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DSST Human Resource Management

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1. A program that encourages employers to go beyond the minimum requirements outlined by OSHA. It includes three: 1. Star 2. Merit 3. Demonstration






2. The curve in the scattergram that identifies the worth of jobs and wages.






3. Fourth level of Maslow's hierarchy. Includes self-esteem - confidence - achievement - respect of and by others.






4. Statement authorizing union to act as their representative.






5. Rating based on having certain characteristics.






6. A personal disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life.






7. 1993. Applies to employers with fifty or more employees. Paternal and maternal leave covered under this act.






8. A career path that is hiearchical in nature and consists of interdependent sequential jobs.






9. 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.






10. 1932. Labor legislation that outlawed 'yellow dog' contracts and forbade federal courts from issuing injunctions to restrain strikes - boycotts - and peaceful picketing.






11. 1994. Jobs are protected for those that go on short military service.






12. An early retirement incentive in a form of a cash bonus or increased pension.






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






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






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






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






17. 1926. Required employers to collectively bargain with unions. In 1936 - amended to include airlines.






18. Purposeful discrimination.






19. Includes the social environment of the workplace and informal work groups.






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






21. 1935. Referred to as the Magna Carta of Labor. Guarantees the right to form labor movements.






22. 1931. Required federal contracts for construction to specify minimum wage for workers.






23. Highest level of sexual harassment and would result in a punishable act under the law.






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






25. RIF that include some type of severance pay and extension of benefits for a predetermined period of time.






26. Compensation useful in advancing organizational goals.






27. Laws that prevent discrimination in the workplace.






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






29. 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.






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






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






32. The ability to influence people to achieve goals for the organization.






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






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






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






36. A behavioral method that notes an unusual event that identifies superior or inferior performance by the employee.






37. Rating based on comparison than a standard.






38. Characterized by an open-line communication between workers and management; values team-input - and facilitates group cooperation without being overly active within the group.






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






40. An uncomfortable environment that interferes with job performance.






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






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






43. Reward given for desired behavior.






44. 1972. Extended Civil Rights Title VII to government workers.






45. Positive stress that makes some strive to accomplish something.






46. Evidence suggesting selection precludes members from protected classes.






47. 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.






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






49. A group of 6-12 that meet regularly to discuss organizational issues.






50. An employer-created fund for laid off employees to draw from on top of unemployment benefits.







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