Pattern Bargaining Occurs When

question 69

Multiple Choice

Pattern bargaining occurs when:

• A) Employers within an industry decide ahead of time what they will all settle at and then negotiate the same or similar terms with the unions.
• B) Unions from one industry use the contracts from another industry as a guide for where they should settle in negotiations.
• C) An employer and union settle with essentially the same terms year after year.
• D) A union negotiates with one company and then uses that settlement as a target for all other negotiations in the industry.

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Definitions:

Probability

A measure of the likelihood that a specific event will occur, expressed as a number between 0 and 1, where 0 indicates impossibility and 1 indicates certainty.

Avoidance Conditioning

A learning process in which an individual learns to prevent or avoid an unpleasant stimulus by performing a particular behavior.

Student Behavior

Refers to the conduct or response patterns that students exhibit in an educational environment, influenced by factors such as classroom management, learning styles, and social interactions.

Extinction

The process of withholding reinforcement for a conditioned response. Extinction has two parts: (1) if, in a given situation, somebody displays a previously reinforced response and the response is not followed by the usual reinforcing consequence, (2) then that person is less likely to do the same thing again when he or she next encounters a similar situation.