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DSST Human Resource Management
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1. A problem in evaluation due to being compared to someone previously evaluated.
self-directed team
orientation
affirmative action
contrast effect
2. A problem in appraisal in which an employee is given the same grade on all dimensions based on a few attributes.
distress
position analysis questionnaire (PAQ)
halo effect
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
3. The need for achievement - recognition - responsibility - and growth; they both eliminate job dissatisfaction and stimulate motivation.
coercive leadership
motivators
career plateauing
partial reinforcement
4. Evidence suggesting selection precludes members from protected classes.
orientation
restricted policy
structured interview
distributional errors
5. A medical insurance plan that the employer contributes to meet the needs of the individual's medical needs.
Medical savings account (MSA)
learning organization
Immigration Reform and Control Act
values
6. 1967. No discrimination based on ages of people over 40. No pressure for older to retire; no terminating only older employees when downsizing;
Age Discrimination in Employment Act
job description
whistleblowing
salary pay
7. A step beyond tell and sell; stimulation of growth of the employee by discussing problems - needs - innovations - satisfactions - and dissatisfactions since last appraisal.
Taft-Hartley Act (Labor Management Relations Act)
aptitude tests
problem solving appraisal interview
values
8. Minorities in the workplace.
human resource planning
protected classes
pay secrecy
restricted policy
9. Group assigned with improving quality.
similar to me error
adverse impact
job specifications
process improvement team
10. Bottom level of Maslow's hierarchy. Includes shelter - food - sleep - breaks - and compensation.
physiological needs
similar to me error
EEO-1 Report
authoritarian leadership type
11. 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.
negative reinforcement
conventional moral development
tell and listen appraisal interview
individualistic ethical decision
12. 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.
internal selection
fast tracking
essay
adverse impact
13. Law that affects employers with one hundred or more employees and requires the employer to give advance notice of at least sixty days when a plant closing or mass layoff is planned.
Worker Adjustment and Restraining Notification (WARN)
consumer price index (CPI)
authorization card
job classification system
14. RIF that include some type of severance pay and extension of benefits for a predetermined period of time.
cash compensation
ethnorelativism
employment-at-will
voluntary reduction
15. Rating based on having certain characteristics.
hourly pay
graphic rating scale
extinction
authoritarian leadership type
16. 1978. No discrimination based on pregnancy - childbirth - and related conditions.
Pregnancy Discrimination Act
development assignments
job ranking system
problem solving appraisal interview
17. An intent to resign from a company that is typically expressed in written communication to the employee's manager.
resignation
variable-interval reinforcement
OSHA form 300
aptitude tests
18. Developed in response to a majority dominating the workforce.
results performance appraisal method
adverse impact
affirmative action
generalized sexual harassment
19. Method of performance measurement based on managers' records of specific examples of the employee acting in ways that are either effective or ineffective.
critical incident method
diversity awareness training
Worker Adjustment and Restraining Notification (WARN)
skill-based pay
20. The rater checks statements on a list that he believes are characteristic of the employee.
behavior checklist
fixed-ratio reinforcement
hot-stove approach
quid pro quo harassment
21. 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.
hygiene factors
forced-choice
host country nationals
social contract ethical decision
22. Groups of employees who meet to resolve problems and improve the organization.
employee involvement (EI) groups
ethnocentrism
coercive sexual harassment
disparate treatment
23. An situation in which an employer makes work life so difficult for the employee that they have no choice but to resign.
Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA)
job simplification
Pregnancy Discrimination Act
constructive discharge
24. Employees that are not from the home or host country.
distress
third-country nationals
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
job analysis
25. Collapses traditional salary grades into a few wide bands and helps eliminate obsession with grades and gives management an enhanced ability to reward on performance.
punishment
pay for performance standard
behavior observation scales (BOS)
broadbanding
26. A succession of linked jobs that prepares a worker for advancement to the next job in the chain.
voluntary protection program (VPP)
results performance appraisal method
job enrichment
career path
27. The combination of various appraisal systems to give the manager and employee the best view into the performance.
generalized sexual harassment
protected classes
360-degree appraisal
compressed workweek
28. A career path that is hiearchical in nature and consists of interdependent sequential jobs.
job analysis
job enrichment
job description
vertical career path
29. A neutral third party that will make the binding decision between both parties.
arbitrator
pluralism
democratic leadership type
Medical savings account (MSA)
30. The ability to influence people to achieve goals for the organization.
Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)
Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ)
leadership
pay equity
31. Theory Z people - those that have reached the self-actualization phase.
trancenders
virtual team
repatriation
productivity
32. Causes loss of productivity - frustration - or depression.
burnout
unstructured interview
career plateauing
Immigration Reform and Control Act
33. A group with mix of specialists that are assigned rather than voluntary membership.
consumer price index (CPI)
conventional moral development
cross-functional team
achievement test
34. A decision that considers humanity's fundamental rights.
stress interview
expert power
moral rights ethical decision
punishment
35. Encourages teamwork and knowledge transfer among employees.
computerized job analysis
cafeteria plans
pluralism
development assignments
36. Voluntary or involuntary reductions in labor.
reductions-in-force (RIF)
achievement test
productivity
informal factors
37. A pension plan in which the employer contributes percentage of employer pay to an account that earns interest. When the employee leaves - the amount is rolled up into an individual retirement account (IRA).
cash balance pension plan
succession planning
essay
physiological needs
38. A pension plan in which both employer and employee fund pensions.
Medical savings account (MSA)
adverse impact
contributory pension plan
OSHA form 300
39. 1972. Extended Civil Rights Title VII to government workers.
job simplification
Equal Employment Opportunity Act
employment-at-will
orientation
40. Pay based on skills and increased job knowledge. Also called skilled based or knowledge based pay.
absenteeism
four-fifths rule
competence based pay
reward leadership
41. Reward given for desired behavior.
temporal errors
positive reinforcement
job description
self-appraisal
42. A method of moving the employee to different jobs for variety - designed to prevent boredom of repetitive tasks.
coercive leadership
distributional errors
job rotation
wage curve
43. Threat of power in order to convince someone to engage in sexual activity.
behavior checklist
flextime
transactional leader
coercive sexual harassment
44. A personal disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life.
fast tracking
culture shock
stretch goal
retirement
45. 1914. No forbidding the existence of a union.
hot-stove approach
moral rights ethical decision
orientation
Clayton Act
46. Rewards after a specific number of desired behaviors. Results in high or stable performance.
job rotation
culture shock
fixed-ratio reinforcement
skill-based pay
47. Power based on individual expertise.
extinction
stretch goal
fair representation
expert power
48. Employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or modem
distress
job analysis
telecommuting
informal factors
49. 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.
burnout
horizontal career path
taskforce team
stretch goal
50. Reporting criminal activity to the government.
whistleblowing
cross-functional team
piecework pay
development
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