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DSST Human Resource Management

Subjects : dsst, business-skills
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1. Pay is the same each pay period regardless of hours worked.






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






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






5. 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






6. Leadership based on the control that management has over punishing subordinates.






7. A pension plan in which the main source of retirement funds today - some employers will match contributions to a certain percentage.






8. The matching of people with future vacancies.






9. Rewards according to random times. Results in moderately high and stable performance.






10. Official discrimination complaint to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) - filled by employee.






11. 1972. Extended Civil Rights Title VII to government workers.






12. Groups of employees who meet to resolve problems and improve the organization.






13. Identification of future candidates for future anticipated vacancies.






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






15. 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.






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






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






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






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






20. Encourages teamwork and knowledge transfer among employees.






21. Measures what a person is capable of learning.






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






23. A written description of the basic tasks - duties - minimum required experience - and responsibilities required of an employee holding a particular job.






24. Involves determining the type and number of individuals needed to get the job done.






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






26. Not reporting to work.






27. The different conditions upon which someone leaves a company; may be voluntary or involuntary.






28. A problem in evaluation due to being compared to someone previously evaluated.






29. Third level of Maslow's hierarchy. Includes friendship - family - and interaction.






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






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






32. 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)






33. 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.






34. A pension plan in which only the employer funds pensions.






35. Union must represent union and nonunion members equally.






36. Group specifically to provide a new product or service.






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






38. A pay attached to acquiring new knowledge or skills.






39. An employer-created fund for laid off employees to draw from on top of unemployment benefits.






40. 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.






41. An appraisal distributional error where the appraiser gives their employees unusually high or low marks.






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






43. A procedural document designed by the federal government to assist in hiring - promotion - transfer - demotion - dismissal - and referrals.






44. Means that people employed in an organization represent different cultural groups and human qualities.






45. Performance appraisal that seeks evaluation from internal and external customers.






46. Only suitable defense against discrimination; postulates that age - religion - sex - or nationality is an actual qualification for the job. It does NOT cover race or color.






47. An appraisal error involving groups of ratings given to employees.






48. Power based on individual expertise.






49. An appraisal distributional error where the rater is reluctant to give high or low marks.






50. A group with mix of specialists that are assigned rather than voluntary membership.







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