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How do pluralists view conflict within the employment relationship?

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Pluralists assume that the structure of the employment relationship itself contains a potential for conflict, rather than conflict being caused by abhorrent or pathological behaviour. It is therefore unsurprising for conflict to emerge between employers and employees; indeed, it is an inevitable and legitimate consequence of the variety of interests in the workplace.

What is an industrial dispute?

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'[W]ithdrawal from work by a group of em...

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What values are important in determining the ways in which scholars and practitioners approach industrial conflict?


A) Income distribution, job security and managerial control
B) Income distribution, job security and unions
C) Income distribution, managerial control and unions
D) Unitarism, pluralism and radicalism

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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What impact do unions have on labour turnover rates in Australia? Discuss.

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Research indicates that trade unions are...

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Define defensive conflict.

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The act of protesting against ...

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Which of the following job characteristics has been found to be associated with high levels of absenteeism?


A) Routinisation
B) Role ambiguity
C) Role conflict
D) All of the options given here are correct

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

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How do unitarists view conflict within the employment relationship?

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Unitarists see the employment relationsh...

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List the organisational strategies used to manage absenteeism.

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Provide flexibility and discretion in ab...

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Which of the following are dimensions of industrial conflict?


A) Overt and covert forms of conflict
B) Individual and collective forms of conflict
C) Proactive and defensive forms of conflict
D) All of the options given here are correct

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

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Give three (3) reasons for the general decline in industrial disputes since the 1980s.

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Economic factors, especially i...

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Explain the interdependent motivational forces that drive voluntary turnover.

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There are two interdependent explanation...

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Research shows that the presence of trade unions in workplaces is associated with:


A) significantly higher levels of labour turnover.
B) significantly lower levels of job satisfaction.
C) significantly lower levels of labour turnover.
D) neither higher nor lower levels of labour turnover.

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

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Define 'labour turnover'.

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This refers to the frequency or rate at which employees resign from their employment.

Give three (3) examples of resistance strategies.

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Mental strikes
Foot-dragging
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Overt conflict is best described as:


A) None of the options given here is correct
B) conflict that occurs in the open and is easy to perceive.
C) conflict that is hidden.
D) action taken by an individual.

E) All of the above
F) A) and D)

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The dramatic decline in strike activity in Australia since the 1970s demonstrates that industrial conflict is a thing of the past. Discuss.

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While it is true that strikes have been ...

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Why are blue-collar workers, particularly women, more likely to have higher rates of absenteeism compared to other categories of employees? Discuss.

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Research into the causes of absenteeism ...

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According to Edwards et al. (1995), why do employees engage in informal resistance practices?

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The authors believed that covert forms o...

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What is an 'absence culture'?

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A normative belief in the legi...

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Explain the difference between involuntary and voluntary absenteeism.

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Involuntary: Results from an i...

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