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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. Teaching long-term skills.






2. How an employee perceives his compensation relative to others within the organization.






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






4. Team formed to solve a major organizational issue.






5. Teaching short-term skills. May be 'on-the-job' or 'off-the-job'.






6. An appraisal distributional error where the rater is reluctant to give high or low marks.






7. A leader who motivates people to transcend their personal interests for the good of the group; characterized by the ability to bring innovation.






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






9. An organization that is participatory in problem solving - improving - and increasing capabilities.






10. 1990. Employers cannot discriminate against people with physical or mental capabilities - and must make reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities or religious preferences.






11. Leadership based on the control that management has over rewarding subordinates.






12. 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.






13. Compensation useful in advancing organizational goals.






14. 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.






15. Belief that things happen due to luck or chance.






16. Evidence suggesting selection precludes members from protected classes.






17. Idea that all cultures are inherently equal.






18. 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.






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






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






21. A use of motivators to increase satisfaction.






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






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






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






25. An integrated knowledge within an organization that sets it out from the competition.






26. A problem in appraisal in which an employee is given the same grade on all dimensions based on a few attributes.






27. Various software programs that write job description and specifications based on job analysis.






28. RIF that is composed of lay-offs - either across the board or through company reorganization that result in fewer available positions.






29. 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.






30. Documents that contain the main information about hazardous material.






31. Developed in response to a majority dominating the workforce.






32. 1967. No discrimination based on ages of people over 40. No pressure for older to retire; no terminating only older employees when downsizing;






33. Consists of vertical scales for each dimension of employee's performance.






34. 1931. Required federal contracts for construction to specify minimum wage for workers.






35. Training designed to make people recognize and address their own prejudices.






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






37. The survey of the wages paid to employees with similar skill sets in a labor market. The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a reliable one.






38. 1993. Applies to employers with fifty or more employees. Paternal and maternal leave covered under this act.






39. Method that determines the relative worth of jobs.






40. Removal of something unpleasant for desire behavior.






41. The third level of moral development in which people make decisions based on internalized principles - beliefs - and values. A characteristic of managers that encourage to think for themselves and engage in moral reasoning.






42. 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.






43. 1914. No forbidding the existence of a union.






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






45. A written description of the basic tasks - duties - minimum required experience - and responsibilities required of an employee holding a particular job.






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






47. The process of screening - interviewing - and hiring individuals.






48. 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.






49. Home country nationals that are employees who live and work in a different country than their own.






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