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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Includes hourly wages - salaries - and bonuses.






2. Teaching long-term skills.






3. Statement authorizing union to act as their representative.






4. 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.






5. Right for an employer to terminate an employee for no reason and for the employee to resign for the same.






6. Breeds mistrust in the workplace; fairly excepted practice in private industry.






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






8. Performance appraisal done by fellow employees - usually combined by the manager into a single profile for use. May be the most accurate - but not used due to popularity copntests.






9. Removal of something unpleasant for desire behavior.






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






11. The rater checks statements on a list that he believes are characteristic of the employee.






12. Improvement of job efficiency by simplifying it.






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






14. Purposeful discrimination.






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






16. An interview that places the applicant in a simulated high stress setting to interview the candidate.






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






18. The matching of people with future vacancies.






19. Selection of the minority is less than 80 percent of the time - used as a rule of thumb in determining adverse impact.






20. 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.






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






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






23. An integrated knowledge within an organization that sets it out from the competition.






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






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






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






27. 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.






28. Belief that things happen due to their own responsibility.






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






30. A pension plan in which amount of benefits are based on how much is in their account at time of retirement.






31. Theory Z people - those that have reached the self-actualization phase.






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






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






34. Harmful stress that accompanies a feeling of insecurity.






35. A group of people that rely primarily or exclusively on electronic forms of communication to work together in accomplishing goals.






36. An interview based on a set group of questions so to be compared answers across all candidates. Questions are asked based on job knowledge - job simulation - situational - and work willingness.






37. The on-the-job method of development for new employees. May be formal or informal.






38. Rating based on comparison than a standard.






39. To discipline by being effective - consistent - and applied to all equally. 1. Documentation of Misconduct 2. Investigative Interview 3. Application of Discipline






40. Helps manager translate measurement framework from strategic to operational goals.






41. 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.






42. Includes other employee benefits - such as health insurance - pension contributions - tuition reimbursement - and legal assistance programs.






43. Organization of healthcare professionals that provide services on a prepaid basis; seen as lower quality to the employee.






44. 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






45. 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.






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






47. Listening to understand without judgment.






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






49. An organization that has generated a list of recommendation for executing an effective diversity initiative.






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