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DSST Human Resource Management

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1. Guarantee of benefits - especially in pension plans.






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






3. 1993. Applies to employers with fifty or more employees. Paternal and maternal leave covered under this act.






4. Involves determining the type and number of individuals needed to get the job done.






5. Cost of living that measures the average prices of products and services over time.






6. Second level of Maslow's hierarchy. Includes security of body - employment - resources - morality - family - health - and posterity.






7. A resignation suggested by the employer to the employee.






8. Giving something unpleasant for an undesired behavior.






9. Minorities in the workplace.






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






11. Job evaluation based on classification of jobs in groups of predetermined wage grades. This is what the federal government uses.






12. Systems that provide data for Human Resource control and decision making.






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






14. 1986. Used to control the hiring - recruiting - or referring of people not eligible to work in the US. Uses the form I-9.






15. Rates performance of employee achievement of goals set by manager and the employee.






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






17. The on-the-job method of development for new employees. May be formal or informal.






18. 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






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






20. Helps manager translate measurement framework from strategic to operational goals.






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






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






23. The idea that people with authority are subject to reporting to superiors.






24. An interview that may have no format at all or have open ended questions - but makes it difficult to compare candidates.






25. Measures what a person is capable of learning.






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






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






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






29. 1970. A law passed to attempt to reduce workplace injuries and illnesses. It's general area of responsibility are: 1.General Industry 2. Maritime 3. Construction 4. Agriculture






30. Includes hourly wages - salaries - and bonuses.






31. Harmful stress that accompanies a feeling of insecurity.






32. Hiring through searching and evaluating internal job postings and existing employee files.






33. Defining the characteristics that the organization feels would be a good fit for the vacancies. To recruit - an organization must conduct job analysis - provide a job description - and give job specification.






34. Employees that are not from the home or host country.






35. A pension plan in which the main source of retirement funds today - some employers will match contributions to a certain percentage.






36. Evaluating self - considering one's own strengths and weaknesses. Best used for developmental purposes.






37. 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.






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






39. A report companies with 100 or more employees must fill out annually to determine workforce composition.






40. Removal of something unpleasant for desire behavior.






41. Method of performance measurement based on managers' records of specific examples of the employee acting in ways that are either effective or ineffective.






42. 1990. Employers cannot discriminate against people with physical or mental capabilities - and must make reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities or religious preferences.






43. Threat of power in order to convince someone to engage in sexual activity.






44. Employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or modem






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






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






47. 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).






48. 1963. Amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act. No discrimination of pay - benefits - or pension based on gender.






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






50. The rater checks statements on a list that he believes are characteristic of the employee.







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