Industrial Relations Quiz

Which of the following is the main bedrock for the study of industrial relations?

• Subsistence agriculture

• Wage industry

• Industrial revolution

• State control

The emergence of industrial relations as a school of study could be traced to _________.

• J. T. Dunlop

• Beatrice and Sydney Webb

• Karl Marx and Engel

• Fredrick Taylor

Employment relations in the workplace is depicted by one of the following. Relationship between an employer and---

• an employee

• a union executive.

• the employees.

• the union executives.

The International Labour and Employment Relations Association was founded in ____________

• 1968.

• 1967.

• 1966.

• 1965.

One of the following is true of pluralistic theory of industrial/employment relations in the workplace. Conflicts are---

• inevitable and irrational.

• dysfunctional and normal.

• functional and abnormal.

• rational and functional.

The term symbolic interactionism in theory of employment relations was propounded by __________ in _________

• Herbert Blumer, 1936.

• Herbert Blumer, 1937.

• George Homan, 1936.

• George Homan, 1937.

The proponent of procedural and substantive rules in industrial relations was ______

• John T. Dunlop.

• Alton Craig.

• Allan Flanders.

• Max Weber.

One of the following is true of Karl Marx theory of industrial relations. Conflicts in the workplace are----

• simply class struggle.

• influenced by individual’s action.

• influenced by employer’s action

• influenced by state’s action.

The ultimate power of the worker’s union is vested in the _____________

• National Executive Council.

• National Delegate Conference.

• Central Working Committee.

• Branch Executive Committee.

The Organisation of African Trade Union Unity was formed in _____ at ________.

• 1973, Addis Ababa.

• 1973, Accra.

• 1963, Addis Ababa.

• 1963, Accra.