Chapter 10 - Employee Performance Management

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A mandated issue has potential legal consequences.

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A nonfraternization policy restricts managers from socializing with nonmanagement employees.

investigative

A(n) _____ interview is an interview used to make sure that an employee is fully aware of the discipline issue and to allow the employee the opportunity to explain his or her side of the story.

absconding

An employee's act of leaving the organization without resigning and following the normal process is called _____.

Union

An organization of employees formed to bargain with an employer is called a(n) _____.

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If a progressive discipline process fails, then an employee is put on an improvement plan.

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If the employee has been corrected for a behavior pattern but continues to exhibit the same behavior, it is called a persistent pattern.

terminated from employment.

In the fifth offense stage of the progressive discipline, the employee is:

Step-review system

In which of the following systems does consecutively higher levels of management review the issue if there is a disagreement by the employee in a discipline procedure?

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Monitoring of employee postings on external websites is acceptable only when conducted under the consent of employees.

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Prescription drug abuse is included in the purview of substance abuse at work.

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The progressive discipline process is useful if the offense is serious and demands immediate discipline.

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The purpose of a union is to give collective bargaining power to a group of individuals.

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When the employee decides to leave the organization without resigning and following the normal process, he/she is said to be absconding.

Performance appraisal

Which of the following HRM processes has a direct role to play in disciplinary actions owing to noncompliance with rules and meeting performance expectations?

Perception of unfairness at the workplace

Which of the following is an internal factor influencing performance?

Worker Adjustment Retraining and Notification Act

Which of the following legal measures makes its mandatory for organizations with more than one-hundred employees to give employees and their communities at least sixty days' notice of closure or layoff affecting fifty or more full-time employees?

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With a public policy exception, an employer may not fire an employee if it would violate the individual state's doctrine or statute.

Public policy exception

_____ is an exception to employment-at-will in which an employer may not fire an employee if it would violate the individual state's doctrine or statute.

Wrongful discharge

_____ occurs when any one of the exceptions to the employment-at-will principle can be proven by the employee.