Explain the impact of unionization on managers.

The unionization of employees can affect managers in several ways:
· Can affect management's prerogatives in making decisions about employees.
· Restricts management's freedom to formulate HR policy unilaterally.
· Typically, unions will try to achieve greater participation in management decisions that affect their members (e.g., productivity standards, job content, etc.). Employers may claim these decisions are management rights; however, these rights are subject to challenge and erosion by the union.
· Terms of the collective agreement determine how employees can be directed and how they can be disciplined.
· Specific content language of the collective agreement can reduce the manager or supervisor's ability to manage in such areas as scheduling, training, transfers, performance evaluation, promotions, etc.