What is a hot cargo agreement?
a. It is an agreement provision that allows future negotiations during the term of the contract on specific mandatory issues such as wages or health care.
b. It is an agreement provision that protects the rest of the contract should one section come into conflict with state or federal law.
c. It is a negotiated contract 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.
d. It is a negotiated contract provision stating that union members of one employer have the right to refuse to handle nonunion or struck goods of other employers.
Question 2________ positively influence innovation because they are lower in work specialization, have fewer rules, and are more decentralized than bureaucracies.
A) Democracies
B) Autocracies
C) Formalized structures
D) Less formalized structures
E) Work teams
Question 3________ is the process of acquiring, training, appraising, and compensating employees, and attending to their labor relations, health and safety, and fairness concerns.
A) Labor relations
B) Human resource management
C) Behavioral management
D) Organizational health and safety management
Question 4Describe the fourfold process of creativity.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 5Appeals 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 ________.
a. lockout
b. wildcat strike
c. sickout
d. primary boycott
Question 6Incorporating _____ into training requires that the training content be extended to include learning when and why the use of a skill or knowledge is appropriate and the task relevant strategies for planning, monitoring, and revising behavior.
A) Expectancy theory
B) Team building
C) Strategic human resource management
D) Strategic knowledge development
Question 7Describe some of the contemporary thinking about why employees steal.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 8The final event in the Gagn-Briggs model is to
A) Elicit performance.
B) Provide feedback.
C) Assess performance.
D) None of the above.