Where an employee is subject to both the state (or city) and federal minimum wage
laws, the employee is entitled to the lower of the two minimum wages.
Job candidates who have been referred, particularly those who are family and friends of
current employees, typically receive a RJP and therefore have longer tenure if hired.
Retaliation is a special form of disparate impact.
If a company conducts background checks on applicants, they reduce the potential to be
sued for negligent hiring.
You have a high degree of turnover and theft at your company. It would be wise to
incorporate a personality test into the selection process.
Given the choice between a voluntary exit from an organization and a forced exit, from
the companys perspective, the forced exit involves less risk.
You are the manager of an employee who is scheduled to return from an expatriate
assignment. In planning for their return you should?
A) Actually, there is no need to plan for their return. The employee will be placed in
whatever position is open in the department when they return
B) Place them in a position that is one step below the position that they left in order to
become re-acclimated with the organization and department
C) Review the employees level of compensation from their last U.S. based job and plan
to place them in a job that is at that level of compensation.
D) Let the employee know that they will be placed in a temporary position when they
return, and reviewed over a 9-month period for potential permanent placement
E) Have a discussion with the employee before they return and consider jobs that will
utilize the skills they acquired while overseas
A group of jobs having the same basic nature of work but requiring different levels of
skill, effort, responsibility or working conditions are known as __________.
A) job classification
B) job family
C) job broadbanding
D) job evaluation
E) job hierarchy
The “Guide to Workplace Smoking Policies” recommends that employers should:
A) Ban smoking entirely from the workplace due to its negative consequences.
B) Not hire job applicants who smoke.
C) Create separate ventilated smoking areas.
D) Punish those employees who do not quit smoking within a six-month period.
E) Offer incentives to employees who try to quit smoking.
As part of its selection process, Techno industries requires that each applicant be
interviewed by the department manager, direct supervisor, and human resource director,
all at the same time. This type of interview format is known as __________.
A) panel interview
B) serialized interview
C) structured interview
D) behavioral interview
E) semi-structured interview
Leniency refers to:
A) The tendency to rate employees towards the center of the scale regardless of actual
performance.
B) The extent to which raters agree on an evaluation.
C) The degree to which the performance of ratees can be differentiated on each
performance dimension.
D) The tendency to rate employees at the high end of the scale regardless of actual
performance.
E) The tendency to allow a rating on one dimension to influence ratings of other
dimensions for an employee.
The Equal Pay Act (EPA) of 1963 sets minimum wage, overtime pay requirements, and
rules governing child labor.
The rating method for _____ is to have the rater record specific observations of the
ratees performance and then compare those observations to anchors on the rating scale
to determine the most valid rating.
A) Straight ranking
B) BARS
C) paired comparison
D) forced distribution
E) MBO
Each of the following is an administrative collective bargaining issue EXCEPT:
A) seniority.
B) employee discipline and discharge procedures.
C) work rules.
D) union security.
E) job security.
Which of the following challenge for successful workforce measurement and
management” asks whether managers have the access, capability, and motivation to use
measurement data to communicate strategy and monitor progress?
A) Metrics
B) Perspective
C) Execution
D) Validation
E) Quality workforce
The individual incentive plan in which the worker is paid solely per unit of production
is known as __________.
A) differential rate plan
B) straight piecework plan
C) standard hourly rate plan
D) Halsey plan
E) Rucker plan
Which of the following statements regarding unions is FALSE?
A) Unions tend to not get involved in productivity improvement programs.
B) Union membership has dropped substantially in the 1980s.
C) Union influence is much greater outside of the U.S., particularly in Europe.
D) Unions put constraints on many HR decisions such as compensation, promotion,
demotion, and termination.
E) Employees believe that unions can actually improve conditions and, in particular,
can have an impact at their own workplace.
When a union sympathizer seeks and gains employment at a non-unionized company
with the intent of laying the ground work for a union certification election, this is
known as _____.
A) election arbitration
B) mediation
C) a yellow dog agreement
D) an impasse resolution
E) Salting
“Right-to-work” laws declare that:
A) management cannot interfere with or restrain workers in their right to organize.
B) union security agreements which require membership as a condition of employment
are illegal.
C) unions can not discriminate against workers who do not participate in strikes.
D) employers may not interfere with employee representation and collective bargaining
rights.
E) employers can interfere with employee representation.
Letters of recommendation are:
A) Used for selection in the public sector, however, it is illegal to ask for letters of
recommendation in the private sector
B) Most useful to an organization as a selection tool, when they are written by the
reference without any direction from the company with regard to tasks related to the job
in question
C) Very helpful in the selection process because they provide information that is not
related to the job, and that would otherwise not have been known.
D) Useful predictors of performance on the job because they provide details about the
applicants personal life that can not be asked on an application
E) Most useful to the company when there is some guidance provided to the reference
related to the specific skills required for the job
You have a business in south Florida. The minimum wage under the FLSA is
$7.50/hour. Florida has set its minimum wage at $8.00/hour. You are required to pay
your secretary:
A) Base pay of $7.50 plus benefits
B) Market rate regardless of if it is lower than either minimum standard
C) Base pay of $8.00/hour and minimum of $7.50/hour in medical benefits
D) Premium pay of $7.50/hour
E) Base pay of $8.00/hour
What is the purpose of OSHA?
What do critical incidents describe?
Describe how technology impacts HR services, including communication, access to
information, and measurement of HR activities.
Discuss three methods for collecting job analysis information. Be sure to discuss some
advantages and disadvantages to using each method.
What does the self-report personality inventory consist?
What can be done to maximize transfer of training back to ones job?
Describe the six steps necessary for an organization to develop a “workforce scorecard.”