FINAL EXAM MAN4410 UNION MANAGEMENT. Graded A

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FINAL EXAM MAN4410 UNION MANAGEMENT Which of the following terms refers to a doctrine that advocates one standard wage rate for each job and all employees who perform it? Under a piecework system, ... employees are paid depending on Typically, during ________ bargaining, the union leaders choose what they perceive as the weakest company—the one most susceptible to granting wage increases—and begin negotiations. Once negotiations are completed, the union insists that other firms in the industry agree to equal wage and benefit increases. According to the ________ Act, certain employees must receive overtime pay of one and a half times the normal rate when they work over 40 hours per week. According to the Fair Labor Standards Act, under which of the following circumstances is an employee most likely to be considered eligible to receive overtime pay? According to the FLSA, in order to be exempt from overtime compensation requirements, an employee must be paid a minimum salary of ________ per week. Which of the following terms refers to the payment of overtime on overtime that occurs if the same hours of work qualify for both daily and weekly overtime payment? The ________ Act regulates employers who hold federal government contracts of $2,000 or more for federal construction projects. It provides that employees working on these projects must be paid the prevailing wage (PW) rate. The ________ Act covers employees with federal contracts of over $10,000. It requires employers to pay overtime for any hours worked over eight per day at a rate of one and a half times the normal hourly rate. In which of the following wage systems do employees receive a standard rate of pay per unit of output? Which of the following refers to a deferred wage increase in which a larger proportion of the total increase occurs in the first year of a multiyear contract? A 10 percent three-year wage increase is provided as a 2 percent increase in the first year, 3 percent in the second year, and 5 percent in the third year. This is an example of a ________ contract. A ________ contract provides a lower wage adjustment in the first year with higher increases in later years of a multiyear contract. Which of the following statements is TRUE of back-loaded contracts? Which of the following statements is TRUE of cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs)? Which of the following statements is TRUE of a profit-sharing plan? Which of the following statements is TRUE of a variable wage formula provision? Which of the following terms refers to a group incentive plan in which accrued savings from increased efficiency are distributed among the workers and the employer? A ________ wage system is a wage system that pays newly hired workers less than current employees performing the same or similar jobs. Which of the following statements is TRUE of lump-sum payments? Which of the following terms refers to a type of bargaining that involves negotiating reductions in previously negotiated wages, benefits, or work rules, usually in exchange for management-guaranteed employment levels during the term of a contract? Which of the following terms refers to a bargaining process during which management meets with representatives of all the bargaining units at one time to discuss difficult economic issues? Contract costs for retiree benefits increases in retirement and health care provided in earlier contracts are known as _______ costs. Payback agreements require an employee ________. Which of the following benefits is most likely to be included in a payback agreement? ________ agreements require an employee who voluntarily quits before a specified period of time to pay the employer the cost of certain benefits. According to the productivity theory, ________. Which of the following terms refers to a systematic method of determining the worth of a job to an organization? Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding job evaluation Which of the following is usually the largest single cost incurred by most corporations? The primary goal for most management negotiators in bargaining is to ________. The first step in determining compensation costs is to determine the value of the Which of the following factors is considered when calculating base compensation? The direct increase in benefits caused by a negotiated wage increase is referred to as the Roll-up is also known as Which of the following workers can claim benefits under the unemployment insurance system? The Social Security system provides supplemental income to ________. Which of the following types of benefits is designed to protect employees and their families against permanent loss of income and high medical bills because of accidental injury or illness on the job? A worker's compensation program comes into play when ________. The worker's compensation benefit is designed to ________. What is a pension? Which of the following benefits provided by an employer is most likely to motivate senior employees to remain with the organization in order to increase their retirement income? Which of the following statements is TRUE of a defined benefit plan? Under a(n) ________, the employer makes a specified dollar payment to an account in a managed fund, and the retirement benefit depends on the investment gains or losses by the fund. A(n) ________ plan is a type of defined-benefit pension plan under which an employer credits a participant's account with a set percentage of his or her yearly compensation plus interest. The investment performance of the fund does not affect the final benefits to be received by the participant upon retirement. Which of the following statements is TRUE of cash balance plans? The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) is also known as the ________ Act. As per the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), employers are required to count toward vesting all service from age ________ and to count toward earned benefits all earnings from age The Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC) was established within the Department of Labor to ________. The conveying of employees' nonforfeitable rights to share in a pension fund is termed ________. A qualified plan generally refers to a plan that meets standards set by the ________. Generally, in the case of vesting, nonforfeitable rights accrue based on the ________. Employers seek to qualify their pension plans under the IRS provisions because ________. In a contributory plan, ________. A wage employment guarantee refers to a contract negotiation that assures employees ________. Under which of the following conditions does an employee become eligible for supplemental unemployment benefits? Which of the following employee benefits involves an employer contributing a fixed amount of tax-deferred money into an account for the employee to use for medical expenses? Which of the following statements is TRUE of a Health Savings Account (HSA)? A ________ Association is an organization for members who have an employment-related common bond, or coverage under one or more collective bargaining agreements, or membership in a labor union, to pay life, sick, accident, and similar benefits. Employee assistance programs are designed to provide ________. Which of the following laws provides for the continuation of medical and dental insurance for employees, spouses, and dependents in the event of termination of employment, death of the employee, divorce, legal separation, or reduction of hours, which results in the loss of group health plan eligibility? Which of the following vacation plans provides an increase in the number of weeks of vacation according to length of service? The graduated plan ________. The ________ vacation plan provides an increase in the number of weeks of vacation according to length of service. Which of the following vacation plans provides all workers with the same length of vacation? The ________ plan relates the length of vacation to the number of hours or days the employee works during a given time period, usually the year preceding the allocation of vacation. The uniform vacation plan The payment of overtime on overtime, which can occur if the same hours of work qualify for both daily and weekly overtime payment is known as ________. Which of the following terms refers to wages that exceed the standard or regular pay rate and are given to employees for work performed under undesirable circumstances, such as overtime hours, weekend work, holiday work, or dangerous and hazardous circumstances? Call-in pay is ________. Which of the following terms refers to the system of rules and regulations that labor and management fashion to define their specific employment rights and obligations in the workplace? The implicit contract theory supports the "last-hired, first-fired" rule because, according to this theory, ________. A "seniority system" within a company is a set of rules governing the allocation of economic benefits and opportunities on the basis of ________. Which of the following statements is true of a seniority system? Generally, new employees begin acquiring seniority ________. Which of the following types of seniority is most likely to be used for determining layoffs? Union officers and committee personnel may be given In the case of job bidding, an up-bid is a bid ________. In the case of job bidding, a bid from one classification to another classification in the same pay grade is known as a(n) ________. In the case of job bidding, a down-bid is a bid In unionized organizations, agreements often specify ________ as the sole decision criterion in layoff and recall situations. This method is generally promoted by employees but not favored by employers. Which of the following statements is true regarding layoffs in unionized organizations? Which of the following acts is more commonly known as the Plant Closing Act The general purpose of the ________ Act is to warn workers and local communities of plant closing or mass layoff decisions by requiring employers to provide advance notice in either situation. Which of the following statements is true regarding the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act? When the surviving group principle is used for combining the seniority lists of merged companies, According to the ________ principle of combining the seniority lists, employees are allowed to continue previously earned seniority on separate seniority lists when their work with the merged company can be separately identified. With reference to the principles used for combining seniority lists in the event of a merger, the ________ principle gives employees rank positions on the merging seniority lists equal to their rank position on the prior seniority lists. A company called Excel Inc. has acquired another company called M&M Inc. Excel Inc. has 150 employees and M&M Inc. has 50 employees. It is decided that the seniority list will be combined according to the proportion of the number of employees in both the companies. Since the proportion is 3:1, in the first four places on the new seniority lists, the three positions ranked highest in Excel Inc. are given positions 1, 2, and 3, and the highest ranked position in M&M Inc. is given rank 4. Which of the following principles of combining seniority lists is used in this example? Which of the following terms refers to an arrangement by an employer to have another firm make goods or perform work that could be accomplished by the employer's own bargaining unit employees? Employee teams have an impact on decisions and actions that affect their ________. The use of employee teams is encouraged when the team offers synergy, which means that Which of the following factors is most likely to be a predictor of the success of a team within an organization? Which of the following points must be shown to prove that an employee involvement program is in violation of the Wagner Act? A committee or group is generally considered a ________ if employees participate in it and at least one purpose is to deal with the employer on issues of grievances, labor disputes, wages, work rules, or hours of employment. For a committee or group to be considered a "labor organization" at least one of its purposes should be to deal with the employer on the issue of ________. The law on successorship provides that if there is a genuine change in the collective bargaining representative, ________. If a genuine change of employer exists but the employing industry remains substantially the same, the successor employer ________. If there is a change in either a collective bargaining representative or an employer, parties to an unexpired collective bargaining agreement may not be certain of their status. Which of the following terms is used by the courts to refer to these situations? Which of the following factors must be present for the successorship doctrine to apply to the purchaser of a business employing union members? Under which of the following circumstances is a successor employer considered to be guilty of an unfair labor practice? A successor employer is most likely to be obligated to ________. Which of the following is a mandatory subject for collective bargaining? In the case of drug testing, during the collection and testing processes, a "Chain of Custody" form is used to ensure ________. Which of the following types of drug testing has raised the strongest criticism by unions, largely on the basis of an employee's right to privacy Unfair labor practices are certain actions taken by employers or unions that violate the ________. The primary objective of the NLRA is to ________. With reference to the National Labor Relations Act, which of the following statements is true of the employees' right to solicit support for a union? With reference to union solicitation, which of the following employer actions is considered an unfair labor practice? The NRLB protects the right of employees to distribute union literature ________. An employer can implement a no-solicitation policy for employees during both work and nonwork hours if that policy ________. A long-standing NLRB precedent provides that an employer who entertains a good-faith reasonable doubt whether a majority of its employees support an incumbent union can ________. ________ in any form has been held a violation of the unfair labor practices section of the National Labor Relations Act. Which of the following actions taken by union members is most likely to be condemned by the NLRB? The 24-hour rule prohibits ________ within 24 hours of a scheduled election. Under which of the following circumstances is the NLRB most likely to overturn a representation election? Which of the following activities related to organizing a bargaining unit is an unfair labor practice? Which of the following activities related to election campaigning is a fair labor practice? In the Electromation case, the Supreme Court ruled that the employer-created work committees comprising both employees and managers that met to discuss working conditions were a violation of the ________. Which of the following statements is true regarding a labor-management team created to consider employment issues in a unionized organization? Which of the following actions by an employer is most likely to be considered a violation of the NLRA? Which of the following terms refers to the employer's conduct that is not motivated, or at least not entirely motivated, by legitimate and substantial business reasons, but by a desire to penalize or reward employees for union activity or lack of it? In a ________ discrimination case, the employer puts forth only the legitimate business reason, but the complainant asserts that the prohibited reason is the true cause for the action With reference to union activities, a "salt" is ________. Which of the following terms refers to any action by employees to legitimately further their common interests pursued on behalf of or with other employees, and not solely by and on behalf of an individual? Which of the following is the most common form of concerted activity? A ________ strike refers to an economic strike conducted by a minority of the workers without the approval of the union and in violation of a no-strike clause in an existing contract. A partial strike involves ________. When a strike is called because two unions are in dispute as to whose workers deserve the work, it known as a ________ strike. Which of the following types of strikes involves a union trying to pressure the employer to make work for union members through the limitation of production, increasing the amount of work to be performed, or other make-work arrangements? ________ is a practice where union officials pressure organizers into disclosing sensitive personal information. This information is recorded on a piece of paper and then the organizers are strongly urged to tell their personal stories of abuse or neglect to workers they were trying to organize in order to gain their support. Which of the following indicates bad-faith bargaining on the part of an employer? During a negotiation, in which of the following situations can an employer bypass the union and communicate the offer directly to the employees? The ________ clause is a provision of a collective bargaining agreement that restricts either party from requiring the other party to bargain on any issue that was not previously negotiated in the agreement for the term of the contract. The zipper clause is also known as a ________ clause. Which of the following statements is true regarding an opener clause? Most contracts contain a ________ clause that protects the rest of the contract should one section come into conflict with state or federal law. During ________, a union exerts economic pressure on a neutral party indirectly related to the primary employer. The neutral party then exerts pressure against the primary employer. a Appeals to replacement workers or delivery people not to cross a picket line or appeals to employees of subcontractors not to continue work essential to the operation are examples of activities included in a ________. What is a hot cargo agreement? In the day-to-day administration of a collective bargaining agreement, the majority of time is spent on ________. An employer's refusal to process grievances is a violation of the ________. A perceived violation of a contract provision is known as a(n) ________. If an employee does not like the harsh tone of his supervisor, the employee is said to have a(n) _______ Which of the following statements is TRUE of a grievance procedure? Which of the following is the last step of a grievance procedure in most collective bargaining agreements? The initial step in a grievance procedure usually instructs an employee to ________. Which of the following is a means of attaining grievance resolution at the lowest possible level? Mathew has been working in a production company for the past 15 years. According to the union contract provision, the company grants promotions only on the basis of seniority. When a promotion opportunity came up, Mathew thought he would be given the promotion because of his seniority. But to his dismay, the promotion was given to his colleague who had joined the company a year ago. Mathew reported the grievance to the shop steward and he agreed that the grievance had some merit and should be pursued further. What is the immediate next step that Mathew and the steward should take? During which of the following steps is a grievance said to have moved from the formal to informal stage? In the case of a grievance procedure, at which stage are most grievances containing little merit dropped? Which of the following is most likely to be used to assemble the crucial facts in a grievance? When the shop steward and supervisor cannot resolve the grievance, then it may be appealed to the next higher level of management and union representative, usually within ________ calendar days. The union contract provisions usually include that ________ may request arbitration as a final step in resolving the grievance. William has been working at H&S for the past 12 years. When some family trouble arose, William wanted to work in the afternoon shift for a month rather than his usual morning shift. The work performed in the afternoon shift was exactly the same as that in the morning shift and William had all the skills required to perform the job. One of his colleagues, Jack, who worked on the afternoon shift, was willing to swap shifts with William for a month but the supervisor did not allow William to change his shift. Which of the following steps is most likely to be taken by the union as the final step in the grievance handling procedure? ________ are the most common tool to resolve conflicts arising between labor and management during the life of the agreement. With reference to employee misconduct, which of the following statements is TRUE of serious offenses? Which of the following is usually sufficient ground for immediate discharge? Which of the following is most likely to be considered a minor offence? Which of the following factors is most likely to be considered by an arbitrator while resolving a case of employee misconduct? Which of the following types of employee misconduct is most likely to warrant discharge on the first incident? If an employee holds a second job during his/her free time then it is known as ________. Which of the following types of employee misconduct is most likely to be handled through a progressive discipline system? Which of the following statements is TRUE of a progressive discipline system? A(n) ________ agreement is an agreement between the union and the employer that allows an employee who was fired for misconduct his job back with the condition that if the employee violates the agreement he will be discharged without right of an appeal. Which of the following statements is TRUE of a last chance agreement? Which of the following statements is TRUE of a disciplinary procedure? Which of the following terms refers to a written agreement that describes the conduct of an employee that led to the potential termination, specific policy violations, and specific work requirements that if not met will lead to termination in the future, as well as the employee's forfeit of arbitration or litigation rights? Which of the following is an appropriate practice to be followed during a disciplinary investigation from the management's point of view? The ________, in addition to civil and antidiscrimination laws, provides restrictions on employee discipline. The act prohibits disciplinary action against employees for union-related activity. Which of the following is most likely to be an offence that calls for immediate discharge? Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding grievance mediation? Which of the following is a Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services' guideline for grievance mediation? Which of the following is a major disadvantage of grievance mediation? Which of the following organizations is responsible for resolving labor disputes in the railroad and airline industries? ________ is a process in which the parties involved agree to submit an unresolved dispute to a neutral third party, whose decision is final and binding. Which of the following statements is TRUE of interest arbitration? The ________ adopted an elaborate form of interest arbitration, known as the Experimental Negotiating Agreement, in the 1970s as a means of avoiding the long and costly strikes that had made the industry vulnerable to foreign competition. ________ arbitration is also known as grievance arbitration. ________ arbitration deals with the allegation that an existing collective agreement has been violated or misinterpreted. Rights arbitration refers to ________. Which of the following is a difference between a grievance arbitration process and a judicial process? In the landmark case of Lincoln Mills, the Supreme Court ordered that In the ________ case, the Supreme Court ordered an employer to arbitrate grievances as provided for in a collective bargaining agreement, stating that an employer's agreement to arbitrate grievance disputes was a trade-off for the union's agreement not to strike. In the Steelworks Trilogy cases the Supreme Court ________. Which of the following statements is TRUE of arbitration of grievances under collective bargaining? A grievance is presumed to be arbitrable if ________. Which of the following is TRUE of arbitration? Under which of the following circumstances does a labor-management issue become arbitrable even after the collective bargaining contract expires? In which of the following cases is a successor employer most likely to inherit the predecessor's contractual duty to arbitrate? Which of the following is a difference between arbitration and litigation? Which of the following terms refers to the recognition of the bargaining history of those in the same industry to determine the respective rights of the parties involved in a labor dispute? Which of the following terms refers to a proof that is not contained within the four edges of the collective bargaining agreement? The ________ Act provides for the arbitration of disputes involving collective bargaining agreements. The ________ Act is also called the United States Arbitration Act. Which of the following is an advantage of arbitration over the litigation process? Which of the following is a responsibility of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services' Office of Arbitration Services? Which of the following statements is TRUE of arbitrators?. A tripartite arbitration board is composed of ________ and a neutral member who serves as chairperson. Which of the following factors should be taken into consideration while determining the arbitrability of a dispute? According to the concept of ________, a person cannot be punished twice for the same offense based on the same conduct. Ted was fined by his employer for soliciting support for the union during working hours on the factory floor. A week later, Ted was fired from his job for the same offence. Under which of the following principles could Ted be reinstated into the job? Which of the following is an optional step in the hearing procedure for the arbitration of a grievance? Which of the following is most likely to be included in the opening statement presented by a party during a hearing procedure for the arbitration of a grievance? Which of the following points should be kept in mind by an arbitrator while assessing credibility of witnesses? Which of the following statements is TRUE of an arbitrator's award? Which of the following terms refers to the remarks made by an arbitrator that are irrelevant to the case brought to arbitration A sufficient or proper reason for which management has the right to discipline or discharge employees is known as a(n) ________. Under which of the following circumstances will a disciplinary action taken by management be considered a disciplinary action that is based on a just cause? ________ arbitration can be far more successful in the public sector than the private sector because of political pressures. Under this type of arbitration, an unbiased third party examines the collective bargaining impasse and issues findings and recommendations. [Show More]

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