Mobilisation

Question 1

What is collective action/mobilisation

Answer 1

An expression of conflict that shows strength in numbers, is usually coordinated across sites and can include wider issues.

Question 2

What leads to mobilisation

Answer 2

Conflict

Question 3

What type of ideology are you likely to see mobilisation in?

Answer 3

unitarist

Question 4

Why are you more likely to see mobilisation in unitarist organisations?

Answer 4

Build up of conflict

Question 5

Why do pluralist orgs have less mobilisation

Answer 5

Conflict is dealt with continuously

Question 6

What is a Marxist approach to mobilisation

Answer 6

Embedded in the ideology

Question 7

What are the 6 stages (senses) of mobilisation in Kellys 1998 model?

Answer 7

• Sense of injustice
• Sense of attribution
• Sense of efficacy
• Sense of collective identity
• Sense of presence of leaders
• Collective action

Question 8

Why is a sense of injustice important in mobilisation

Answer 8

Workers will only engage if there is a sense of injustice

Question 9

What are the 3 types of injustice?

Answer 9

Procedural, distributive and interactional.

Question 10

Interactional injustice

Answer 10

How you are treated by a manager

Question 11

Procedural injustice

Answer 11

Outcomes are fair in relation to others.

Question 12

Do a large number of employees need to be involved in the injustice to spark a sense of injustice

Answer 12

No, it could be a small number of employees that everybody feels are being treated unfairly.

Question 13

Relative deprivation

Answer 13

When looking at what another group has we feal deprived

Question 14

Sense of attribution

Answer 14

To be able to attribute the reason to something or someone

Question 15

Casual attribution

Answer 15

To be able to attribute the injustice to somebody or something. Sometimes this is not easy is it a person or is it technology (just eat)?

Question 16

What is the issue with agency workers and attribution

Answer 16

Might not know who their employer is

Question 17

Sense of efficacy

Answer 17

The belief that the group will succeed in finding a solution to a specific task

Question 18

What builds solidarity

Answer 18

Workers have a stronger sense of belief the more of them are involved

Question 19

What sectors have high senses of efficacy and why?

Answer 19

Transport sector because their services are nessacary

Question 20

Shared collective identity

Answer 20

The shared definition of a group is derived from its member’s common interests, experiences and solidarity.

Question 21

What creates a stronger sense of collective identity

Answer 21

The more similarities

Question 22

Where makes higher interconnectedness?

Answer 22

Groups that socialise,

Question 23

What do group leaders create?

Answer 23

Greater group cohesion

Question 24

What influences the likelihood of collective action happening in the workplace.

Answer 24

Power balance

Question 25

What acts protect against collective action

Answer 25

• Industrial relations act 1990

- Industrial relations amendment act 2015

Question 26

3 union suppression tactics

Answer 26

• Victimisation
• Sacking
• Union substitutions such as higher than expected pay rises

Question 27

What is another way of saying union-busting?

Answer 27

Sophisticated HRM tactics