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What is the "lean and mean" management style? |
The lean and mean management style is designed to:
--reduce the workforce, raise productivity, work harder and smarter---the death of loyalty – we’ll keep you so long as we make money from you |
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How has that style changed the social contract? |
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What are the external forces that are said to be changing the workplace?
Why? |
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Why was the PATCO strike significant? |
PATCO – the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization
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What is the employment-at-will doctrine, and how many countries follow it? |
The employment-at-will doctrine is probably unique to the U.S. It allows the boss to fire you without having a good reason (i.e. “good cause”). If you have a 3-year employment contract and the boss fires you without good cause (good cause meaning that you screwed up), then the boss has to pay you off for the remainder of the contract (with mitigation or reduction if you find another job). |
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What are the terms of the so-called revised employment contract? |
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Who wrote "The Organization Man," and what did it signify? |
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What are the so-called tenets of capitalism (the private sector), and how do they differ from those of socialism (the public sector)? |
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What is the condition of the union movement in the U.S. today? |
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How do conditions at unionized companies differ from non-union companies? |
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What are right-to-work states? |
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What are junk bonds, and what was their role in the wave of mergers and acquisitions of the 1980s? |
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Who is Michael Milken? |
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The replacement fertility rate refers to the: A)total fertility rate that is highly insufficient in replacing a region's population. B)average number of children that a female leaves during her lifetime. C)number of children a woman must have, on average, to ensure that one daughter survives to reproductive age. D)number of female children born per thousand women of reproductive age. |
C)number of children a woman must have, on average, to ensure that one daughter survives to reproductive age. |
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_____ is caused by processes of job creation and job destruction that continuously alter the mix of productive work in every economy. A) Structural change B) Government intervention C) Competitive pressure D) Reorganization of work |
A) Structural change |
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Outsourcing occurs when a company sends work of any kind to: A) an outside supplier rather than pay its own employees to do it. B) its employees and an outside agency. C) an indeterminate, large group of people through an open call. D) home-based employees with appropriate Internet infrastructure. |
A) an outside supplier rather than pay its own employees to do it. |
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_____ occurs when reorganized work remains within the company but moves from the home country to a foreign location. A) Co-sourcing B) Homeshoring C) Offshoring D) Onshoring |
C) Offshoring |
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Which of the following is an agreement between an employer and a worker wherein the worker agrees not to join a union? A) A yellow dog contract B) Employment-at-will C) Liberty of contract D) Implied covenant of good faith |
A) A yellow dog contract |
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The idea that employers and workers should be free of government intervention in negotiating aspects of their employment contract is known as the doctrine of: A) employment-at-will. B) liberty of contract. C )good faith. D) yellow dog. |
B) liberty of contract. |
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The idea that employers and employees can enter voluntary employment contracts that can be ended anytime by either party is known as: A) employment-at-will. B) liberty of contract. C) implied covenant of good faith. D) yellow dog. |
A) employment-at-will. |
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The Japanese word "karoshi" refers to: A) continuous improvement. B) a form of business conglomerate. C) death from the stress of overwork. D) manufacturing in a country that is not the client's. |
C) death from the stress of overwork. |
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The German term "kurzarbeit" refers to a: A) death from the stress of overwork. B) program in which the government subsidizes worker pay to promote employment. C) program that targets poverty by giving cash payments to families in exchange for regular school attendance. D) form of business conglomerate. |
B) program in which the government subsidizes worker pay to promote employment. |
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This is a set of four standards to protect basic worker rights on which there is broad international agreement. A) Core labor standards B) Standards of conduct C) Fair labor standards D) Code of ethics |
A) Core labor standards |