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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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1. 1964 - amended in 1972 - 1991 - and 1994. Broadest and most significant law affecting employment opportunity rights.






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






3. Evaluation based on factor-by-factor of development and comparison. Comparison against key jobs within the organization.






4. Voluntary or involuntary reductions in labor.






5. Flexible working hours that allow workers to choose start and end times.






6. A leader that has an ability to motivate employees to go beyond expectations; less predictable than transactional and embrace new ideas. Charismatic leaders are visionaries; they try to get others to see a better future and their participation in it.






7. Laws that prevent discrimination in the workplace.






8. Characterized by dictatorship that dismisses input from team members; decides the term of tasks and who will perform the work to be done.






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






10. Highest level of Maslow's hierarchy. Includes morality - creativity - spontaneity - problem solving - lack of prejudice - and acceptance of facts.






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






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






13. A pay attached to acquiring new knowledge or skills.






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






15. Pay by the hour.






16. The first level of moral development - in which people make decisions based on selfish reasons; concerned only with external rewards or punishments. A characteristic of managers with authoritarian and coercive styles.






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






18. The number of days in the work week is shortened and the hours per day are longer.






19. The degree in which an individual believes they have control of their fate.






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






21. Belief that one culture is superior to another.






22. A decision based on existing norms.






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






24. Improvement of job efficiency by simplifying it.






25. Leadership based on the control that management has over punishing subordinates.






26. Rejection of a higher percentage of protected classes for employment; unintentional discrimination.






27. Guarantee of benefits - especially in pension plans.






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






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






30. RIF that include some type of severance pay and extension of benefits for a predetermined period of time.






31. Positive stress that makes some strive to accomplish something.






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






33. 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.






34. An uncomfortable environment that interferes with job performance.






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






36. A time when the individual stops advancing before reaching the next highest level. It is not necessarily a failed effort because not everyone is promoted to the top position and many common career paths are not designed to lead to the top.






37. 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






38. 1972. Extended Civil Rights Title VII to government workers.






39. Insurance that pays for nursing homes and medical-related costs to old age and illness.






40. Rewards according to a specific time interval. Results in average and irregular performance.






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






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






43. Compensation useful in advancing organizational goals.






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






45. When twelve months have been worked at an employer with health insurance - a worker can transfer to another employer with no regard to preexisting conditions.






46. 1963. Amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act. No discrimination of pay - benefits - or pension based on gender.






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






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






49. Measures what a person is capable of learning.






50. Minorities in the workplace.