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DSST Human Resource Management

Subjects : dsst, business-skills
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1. The different conditions upon which someone leaves a company; may be voluntary or involuntary.






2. 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).






3. Pay according to the number of units produced.






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






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






6. A problem in evaluation due to being compared to someone previously evaluated.






7. A pension plan in which amount of benefits are based on how much is in their account at time of retirement.






8. 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.






9. Right for an employer to terminate an employee for no reason and for the employee to resign for the same.






10. A pension plan in which the amount is specific.






11. Compensation useful in advancing organizational goals.






12. A pension plan in which only the employer funds pensions.






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






14. Voluntary or involuntary reductions in labor.






15. Identifies the actions that should or should not be seen on the job - used mainly for developmental feedback..






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






17. 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.






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






19. A pension plan in which both employer and employee fund pensions.






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






21. Pay is the same each pay period regardless of hours worked.






22. Belief that things happen due to their own responsibility.






23. An interview based on a set group of questions so to be compared answers across all candidates. Questions are asked based on job knowledge - job simulation - situational - and work willingness.






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






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.






26. A process to make the job more complex to improve the level of boredom of an oversimplified job.






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






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






29. Highly trained workers that are a group that perform interdependent tasks.






30. Breeds mistrust in the workplace; fairly excepted practice in private industry.






31. A code of moral principles and values that govern organizational behavior.






32. 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.






33. Evaluation based on factor-by-factor of development and comparison. Comparison against key jobs within the organization.






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






35. A decision based on the principle that the behavior that causes the greatest good for the most is ethical.






36. When twelve months have been worked at an employer with health insurance - a worker can transfer to another employer with no regard to preexisting conditions.






37. 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.






38. Act that provides individuals and dependents who may lose medical coverage with opportunity to pay to continue coverage.






39. 1974. Main federal legislation responsible for controlling employee benefit and retirement plans.






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






41. Test used by courts to assess merits of prima facie case of disparate treatment when lacking evidence - requires plaintiff to show he: 1. belongs to protected group -2. has applied and is qualified - 3. was rejected despite qualifications - and 4. th






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






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






44. Can directly align employees with the organizational goals - with evaluation based on profits - sales - etc.






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






46. 1986. Used to control the hiring - recruiting - or referring of people not eligible to work in the US. Uses the form I-9.






47. A method of moving the employee to different jobs for variety - designed to prevent boredom of repetitive tasks.






48. Performance appraisal done by fellow employees - usually combined by the manager into a single profile for use. May be the most accurate - but not used due to popularity copntests.






49. When some of the desired behavior is reinforced. Can be classified into four groups: fixed-interval - fixed-ratio - variable-interval - and variable-ratio.






50. 1994. Jobs are protected for those that go on short military service.