with management
Yellow dog contracts
A contract btw a worker and an employer in which the worker agrees not to remain in or join a union
Union security agreement (the different ones name each)
Closed shop
Union shop
Agency shop
Open shop
CUAO
Closed shop
Only hire labor members
Outlawed by Taft hardy Act of 1947
Union shop
You have to join the union
Agency shop
Don’t have to join the union but you have to pay a fee
Open shop
People join voluntarily
Agreement is an agreement in right to work states
Mediation (“to mediate”)
Third party encourages both sides to resolve key issues
—- neutral party gives suggestions
Arbitration
Third party render a binding agreement (they listen to both sides of disagreement and give ruling)
Used most often
Bargaining zone
Range of options that each party will consider in a disagreement
Management tactic in conflicts
Lockout -close business Injunction -court order: court say something -strike breakers: workers are hired to replace striking workers
LI
Union tactics in conflict
Strike -refuse to work Boycotts -primary: not buy product -secondary: convince other to stop doing business Work slowdowns -reduce productivity or efficiency Pickets -protest outside
SBWP
Sexual harassment
Unwelcome sexual advances, request for a sexual favor or other verbal or physical conduct that creates a hostile work environment
Cover all employee and foreign company doing business
Kind of sexual harassment:
Quid pro quo
Sexual harassment involving threats
Kind of sexual harassment:
Hostile work environment
Sexual harassment is a conduct that interferes with workers performance or creates an intimidating offensive work environment
Marketing Eras (evolution: in order)
Production Selling Marketing Concept Customer relationship eras
PSMCC
Production and selling era
“Produce what you can because the market is limitless”
After production, focus on persuasion
After you produce sell it
Marketing concept era (1941-1945)
After WWII consumers began to spend so Business need to be responsive
“What do they want”
3 marketing concepts
Customer orientation
Service orientation
Profit orientation
CSP
Customer orientation
Find out what customers want and provide it
Service orientation
Committed to customer satisfaction
Profit orientation
Focus on goods and services that will earn the most profit
Customer relationship era
Customer relationship management (CRM)
- learns about customers to satisfy or exceed their expectations
- long term relationships
- ——Priceline and Travelocity use
Emerging mobile marketing era
Consumer demands
- Now: anywhere anytime
- can I?: use information to create value
- For me: personalized experience
- Simply: easy interactions
Customer relationship management (CRM)
Learns about customers to satisfy or exceed their expectations
Long term relationship
Ex) Priceline and Travelocity use CRM
Marketing mix (4 p’s)
Product
Price
Place
Promotion
Product
A good, service or idea that satisfies a consumers want or need
— concept testing and test marketing (used to find wants)
Price
“Amount the customer is willing to pay and have the ability to pay”
Cost of the item/service
What is price determined by
Competitors price
Production cost
Distribution
Price strategies
CPDP
Place
Where the item is located
Middlemen (distributors) intermediaries
Manufacturers—> Middlemen—-> Consumer
Promotion
Techniques sellers used to inform people about their product and motivate them to purchase those products
Different types of promotions
Advertising (paid advertising)
Personal selling (go there and sell in person)
Public relations (build relation no pay)
Word of mouth (continue to share pass product on)
Sales promotion
APPWS
Test marketing
An experiment conducted in a field laboratory comprising of actual stores and real life buying situations, without buyers now ng they are participating in evaluation exercise
Experiment that secretly evaluate customer behavior on what they like
Market research
Analyze markets to determine challenges and opportunities and finding info needed to make good decisions
“Know your customers”
Marketing research process (4 steps)
Define the problem
Collect data
Analyze the data
Choose best solution and implement
Define the problem/ opportunities
Present situation - strength and weakness Alternatives? What info needed? Haw to gather info?
Collect data: secondary data
Existing data
-has been already gathered
No expense, easy access
Doesn’t give you all of info (draw back)
Collect data: primary data
Gathered by marketers (conducted own research, collect your own data)
Survey, interviews, focus groups
Focus groups
Group of people who meet under the direction of a discussion leader to communicate opinions