Differentiate between bonuses and gainsharing plans.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 2Harald is opening a manufacturing plant with a mechanistic and centralized structure. Employees from which of the following countries will be least comfortable with this type of a structure?
A) Greece
B) Peru
C) Canada
D) France
E) Chile
Question 3What is organizational demography? What is its significance?
What will be an ideal response?
Question 4The unionized machinists at Larson Aeronautics have refused to work and have halted production as a result of a breakdown in negotiations. Which of the following terms best describes the actions of the machinists?
A) boycott
B) strike
C) beachhead
D) lockout
Question 5Which law established the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS)?
A) Taft-Hartley Act
B) Davis-Bacon Act
C) Landrum-Griffin Act
D) Norris-LaGuardia Act
Question 6What is the process called when a neutral third party enters and attempts to resolve a labor dispute when a bargaining impasse has occurred?
A) delegation
B) interest arbitration
C) mediation
D) rights arbitration
Question 7Reuben Williams, the marketing manager for F&B Industries, is frustrated. He feels that the production division repeatedly lets his division down.
Although the latest marketing strategy announced that a new product would be available in the market by July, the production division was unable to complete the production of the first batch till August. The production manager claims that manpower is short and the targets placed on the production division are unreasonably high. To resolve this deadlock, they will be meeting soon. This meeting is an example of ________ communication.
A) lateral
B) grapevine
C) diagonal
D) upward
E) downward
Question 8List and describe different variable-pay programs.
What will be an ideal response?