Week 13 Flashcards
List the 3 alternative approaches to organizing work
Unitarist
Pluralist
Radical
Unitarist approach: conflict results from ______ ______
Poor management
Unitarist approach: can unite what through what
Employer – employee interests through proper management
Unitarist approach: freedom to contract and property rights over labour allow workers to what
Leave bad situation/discipline bad managers, and firms
Pluralist approach: employers and employees have a ____ of _____ objectives inherent to the ______ employment relationship
Mix
Conflicting
Capitalist
Pluralist approach: can achieve ______ on some objectives through ____ and procedure
Compromise
Rules
Radical approach: employment, relationships, inherently, and deeply ______ and ______
Conflictual
Unstable
Radical approach: capitalism tendency towards ____, undermines, democracy/______, and merits fundamental _____
Crisis
Justice
Reforms
Different approaches: which one has human relations management
Unitarist
Different approaches: which one has high performance work organizations
Unitarist
Different approaches: which one has job and organization design
Unitarist
Different approaches: which one has appropriate job matching
Unitarist
Define institutional economics
Ensure freedom of contracting and limitation of market power
Breaking up or regulating monopolies and labour market shelters are examples of what
Institutional economics
Different approaches: which has institutional economics
Unitarist
Different approaches: which is grounded in the idea of industrial democracy
Pluralistic
List for common labor, market institutions
Minimum wage laws
Union/collective-bargaining
Employment protection, legislation
Mandated leave/benefits
Define minimum wage
Statutory minimum wage rate, at which an employer can pay a covered employee
Where, and when did minimum wage first occur?
(And what was it the results of)
In the late 1800s in OZ and NZ
(Results of campaigns to ensure a decent standard of living as industrialization progressed)
List 2 impacts of labour market institutions
Reduce earnings inequality
May contribute to higher unemployment, depending on implementation
Different approaches: which approach has a fundamental reconfiguration of power alignments
Radical approach
What does ESOPs stand for?
Employee share ownership plans
List the two goals of ESOPs
A way for workers to share in the profits of production
A means of generating more consensus in the workplace
What happens in ESOPs
Employees receive some of the company profits in the same way as would other shareholders
ESOPs: when shares available through the plan are provided as benefits in lieu of wages what happens
Employees will also lose money when the company is losing money
Define worker buyouts
Workers have bought out their employers in an effort to save their jobs when the company was about to close
Worker buyouts: majority ownership allows workers to what
(2 things)
To manage their own job security (if company closes or not)
Change the management system if they want to
Define producer cooperatives
Owned by people who produce similar types of goods or services
List 2 benefits of producer cooperatives
More effectively negotiate prices
Access larger markets
Defined the codetermination legislation
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
Codetermination: work councils can demand what
Compensation for workers negatively affected by new technologies or organizational restructuring
Describe how Works councils came to be
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
What did works councils do?
Met to discuss health and safety, workers, grievances, efficiency, and sometimes wages
What does IRS stand for?
Internal responsibility system
Define the internal responsibility system
Employees are directly involved with management, in monitoring and inspection, and in education and health promotion in their workplaces
Do no-fault compensation system still exist today?
Yes
Define the no-fault compensation system
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
What country came up with a dual representation system
Germany
Defined the dual representation system
Relating to industrial democracy: industry, wide unions, and local works councils is viewed relatively positively by both employers and employees
