Industrial Relations Practice Test Chapters 1 & 2 PDF

**MGMT 3386 2B** **INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS** **WINTER 2025** **PRACTICE TEST CHAPTERS 1 & 2** 1. All but which one of the following employment patterns has increased significantly over the past 20 years? a. Work done on a short-term contractual basis b. Regular full-time work c. Regular...

**MGMT 3386 2B** **INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS** **WINTER 2025** **PRACTICE TEST CHAPTERS 1 & 2** 1. All but which one of the following employment patterns has increased significantly over the past 20 years? a. Work done on a short-term contractual basis b. Regular full-time work c. Regular part-time work d. Self-employment e. Work performed at home 2. All but which one of the following are challenges posed to employers by today's changing workforce and economy? a. Finding good IR people to negotiate with their unions b. Providing same-sex medical benefits to meet the needs of gay and lesbian couples c. Providing physically accessible premises to meet the needs of disabled workers d. Maintaining loyalty and commitment e. Modifying work schedules to meet the needs of people of different religious persuasions 3. As an interdisciplinary subject, Industrial Relations draws on all of the following fields, except a. Law b. Anthropology c. Political Science d. Business Management e. History 4. Which of the following does [not] help explain why union-management relations is an inadequate definition of industrial relations? a. Government's role in the IR system b. The role of entire communities as stakeholders c. The growing importance of management in the IR system d. The fact that over half the country's workforce is not unionized e. The role of customers and suppliers as stakeholders 5. According to Dunlop, an IR system includes all but the following a. Various contexts b. Three major actors c. A common ideology binding the system together d. A web of rules governing the actor's workplace behaviour e. A single, clear statement as to how the system works 6. Dunlop's "Common Ideology" is best defined as a. Rules governing behaviour by all actors in the system b. Political affiliation shared by all actors in the system c. Economic ideas shared by all actors in the system d. Substantive rules regarding system outcomes such as pay e. ssystem 7. Which of the following statements concerning Managerialists is closest to being true? a. They are strongly pro-union b. They will not work with a union under any conditions c. They believe that if progressive human resource management policies are followed most workplace conflict can be done away with d. They believe in motivating through fear rather than through positive incentives e. They believe that if workers are paid well enough, manager needn't pay much attention to intrinsic working conditions 8. Political economists believe change in the IR system should come through a. Direct actions such as general strikes b. Employee ownership and management of business enterprises c. Indirect political activity such as lobbying d. Violent overthrow of society e. Direct affiliation with a political party 9. Traditional Marxists believe change in the IR system should come through a. Employee ownership and management of business enterprises b. Direct affiliation with a political party c. Violent overthrow of society d. Direct actions such as general strikes e. Indirect political activity such as lobbying 10. What was the most significant and enduring feature of the *Industrial Disputes Investigation (IDI) Act?* a. Its voluntary nature b. Its granting of collective bargaining rights to workers in certain industries c. Its short life d. Its establishment of a labour board to deal with unfair labour practice complaints e. Its requirement of a Conciliation Board Report and *cooling-off period* before a strike or lockout could become legal 11. The rise of One Big Union was primarily the result of a. An increase in strike activity across Canada b. A surge in the availability of unskilled workers c. A split in the labour movement between Western-based radicals and conservative craft unionists d. A rapid increase in union membership after the First World War e. The failure by unionists to elect a member of Parliament on a labour ticket 12. Which of the following statements about the Winnipeg General Strike and its aftermath is false? a. Its leaders were arrested, jailed and threatened with deportation b. It was a purely political strike unrelated to anybody's collective bargaining objectives c. It was suppressed with great brutality d. It effectively marked the end of the radical labour movement in Canada e. It sparked a wave of 30 sympathy strikes across the country 13. Most people say that the Canadian industrial union movement was launched as the result of a strike in a. Montreal b. Kitchener c. Oshawa d. Winnipeg e. Sault Ste. Marie 14. What was the most important reason why Prime Minister Mackenzie King adopted *PC 1003* in 1944? a. A wave of bitter, often bloody wartime strikes b. Fear of defeat by the CCF c. Prime Minister King's recognition that the *IDI Act* had become seriously inadequate d. His lifelong sympathy for workers and unions e. The National War Labour Board's report in 1943 15. Which of the following statements about the "Rand Formula" is false? a. It recognized that all bargaining unit members, whether union members or not, benefitted from the union's efforts in their behalf b. It resulted from a strike at the Ford Motor Company c. It resulted in widespread adoption of the "dues checkoff" d. It helped ensure unions' survival by giving them a firm financial basis of support e. It required workers to join unions that had been certified for their bargaining units. **W** **CHAPTERS 1 & 2** **ANSWERS** 1. B 2. A 3. B 4. C 5. E 6. E 7. C 8. B 9. C 10. E 11. C 12. D 13. C 14. B 15. E