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IDRL 215 EXAM PREP | FREQUENTLY TESTED
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS |
BRAND NEW!
What factors are most important in determining the success of
an organizing drive? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Factors most important
in determining the success of an organizing campaign include
a) demographic of situational factors in individual workplaces
and can be more influential on success rates than union's actions
(ex: if the workplace has a high percent of minorities)
b) employee involvement with the campaign
Is the state a neutral party in labour relations? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer
> The state is not a neutral party in labour relations because it
stands to profit from neoliberal policies that favour capital. The
state plays the role of an employer, which means there is a
power imbalance in favour of the state.
How does the way the state fulfills each role affect the dynamics
of labour relations? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Each role is connected to
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one another. A pro-labour government might promote pro-union
views by enacting legislation. Because the state changes
legislation, often to its own benefit, they are given even more
power as an employer, further hindering public sector labour
relations.
Identify the key regulative actions the state takes. How do these
actions restrict or expand the scope of the labour relations
system? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > The state regulates minimum
standard laws relevant to minimum wage, work hours, statutory
holidays, vacation days, termination, paternal leave, human rights
legislation, pay and employment equity legislation, and unjust
dismissal law.
When the government institutes regulations that address issues
outside of the workplace, the scope of labour relations changes
from a small and particular series of issues to become a broader
understanding of the internal and external forces that impact
labour relations.
What are the five ideological perspectives of labour relations? -
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > 1) Neoliberal
2) Managerialist
3) Orthodox Pluralist
4) Liberal reformist
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5) Radical
Which of the perspectives is seen as the dominant perspective in
Canadian labour relations today? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
Unitarism - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > (Neo-liberal and managerialist
perspectives)
Views employment as an economic contract between two free
and equal parties.
Unitarists believe that the work organization is held together by
common objectives that unite managers and workers (hence
"unitarism") and if a conflict exists it is because of irrational
workers, and poor communication and leadership.
Unions are seen as antagonistic sources of conflict.
Pluralism - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > (Orthodox pluralists and liberal
reformists)
Acknowledges that employment relationships entail both
converging and conflicting interests between employers and
IDRL 215 EXAM PREP | FREQUENTLY TESTED
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS |
BRAND NEW!
What factors are most important in determining the success of
an organizing drive? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Factors most important
in determining the success of an organizing campaign include
a) demographic of situational factors in individual workplaces
and can be more influential on success rates than union's actions
(ex: if the workplace has a high percent of minorities)
b) employee involvement with the campaign
Is the state a neutral party in labour relations? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer
> The state is not a neutral party in labour relations because it
stands to profit from neoliberal policies that favour capital. The
state plays the role of an employer, which means there is a
power imbalance in favour of the state.
How does the way the state fulfills each role affect the dynamics
of labour relations? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Each role is connected to
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one another. A pro-labour government might promote pro-union
views by enacting legislation. Because the state changes
legislation, often to its own benefit, they are given even more
power as an employer, further hindering public sector labour
relations.
Identify the key regulative actions the state takes. How do these
actions restrict or expand the scope of the labour relations
system? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > The state regulates minimum
standard laws relevant to minimum wage, work hours, statutory
holidays, vacation days, termination, paternal leave, human rights
legislation, pay and employment equity legislation, and unjust
dismissal law.
When the government institutes regulations that address issues
outside of the workplace, the scope of labour relations changes
from a small and particular series of issues to become a broader
understanding of the internal and external forces that impact
labour relations.
What are the five ideological perspectives of labour relations? -
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > 1) Neoliberal
2) Managerialist
3) Orthodox Pluralist
4) Liberal reformist
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5) Radical
Which of the perspectives is seen as the dominant perspective in
Canadian labour relations today? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
Unitarism - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > (Neo-liberal and managerialist
perspectives)
Views employment as an economic contract between two free
and equal parties.
Unitarists believe that the work organization is held together by
common objectives that unite managers and workers (hence
"unitarism") and if a conflict exists it is because of irrational
workers, and poor communication and leadership.
Unions are seen as antagonistic sources of conflict.
Pluralism - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > (Orthodox pluralists and liberal
reformists)
Acknowledges that employment relationships entail both
converging and conflicting interests between employers and
