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DSST Human Resource Management
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1. Two part-time employees share one full time position.
career path
vertical career path
partial reinforcement
job sharing
2. Belief that one culture is superior to another.
strategic planning
Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act)
ethnocentrism
orientation
3. A resignation suggested by the employer to the employee.
Taft-Hartley Act (Labor Management Relations Act)
resignation
restricted policy
encouraged resignation
4. Highest level of sexual harassment and would result in a punishable act under the law.
Medical savings account (MSA)
self-appraisal
criminal sexual harassment
Walsh-Healy Act
5. Seeking to minimize ethnocentrism and moving toward pluralism and ethnorelativism.
managing workforce diversity
contributory pension plan
compressed workweek
horizontal career path
6. Selection of the minority is less than 80 percent of the time - used as a rule of thumb in determining adverse impact.
wage and salary survey
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
four-fifths rule
error of central tendency
7. The knowledge - skills - and abilities required for the job.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
job specifications
mixed-standard rating scale
job sharing
8. Hiring through searching and evaluating internal job postings and existing employee files.
computerized job analysis
recency error
internal selection
Norris-La Guardia Act
9. Identification of future candidates for future anticipated vacancies.
repatriation
broadbanding
succession planning
aptitude tests
10. An intent to resign from a company that is typically expressed in written communication to the employee's manager.
Civil Rights Act
pay for performance standard
Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act)
resignation
11. Helps manager translate measurement framework from strategic to operational goals.
job evaluation
Supplemental unemployment benefits (SUBS)
balanced scorecard (BSC)
development
12. An appraisal temporal error in which the appraiser inflates the evaluation because of a mutual connection.
servant leader
Walsh-Healy Act
contrast error
similar to me error
13. An extremely hard goal - but not impossible to reach.
orientation
extinction
stretch goal
factor comparison system
14. Employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or modem
job analysis
telecommuting
discipline
inappropriate sexual harassment
15. Compensation system that equals American money to foreign money on terms of purchasing power.
skill-based pay
vertical career path
conventional moral development
balance sheet approach
16. Harmful stress that accompanies a feeling of insecurity.
distress
factor comparison system
discipline
career path
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
pluralism
Landrum-Griffin Act
Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA)
partial reinforcement
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.
McDonnell Douglas Test
Immigration Reform and Control Act
development
Walsh-Healy Act
19. Advancing to the next level in the minimum time required in the current position.
fast tracking
quality circle
hourly pay
point system
20. Rates performance of employee achievement of goals set by manager and the employee.
achievement test
expert power
job enrichment
management by objectives (MBO)
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.
Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
recruiting
structured interview
preconventional moral development
22. A flexible benefit plan for the employee - letting them choose the benefits best suited to their personal needs and situation.
cafeteria plans
achievement test
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Medical savings account (MSA)
23. Performance appraisal that recognizes team accomplishement instead of individual performance - used by companies with a strong total quality management (TQM) emphasis.
motivators
team appraisal
360-degree appraisal
hostile environment
24. Idea that all cultures are inherently equal.
ethnorelativism
halo effect
Clayton Act
self-directed team
25. Act that provides individuals and dependents who may lose medical coverage with opportunity to pay to continue coverage.
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)
employment-at-will
values
wage and salary survey
26. An interview that may have no format at all or have open ended questions - but makes it difficult to compare candidates.
informal factors
ego strength
unstructured interview
red circle rates
27. When some of the desired behavior is reinforced. Can be classified into four groups: fixed-interval - fixed-ratio - variable-interval - and variable-ratio.
partial reinforcement
democratic leadership type
Executive Order 11246
salary pay
28. Can directly align employees with the organizational goals - with evaluation based on profits - sales - etc.
factor comparison system
productivity
negative reinforcement
Norris-La Guardia Act
29. Documents that contain the main information about hazardous material.
criminal sexual harassment
behavior observation scales (BOS)
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
voluntary protection program (VPP)
30. A pension plan in which both employer and employee fund pensions.
contributory pension plan
quid pro quo harassment
point system
referent power
31. Pay by the hour.
contrast error
cross-functional team
hourly pay
broadbanding
32. Long-term(5 years +) planning reserved for the highest levels of management.
problem solving appraisal interview
strategic planning
third-country nationals
job specifications
33. Statement authorizing union to act as their representative.
authorization card
Society for Human Resource Management
Immigration Reform and Control Act
management by objectives (MBO)
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.
job ranking system
separations
Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA)
Walsh-Healy Act
35. An attempt by the employer to alter the behavior of the employee by persuasion and motivational incentives.
tell and sell appraisal interview
preconventional moral development
esteem needs
job evaluation
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.
burnout
active listening
host country nationals
transformational leader
37. The degree in which an individual believes they have control of their fate.
wage curve
vesting
discipline
locus control
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
democratic leadership type
job rotation
Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
career plateauing
39. RIF that is composed of lay-offs - either across the board or through company reorganization that result in fewer available positions.
Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)
laissez-faire leadership type
involuntary reduction
diversity awareness training
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.
disparate treatment
career plateauing
behavior checklist
constructive discharge
41. Power derived from the degree in which one is admired and people want to emulate them.
third-country nationals
ethnocentrism
referent power
fast tracking
42. Teaching short-term skills. May be 'on-the-job' or 'off-the-job'.
telecommuting
factor comparison system
social contract ethical decision
training
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).
cash balance pension plan
value-added compensation
cafeteria plans
culture shock
44. Hands-off approach over all decision-making without any further involvement unless asked to participate.
computerized job analysis
laissez-faire leadership type
postconventional moral development
defined contribution plan
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.
Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ)
broadbanding
pluralism
locus control
46. Belief that things happen due to their own responsibility.
internal locus
coercive sexual harassment
Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Act
error of central tendency
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.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
manager/supervisor appraisal
salary pay
adverse impact
48. Cost of living that measures the average prices of products and services over time.
individualistic ethical decision
human resource planning
employment-at-will
consumer price index (CPI)
49. Highest level of Maslow's hierarchy. Includes morality - creativity - spontaneity - problem solving - lack of prejudice - and acceptance of facts.
informal factors
whistleblowing
self-actualization
trait performance appraisal method
50. 1926. Required employers to collectively bargain with unions. In 1936 - amended to include airlines.
piecework pay
Railway Labor Act
distributional errors
fixed-ratio reinforcement