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DSST Human Resource Management

Subjects : dsst, business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A leader who works to fulfill subordinates' needs and goals as well as to achieve the organization's larger mission; the needs of others are placed above the leader's own needs.






2. 1967. No discrimination based on ages of people over 40. No pressure for older to retire; no terminating only older employees when downsizing;






3. Selection of the minority is less than 80 percent of the time - used as a rule of thumb in determining adverse impact.






4. The combination of various appraisal systems to give the manager and employee the best view into the performance.






5. The second level of moral development in which people make decisions that conform to societal expectations. A characteristic of managers who encourage work collaboration.






6. Team formed to solve a major organizational issue.






7. An integrated knowledge within an organization that sets it out from the competition.






8. Threat of power in order to convince someone to engage in sexual activity.






9. Rewards according to a random number of behaviors. Results in very high performance.






10. The process of screening - interviewing - and hiring individuals.






11. Breeds mistrust in the workplace; fairly excepted practice in private industry.






12. Characterized by an open-line communication between workers and management; values team-input - and facilitates group cooperation without being overly active within the group.






13. 194-point questionnaire with five-point scale to determine the degree in which tasks are performed.






14. Removal of something unpleasant for desire behavior.






15. Diversity as a result of acquisitions and mergers - which is a forced diversification of the workplace.






16. Measures what a person is capable of learning.






17. Power derived from the degree in which one is admired and people want to emulate them.






18. Seeking to minimize ethnocentrism and moving toward pluralism and ethnorelativism.






19. Job evaluation based on classification of jobs in groups of predetermined wage grades. This is what the federal government uses.






20. The oldest and simplest job evaluation that is based on grouping the jobs based on their relative worth to one another; can only be used on a small number of jobs.






21. A succession of linked jobs that prepares a worker for advancement to the next job in the chain.






22. Evidence suggesting selection precludes members from protected classes.






23. Second level of Maslow's hierarchy. Includes security of body - employment - resources - morality - family - health - and posterity.






24. Theory Z people - those that have reached the self-actualization phase.






25. The degree in which an individual believes they have control of their fate.






26. 1914. No forbidding the existence of a union.






27. A trait method that requires the rater to describe the employee's performance in a statement.; fairly subjective and reliant on the manager's ability to write effective statements.






28. The number of days in the work week is shortened and the hours per day are longer.






29. Federal agencies and government contractors must comply with anti discrimination practices. Created the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) to enforce this.






30. Consists of vertical scales for each dimension of employee's performance.






31. RIF that include some type of severance pay and extension of benefits for a predetermined period of time.






32. A behavioral method that notes an unusual event that identifies superior or inferior performance by the employee.






33. A group of 6-12 that meet regularly to discuss organizational issues.






34. Quantitative job evaluation that determines the value based on the points assigned to it; uses the point manual.






35. A process to make the job more complex to improve the level of boredom of an oversimplified job.






36. Training designed to make people recognize and address their own prejudices.






37. 1. Treatment that punishes 2. Orderly behavior in an organization 3. Training that corrects undesirable behavior and develops self control






38. Leadership based on the control that management has over rewarding subordinates.






39. An early retirement incentive in a form of a cash bonus or increased pension.






40. Various software programs that write job description and specifications based on job analysis.






41. Act that amended age discrimination in employment to include all employee benefits; also provided terminated employees with time to consider group termination or retirement programs and consult an attorney.






42. RIF that is composed of lay-offs - either across the board or through company reorganization that result in fewer available positions.






43. Flexible working hours that allow workers to choose start and end times.






44. A flexible benefit plan for the employee - letting them choose the benefits best suited to their personal needs and situation.






45. 1978. No discrimination based on pregnancy - childbirth - and related conditions.






46. Groups of jobs within a class that are paid the same. Used by the federal government.






47. Right for an employer to terminate an employee for no reason and for the employee to resign for the same.






48. Teaching short-term skills. May be 'on-the-job' or 'off-the-job'.






49. The survey of the wages paid to employees with similar skill sets in a labor market. The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a reliable one.






50. Systems that provide data for Human Resource control and decision making.