Assignment:
Discussion Questions, Managing with Organized Labor
Choose only THREE (3) questions to answer - the three you find most beneficial to your learning and insight on this chapter. This new format is due to feedback I received from students about chapter review questions feeling more like busy work than learning. Thanks again for the course insight and enjoy the change!
This week, use the attached discussion questions, not those located at the end of the corresponding chapter for this week's module.
Responses to these questions should be found in the assigned chapter and/or assigned current articles. Submit your answers as an attached word document.
Answer only 3 questions of your choice. Provide a page number(s) from your required textbook or article where you located the information.
1. Define each of the following terms:
a. Labor relations process,
b. Union,
c. Bargaining unit,
d. Grievance procedure
2. Provide at least three reasons why unions are typically viewed as threats and/or are unwelcome by management.
3. Describe each of the three processes of the labor relations process.
4. What are some of the behaviors that may indicate to managers that organizing activities are occurring?
5. What eight (8) units were established by the NLRB ruling for the purpose of collective bargaining in acute care hospitals?
6. In your own words but also utilizing and referencing information from your chapter and the current article, describe the evolving role of unions in the healthcare workforce.
Readings:
1. MANAGING WITH ORGANIZED LABOR
By Donna Malvey
2. Nurse Union Strategies for Improving the Quality of Patient Care
By Paul F. Clark