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






2. Positive stress that makes some strive to accomplish something.






3. Includes hourly wages - salaries - and bonuses.






4. 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.






5. The first level of moral development - in which people make decisions based on selfish reasons; concerned only with external rewards or punishments. A characteristic of managers with authoritarian and coercive styles.






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






7. Method of performance measurement based on managers' records of specific examples of the employee acting in ways that are either effective or ineffective.






8. A concept Richard Hackman and Greg Oldham formulated after researching job design - focusing on three main parts: core job dimensions - critical psychological states - and employee growth need.






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






10. A decision based on existing norms.






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






12. 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.






13. A report companies with 100 or more employees must fill out annually to determine workforce composition.






14. Guarantee of benefits - especially in pension plans.






15. Two part-time employees share one full time position.






16. 1972. Extended Civil Rights Title VII to government workers.






17. The curve in the scattergram that identifies the worth of jobs and wages.






18. Requires the rater to choose from statements that best describe the employee's output.






19. 1931. Required federal contracts for construction to specify minimum wage for workers.






20. A career path that is hiearchical in nature and consists of interdependent sequential jobs.






21. Teaching long-term skills.






22. Purposeful discrimination.






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






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






25. Evidence suggesting selection precludes members from protected classes.






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






27. Pay according to the number of units produced.






28. Measure the extent which someone has characteristics. Relatively inexpensive - but high potential for errors - and not useful in allocating rewards or promotions.






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






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






31. Improvement of job efficiency by simplifying it.






32. Belief that one culture is superior to another.






33. Bottom level of Maslow's hierarchy. Includes shelter - food - sleep - breaks - and compensation.






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






35. Test used by courts to assess merits of prima facie case of disparate treatment when lacking evidence - requires plaintiff to show he: 1. belongs to protected group -2. has applied and is qualified - 3. was rejected despite qualifications - and 4. th






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






37. Method that determines the relative worth of jobs.






38. A medical insurance plan that the employer contributes to meet the needs of the individual's medical needs.






39. Pay by the hour.






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






41. The idea that people with authority are subject to reporting to superiors.






42. Quantitative approach to job analysis that assumes all parts of the job relate to data - people - and things.






43. Discipline focused on early correcion of employee misconduct. 1. Conference between employee and supervisor. 2. Second conference when solution did not work 3. Decision-making leave (paid leave)






44. 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).






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






46. A decision that considers humanity's fundamental rights.






47. How an employee perceives his compensation relative to others within the organization.






48. An situation in which an employer makes work life so difficult for the employee that they have no choice but to resign.






49. 1990. Employers cannot discriminate against people with physical or mental capabilities - and must make reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities or religious preferences.






50. Performance appraisal by an employee of their superior. Usually evaluates on leadership - oral communication - delegation of authority - coordination of team efforts - and interest in subordinates.