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DSST Human Resource Management

Subjects : dsst, business-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Not reporting to work.






2. A behavioral method that notes an unusual event that identifies superior or inferior performance by the employee.






3. A flexible benefit plan for the employee - letting them choose the benefits best suited to their personal needs and situation.






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






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






6. An appraisal temporal error when the evaluation is based upon the employee's most recent behavior.






7. Pay according to the number of units produced.






8. Rewards after a specific number of desired behaviors. Results in high or stable performance.






9. Fourth level of Maslow's hierarchy. Includes self-esteem - confidence - achievement - respect of and by others.






10. Pay based on skills and increased job knowledge. Also called skilled based or knowledge based pay.






11. A resignation suggested by the employer to the employee.






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






13. Guarantee of benefits - especially in pension plans.






14. Home country nationals that are employees who live and work in a different country than their own.






15. Traditional approach to appraisal - a review by management one level higher.






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






17. Belief that things happen due to luck or chance.






18. Evaluating self - considering one's own strengths and weaknesses. Best used for developmental purposes.






19. Measures what a person is capable of learning.






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






21. A form in which accidents that cause death - illness - or injury in the workplace are recorded.






22. Method that determines the relative worth of jobs.






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






24. Highly trained workers that are a group that perform interdependent tasks.






25. When every desired behavior is reinforced; effective when the behavior is new.






26. 1963. Amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act. No discrimination of pay - benefits - or pension based on gender.






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






28. An situation in which an employer makes work life so difficult for the employee that they have no choice but to resign.






29. 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.






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






31. Rating based on comparison than a standard.






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






33. A personal disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life.






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






35. Measures the frequency of observed behavior.






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






37. Encourages teamwork and knowledge transfer among employees.






38. An appraisal temporal error when the employee is compared to someone previously rated and not independently.






39. Laws that prevent discrimination in the workplace.






40. Teaching long-term skills.






41. Giving something unpleasant for an undesired behavior.






42. 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.






43. 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)






44. 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.






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






46. 1935. Referred to as the Magna Carta of Labor. Guarantees the right to form labor movements.






47. Includes hourly wages - salaries - and bonuses.






48. Team formed to solve a major organizational issue.






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






50. A method that evaluates based on: 1. Knowledge 2. Accountability 3. Mental Activity (KAMA)







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