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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. Sexual harassment that uses rewards; potential for criminal prosecution.






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






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






4. The matching of people with future vacancies.






5. Act that provides individuals and dependents who may lose medical coverage with opportunity to pay to continue coverage.






6. 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






7. A use of motivators to increase satisfaction.






8. A career path that is not sequentially interdependent but each of the jobs in the arrangement must be completed before one can advance to the next higher level.






9. Consists of vertical scales for each dimension of employee's performance.






10. 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)






11. Group of healthcare providers that guarantee lower healthcare costs to the employer; seen as a higher quality to the employee.






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






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






14. An employer-created fund for laid off employees to draw from on top of unemployment benefits.






15. The knowledge - skills - and abilities required for the job.






16. Withdrawal of a reward.






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






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






19. Basic individual beliefs about right and wrong.






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






21. 1926. Required employers to collectively bargain with unions. In 1936 - amended to include airlines.






22. Pay according to the number of units produced.






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






24. 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.






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






26. 1986. Used to control the hiring - recruiting - or referring of people not eligible to work in the US. Uses the form I-9.






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






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






29. Improvement of job efficiency by simplifying it.






30. 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.






31. Measures the frequency of observed behavior.






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






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






34. Harassment based on employment decisions; an economic or position consequence for noncompliance.






35. 1. Treatment that punishes 2. Orderly behavior in an organization 3. Training that corrects undesirable behavior and develops self control






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






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






38. Characterized by an open-line communication between workers and management; values team-input - and facilitates group cooperation without being overly active within the group.






39. A decision based on existing norms.






40. Discipline based on corrective measures of increasing degree. Most commonly used. 1. Oral Warning 2. Written Warning 3. Suspension without Pay 4. Discharge






41. 1967. No discrimination based on ages of people over 40. No pressure for older to retire; no terminating only older employees when downsizing;






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






43. Reporting criminal activity to the government.






44. Teaching long-term skills.






45. 1932. Labor legislation that outlawed 'yellow dog' contracts and forbade federal courts from issuing injunctions to restrain strikes - boycotts - and peaceful picketing.






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






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






48. Not reporting to work.






49. A resignation in which an employee chooses to resign without provocation from the employer.






50. Idea that all cultures are inherently equal.






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