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Adding more meaningful tasks to an employee's job in an effort to make it more
rewarding is an example of job enrichment.
a. True
b. False
A term applied to the goals of U.S. labor organizations, which collectively bargain for
improvements in wages, hours, job security, and working conditions is known as:
a. political goal-setting.
b. business unionism.
c. tactical unionism.
d. collective entrepreneurship.
Studies have shown that employees who earn performance-based pay are more
satisfied.
a. True
b. False
Retirees often return to their old employers because:
a. they cannot afford their retirement lifestyle.
b. the Age Discrimination Act has eliminated mandatory retirement ages.
c. the employers request them to comeback.
d. they have knowledge of their employers' needs despite the negative effect on their
work groups.
The group of employees which has skills that are quite valuable to a company in
creating customer value but not particularly unique or difficult to replace is referred to
as:
a. core employees.
b. strategic knowledge workers.
c. supporting workers.
d. partners.
Employment discrimination began in the nineteenth century with the Civil Rights Act
of 1866.
a. True
b. False
Women now account for slightly more than half of the American workforce.
a. True
b. False
Giving applicants a clerical aptitude test and then tracking their performance six months
later is an example of:
a. predictive validity.
b. concurrent validity.
c. content validity.
d. correlational validity.
Which of the following questions should one consider when investigating an employee
offense?
a. Does one have at least three sources of facts?
b. Is there evidence that the offense hurt the organization?
c. Is there both direct and indirect evidence of guilt?
d. Was the employee warned of the consequence at least two times?
