Labor Relations Chapter 09 Dispute Resolution Procedures
True or false
1. Mediators often try to gain acceptability during the middle stages of the mediation process.

2. The biggest challenge for a mediator during the initial stages of mediation is to get processes started that will produce movement toward a final resolution.

3. Because of the importance of their jobs, mediators must often take an assertive role even under cases when such aggressive actions will damage his/her credibility.

4. The traditional view towards mediation states that mediators should bring the parties into agreement as well as invoking their own personal values and preferences of the larger society into the process.

5 Fact-finding requires that both management and labor study the issues that are in dispute and offer the facts of the case to an experienced arbitrator for settlement.

6. Fact-finding is rarely effective in overcoming serious disputes caused by a large gap between the expectations of one party and the bottom line position of the other.

7. Interest arbitrators typically have no specific knowledge of the industry that is involved.

8. Recently, there has been tremendous debate among proponents of collective bargaining who believe that interest arbitration should be used more frequently in the private sector in order to avoid the economic losses that occur during strikes.

9. Interest arbitration is the most widely used impasse resolution procedure.

10. The reason why both management and labor agree to voluntary interest arbitration is to avoid high strike costs.

11. The two divergent types of decision making processes in interest arbitration are the judicial approach and the combined mediation arbitration approach.

12. Due to union decline in most sectors of the economy, labor and management find it unnecessary to look for new dispute resolution procedures.