The largest ever fine by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
was a(n) _____ penalty levied in 2009 against the oil giant BP after a 2005 explosion
killed 15 workers and injured 170 others at a BP refinery in Texas.
a. $27 million
b. $87 million
c. $147 million
d. $217 million
_____ is a bonus incentive plan which uses employee and management committees to
gain cost-reduction improvements.
a. Piecework
b. The Rucker Plan
c. The Scanlon Plan
d. Improshare
It is the arbitrator’s responsibility to ensure that each side receives a fair hearing.
a. True
b. False
Discrepancies between the knowledge, skills, and abilities of a jobholder and the
KSAOs required for the job can be remedied by:
a. training.
b. discipline.
c. cooperation.
d. corporate leadership.
Under the Family and Medical Leave Act, an employee returning to work does not
necessarily have to be restored to his or her original job or to an equivalent job.
a. True
b. False
Any effort that makes work more rewarding or satisfying by adding more meaningful
tasks to an employee’s job is called:
a. job enlargement.
b. job augmentation.
c. job enrichment.
d. job rotation.
Job evaluation is a non-systematic, qualitative process of determining the relative worth
of jobs in order to establish a comparison with the prevailing market and regional value
of a job within a job family.
a. True
b. False
The close proximity of European countries makes them:
a. likely candidates for international trade.
b. members of the European Union.
c. less competitive.
d. less likely to need to conduct business internationally.
In most instances, who is in the best position to perform the function of evaluating an
employee’s performance?
a. The HR personnel
b. The employee’s supervisor
c. The employee
d. Co-workers
In which of the following ways are labor force and its demographics expected to
change?
a. Minorities will make up a smaller share of the U.S. labor force than they did in the
past.
b. Women will make up a smaller share of the U.S. labor force than they did in the past.
c. By 2050, the labor force participation rate will be only about 59 percent.
d. The demand for temporary workers will triple by 2050.
If the performance evaluations that salespeople receive are based solely on sales
revenue to the exclusion of other important factors, the performance management
system suffers from:
a. criterion contamination.
b. lack of reliability.
c. criterion deficiency.
d. organizational politics.
The term “orientation” is often used to describe almost any effort initiated by an
organization to foster learning among its members.
a. True
b. False
One disadvantage of peer evaluations is the belief that they contain more biases and
furnish less valid information than appraisals by superiors.
a. True
b. False