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DSST Human Resource Management
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1. Hiring through searching and evaluating internal job postings and existing employee files.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
job enlargement
learning organization
internal selection
2. Power derived from the degree in which one is admired and people want to emulate them.
referent power
generalized sexual harassment
Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)
ethnocentrism
3. An intent to resign from a company that is typically expressed in written communication to the employee's manager.
legitimate leadership
resignation
Age Discrimination in Employment Act
achievement test
4. 1978. No discrimination based on pregnancy - childbirth - and related conditions.
job analysis
Pregnancy Discrimination Act
strategic planning
job evaluation
5. Rates performance of employee achievement of goals set by manager and the employee.
similar to me error
management by objectives (MBO)
Equal Employment Opportunity Act
fair representation
6. A resignation in which an employee chooses to resign without provocation from the employer.
protected classes
taskforce team
unencouraged resignation
silver handshake
7. An interview that places the applicant in a simulated high stress setting to interview the candidate.
repatriation
stress interview
job description
Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures
8. Requires the rater to choose from statements that best describe the employee's output.
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
recruiting
Long-term disability (LTD) insurance
forced-choice
9. Strength of person's convictions. The higher it is - the more likely one will follow what they believe is ethical in lieu of following unethical impulses.
job enrichment
ego strength
halo effect
vesting
10. A decision based on total impartiality.
justice ethical decision
disparate treatment
criminal sexual harassment
management by objectives (MBO)
11. 1986. Used to control the hiring - recruiting - or referring of people not eligible to work in the US. Uses the form I-9.
selection
Immigration Reform and Control Act
partial reinforcement
computerized job analysis
12. A succession of linked jobs that prepares a worker for advancement to the next job in the chain.
distress
self-actualization
Executive Order 11246
career path
13. An interview that may have no format at all or have open ended questions - but makes it difficult to compare candidates.
unstructured interview
active listening
Immigration Reform and Control Act
productivity
14. Leadership dependent upon one's position within the company.
error of leniency or strictness
extinction
motivators
legitimate leadership
15. 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
McDonnell Douglas Test
job evaluation
tell and listen appraisal interview
succession planning
16. Employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or modem
Worker Adjustment and Restraining Notification (WARN)
telecommuting
human resource information system
job analysis
17. Highest level of Maslow's hierarchy. Includes morality - creativity - spontaneity - problem solving - lack of prejudice - and acceptance of facts.
Supplemental unemployment benefits (SUBS)
self-actualization
accountability
inappropriate sexual harassment
18. A resignation suggested by the employer to the employee.
aptitude tests
self-actualization
encouraged resignation
four-fifths rule
19. The act of returning to the country of origin after an international assignement.
OSHA form 300
Pregnancy Discrimination Act
repatriation
union steward
20. Removal of something unpleasant for desire behavior.
negative reinforcement
hourly pay
job evaluation
unstructured interview
21. Home country nationals that are employees who live and work in a different country than their own.
job enrichment
recency error
expatriates
functional job analysis (FJA)
22. Group of healthcare providers that guarantee lower healthcare costs to the employer; seen as a higher quality to the employee.
job simplification
expatriates
horizontal career path
Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)
23. Breeds mistrust in the workplace; fairly excepted practice in private industry.
pay secrecy
training
referent power
job classification system
24. The on-the-job method of development for new employees. May be formal or informal.
orientation
pay secrecy
training
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
25. 1935. Referred to as the Magna Carta of Labor. Guarantees the right to form labor movements.
silver handshake
Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act)
accountability
leadership
26. Hands-off approach over all decision-making without any further involvement unless asked to participate.
position analysis questionnaire (PAQ)
internal selection
laissez-faire leadership type
balanced scorecard (BSC)
27. A pension plan in which only the employer funds pensions.
punishment
learning organization
ethnorelativism
noncontributory pension plan
28. 1963. Amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act. No discrimination of pay - benefits - or pension based on gender.
problem solving appraisal interview
Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ)
Equal Pay Act
inappropriate sexual harassment
29. Union must represent union and nonunion members equally.
servant leader
fair representation
values
career path
30. Compensation useful in advancing organizational goals.
equal employment opportunity (EEO) laws
job enrichment
reward leadership
value-added compensation
31. Minorities in the workplace.
Walsh-Healy Act
human resource planning
fast tracking
protected classes
32. A problem in appraisal in which an employee is given the same grade on all dimensions based on a few attributes.
informal factors
transactional leader
halo effect
internal selection
33. An appraisal error based on biases of how the information is selected - evaluated - or organized.
position analysis questionnaire (PAQ)
value-added compensation
error of central tendency
temporal errors
34. 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
Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
error of central tendency
expatriates
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)
35. Payment rates above the pay range.
red circle rates
training
justice ethical decision
informal factors
36. Harmful stress that accompanies a feeling of insecurity.
human resource planning
distress
360-degree appraisal
computerized job analysis
37. Group specifically to provide a new product or service.
positive reinforcement
authoritarian leadership type
project team
Society for Human Resource Management
38. The knowledge - skills - and abilities required for the job.
job specifications
job simplification
OSHA form 300
error of leniency or strictness
39. An organization that is participatory in problem solving - improving - and increasing capabilities.
voluntary reduction
reductions-in-force (RIF)
learning organization
fixed-ratio reinforcement
40. Compensation system that equals American money to foreign money on terms of purchasing power.
development
leadership
Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ)
balance sheet approach
41. Rewards according to random times. Results in moderately high and stable performance.
whistleblowing
temporal errors
variable-interval reinforcement
involuntary reduction
42. 1932. Labor legislation that outlawed 'yellow dog' contracts and forbade federal courts from issuing injunctions to restrain strikes - boycotts - and peaceful picketing.
quid pro quo harassment
selection
coercive sexual harassment
Norris-La Guardia Act
43. 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.
servant leader
encouraged resignation
EEO-1 Report
quid pro quo harassment
44. Second level of Maslow's hierarchy. Includes security of body - employment - resources - morality - family - health - and posterity.
defined contribution plan
positive reinforcement
safety needs
continuous reinforcement
45. Laws that prevent discrimination in the workplace.
criminal sexual harassment
Employee assistance programs (EAP)
equal employment opportunity (EEO) laws
competence based pay
46. Rating based on comparison than a standard.
piecework pay
mixed-standard rating scale
pluralism
process improvement team
47. A code of moral principles and values that govern organizational behavior.
retirement
business ethics
silver handshake
Executive Order 11246
48. 1. Treatment that punishes 2. Orderly behavior in an organization 3. Training that corrects undesirable behavior and develops self control
transactional leader
reductions-in-force (RIF)
discipline
subordinate appraisal
49. To discipline by being effective - consistent - and applied to all equally. 1. Documentation of Misconduct 2. Investigative Interview 3. Application of Discipline
hot-stove approach
distributional errors
critical incident
affirmative action
50. Act that provides individuals and dependents who may lose medical coverage with opportunity to pay to continue coverage.
utilitarian ethical decision
culture shock
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)
vertical career path