Final HRM
Which of the following is an accurate definition of agency shop?
A union security provision that does not require a membership but requires that dues be paid
Which of the following is an accurate definition of a union shop?
A union security provision that requires a person to join the union within a certain amount of time after being hired
Which of the following is likely to be part of a craft union?
An electrical worker
_____ refers to the extent to which an expatriate receives information and recognizes changes while abroad.
Communication
Which of the following is true about private group insurance?
Concern for employee security explains the prevalence of employer-sponsored insurance plans.
The _____ requires employers to permit employees to extend their health insurance coverage at group rates for up to 36 months following a qualifying event, such as a layoff.
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)
Which of the following is an advantage for employers who implement flexible benefits plans?
Control over the size of the contribution
_____ increases are provided as part of Social Security benefits for each year that the consumer price index increases.
Cost-of-living
_____ are payments that offset the differences in expenditures on day-to-day necessities between a host country and a parent country.
Cost-of-living allowances
Which of the following is part of an active wellness program?
Counselors providing tailored programs
_____ plans do not promise a specific benefit level for employees upon retirement.
Defined contribution
Which of the following is an example of an employer unfair labor practice?
Donna, a supervisor, pretends to spy on union meetings.
Which of the following is true of the different methods used for benefits communication?
Effective use of traditional approaches, like booklets, can have a large effect on employee awareness.
Which of the following increased the fiduciary responsibilities of pension plan trustees and established vesting rights and portability provisions?
Employee Retirement Income Security Act
Which of the following is true of unionization?
Employers actively resist unionization in an attempt to control costs and maintain their flexibility.
Which of the following is a characteristic of preferred provider organizations (PPOs)?
Employers may give incentives for employees to choose a participating physician.
Which of the following is true of nonunion employers?
For nonunion employers, union avoidance is an important employee relations objective.
Which of the following statements is true about flexible spending accounts?
Funds must be used by the plan's year end or they revert to the employer.
The _____ involves an international framework of rules and principles for reducing trade barriers across countries around the world.
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Which of the following is a reason for the growth of benefits as a method of employee compensation?
Groups of employees can typically receive a cost advantage over individuals.
Which of the following was an amendment to the Social Security Act of 1935?
Hospital insurance
Which of the following is true of cultures that are highly individualist?
In highly individualist cultures, individuals are expected to stand on their own two feet and protect themselves.
Which of the following is a trend seen in union membership and coverage?
In the United States, union membership and coverage is declining in the private sector.
Which of the following is a third country of Grazia?
India
Which of the following HR practices is least likely to be effective for organizations based in collective cultures such as Japan?
Individual-based incentives
_____ usually exhibit greater differences between the highest- and lowest-paid individuals in an organization.
Individualistic cultures
Which of the following is a union unfair labor practice?
Insisting on the inclusion of illegal provisions in a contract
Which of the following statements is true about the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)?
It does not guarantee health care benefits.
Which of the following is true of an active wellness program?
It includes the outreach and follow-up model.
Which of the following is true about Social Security as a benefits program?
It is entirely free from federal tax.
Which of the following is true of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)?
It is more likely to cause employers to classify workers as independent contractors than employees.
which of the following is true of the Taft-Hartley Act?
It outlaws union operations that threaten an employee's life and job
Which of the following is the parent country of Grazia S.p.A?
Italy
Which of the following is true of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)?
Its jurisdiction is limited to employers whose operations affect commerce generally.
Which of the following acts was an addition to the Taft-Hartley Act that further regulated unions' actions and their internal affairs like financial disclosure and conduct of elections?
Landrum-Griffin Act
Which of the following benefits involves the highest of costs?
Medical and other insurance
Which of the following individuals is eligible for unemployment benefits?
Mel lost her job due to outsourcing.
Which of the following is true about the European Economic Community (EEC)?
Most members of the EEC share a common currency.
Which of the following is the largest union and is not affiliated to the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)?
National Education Association
Which of the following sought to provide an environment conducive to collective bargaining?
National Labor Relations Act
Which of the following is an example of a union unfair labor practice?
Oliver, a union head, forces an employer to stop doing business with another employer who refused to recognize the union.
Which of the following is true of union actions across industries and states?
One reason for the smaller union presence in southern states is the existence of right-to-work laws.
Which of the following is a unique aspect of benefits?
Organizations so typically offer them that they have become institutionalized.
Which of the following is a characteristic of a health maintenance organization (HMO)?
Payment of physicians on a flat salary basis
Which type of retiree benefits plan is excluded from the Financial Accounting Statement 106 rule that states benefits should not be provided on a pay-as-you-go basis?
Pension
_____ guarantees payment to employees of a basic retirement benefit in the event that financial difficulties force a company to terminate or reduce employee pension benefits.
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
The _____ requires defined contribution plans holding publicly traded securities to provide employees with at least three investment options other than employer securities.
Pension Protection Act of 2006
Which of the following is likely to be valued most in a masculine culture?
Performance
Which of the following cultural dimensions describes the degree of inequality among people that is considered normal?
Power distance
_____ plans permit employees to defer compensation on a pretax basis.
Section 401(k)
Which of the following is likely to be valued most in a feminine culture?
Solidarity
According to the model developed by Katz and Kochan, at which level does the management make basic choices such as whether to work with its unions or to devote its efforts to developing nonunion operations?
Strategic level
Which of the following is true of labor relations in the public sector?
Strikes are illegal at the federal level of the public sector and in most states
Which of the following is true of the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB's) process regarding unfair labor practices?
The NLRB has the authority to issue cease-and-desist orders to halt unfair labor practices.
Which of the following affects the amount of income that will be available to an employee upon retirement in defined contribution plans?
The age at which investments are made
Which of the following is true of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)?
The beneficiaries of employees who still have their health insurance have access to the same services.
Which of the following is true of local unions?
The bulk of day-to-day interaction between labor and management takes place at the local union level.
Which of the following is the strongest union security arrangement?
The closed shop
Which of the following is true of the cost to the employer for workers' compensation?
The compensation mostly covers minor injuries such as sprains and strains than dramatic injuries.
Which of the following is a trend seen in union membership and coverage?
The weak history of deep class-based divisions in the U.S. has contributed to its low unionization rate.
_____ are employees born in a country where neither a company's headquarters nor a facility is located but work in the host country.
Third-country nationals
Which of the following is a major objective of the unemployment insurance program?
To provide an incentive for employees to stabilize employment
Which of the following is an example of a Pareto group?
Twenty percent of the employees, who account for 75 percent of the health care costs
which of the following is a reason for an industrial relations system to adopt collective bargaining?
Unilateral control by management often sacrifices workers' rights
The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) is also known as the _____.
Wagner Act
The duty of fair representation is mandated by the _____.
Wagner Act
In the context of benefits, which of the following is true of the demographics of a workforce?
Women of childbearing age care more about disability leave.
which of the following is an accurate definition of a union shop?
a union security provision that requires a person to join the union within a certain amount of time after being hired
Financial Accounting Statement 106 requires that any benefits provided after retirement be paid on a(n) _____ basis.
accrual
At the highest level of child care provision, firms provide employees with:
child care at or near their worksites.
Resolving disputes between the management and labor through discussion is known as _____.
collective bargaining
According to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), in early retirement incentive programs, _____.
employees should not be coerced to accept an incentive and retire
The workers' compensation cost to an employer is based on the
employer's experience rating
The unemployment insurance program is financed largely through federal and state taxes on _____.
employers
A(n) _____ typically reports on the reasons for the labor-management dispute and the views and arguments of both sides.
fact finder
Section 8(a)(3) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) prohibits employers from:
firing employees for union organizing.
Benefit plans that permit employees to choose the types and amounts of benefits they want are called _____.
flex-plans
Workers are eligible for unemployment benefits if they:
have worked for at least one year.
France is a _____ country for Grazia S.p.A.
host
Gaia Inc. is a company based in the U.S. It expands its operations and sets up a manufacturing facility in Brazil. In this scenario, Brazil is the _____ country of Gaia.
host
Workers' compensation laws cover job-related _____.
injuries and death
The major advantage of a flexible spending account is that
it increases employees' take-home pay.
U.S. companies tend to relocate their low-skill-high-wage manufacturing and assembly jobs to Mexico because it has a _____.
low level of human capital
The _____ tax rate is the percentage of additional earnings that goes to taxes.
marginal
A third country is where a company _____.
may or may not have a facility
Group insurance rates are typically lower than individual rates because:
of economies of scale
The management of an organization is less able to afford a strike when the:
organization is labor intensive.
In which of the following ways may staffing practices change in response to benefit cost controls?
organizations having their employees classified as contractors rather than employees.
The _____ dimension refers to the skills that enable a manager to maintain psychological well-being.
self
Unions focus on equal pay for equal work. To ensure this, they prefer any difference in pay or promotions to be based on _____.
seniority
Survey information on competitors' benefit packages and information on benefit costs are available from _____.
the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
In the context of Hofstede's cultural dimensions, the masculinity-femininity dimension describes:
the division of roles between the sexes within a society.
According to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA),
the terms of health insurance should not be a subterfuge to deny benefits to those with disabilities.
An individual who was born in France and is currently working in Peru for a company headquartered in Germany is called a _____.
third-country national
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 requires employers to
treat pregnancy as they would any other disability if they do offer disability plans.
Countries like Mexico with low human capital are likely to attract:
unionized low-skill-high-wage jobs.
In cafeteria-style plans, adverse selection can be controlled by
using a limited set of packaged options.
According to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the rights of employees to a pension upon retirement are known as _____.
vesting rights
When an employee chooses to communicate one's concern to management without necessarily leaving the company, he is following the _____ mechanism.
voice
In the 1978 Manhart ruling, the Supreme Court declared it illegal for employers to require
women to contribute more than men to a defined benefit plan.