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DSST Human Resource Management
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1. 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.
protected classes
Worker Adjustment and Restraining Notification (WARN)
cash compensation
pay grades
2. Reward given for desired behavior.
internal locus
internal selection
orientation
positive reinforcement
3. Highest level of sexual harassment and would result in a punishable act under the law.
skill-based pay
criminal sexual harassment
non-cash compensation
hot-stove approach
4. An appraisal temporal error when the evaluation is based upon the employee's most recent behavior.
esteem needs
behaviorally anchored rating scale (BARS)
recency error
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
5. Diversity as a result of acquisitions and mergers - which is a forced diversification of the workplace.
Norris-La Guardia Act
cash compensation
external locus
strategic diversity management
6. Test that measure what a person can do right now.
achievement test
active listening
extinction
servant leader
7. Long-term(5 years +) planning reserved for the highest levels of management.
strategic planning
vertical career path
servant leader
subordinate appraisal
8. 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.
Hay profile method
Equal Employment Opportunity Act
value-added compensation
hygiene factors
9. The knowledge - skills - and abilities required for the job.
core competencies
legitimate leadership
job specifications
development assignments
10. Flexible working hours that allow workers to choose start and end times.
solicitation sexual harassment
orientation
flextime
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
11. A group with mix of specialists that are assigned rather than voluntary membership.
non-cash compensation
Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)
cross-functional team
results performance appraisal method
12. RIF that include some type of severance pay and extension of benefits for a predetermined period of time.
coercive sexual harassment
social contract ethical decision
voluntary reduction
distress
13. Can directly align employees with the organizational goals - with evaluation based on profits - sales - etc.
charismatic leader
productivity
distress
Worker Adjustment and Restraining Notification (WARN)
14. A problem in evaluation due to being compared to someone previously evaluated.
behavior checklist
development
Medical savings account (MSA)
contrast effect
15. Minorities in the workplace.
contributory pension plan
motivators
employee involvement (EI) groups
protected classes
16. Method that determines the relative worth of jobs.
progressive discipline
behavior checklist
skill-based pay
job evaluation
17. Includes other employee benefits - such as health insurance - pension contributions - tuition reimbursement - and legal assistance programs.
discipline
adverse impact
non-cash compensation
unstructured interview
18. Helps manager translate measurement framework from strategic to operational goals.
distress
balanced scorecard (BSC)
factor comparison system
negative reinforcement
19. The ability to influence people to achieve goals for the organization.
Society for Human Resource Management
variable-interval reinforcement
leadership
job analysis
20. 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.
union steward
fixed-ratio reinforcement
self-directed team
preconventional moral development
21. Requires the rater to choose from statements that best describe the employee's output.
social needs
forced-choice
competence based pay
retirement
22. Statement authorizing union to act as their representative.
graphic rating scale
moral rights ethical decision
virtual team
authorization card
23. Giving something unpleasant for an undesired behavior.
behavior checklist
Davis-Bacon Act
self-directed team
punishment
24. 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.
distributional errors
critical incident method
host country nationals
self-directed team
25. 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.
pluralism
conventional moral development
authorization card
charismatic leader
26. 1993. Applies to employers with fifty or more employees. Paternal and maternal leave covered under this act.
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
360-degree appraisal
legitimate leadership
Hay profile method
27. Advancing to the next level in the minimum time required in the current position.
Taft-Hartley Act (Labor Management Relations Act)
orientation
process improvement team
fast tracking
28. Official discrimination complaint to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) - filled by employee.
inappropriate sexual harassment
value-added compensation
host country nationals
charge form
29. The oldest and simplest job evaluation that is based on grouping the jobs based on their relative worth to one another; can only be used on a small number of jobs.
project team
managing workforce diversity
graphic rating scale
job ranking system
30. 1931. Required federal contracts for construction to specify minimum wage for workers.
criminal sexual harassment
postconventional moral development
Davis-Bacon Act
external locus
31. Seeking to minimize ethnocentrism and moving toward pluralism and ethnorelativism.
selection
managing workforce diversity
self-appraisal
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
32. Accommodation of several cultures.
social contract ethical decision
job analysis
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
pluralism
33. Involves determining the type and number of individuals needed to get the job done.
cash balance pension plan
arbitrator
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)
job analysis
34. Developed in response to a majority dominating the workforce.
human resource planning
affirmative action
business ethics
resignation
35. An employer-created fund for laid off employees to draw from on top of unemployment benefits.
positive discipline
process improvement team
Hay profile method
Supplemental unemployment benefits (SUBS)
36. Compensation tied to a reward for effort and performance.
authorization card
Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ)
individualistic ethical decision
pay for performance standard
37. Understanding the duties of the job.
ethnorelativism
Long-term disability (LTD) insurance
error of central tendency
job analysis
38. Unpaid union official that represents the employees when dealing with management.
factor comparison system
union steward
quality circle
contrast error
39. 1974. Main federal legislation responsible for controlling employee benefit and retirement plans.
job analysis
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
host country nationals
cash balance pension plan
40. Separation that is typically planned well in advanced - and are well received - celebratory occasions.
hostile environment
retirement
variable-interval reinforcement
critical incident method
41. Groups of employees who meet to resolve problems and improve the organization.
hostile environment
employee involvement (EI) groups
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)
position analysis questionnaire (PAQ)
42. A flexible benefit plan for the employee - letting them choose the benefits best suited to their personal needs and situation.
burnout
job enrichment
development
cafeteria plans
43. Rewards after a specific number of desired behaviors. Results in high or stable performance.
fixed-ratio reinforcement
noncontributory pension plan
Immigration Reform and Control Act
defined contribution plan
44. 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).
job sharing
forced-choice
cash balance pension plan
defined benefit plan
45. 1936. Responsible for prevailing minimum wage in a locality. Regular working hours identified as 8 per day and 40 per week; and time and a half for additional; no employment for convicts and children.
labor agreement
Walsh-Healy Act
Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA)
non-cash compensation
46. Group specifically to provide a new product or service.
structured interview
project team
voluntary reduction
hot-stove approach
47. A process to make the job more complex to improve the level of boredom of an oversimplified job.
referent power
job enlargement
workforce diversity
behavior checklist
48. A career path that is hiearchical in nature and consists of interdependent sequential jobs.
vertical career path
essay
Society for Human Resource Management
point system
49. An intent to resign from a company that is typically expressed in written communication to the employee's manager.
job specifications
critical incident method
characteristics model
resignation
50. Purposeful discrimination.
Medical savings account (MSA)
piecework pay
reward leadership
disparate treatment