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Question 1. What are the major strengths of job control unionism? The major weaknesses9 Has job control unionism outlived its usefulness?
Question 2. Full-fledged labor-management partnerships are rare. Why? In your answer, do not blame only labor unions. In other words, be sure to identify reasons why a variety of stakeholders (shareholders, managers, employees, and union leaders) might resist the formation of labor-management partnerships.
Question 3. Suppose you are the HR manager at a small unionized manufacturer of auto parts located in a small town in the South. The production work is repetitive and routine, and there are no particular skill or educational requirements for the production employees. Nearly all the parts produced are sold to one major automaker. This automaker demands a 10 percent price cut. To reduce labor costs, do you use an escape, forcing, or fostering strategy with the union? Why? Now suppose instead that you are the HR manager for a local school district where the teachers are unionized. To balance the state budget, the school district's budget is cut by 10 percent. Do you take the same approach as in the auto parts scenario? Why or why not?
Question 4. Recall the pluralist industrial relations and unitarist human resource management schools of thought from Chapter 2. Assume that labor leaders adhere to the plural- ist industrial relations school of thought and that management adheres to the human resource management school of thought. How does the contrast between these two schools help increase the understanding of management's emphasis on cooperation versus labor's emphasis on partnership? How do the two schools help increase the understanding of different perspectives on nonunion employee representation and the Electromatiotz controversy?
Question 5. While not sharing its concern for psychological motivators and rewards, Frederick Winslow Taylor's views illustrate the human resource management school's perspec- tives on employment relationship conflict and labor unions. Explain.