Chapter 1-5 practice questions

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Age Discrimination in Employment Act made it illegal to discriminate again the age

40 or older

Which international strategy involves not aligning w a particular country but across countries

Global strategy

Which of the following is NOT part of organizational demands

Labor force trends

Who are the individuals responsible for supervising and directing a group of employees to perform tasks

Line manager

Strategy jobs are narrowly focused and empathize standardized and repetitive actions , behaviors are fairly well understood, individuals hired w basic skills

Low cost strategy

A set of underlying values & beliefs employees share that is unwritten yet understand

Organizational culture

Which employee team is cross functional group that addresses problem or issue

Parallel team

In job analysis techniques this customized approach focuses on collecting into to identify tasks needed to be performed on a job

Task inventory

One issue w the ADA law an employer w limited financial resources would not be required to spend large sums of money for accommodations

Undue hardship

Which types of employee team is well defined, stable, full time members

Work teams

In labor force trends the fastest growing ethnic group are

Asians and Hispanics

Tools a company uses to manage employees are

HR practices

A company's ability to create more economic advantage then its competitors is

Competitive advantage

In job analysis techniques, this customized approach focuses on specific descriptions of work activities that distinguish good from bad performance

Critical incidents

Strategy jobs are geared toward creativity or customer service, pay is on individual potential

Differentiation strategy

Treating ppl differently bc of characteristics that have nothing to do w their ability to perform

Discrimination

When an employer unintentionally discriminated against a member of protected class

Disparate impact

When an employer intentionally discriminated bc of a characteristic that defines the protected class

Disparate treatment

Which justice deals with fairness in what individuals receive for their efforts, compensation for time and effort

Distributive justice

Which international strategy involves serving markets within a particular country

Domestic strategy

Which of the following are not environmental influences

Employee concerns

This gives employers the right to terminate employees at any time

Employment at will

When practices work in concert with one another as well as w external challenges companies face

External alignment

Which practices within each HR activity are consistent with each other there is

Internal alignment

Which act addresses employment discrimination on the basis of color , race , religon

Title VLL of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Which international strategy involves shared vision and tailoring products to meet local county needs

Transnational strategy

Blurs country boundaries in business activities and encourages off shoring

Globalization

Is the extent to which individuals need to learn and be challenged

Growth need strength

Support function that designs and implements company policies for managing employees

HR department

Which of the following is not one of the benefits, health , and wellness required by law

Health care

Systematically identifying tasks, duties , responsibilities expected to be performed in a job as well as the competencies employees must possess to be successful

Job analysis

Are written summaries of specific tasks

Job description

Is determining job tasks and responsibilities employees are expected to perform

Job design

In job analysis techniques this customized approach focuses on analyzing employee competencies rather than on tasks to be performed

Job element

In the efficiency approach, this removed decision making authority from employees and placed it with a supervisor

Job simplification

In the efficiency approach, this focused on the breaking jobs down into core elements

Job specialization

Are competencies required by a job holder to be able to perform the job successfully

Job specifications

Ensuring employees have the necessary knowledge, skills, abilities and other talents to achieve work objectives falls under which of the following categories

Managing employee competencies

Which international strategy involves establishing autonomous business units in multiple counties

Multinational strategy

Both the EEOC and OFCCP are responsible for developing guidelines and overseeing compliance w anti discrimination laws, which one deals w executive order

OFCCP

Which Justice is achieved when the determination that the process used to make decisions of dispute is fair

Procedural justice

Perceived obligation employees believe they owe their company & company owes them

Psychological contract

Submission to sexual conduct is made explicitly or implicitly a condition of employment

Quid pro Quo

Which employee team involves members working collaboratively to make decisions, hire, plan , schedule work, and accomplish goals

Self managed teams

In job analysis techniques which approach uses a single instrument to collect data

Standardized approach

A plan for achieving a competitive advantage that influences how employees add value, impact types of jobs employees perform, and affects attitudes and behaviors employees display Is

Strategy


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