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DSST Human Resource Management
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1. A communication of strong and weak points of the employee's performance - and then in which the employee responds with his feelings about the appraisal.
job rotation
workforce diversity
variable-ratio reinforcement
tell and listen appraisal interview
2. An situation in which an employer makes work life so difficult for the employee that they have no choice but to resign.
managing workforce diversity
esteem needs
constructive discharge
authoritarian leadership type
3. A group of 6-12 that meet regularly to discuss organizational issues.
internal selection
job evaluation
quality circle
pay for performance standard
4. The rater checks statements on a list that he believes are characteristic of the employee.
fixed-ratio reinforcement
strategic planning
external locus
behavior checklist
5. A resignation suggested by the employer to the employee.
encouraged resignation
red circle rates
cross-functional team
Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)
6. Developed in response to a majority dominating the workforce.
affirmative action
accountability
peer appraisal
social needs
7. Advancing to the next level in the minimum time required in the current position.
mixed-standard rating scale
unstructured interview
distress
fast tracking
8. Belief that things happen due to their own responsibility.
expatriates
internal locus
red circle rates
whistleblowing
9. 1914. No forbidding the existence of a union.
leadership
error of leniency or strictness
Clayton Act
recency error
10. Seeking to minimize ethnocentrism and moving toward pluralism and ethnorelativism.
career plateauing
criminal sexual harassment
Clayton Act
managing workforce diversity
11. Systems that provide data for Human Resource control and decision making.
Davis-Bacon Act
Walsh-Healy Act
trait performance appraisal method
human resource information system
12. 1986. Used to control the hiring - recruiting - or referring of people not eligible to work in the US. Uses the form I-9.
succession planning
Hay profile method
Immigration Reform and Control Act
host country nationals
13. An appraisal distributional error where the appraiser gives their employees unusually high or low marks.
error of leniency or strictness
functional job analysis (FJA)
McDonnell Douglas Test
core competencies
14. A decision based on total impartiality.
job simplification
coercive leadership
justice ethical decision
wage curve
15. 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.
defined contribution plan
wage curve
host country nationals
Equal Pay Act
16. Idea that all cultures are inherently equal.
ethnorelativism
fast tracking
positive reinforcement
productivity
17. Giving something unpleasant for an undesired behavior.
ethnocentrism
resignation
internal selection
punishment
18. A leader who motivates people to transcend their personal interests for the good of the group; characterized by the ability to bring innovation.
subordinate appraisal
customer appraisal
transformational leader
Immigration Reform and Control Act
19. Basic individual beliefs about right and wrong.
justice ethical decision
Clayton Act
temporal errors
values
20. 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
Equal Pay Act
Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
vesting
value-added compensation
21. An appraisal temporal error when the employee is compared to someone previously rated and not independently.
contrast error
burnout
transactional leader
taskforce team
22. Rewards according to a specific time interval. Results in average and irregular performance.
culture shock
job rotation
fixed-interval reinforcement
horizontal career path
23. 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.
pay secrecy
recruiting
protected classes
job ranking system
24. Rates performance of employee achievement of goals set by manager and the employee.
Davis-Bacon Act
esteem needs
host country nationals
management by objectives (MBO)
25. A code of moral principles and values that govern organizational behavior.
individualistic ethical decision
business ethics
manager/supervisor appraisal
Taft-Hartley Act (Labor Management Relations Act)
26. An intent to resign from a company that is typically expressed in written communication to the employee's manager.
burnout
Immigration Reform and Control Act
hostile environment
resignation
27. The knowledge - skills - and abilities required for the job.
Long-term disability (LTD) insurance
job specifications
job simplification
functional job analysis (FJA)
28. Home country nationals that are employees who live and work in a different country than their own.
self-actualization
continuous reinforcement
expatriates
flextime
29. Group specifically to provide a new product or service.
pay grades
human resource information system
project team
partial reinforcement
30. Belief that one culture is superior to another.
ethnocentrism
job rotation
unencouraged resignation
piecework pay
31. Sexual harassment that is nonthreatening - but causes co-worker discomfort.
inappropriate sexual harassment
defined contribution plan
flextime
voluntary reduction
32. Rewards after a specific number of desired behaviors. Results in high or stable performance.
contrast effect
fixed-ratio reinforcement
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
four-fifths rule
33. Voluntary or involuntary reductions in labor.
reductions-in-force (RIF)
ethnorelativism
Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)
involuntary reduction
34. The act of returning to the country of origin after an international assignement.
charismatic leader
repatriation
Equal Pay Act
error of central tendency
35. A pay attached to acquiring new knowledge or skills.
Supplemental unemployment benefits (SUBS)
skill-based pay
positive reinforcement
360-degree appraisal
36. Laws that prevent discrimination in the workplace.
voluntary protection program (VPP)
Society for Human Resource Management
voluntary reduction
equal employment opportunity (EEO) laws
37. Evidence suggesting selection precludes members from protected classes.
extinction
self-directed team
restricted policy
criminal sexual harassment
38. Sexual remarks or actions not targeted at a specific individual.
conventional moral development
aptitude tests
strategic diversity management
generalized sexual harassment
39. Federal agencies and government contractors must comply with anti discrimination practices. Created the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) to enforce this.
employment-at-will
retirement
absenteeism
Executive Order 11246
40. A problem in appraisal in which an employee is given the same grade on all dimensions based on a few attributes.
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
hostile environment
telecommuting
halo effect
41. 1932. Labor legislation that outlawed 'yellow dog' contracts and forbade federal courts from issuing injunctions to restrain strikes - boycotts - and peaceful picketing.
safety needs
horizontal career path
Norris-La Guardia Act
computerized job analysis
42. 1967. No discrimination based on ages of people over 40. No pressure for older to retire; no terminating only older employees when downsizing;
red circle rates
customer appraisal
Age Discrimination in Employment Act
job rotation
43. An appraisal error based on biases of how the information is selected - evaluated - or organized.
wage curve
temporal errors
self-directed team
job ranking system
44. Test that measure what a person can do right now.
achievement test
internal locus
mixed-standard rating scale
variable-ratio reinforcement
45. The process of screening - interviewing - and hiring individuals.
eustress
selection
punishment
horizontal career path
46. Includes other employee benefits - such as health insurance - pension contributions - tuition reimbursement - and legal assistance programs.
behavior checklist
transactional leader
peer appraisal
non-cash compensation
47. Third level of Maslow's hierarchy. Includes friendship - family - and interaction.
social needs
Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)
transactional leader
point system
48. Characterized by dictatorship that dismisses input from team members; decides the term of tasks and who will perform the work to be done.
transformational leader
mixed-standard rating scale
authoritarian leadership type
360-degree appraisal
49. A form in which accidents that cause death - illness - or injury in the workplace are recorded.
OSHA form 300
red circle rates
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
transactional leader
50. Fourth level of Maslow's hierarchy. Includes self-esteem - confidence - achievement - respect of and by others.
Worker Adjustment and Restraining Notification (WARN)
cafeteria plans
recency error
esteem needs
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