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DSST Human Resource Management

Subjects : dsst, business-skills
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1. Home country nationals that are employees who live and work in a different country than their own.






2. Official discrimination complaint to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) - filled by employee.






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






4. 1935. Referred to as the Magna Carta of Labor. Guarantees the right to form labor movements.






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






6. An appraisal temporal error in which the appraiser inflates the evaluation because of a mutual connection.






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






8. Encourages teamwork and knowledge transfer among employees.






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






10. Laws that prevent discrimination in the workplace.






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






12. Employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or modem






13. 1994. Jobs are protected for those that go on short military service.






14. Performance appraisal by an employee of their superior. Usually evaluates on leadership - oral communication - delegation of authority - coordination of team efforts - and interest in subordinates.






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






16. Minorities in the workplace.






17. The idea that people with authority are subject to reporting to superiors.






18. An extremely hard goal - but not impossible to reach.






19. The combination of various appraisal systems to give the manager and employee the best view into the performance.






20. Method that determines the relative worth of jobs.






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






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






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






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






25. A pension plan in which both employer and employee fund pensions.






26. A decision that considers humanity's fundamental rights.






27. Sexual remarks or actions not targeted at a specific individual.






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






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






30. A decision based on the principle that the behavior that causes the greatest good for the most is ethical.






31. Removal of something unpleasant for desire behavior.






32. Performance appraisal that recognizes team accomplishement instead of individual performance - used by companies with a strong total quality management (TQM) emphasis.






33. An appraisal error based on biases of how the information is selected - evaluated - or organized.






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






35. Team formed to solve a major organizational issue.






36. Union must represent union and nonunion members equally.






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






38. A neutral third party that will make the binding decision between both parties.






39. Different types of employee complaint resolution procedures.






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






41. Sexual harassment that is nonthreatening - but causes co-worker discomfort.






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






43. Quantitative approach to job analysis that assumes all parts of the job relate to data - people - and things.






44. A use of motivators to increase satisfaction.






45. 1974. Main federal legislation responsible for controlling employee benefit and retirement plans.






46. Compensation useful in advancing organizational goals.






47. Giving something unpleasant for an undesired behavior.






48. Cost of living that measures the average prices of products and services over time.






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






50. Can directly align employees with the organizational goals - with evaluation based on profits - sales - etc.







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