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Maintaining good industrial relations is significant because it ________.

  1. Helps in an uninterrupted production

  2. Promotes Industrial Democracy

  3. Fosters Industrial Peace

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:
Industrial relations is concerned with the employer and the employee with their respective organization, at work or arising out of the working situation. Maintaining good industrial relations is significant because it:
a) Helps in an uninterrupted production
b) Promotes Industrial Democracy
c) Fosters Industrial Peace.

Parties that are not involved in industrial relations are ______.

  1. Employees

  2. Customers

  3. Courts & Tribunals

  4. Employer Associations


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Parties that are not involved in industrial relations are customers. Industrial relations is concerned with the employer and the employee with their respective organization, at work or arising out of the working situation.Employees, courts and tribunals, employer associations- all are involved in industrial relations.

Identify the effect(s) of bad Industrial Relations on customers from the following.

  1. Rise in prices

  2. Scarcity of goods

  3. Bad affect on quality of goods

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:
Industrial relations is concerned with the employer and the employee with their respective organization, at work or arising out of the working situation. Effects of bad Industrial Relations on employees are as follows:a) Rise in prices
b) Scarcity of goods c) Bad effect on quality of goods.

Identify the effect(s) of bad Industrial Relations on employees from the following.

  1. Reduced level of productivity.

  2. Damage to machines and equipment.

  3. Adverse effect on development of companies.

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:
Industrial relations is concerned with the employer and the employee with their respective organization, at work or arising out of the working situation. Effects of bad Industrial Relations on employees are as follows:a) Reduced level of productivity.
b) Damage to machines and equipment.c) Adverse effect on development of companies.

Which of the following approaches assumes that the understanding of industrial relations requires an understanding of the capitalized society _________________.

  1. Marxist approach

  2. Gandhian approach

  3. Human relations approach

  4. Giri approach


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Marxist approach assumes that the understanding of industrial relations requires an understanding of the capitalized society. Marxists regard state intervention via legislation and the creation of industrial tribunals as supporting management’s interest rather than ensuring a balance between the competing groups.

______ approach of industrial relations states that the authority rests solely with the management with no right to anyone to challenge it.

  1. Pluralist approach

  2. Unitary approach

  3. System approach

  4. Social action approach


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The unitary approach of industrial relations states that the authority rests solely with the management with no right to anyone to challenge it. The unitary approach is based on the assumption that the organization is an integrated group of people with single authority/ loyalty structure and a set of common values, interests and objectives shared by all members of the organization.

Identify the effect(s) of bad Industrial Relations on Government from the following.

  1. Loss of revenue

  2. Lack of order in society

  3. Blame by different parties

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:
Industrial relations is concerned with the employer and the employee with their respective organization, at work or arising out of the working situation. Effects of bad Industrial Relations on employees are as follows:a) Loss of revenue
b) Lack of order in society c) Blame by different parties.

Identify the effect(s) of bad Industrial Relations on the country from the following.

  1. Fall in exports and rise in imports

  2. Uncertainty in economy

  3. Hindrance in Economic Development

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:
Industrial relations is concerned with the employer and the employee with their respective organization, at work or arising out of the working situation. Effects of bad Industrial Relations on employees are as follows:a) Fall in exports and rise in imports
b) Uncertainty in economy c) Hindrance in Economic Development.

The balance of power is not vested with any one group; rather, it is maintained between the parties to the industrial relations. This is the essence of the _________ of industrial relations.

  1. Pluralist approach

  2. System approach

  3. Unitary approach

  4. Social action approach


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The balance of power is not vested with any one group; rather, it is maintained between the parties to industrial relations. This is the essence of the pluralist approach of industrial relations. The pluralistic approach suggests that there is more than one source of power in the relationship between workers and business leaders. Unions are often a central component to the pluralistic approach that seeks a balance of power between leadership and employees.

Industry analysis is given by which of the following _______________.

  1. Porter

  2. H.N. Hansen

  3. Koonts o'donnel

  4. Joseph Schumpeter


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Porter's force analysis aims at understanding the important forces of a industry such as supplier power, buyer power, competitive rivalry, threat of substitution and new entry to determine the degree of competition in the business.