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DSST Human Resource Management

Subjects : dsst, business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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).






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






3. The number of days in the work week is shortened and the hours per day are longer.






4. 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.






5. Sexual harassment that uses rewards; potential for criminal prosecution.






6. Hands-off approach over all decision-making without any further involvement unless asked to participate.






7. Includes other employee benefits - such as health insurance - pension contributions - tuition reimbursement - and legal assistance programs.






8. Method of performance measurement based on managers' records of specific examples of the employee acting in ways that are either effective or ineffective.






9. Team formed to solve a major organizational issue.






10. Removal of something unpleasant for desire behavior.






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






12. 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.






13. Payment rates above the pay range.






14. Idea that all cultures are inherently equal.






15. Highest level of Maslow's hierarchy. Includes morality - creativity - spontaneity - problem solving - lack of prejudice - and acceptance of facts.






16. Includes hourly wages - salaries - and bonuses.






17. 1986. Used to control the hiring - recruiting - or referring of people not eligible to work in the US. Uses the form I-9.






18. Performance appraisal that recognizes team accomplishement instead of individual performance - used by companies with a strong total quality management (TQM) emphasis.






19. Discipline based on corrective measures of increasing degree. Most commonly used. 1. Oral Warning 2. Written Warning 3. Suspension without Pay 4. Discharge






20. The first level of moral development - in which people make decisions based on selfish reasons; concerned only with external rewards or punishments. A characteristic of managers with authoritarian and coercive styles.






21. Encourages teamwork and knowledge transfer among employees.






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






23. Evidence suggesting selection precludes members from protected classes.






24. Harmful stress that accompanies a feeling of insecurity.






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






26. The third level of moral development in which people make decisions based on internalized principles - beliefs - and values. A characteristic of managers that encourage to think for themselves and engage in moral reasoning.






27. Evaluating self - considering one's own strengths and weaknesses. Best used for developmental purposes.






28. 1931. Required federal contracts for construction to specify minimum wage for workers.






29. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






35. 1926. Required employers to collectively bargain with unions. In 1936 - amended to include airlines.






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






37. 1972. Extended Civil Rights Title VII to government workers.






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






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






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






41. Characterized by dictatorship that dismisses input from team members; decides the term of tasks and who will perform the work to be done.






42. An appraisal error involving groups of ratings given to employees.






43. A decision based on existing norms.






44. Listening to understand without judgment.






45. 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.






46. Guarantee of benefits - especially in pension plans.






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






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






49. 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.






50. A report companies with 100 or more employees must fill out annually to determine workforce composition.