Week 13

Question 1

List the 3 alternative approaches to organizing work

Answer 1

Unitarist

Pluralist

Radical

Question 2

Unitarist approach: conflict results from ______ ______

Answer 2

Poor management

Question 3

Unitarist approach: can unite what through what

Answer 3

Employer – employee interests through proper management

Question 4

Unitarist approach: freedom to contract and property rights over labour allow workers to what

Answer 4

Leave bad situation/discipline bad managers, and firms

Question 5

Pluralist approach: employers and employees have a ____ of _____ objectives inherent to the ______ employment relationship

Answer 5

Mix

Conflicting

Capitalist

Question 6

Pluralist approach: can achieve ______ on some objectives through ____ and procedure

Answer 6

Compromise

Rules

Question 7

Radical approach: employment, relationships, inherently, and deeply ______ and ______

Answer 7

Conflictual

Unstable

Question 8

Radical approach: capitalism tendency towards ____, undermines, democracy/______, and merits fundamental _____

Answer 8

Crisis

Justice

Reforms

Question 9

Different approaches: which one has human relations management

Answer 9

Unitarist

Question 10

Different approaches: which one has high performance work organizations

Answer 10

Unitarist

Question 11

Different approaches: which one has job and organization design

Answer 11

Unitarist

Question 12

Different approaches: which one has appropriate job matching

Answer 12

Unitarist

Question 13

Define institutional economics

Answer 13

Ensure freedom of contracting and limitation of market power

Question 14

Breaking up or regulating monopolies and labour market shelters are examples of what

Answer 14

Institutional economics

Question 15

Different approaches: which has institutional economics

Answer 15

Unitarist

Question 16

Different approaches: which is grounded in the idea of industrial democracy

Answer 16

Pluralistic

Question 17

List for common labor, market institutions

Answer 17

Minimum wage laws

Union/collective-bargaining

Employment protection, legislation

Mandated leave/benefits

Question 18

Define minimum wage

Answer 18

Statutory minimum wage rate, at which an employer can pay a covered employee

Question 19

Where, and when did minimum wage first occur?

(And what was it the results of)

Answer 19

In the late 1800s in OZ and NZ

(Results of campaigns to ensure a decent standard of living as industrialization progressed)

Question 20

List 2 impacts of labour market institutions

Answer 20

Reduce earnings inequality

May contribute to higher unemployment, depending on implementation

Question 21

Different approaches: which approach has a fundamental reconfiguration of power alignments

Answer 21

Radical approach

Question 22

What does ESOPs stand for?

Answer 22

Employee share ownership plans

Question 23

List the two goals of ESOPs

Answer 23

A way for workers to share in the profits of production

A means of generating more consensus in the workplace

Question 24

What happens in ESOPs

Answer 24

Employees receive some of the company profits in the same way as would other shareholders

Question 25

ESOPs: when shares available through the plan are provided as benefits in lieu of wages what happens

Answer 25

Employees will also lose money when the company is losing money

Question 26

Define worker buyouts

Answer 26

Workers have bought out their employers in an effort to save their jobs when the company was about to close

Question 27

Worker buyouts: majority ownership allows workers to what

(2 things)

Answer 27

To manage their own job security (if company closes or not)

Change the management system if they want to

Question 28

Define producer cooperatives

Answer 28

Owned by people who produce similar types of goods or services

Question 29

List 2 benefits of producer cooperatives

Answer 29

More effectively negotiate prices

Access larger markets

Question 30

Defined the codetermination legislation

Answer 30

Requires employers to advise and consult with Works councils about plans to introduce new technologies, restructure, work, re-allocate workers to different tasks or locations or layoff workers

Question 31

Codetermination: work councils can demand what

Answer 31

Compensation for workers negatively affected by new technologies or organizational restructuring

Question 32

Describe how Works councils came to be

Answer 32

Following World War I

Elected workers and management representatives were set up in large workplaces in a number of industries in both Canada and the US

Question 33

What did works councils do?

Answer 33

Met to discuss health and safety, workers, grievances, efficiency, and sometimes wages

Question 34

What does IRS stand for?

Answer 34

Internal responsibility system

Question 35

Define the internal responsibility system

Answer 35

Employees are directly involved with management, in monitoring and inspection, and in education and health promotion in their workplaces

Question 36

Do no-fault compensation system still exist today?

Answer 36

Yes

Question 37

Define the no-fault compensation system

Answer 37

Injured workers are provided with some money, the amount, depending on the severity of their industry, and with partial compensation for lost wages, no matter who is false the accident

In return, they give up the right to sue for compensation, if the employer was at fault

Question 38

What country came up with a dual representation system

Answer 38

Germany

Question 39

Defined the dual representation system

Answer 39

Relating to industrial democracy: industry, wide unions, and local works councils is viewed relatively positively by both employers and employees