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DSST Human Resource Management
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1964 - amended in 1972 - 1991 - and 1994. Broadest and most significant law affecting employment opportunity rights.
Civil Rights Act
culture shock
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)
360-degree appraisal
2. Flexible working hours that allow workers to choose start and end times.
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
reductions-in-force (RIF)
flextime
3. Law that affects employers with one hundred or more employees and requires the employer to give advance notice of at least sixty days when a plant closing or mass layoff is planned.
Worker Adjustment and Restraining Notification (WARN)
affirmative action
protected classes
charge form
4. The process of screening - interviewing - and hiring individuals.
vesting
selection
job sharing
utilitarian ethical decision
5. A use of motivators to increase satisfaction.
job sharing
non-cash compensation
job enrichment
fast tracking
6. Pay is the same each pay period regardless of hours worked.
self-directed team
salary pay
democratic leadership type
motivators
7. Services provided for workers to deal with problems that interfere with how they do their jobs.
piecework pay
authorization card
Employee assistance programs (EAP)
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
8. Rates performance of employee achievement of goals set by manager and the employee.
legitimate leadership
management by objectives (MBO)
career path
authorization card
9. Reporting criminal activity to the government.
host country nationals
Taft-Hartley Act (Labor Management Relations Act)
whistleblowing
burnout
10. A personal disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life.
401(k) savings plan
culture shock
Supplemental unemployment benefits (SUBS)
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)
11. 1914. No forbidding the existence of a union.
contrast error
Clayton Act
utilitarian ethical decision
postconventional moral development
12. A flexible benefit plan for the employee - letting them choose the benefits best suited to their personal needs and situation.
cafeteria plans
Worker Adjustment and Restraining Notification (WARN)
trancenders
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
13. Can directly align employees with the organizational goals - with evaluation based on profits - sales - etc.
individualistic ethical decision
productivity
virtual team
Employee assistance programs (EAP)
14. Cost of living that measures the average prices of products and services over time.
consumer price index (CPI)
broadbanding
development assignments
Long-term disability (LTD) insurance
15. Federal agencies and government contractors must comply with anti discrimination practices. Created the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) to enforce this.
strategic planning
Executive Order 11246
Society for Human Resource Management
diversity awareness training
16. Highest level of Maslow's hierarchy. Includes morality - creativity - spontaneity - problem solving - lack of prejudice - and acceptance of facts.
solicitation sexual harassment
continuous reinforcement
self-actualization
temporal errors
17. Rating based on comparison than a standard.
mixed-standard rating scale
pay grades
job sharing
encouraged resignation
18. Measures what a person is capable of learning.
recruiting
job analysis
aptitude tests
salary pay
19. Requires the rater to choose from statements that best describe the employee's output.
tell and sell appraisal interview
strategic planning
noncontributory pension plan
forced-choice
20. An employer-created fund for laid off employees to draw from on top of unemployment benefits.
social needs
salary pay
career path
Supplemental unemployment benefits (SUBS)
21. The idea that people with authority are subject to reporting to superiors.
skill-based pay
accountability
job specifications
extinction
22. Helps manager translate measurement framework from strategic to operational goals.
orientation
balanced scorecard (BSC)
generalized sexual harassment
job evaluation
23. Rating based on having certain characteristics.
employee involvement (EI) groups
behavior checklist
graphic rating scale
learning organization
24. The rater checks statements on a list that he believes are characteristic of the employee.
Equal Employment Opportunity Act
behavior checklist
union steward
trancenders
25. 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.
consumer price index (CPI)
trait performance appraisal method
characteristics model
hourly pay
26. A pension plan in which amount of benefits are based on how much is in their account at time of retirement.
career path
defined contribution plan
behaviorally anchored rating scale (BARS)
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
27. A leader that clarifies roles - initiates structure - provides rewards - and is considerate of employees; fair - hardworking - and tolerant; emphasizes job-oriented(not personal) needs.
transactional leader
Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Act
voluntary reduction
self-directed team
28. The matching of people with future vacancies.
physiological needs
training
affirmative action
human resource planning
29. 1994. Jobs are protected for those that go on short military service.
Equal Pay Act
Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Act
alternative resolution procedure (ARD)
job enrichment
30. 1. Treatment that punishes 2. Orderly behavior in an organization 3. Training that corrects undesirable behavior and develops self control
legitimate leadership
discipline
selection
tell and listen appraisal interview
31. Insurance that pays for nursing homes and medical-related costs to old age and illness.
wage and salary survey
EEO-1 Report
postconventional moral development
Long-term disability (LTD) insurance
32. Basic individual beliefs about right and wrong.
Taft-Hartley Act (Labor Management Relations Act)
job simplification
values
consumer price index (CPI)
33. 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
resignation
retirement
piecework pay
results performance appraisal method
34. Strength of person's convictions. The higher it is - the more likely one will follow what they believe is ethical in lieu of following unethical impulses.
piecework pay
ego strength
Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)
graphic rating scale
35. An uncomfortable environment that interferes with job performance.
graphic rating scale
hostile environment
learning organization
Long-term disability (LTD) insurance
36. Compensation system that equals American money to foreign money on terms of purchasing power.
balance sheet approach
transactional leader
Davis-Bacon Act
involuntary reduction
37. 1938. Provided basic pay structure for workers. Those that have to be paid are non-exempt and must be paid at least the minimum wage. Those who hold executive or managerial positions are exempt.
critical incident
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)
Age Discrimination in Employment Act
38. A problem in evaluation due to being compared to someone previously evaluated.
Long-term disability (LTD) insurance
Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)
informal factors
contrast effect
39. 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.
subordinate appraisal
strategic diversity management
fast tracking
orientation
40. Diversity as a result of acquisitions and mergers - which is a forced diversification of the workplace.
flextime
leadership
Walsh-Healy Act
strategic diversity management
41. Leadership dependent upon one's position within the company.
charismatic leader
legitimate leadership
burnout
forced-choice
42. The second level of moral development in which people make decisions that conform to societal expectations. A characteristic of managers who encourage work collaboration.
arbitrator
burnout
reward leadership
conventional moral development
43. An appraisal temporal error in which the appraiser inflates the evaluation because of a mutual connection.
competence based pay
similar to me error
voluntary reduction
Employee assistance programs (EAP)
44. Rejection of a higher percentage of protected classes for employment; unintentional discrimination.
stress interview
distress
essay
adverse impact
45. 1963. Amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act. No discrimination of pay - benefits - or pension based on gender.
computerized job analysis
Equal Pay Act
factor comparison system
union steward
46. 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.
recruiting
noncontributory pension plan
Employee assistance programs (EAP)
critical incident method
47. An organization that has generated a list of recommendation for executing an effective diversity initiative.
informal factors
servant leader
Society for Human Resource Management
third-country nationals
48. A leader that has an ability to motivate employees to go beyond expectations; less predictable than transactional and embrace new ideas. Charismatic leaders are visionaries; they try to get others to see a better future and their participation in it.
characteristics model
arbitrator
charismatic leader
cafeteria plans
49. RIF that include some type of severance pay and extension of benefits for a predetermined period of time.
continuous reinforcement
hourly pay
conventional moral development
voluntary reduction
50. A trait method that requires the rater to describe the employee's performance in a statement.; fairly subjective and reliant on the manager's ability to write effective statements.
safety needs
recency error
variable-ratio reinforcement
essay