MGT 201 UTK Ch 12 Review
Generally the first part of the application process, this is used to gather written information about an applicant's background and qualifications for the job.
Application form
Your company's human resource manager is out of the office on maternity leave, and you have four open positions to fill in your department. Which of the following tests should you choose if you want to collect basic biographical information at the beginning of the selection process?
An application form
Implemented to right past wrongs, this policy reduces or eliminates inequalities in the workplace for minorities and members of protected classes.
Affirmative action
Interview Question: Do you have a mental illness? (Legal or illegal.)
Illegal
Interview Question: How will you care for your children while you are working? (Legal or illegal.)
Illegal
This is a document that contains information about the duties, responsibilities, and outcomes associated with a specific job.
Job description
Interview Question: This job requires that you be able to lift 50-lb boxes of books on a regular basis throughout the day. Would you be able to do that? (Legal or illegal.)
Legal
What kind of interview should you recommend to Goliath Industries if they want to uncover the candidate's hidden attitudes and characteristics?
Nondirective interview
Managers who want to keep their employee training costs as low as possible should use
On-the-job training
With this method, an employee learns while completing his or her normal assignments, typically by watching someone with more experience.
On-the-job training
A manager who assumes that younger employees don't have the attention span of older employees is making this type of error.
Stereotyping
This law requires that men and women be paid the same amount of money for doing the same kinds of work.
Equal Pay Act
Interview Question: Have you ever been convicted of a crime? (Legal or illegal.)
Legal
Passed in 2010, this law requires that firms with 50 or more employees provide health care insurance for their workers or pay a fine if the government must subsidize health care coverage.
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
This form of compensation rewards employees for achieving specific work outcomes.
Pay-for-performance
This is the process of attracting people to the organization for the purpose of determining who is the best fit for open jobs.
Recruiting
This law, passed in 1973, prohibits discrimination on the basis of physical or mental disabilities.
Vocational Rehabilitation Act
This selection tool has applicants demonstrate how they would do a part. of the job for which they are applying
Work sample test