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DSST Human Resource Management

Subjects : dsst, business-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Reporting criminal activity to the government.






2. Reward given for desired behavior.






3. 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.






4. Voluntary or involuntary reductions in labor.






5. 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.






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






7. Leadership based on the control that management has over rewarding subordinates.






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






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






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






11. 1936. Responsible for prevailing minimum wage in a locality. Regular working hours identified as 8 per day and 40 per week; and time and a half for additional; no employment for convicts and children.






12. Test that measure what a person can do right now.






13. Federal agencies and government contractors must comply with anti discrimination practices. Created the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) to enforce this.






14. A medical insurance plan that the employer contributes to meet the needs of the individual's medical needs.






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






16. An appraisal distributional error where the appraiser gives their employees unusually high or low marks.






17. Discipline focused on early correcion of employee misconduct. 1. Conference between employee and supervisor. 2. Second conference when solution did not work 3. Decision-making leave (paid leave)






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






19. Belief that one culture is superior to another.






20. 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






21. 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.






22. Group of healthcare providers that guarantee lower healthcare costs to the employer; seen as a higher quality to the employee.






23. Quantitative approach to job analysis that assumes all parts of the job relate to data - people - and things.






24. 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.






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






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






27. 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.






28. An appraisal temporal error when the employee is compared to someone previously rated and not independently.






29. Leadership dependent upon one's position within the company.






30. Union must represent union and nonunion members equally.






31. 1926. Required employers to collectively bargain with unions. In 1936 - amended to include airlines.






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






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






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






35. 1974. Main federal legislation responsible for controlling employee benefit and retirement plans.






36. Performance appraisal that seeks evaluation from internal and external customers.






37. Means that people employed in an organization represent different cultural groups and human qualities.






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






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






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






41. A succession of linked jobs that prepares a worker for advancement to the next job in the chain.






42. 1938. Provided basic pay structure for workers. Those that have to be paid are non-exempt and must be paid at least the minimum wage. Those who hold executive or managerial positions are exempt.






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






44. Group assigned with improving quality.






45. Groups of employees who meet to resolve problems and improve the organization.






46. Includes hourly wages - salaries - and bonuses.






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






48. A resignation in which an employee chooses to resign without provocation from the employer.






49. The knowledge - skills - and abilities required for the job.






50. Compensation tied to a reward for effort and performance.






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