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The lines of advancement for an individual within an organization are known as:
a. career paths.
b. job shadows.
c. skills inventories.
d. career plateaus.
If managers want to maintain an effective open-door policy, they must:
a. formalize the procedure and encourage employees to start at the top.
b. ensure that employees come to them only with job-related concerns.
c. emphasize that they can offer solutions only on an advisory basis.
d. encourage employees to voice their complaints and listen honestly to those concerns.
The process of transition for an employee home from an international assignment is
known as:
a. expatriation.
b. repatriation.
c. magnetic travel.
d. the Boomerang effect.
Team bonuses may be paid out equally to each team member, in proportion to their base
pay, or in proportion to their relative contribution to the team.
a. True
b. False
The most frequent organizational accommodations made to dual-career couples are:
a. flextime working schedules.
b. parental leave policies.
c. work from home policies.
d. day-care facilities.
In ____, employees are paid according to the number of units they produce.
a. hourly work
b. piecework
c. commission
d. production work
Generally, an employee stock ownership plan is more likely to serve its intended
purposes in privately heldcompanies than in publicly held ones.
a. True
b. False
EEOC guidelines are:
a. part of the federal law framework.
b. part of the state laws.
c. administrative rules published in the Federal Register.
d. only applicable to organizations that employ over 1000 people.
The choice of performance evaluation method to use depends upon the purpose of the
evaluation.
a. True
b. False
The typical sequence of progressive discipline is written warning, oral warning,
suspension, and discharge.
a. True
b. False
According to Sammer, which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a successful
incentive plan?
a. Identify important organizational metrics that encourage employee behavior.
b. Involve employees andhave incentive programsthat seem fair to employees.
c. Find technically detailed, quantitative, and extremely thorough payout formulas.
d. Establish a clear link between performance and payout.
The percentage of cash compensation paid out in commissions is called a draw.
a. True
b. False
