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DSST Human Resource Management

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Unpaid union official that represents the employees when dealing with management.






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






3. Advancing to the next level in the minimum time required in the current position.






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






5. 1994. Jobs are protected for those that go on short military service.






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






7. A program that encourages employers to go beyond the minimum requirements outlined by OSHA. It includes three: 1. Star 2. Merit 3. Demonstration






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






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






10. 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.






11. A step beyond tell and sell; stimulation of growth of the employee by discussing problems - needs - innovations - satisfactions - and dissatisfactions since last appraisal.






12. Evidence suggesting selection precludes members from protected classes.






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






14. Second level of Maslow's hierarchy. Includes security of body - employment - resources - morality - family - health - and posterity.






15. Federal agencies and government contractors must comply with anti discrimination practices. Created the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) to enforce this.






16. 194-point questionnaire with five-point scale to determine the degree in which tasks are performed.






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






18. The working conditions - pay - company policies - and interpersonal relationships; they help eliminate job satisfaction - but do not motivate the employee according to the two-factor theory.






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






20. Test that measure what a person can do right now.






21. Minorities in the workplace.






22. A leader who works to fulfill subordinates' needs and goals as well as to achieve the organization's larger mission; the needs of others are placed above the leader's own needs.






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






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






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






26. Job evaluation based on classification of jobs in groups of predetermined wage grades. This is what the federal government uses.






27. 1978. No discrimination based on pregnancy - childbirth - and related conditions.






28. The ability to influence people to achieve goals for the organization.






29. Hands-off approach over all decision-making without any further involvement unless asked to participate.






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






31. Method that determines the relative worth of jobs.






32. Long-term(5 years +) planning reserved for the highest levels of management.






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






34. 1932. Labor legislation that outlawed 'yellow dog' contracts and forbade federal courts from issuing injunctions to restrain strikes - boycotts - and peaceful picketing.






35. Accommodation of several cultures.






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






37. Removal of something unpleasant for desire behavior.






38. Documents that contain the main information about hazardous material.






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






40. The need for achievement - recognition - responsibility - and growth; they both eliminate job dissatisfaction and stimulate motivation.






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






42. Evaluation based on factor-by-factor of development and comparison. Comparison against key jobs within the organization.






43. Giving something unpleasant for an undesired behavior.






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






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






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






47. 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.






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






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






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







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