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






2. Power based on individual expertise.






3. Services provided for workers to deal with problems that interfere with how they do their jobs.






4. Focus on the employee's achievements; less subjective - acceptable for employees and supervisors - link individual performance with organizational goals - encourage goal setting - and are good for reward and promotion decisions. However - time consum






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






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






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






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






9. Identifies the actions that should or should not be seen on the job - used mainly for developmental feedback..






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






11. Improvement of job efficiency by simplifying it.






12. 194-point questionnaire with five-point scale to determine the degree in which tasks are performed.






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






14. Developed in response to a majority dominating the workforce.






15. The act of returning to the country of origin after an international assignement.






16. Employees that are not from the home or host country.






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






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






19. Rejection of a higher percentage of protected classes for employment; unintentional discrimination.






20. Compensation tied to a reward for effort and performance.






21. 1993. Applies to employers with fifty or more employees. Paternal and maternal leave covered under this act.






22. Minorities in the workplace.






23. 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.






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






25. A leader who motivates people to transcend their personal interests for the good of the group; characterized by the ability to bring innovation.






26. An appraisal temporal error when the evaluation is based upon the employee's most recent behavior.






27. An organization that is participatory in problem solving - improving - and increasing capabilities.






28. The matching of people with future vacancies.






29. A decision based on existing norms.






30. A form in which accidents that cause death - illness - or injury in the workplace are recorded.






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






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






33. A personal disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life.






34. A communication of strong and weak points of the employee's performance - and then in which the employee responds with his feelings about the appraisal.






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






36. Traditional approach to appraisal - a review by management one level higher.






37. Compensation useful in advancing organizational goals.






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






39. Union must represent union and nonunion members equally.






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






41. Rewards after a specific number of desired behaviors. Results in high or stable performance.






42. 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.






43. Pay based on skills and increased job knowledge. Also called skilled based or knowledge based pay.






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






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






46. A problem in appraisal in which an employee is given the same grade on all dimensions based on a few attributes.






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






48. A pension plan in which the amount is specific.






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