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If a(n) _____ considers employee preferences as it is expected to do,then benefit levels in nonunion employers should closely lead those in unionized employers because they might be expected to react quickly to changing needs associated with changing age and gender mixes in their workforces.

A) unionized organization
B) philosophy-laden company
C) doctrinaire organization
D) global entity

E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

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High involvement work systems typically _____.

A) add layers to the organization's work structures
B) employ team-based job designs
C) adopt formal methods of conflict resolution
D) are more likely to include due process systems

E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

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Courts have increasingly narrowed nonunion employers' rights to _____,particularly where employers are judged to have acted in bad faith.

All else being equal,shareholder value declines since higher wages reduce profits,leading to:

Shareholder returns are increased following unionization.

_____ may occur as a result of employers extending negotiated wage and benefit increases to non-represented employees in order to avoid further unionization.

Procedural justice systems refer to grievance methods used to decide relative shares of an outcome.

Relatively speaking,in _____ industries,unionized worker quality is lower than that of their nonunion counterparts.

Nonunion employers that operate in competitive environments are uninterested in managing conflicts in their organizations.

While employers would like complete freedom to hire,fire,and assign workers to jobs,_____ see employees as becoming increasingly invested in their jobs with their employers.

Explain decertifications,their implications,and their influence.

A study tracking organizing success after passage of the _____ found organized firms had about a 20 percent lower rate of return to shareholders than firms remaining nonunion.

Which of the following is an example of employers implementing their versions of community plans in the 1920s and 1930s?

Unionized employers generally have higher turnover rates and lower rates of internal promotion and transfer than nonunion employers.

A union-free organization is one that is entirely unorganized in its U.S.operations.

Campaign tactics depend to an extent on the size and _____ of the employer.

Large nonunion organizations generally try to lead the market in their pay levels.

Unions believe that _____ should have a role in determining the rules that will be used to decide how gains will be distributed and how the workplace will be governed.

Where nonunion grievance procedures exist,rates are lower when peer review and/or nonunion arbitration is used for deciding cases.

More recently,companies are likely to have implemented _____ pay programs to support new organizational structures stressing team designs.