Management: True-False Questions

Chapter 01
Introduction

True/False Questions 1-1. The basis for the practice of labor relations within a unionized employer is a contract negotiated by the parties.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember
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1-2. Stock markets create the opportunity to make ownership highly liquid by providing an institutionalized mechanism for the purchase and sale of shares.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember
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1-3. Operational decisions are made by the managers hired by the shareholders’ elected board of directors.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember
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1-4. Unions are developed to take over companies.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember
Page: 2

1-5. In democracies, laws and regulations ultimately reflect the will of the electorate.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember
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1-6. Unions can exist without employers, but employers cannot exist without unions.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember
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1-7. A lockout occurs when a unionized employment practice is adopted by nonunion employers in order to avoid unionization by copying what unions have won for their members.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember
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1-8. Unionization provides employees a voice in how the employment relationship is implemented in their workplace.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember
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1-9. Spillover is a pervasive phenomenon that occurs when a group perceives danger.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember
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1-10. Workers in companies with innovative human resource management practices are less likely to desire unions.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember
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1-11. Employees are more likely to vote for unions due to job task characteristics rather than dissatisfaction with employment conditions.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember
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1-12. Dissatisfaction is