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DSST Human Resource Management

Subjects : dsst, business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Two part-time employees share one full time position.






2. Belief that one culture is superior to another.






3. A resignation suggested by the employer to the employee.






4. Highest level of sexual harassment and would result in a punishable act under the law.






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






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






7. The knowledge - skills - and abilities required for the job.






8. Hiring through searching and evaluating internal job postings and existing employee files.






9. Identification of future candidates for future anticipated vacancies.






10. An intent to resign from a company that is typically expressed in written communication to the employee's manager.






11. Helps manager translate measurement framework from strategic to operational goals.






12. An appraisal temporal error in which the appraiser inflates the evaluation because of a mutual connection.






13. An extremely hard goal - but not impossible to reach.






14. Employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or modem






15. Compensation system that equals American money to foreign money on terms of purchasing power.






16. Harmful stress that accompanies a feeling of insecurity.






17. 1959. Specially tailored to make labor officials responsible for the union's financial affairs - to prevent bully-boy tactics - ensure democratic voting practices within unions - outlaw secondary boycotts - and restrict picketing. Also called Labor-M






18. 1936. Responsible for prevailing minimum wage in a locality. Regular working hours identified as 8 per day and 40 per week; and time and a half for additional; no employment for convicts and children.






19. Advancing to the next level in the minimum time required in the current position.






20. Rates performance of employee achievement of goals set by manager and the employee.






21. Defining the characteristics that the organization feels would be a good fit for the vacancies. To recruit - an organization must conduct job analysis - provide a job description - and give job specification.






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






23. Performance appraisal that recognizes team accomplishement instead of individual performance - used by companies with a strong total quality management (TQM) emphasis.






24. Idea that all cultures are inherently equal.






25. Act that provides individuals and dependents who may lose medical coverage with opportunity to pay to continue coverage.






26. An interview that may have no format at all or have open ended questions - but makes it difficult to compare candidates.






27. When some of the desired behavior is reinforced. Can be classified into four groups: fixed-interval - fixed-ratio - variable-interval - and variable-ratio.






28. Can directly align employees with the organizational goals - with evaluation based on profits - sales - etc.






29. Documents that contain the main information about hazardous material.






30. A pension plan in which both employer and employee fund pensions.






31. Pay by the hour.






32. Long-term(5 years +) planning reserved for the highest levels of management.






33. Statement authorizing union to act as their representative.






34. 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.






35. An attempt by the employer to alter the behavior of the employee by persuasion and motivational incentives.






36. Host country natives that are employees. Usually is shifted to because it is cheaper - gives a good impression on locals - and no adjustment to culture.






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






38. 1970. A law passed to attempt to reduce workplace injuries and illnesses. It's general area of responsibility are: 1.General Industry 2. Maritime 3. Construction 4. Agriculture






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






40. A time when the individual stops advancing before reaching the next highest level. It is not necessarily a failed effort because not everyone is promoted to the top position and many common career paths are not designed to lead to the top.






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






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






43. A pension plan in which the employer contributes percentage of employer pay to an account that earns interest. When the employee leaves - the amount is rolled up into an individual retirement account (IRA).






44. Hands-off approach over all decision-making without any further involvement unless asked to participate.






45. Collapses traditional salary grades into a few wide bands and helps eliminate obsession with grades and gives management an enhanced ability to reward on performance.






46. Belief that things happen due to their own responsibility.






47. When twelve months have been worked at an employer with health insurance - a worker can transfer to another employer with no regard to preexisting conditions.






48. Cost of living that measures the average prices of products and services over time.






49. Highest level of Maslow's hierarchy. Includes morality - creativity - spontaneity - problem solving - lack of prejudice - and acceptance of facts.






50. 1926. Required employers to collectively bargain with unions. In 1936 - amended to include airlines.