BUS 325 Week 10 Quiz – Strayer

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Quiz 9: Chapter 9

Quiz 10: Chapter 10

CHAPTER 9: International Industrial Relations and The Global Institutional Context

TRUE/FALSE

     1.   In the international industrial relations field, no industrial relations system can be understood without an appreciation of its historical origin.

                                

     2.   Industrial relations are a faithful expression of the society in which they operate, and of the power relationships between different interest groups.

                                

     3.   The difference in union structures has no influence on collective bargaining process in Western countries.

                                

     4.   Corporate headquarters will become involved or oversee labor agreements made by foreign subsidiaries.

                                

     5.   European firms have tended to deal with industrial unions at the firm level rather than at industry level.

                                

     6.   Subsidiaries formed by Greenfield tend to be given more autonomy over industrial relations than firms acquired by acquisition.

                                

     7.   A large home market is a strong incentive to adapt to host-country institutions and norms.

                                

     8.   The decline in union density in many countries can be explained by economic factors.

                                

     9.   Multinationals subsidiaries experienced smaller and shorter strikes than local firms.

                                

   10.   Multinational subsidiaries tend to have more frequency of strikes than indigenous firms.

                                

   11.   Treating labor relations as incidental and relegating them to the specialists in the various countries are inappropriate.

                                

   12.   Unlike the OECD, the Commission of the EU can translate guidelines into laws.

                                

   13.   Labor unions interpreted the chapeau clause to mean “compliance with local law supersedes the OECD guidelines.”

                                

   14.   The EU does not aim to establish minimum standards for social conditions that will safeguard the fundamental rights of workers.

                                

   15.   The less one knows about how a structure came to develop in a distinctive way, the more likely one is to understand it.

                                

   16.   With the expansion of the EU in 2004 to include 10 new members that are relatively low-income states, there has been an increased sensitivity to the problem of social dumping.

                                

   17.   An “investment strike” is a concern of trade unions about multinationals refusing to invest additional funds in the plant.

                                

   18.   The Social Accountability 8000 standards were drawn from the UN human rights conventions.

                                

          

   19.   Poaching of skilled employees never happens in Asian-Pacific countries.

                                

   20.   Western multinational enterprises that are planning offshore activities in China should not be concerned with guanxi.

                                

MULTIPLE CHOICE

     1.   In Sweden and Germany the term “collective bargaining” means:

a.	Negotiations between a local trade union and management
b.	Negotiations between an employers’ organization and a trade union at the industry level
c.	Bargaining process as a class struggle between labor and capital
d.	Bargaining at an open market for products