The four-fifths rule indicates that a selection rate (number selected/number considered)
for a protected group cannot be greater than four-fifths or 80 percent of the selection
rate for the group with the highest selection rate.
A company can establish a voluntary affirmative action program to hire and promote
qualified minorities even if there is no history within the company of past
discrimination.
The internal focus of career refers to the actual series of job positions held by the
individual, while the external focus refers to the way an individual views his or her
career.
Performance appraisals should be focused on the past and managers should not waste
time in discussion of the employees career aspirations.
The UNCTAD index is based on a composite of two ratios: foreign assets to total assets
and foreign sales to total sales.
The public policy exception, which is a common exception to employment-at-will,
covers four categories. Refusing to commit illegal or unethical acts is one of them.
An employee uses potentially hazardous chemicals in the course of doing their work.
As a result, the employee occasionally contracts a minor rash. In this situation,
according to OSHA the employer must
A) transfer the employee to a job without the harmful chemical.
B) inform the employee of the hazards associated with the job.
C) require the employee to secure a doctors permission to continue on the job
D) provide that employee to take special protection clothing.
E) fire the employee and pre-screen all candidates with a medical examination.
Your company has jobs that are highly interrelated and strategic in focus. You want to
provide a pay for performance incentive with relatively long measures of performance.
The best option would be to design a:
A) Merit pay plan
B) Commission pay plan
C) Profit Sharing plan
D) Piece rate plan
E) Behavioral modification plan
Simply requiring all employees to attend training can be a waste of time and money. In
an
effort to better identify individual training needs, one should conduct a(n):
A) Job analysis
B) Organizational analysis
C) Person analysis
D) Work-oriented analysis
E) Task-oriented analysis
The __________ view maintains that unionization reduces worker quit rates, thereby
leading to retention of experienced workers, lowering a firms training costs, and raising
its productivity.
A) collective voice
B) ecological
C) human resource
D) monopoly
E) enlightened
Podcasts are an effective method of training because:
A) It allows for trainees to learn new motor skills
B) Trainees are more engaged in the training
C) It allows for two-way communication
D) Whole learning is most effective
E) Use of computers is in decline
The __________ program provides for medical expenses and pay in cases where the
illness or injury is work related.
A) employee welfare
B) social security
C) workers compensation insurance
D) unemployment compensation insurance
E) employee services
In their research, Huselid, Becker and Beatty found that traditional financial
performance measures such as return on equity, and ROI are ________ and can be
predicted by the way a company conducts its HR practices which are ___________.
A) Opportunities, strengths
B) Lagging indicators, leading indicators
C) Qualitative, subjective
D) Measures of marginal productivity, lagging indicators
E) Leading indicators, lagging indicators
When training for international assignments, __________ are recommended to provide
a more in-depth view of the host countrys customs, values, and behaviors.
A) informational approaches
B) use of CITs
C) field experiences
D) cultural assimilators
E) TV films
In 2004, the Supreme Court ruled that race could be a factor in university admissions,
but cannot be an overriding factor in admission decisions. The two cases from which
the court drew these conclusions were:
A) Smith v. Jackson and Watson v. Fort Worth Bank & Trust.
B) Vinson v. Meritor and Harris v. Forklift.
C) Harris v. Forklift and Gratz v. Bollinger.
D) Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger.
E) Grutter v. Bollinger and Vinson v. Meritor.
When an employee cuts a finger after removing the safety guard from his equipment to
be able to cut faster, this is an example of an?
A) Unsafe working environment
B) Unrecognized hazard
C) Unsafe act
D) Observable bias
E) Unsafe work assignment
Which of the following statements about MBO is FALSE?
A) It compares quantifiable target goals with actual results achieved by an employee.
B) It has been shown to be useful for defining individual or unit performance related to
strategic plans.
C) It is recommended as a method for comparing people or units.
D) It is a popular method of managerial appraisal.
E) It may be effective approach to motivating and improving employee performance.
__________ is now a very common workers compensation claim in jobs involving
essentially the same movements over and over again.
A) Rorschach Survey Interest
B) Research Survey Interest
C) Repetitive Stretch Injury
D) Repetitive Strain Injury
E) Research Safety Institute
__________ requires that a hearing be held within 10 days after an appeal is made.
A) Grievance mediation
B) Mediation
C) Miniarbitration
D) Written grievance
E) Impasse resolution
The major domains of HRM are:
A) selection, training, performance management, and compensation.
B) human resources planning, job and work analysis, organizational restructuring, job
design, team building, computerization, and worker-machine interfaces.
C) organizational design, staffing, performance management and appraisal, employee
training and organizational development, and reward systems, benefits, ad compliance.
D) HR design, planning, downsizing, and restructuring.
E) recruitment, employee orientation, selection, promotion, and termination.
Employee rights under OSHA include all of the following EXCEPT:
A) Filing safety or health grievances.
B) Complaining to an employer, union, OSHA, or any other government agency about
job safety and health hazards.
C) Provide medical examinations when required by OSHA standards.
D) Participating on a workplace safety and health committee or in union activities
concerning job safety and health.
E) Participating in OSHA inspections, conferences, hearings, or other OSHA-related
activities.
The concept of __________ provides that employees have a duty to protect confidential
information.
A) implied contract
B) covenant of nondisclosure
C) The Fair Ethics Act
D) whistleblowing
E) public policy
Which of the following is true about the point-factor plan?
A) Point-factor plans rank jobs in an organization purely based on a comparison of one
against another.
B) The point-factor approach does not break jobs down into component parts and
assigns point values for various characteristics.
C) Point-factor plans are inexpensive to design.
D) Point-factor plans tend to have a high level of integrity.
E) Difficult for organization to trace, analyze, and document differences among jobs.