Labour Market

Question 1

Brexit and Deregulation

Answer 1

• further deregulation of employee rights

e. g. holiday rights, redundancy, part-time workers, equality act

Question 2

Employment Impact - COVID

Answer 2

• service sector facing hardest impact
• temporary contracts, zero hours
• increased levels of inequality and poverty

Question 3

Diversity Management

Answer 3

Valuing everyone as an individual employee and customers, valuing differences through good people management practices

Question 4

Fordism

Answer 4

Low skilled, repetitive work in high controlled, low-trust organisations, leading to mass production

Question 5

Post-fordism

Answer 5

Flexible, technology based, high-trust systems drawing on skilled workers expertise.

Question 6

McDonaldization

Answer 6

Tasks--->Smaller tasks
ONE efficient way 
Predictable outcome
Calculability
Control

Question 7

Emotional Labour

Answer 7

Expected to display certain emotions to promote organisational goals

Question 8

Labour Market

Answer 8

Mechanism through which labour supply meets labour demand

Question 9

Reich et al 1973

Answer 9

’ Different groups operate in different labour markets that have different working conditions, opportunities for promotion, wages and different labour market insitutions.

Question 10

Working-age population

Answer 10

• 16-64
• Employed
• Unemployed
• Residual, ‘economically inactive’

Question 11

Unemployed

Answer 11

• seeking work for past 4 weeks and ready to work
• ## Unemployed /Labour force (employed &unemployed)

Question 12

Employment Rate

Answer 12

• 1hr+ work a week

- Employed / Working age population