Under the FLSA, children aged 14 and 15 may not be employed outside school hours.
High-performance work systems are characterized by high employee turnover.
Statistical models are used for forecasting labor demands because they are good at
capturing “once-in-a-lifetime” changes.
The use of employee empowerment has shifted the recruiting focus away from general
cognitive and interpersonal skills toward technical skills.
A condition underpinning any high-performance organization is that employees be fully
engaged with their work.
AlphaTech is a company that develops software to help businesses with data
processing. This software helps businesses process payrolls, generate tax information
for employees, keep track of employee leave and personal time off, and manage
performance evaluation reports. The software is hosted on a remote server maintained
by AlphaTech, and businesses can access it online. Which of the following technologies
is being used by AlphaTech to perform the computing tasks for other businesses?
A. Intranet portal
B. HR dashboard
C. Data mining
D. Cloud computing
E. Business Intelligence
Oliver works at Tate Corp., an apparel manufacturing company. He primarily focuses
on the tastes and needs of the firm’s customers. He achieves this by managing a team
that regularly interacts with customers through various promotional activities and
events. He also provides insights on how to produce eco-friendly outfits through
cost-efficient manufacturing processes. This implies that Oliver:
A. is an HR professional.
B. encourages centralized decision making.
C. is a knowledge worker.
D. encourages a narrow business focus.
E. belongs to the external labor market.
Which of the following statements is true of an assessment center?
A. It is a place where job applicants for manufacturing jobs undergo physical ability
tests.
B. It conducts a single test for all job applicants to test their technical potential.
C. It uses multiple selection methods to rate applicants on their management potential.
D. It is a selection method generally used for unskilled applicants.
E. It has the lowest validity because it combines several assessment methods.
Adrian and Ben are employees of a software development firm in San Francisco. Ben
believes that Adrian exhibits behaviors that resemble those of individuals from feminine
cultures. Which of the following, if true, would weaken Ben’s beliefs?
A. Adrian places more emphasis on a harmonious working relationship between
members in his team.
B. Adrian places more emphasis on creating an atmosphere of competition among his
team members.
C. Adrian places more emphasis on undertaking initiatives aimed at mobilizing funds
for the underprivileged.
D. Adrian places more emphasis on undertaking initiatives aimed at preventing
environmental degradation.
E. Adrian places more emphasis on achieving social mobility through collectivist
means.
_____ is a type of incentive pay in which payments are a percentage of an
organization’s profits and do not become part of its employees’ base salary.
A. Merit pay
B. Gainsharing
C. Group bonus
D. Profit sharing
E. Commission
The positive or negative bottom-line views that people have of themselves are known
as:
A. negative affectivities.
B. factor comparisons.
C. core self-evaluations.
D. fair representations.
E. behavioral models.
Under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994,
employers must reemploy workers who left jobs to fulfill military duties for up to
_____ years.
A. five
B. eight
C. six
D. seven
E. nine
Johan, a manager of a construction company, believes that a piecework plan benefits all
types of work areas. However, his colleague, George, argues that a piecework plan is
not suitable for a few complex jobs and that it might have a negative impact on the
work production. Which of the following statements, if true, strengthens George’s
argument?
A. It is easy to measure the output of managers using a piecework plan.
B. A piecework plan is not suitable for very routine, standardized jobs.
C. Complex jobs involve the coordination of many team members to complete tasks.
D. Using a piecework plan helps employee empowerment.
E. Incentive plans do not impact productivity when work involves complex jobs.
Which of the following best describes job sharing?
A. It is a work option in which two part-time employees carry out the tasks associated
with a single job.
B. It is a work option that allows full-time employees to choose start and end times
within the guidelines specified by an organization.
C. It is a work option that empowers individual workers by adding more opportunities
for specialization in their current job duties.
D. It is a work option that enlarges jobs by combining several relatively simple jobs to
form a job with a wider range of tasks.
E. It is a work option that enlarges jobs in an organization by moving employees among
several different jobs.
People experience _____ when they love their work, when they and their co-workers
care about one another, and when they find their work meaningful.
A. burnout
B. cognitive job satisfaction
C. occupational intimacy
D. diminished personal accomplishment
E. emotional dissonance
Employees should participate in pay-related decisions. This will most likely help in the
success of incentive plans, and the plans are more likely to influence employee
behavior as desired. Which of the following statements weakens this argument?
A. Employees will make decisions that are in their best interests at the expense of the
organization’s interests.
B. It is difficult to monitor an employee’s work output when decisions are made by the
employee.
C. When employees become more involved in pay decisions, they neglect the work
assigned to them.
D. Employees should be a part of the human resource department to be involved in
pay-related decisions.
E. It will have a negative impact on the top-level management of the company.
Bill and Nancy, managers at Sanzen Inc., want to the check the consistency of results
for an employee on a scale of 1 to 10. This will help them evaluate his performance. In
the context of criteria for effective performance management, Bill and Nancy are
testing the _____.
A. validity
B. test-retest reliability
C. specificity
D. interrater reliability
E. accountability
Which of the following union security provisions is unlawful under right-to-work laws?
A. Checkoff provision
B. Closed shop
C. Maintenance of membership
D. Secret-ballot elections
E. Participation in union meetings