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DSST Human Resource Management

Subjects : dsst, business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An integrated knowledge within an organization that sets it out from the competition.






2. Leadership dependent upon one's position within the company.






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






4. The working conditions - pay - company policies - and interpersonal relationships; they help eliminate job satisfaction - but do not motivate the employee according to the two-factor theory.






5. Pay according to the number of units produced.






6. Method that determines the relative worth of jobs.






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






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






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






10. 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).






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






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






13. Minorities in the workplace.






14. A decision based on total impartiality.






15. Groups of employees who meet to resolve problems and improve the organization.






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






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






18. Statement authorizing union to act as their representative.






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






20. 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.






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






22. A decision based on the long-term interests of an individual.






23. Measures what a person is capable of learning.






24. 1931. Required federal contracts for construction to specify minimum wage for workers.






25. Identification of future candidates for future anticipated vacancies.






26. Accommodation of several cultures.






27. Diversity as a result of acquisitions and mergers - which is a forced diversification of the workplace.






28. Withdrawal of a reward.






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






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






31. Services provided for workers to deal with problems that interfere with how they do their jobs.






32. Power based on individual expertise.






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






34. Causes loss of productivity - frustration - or depression.






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






36. Bottom level of Maslow's hierarchy. Includes shelter - food - sleep - breaks - and compensation.






37. Laws that prevent discrimination in the workplace.






38. A leader who works to fulfill subordinates' needs and goals as well as to achieve the organization's larger mission; the needs of others are placed above the leader's own needs.






39. 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.






40. Basic individual beliefs about right and wrong.






41. 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.






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






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






44. Third level of Maslow's hierarchy. Includes friendship - family - and interaction.






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






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






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






48. Listening to understand without judgment.






49. 194-point questionnaire with five-point scale to determine the degree in which tasks are performed.






50. Groups of jobs within a class that are paid the same. Used by the federal government.







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