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DSST Human Resource Management
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Statement authorizing union to act as their representative.
Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
authorization card
business ethics
hygiene factors
2. A flexible benefit plan for the employee - letting them choose the benefits best suited to their personal needs and situation.
arbitrator
characteristics model
justice ethical decision
cafeteria plans
3. A problem in evaluation due to being compared to someone previously evaluated.
virtual team
Clayton Act
contrast effect
justice ethical decision
4. 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.
Worker Adjustment and Restraining Notification (WARN)
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)
positive reinforcement
Society for Human Resource Management
5. Advancing to the next level in the minimum time required in the current position.
critical incident
learning organization
fast tracking
horizontal career path
6. 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.
recruiting
error of leniency or strictness
Executive Order 11246
employee involvement (EI) groups
7. Flexible working hours that allow workers to choose start and end times.
flextime
Executive Order 11246
contributory pension plan
justice ethical decision
8. 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.
Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act)
noncontributory pension plan
structured interview
active listening
9. The process of screening - interviewing - and hiring individuals.
self-actualization
selection
job rotation
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
10. Separation that is typically planned well in advanced - and are well received - celebratory occasions.
restricted policy
business ethics
retirement
burnout
11. Selection of the minority is less than 80 percent of the time - used as a rule of thumb in determining adverse impact.
ethnorelativism
temporal errors
four-fifths rule
expatriates
12. Rating based on having certain characteristics.
recruiting
self-actualization
postconventional moral development
graphic rating scale
13. Various software programs that write job description and specifications based on job analysis.
union steward
computerized job analysis
vertical career path
human resource information system
14. 1978. No discrimination based on pregnancy - childbirth - and related conditions.
labor agreement
compressed workweek
Pregnancy Discrimination Act
skill-based pay
15. Involves determining the type and number of individuals needed to get the job done.
critical incident method
aptitude tests
job analysis
inappropriate sexual harassment
16. A use of motivators to increase satisfaction.
whistleblowing
job enrichment
social contract ethical decision
core competencies
17. Belief that things happen due to luck or chance.
external locus
Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act)
internal selection
expert power
18. Home country nationals that are employees who live and work in a different country than their own.
aptitude tests
leadership
expatriates
charge form
19. Highest level of Maslow's hierarchy. Includes morality - creativity - spontaneity - problem solving - lack of prejudice - and acceptance of facts.
moral rights ethical decision
self-actualization
Worker Adjustment and Restraining Notification (WARN)
involuntary reduction
20. 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.
host country nationals
competence based pay
virtual team
Executive Order 11246
21. Identification of future candidates for future anticipated vacancies.
referent power
learning organization
succession planning
job classification system
22. An appraisal distributional error where the appraiser gives their employees unusually high or low marks.
error of leniency or strictness
halo effect
behavioral performance appraisal method
customer appraisal
23. 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.
coercive sexual harassment
job ranking system
transactional leader
development assignments
24. A form in which accidents that cause death - illness - or injury in the workplace are recorded.
OSHA form 300
career plateauing
Taft-Hartley Act (Labor Management Relations Act)
internal locus
25. A group of 6-12 that meet regularly to discuss organizational issues.
balance sheet approach
informal factors
quality circle
process improvement team
26. The idea that people with authority are subject to reporting to superiors.
accountability
authoritarian leadership type
pay grades
reductions-in-force (RIF)
27. 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.
charismatic leader
project team
reward leadership
noncontributory pension plan
28. 1. Treatment that punishes 2. Orderly behavior in an organization 3. Training that corrects undesirable behavior and develops self control
recency error
external locus
solicitation sexual harassment
discipline
29. An appraisal temporal error in which the appraiser inflates the evaluation because of a mutual connection.
core competencies
subordinate appraisal
vesting
similar to me error
30. Power based on individual expertise.
expert power
development
learning organization
expatriates
31. Measures what a person is capable of learning.
disparate treatment
self-directed team
aptitude tests
Immigration Reform and Control Act
32. 1914. No forbidding the existence of a union.
inappropriate sexual harassment
Clayton Act
Worker Adjustment and Restraining Notification (WARN)
ego strength
33. How an employee perceives his compensation relative to others within the organization.
career path
retirement
pay equity
disparate treatment
34. Includes hourly wages - salaries - and bonuses.
self-directed team
job enrichment
essay
cash compensation
35. A resignation in which an employee chooses to resign without provocation from the employer.
behavioral performance appraisal method
unencouraged resignation
strategic diversity management
job sharing
36. A pension plan in which amount of benefits are based on how much is in their account at time of retirement.
achievement test
recency error
defined contribution plan
OSHA form 300
37. 1963. Amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act. No discrimination of pay - benefits - or pension based on gender.
behavioral performance appraisal method
error of leniency or strictness
Hay profile method
Equal Pay Act
38. Performance appraisal by an employee of their superior. Usually evaluates on leadership - oral communication - delegation of authority - coordination of team efforts - and interest in subordinates.
individualistic ethical decision
subordinate appraisal
accountability
productivity
39. Removal of something unpleasant for desire behavior.
legitimate leadership
career plateauing
manager/supervisor appraisal
negative reinforcement
40. A pension plan in which the amount is specific.
hostile environment
internal selection
defined benefit plan
temporal errors
41. Fourth level of Maslow's hierarchy. Includes self-esteem - confidence - achievement - respect of and by others.
repatriation
flextime
unencouraged resignation
esteem needs
42. An appraisal error involving groups of ratings given to employees.
locus control
distributional errors
voluntary reduction
recruiting
43. Binding document with terms or conditions or rules.
labor agreement
distress
servant leader
ethnorelativism
44. The rater checks statements on a list that he believes are characteristic of the employee.
behavior checklist
Medical savings account (MSA)
selection
moral rights ethical decision
45. Giving something unpleasant for an undesired behavior.
hygiene factors
transactional leader
punishment
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
46. 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.
computerized job analysis
separations
alternative resolution procedure (ARD)
essay
47. 1931. Required federal contracts for construction to specify minimum wage for workers.
resignation
alternative resolution procedure (ARD)
separations
Davis-Bacon Act
48. An situation in which an employer makes work life so difficult for the employee that they have no choice but to resign.
self-directed team
constructive discharge
McDonnell Douglas Test
democratic leadership type
49. Performance appraisal that seeks evaluation from internal and external customers.
customer appraisal
tell and sell appraisal interview
Equal Pay Act
preconventional moral development
50. 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.
balanced scorecard (BSC)
Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA)
defined benefit plan
balance sheet approach