Final HR 333
Which of the following is NOT an advantage of an older workforce?
Adaptability
Which of the following statements is NOT true about the Family and Medical Leave Act?
All of the above statements are true.
Which of the following guidelines is suggested for implementing a drug-testing program?
Assume employees are drug-free until proven otherwise.
Which of the following is a guideline for effectively communicating human resource programs?
Avoid communicating in peer group or "privileged-class" language.
Which of the following is a poor implementation procedure for job posting and bidding?
Avoiding specifying standards for selection in the notice.
The _____ rule is a limit used to determine whether or not there are serious discrepancies in hiring decisions and other employment practices affecting women or minorities.
4/5ths
For employers with 20 or more employees, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act was amended and now prohibits discrimination in employment against individuals who are
40 years of age or older.
Which of the following is a benefit the organization receives when employees engage in career self-management?
More highly skilled and flexible employees and the retention of these employees.
Which of the following is a disadvantage in increasing organizational diversity?
More time is required to deal with interest groups
Which of the following is true about self-directed work teams?
Most companies that use such teams usually incorporate some type of group incentive pay based on the performance of the respective work teams.
Which of the following is a disadvantage generally associated with an external source of recruitment?
New employees may need a longer adjustment or orientation period.
Which of the following is a requirement resulting from the Internal Revenue's Code Section 125 and/or the Deficit Reduction Act (DEFRA) of 1984?
No carryover of individual balances is allowed if the selected benefits are not fully used.
In the _____ method of job evaluation, job subfactors are used to describe compensable factors in more detail.
None of the answers above is correct.
Which of the following statements is true about career development versus career planning?
None of the answers above is true.
Which of the following is true about pay grades and ranges?
One approach for establishing pay grades and ranges is to have a relatively large number of grades with identical rates of pay for all jobs within each grade.
Which of the following rewards is often provided but not related to performance?
Paid leave
Which of the following major HR functions would include forecasting HR requirements of the organization?
Planning, recruitment, and selection
Which of the following is true about group life insurance?
Presently, employers can provide a maximum of $50,000 worth of life insurance for an employee without the cost of the policy being considered as income to the individual.
Which of the following possibilities exists for an organization's management team that wants to rehabilitate plateaued employees?
Provide alternative methods of recognition.
Thomas had been consistently meeting all his deadlines and performance standards over the past year, except for the last six weeks, when he was struggling with health issues. Thomas's manager turned in a poor performance appraisal based on his performance over the last month. Which of the following errors in performance appraisals does this case reflect?
Recency
Which of the following is a valid bona fide occupational qualification exception?
Refusing to hire a woman as an airline pilot based on her age. Refusing to hire a man as a nursing home attendant because the job would require that he bathe elderly female clients.
The medical school of the University of California developed a special admissions program to increase the participation of minority students. Allan Bakke, a white male, was denied admission to the medical school in 1973 and 1974. Contending that minority students with lower grade averages and test scores were admitted under the special program, Bakke brought suit. The landmark case of Bakke v. University of California highlights which of the following concepts?
Reverse discrimination
Which of the following statements is true with regard to the common sources and suggested causes of job-related stress?
Role overload occurs when the employee is incompetent at his/her job.
Which of the following is true about the employer-sponsored SIMPLE IRA plan?
SIMPLE IRA plans do not have to meet the nondiscrimination requirements, minimum participation/minimum coverage rules, and vesting rules applicable to other types of plans.
Which of the following employee benefits are (is) legally required?
State disability insurance
Which of the following is a disadvantage of the factor comparison method of job evaluation?
It is not easily adapted to changes in the jobs being evaluated.
Which of the following statements about the Equal Pay Act of 1963 is true?
It permits differences in wages if the payment is based on seniority or merit.
Which of the following statements regarding flextime is FALSE?
It refers to two or more part-time employees performing a job that would normally be held by one full-time person.
Which of the following is true about the total rewards approach?
Its intent is to place more emphasis on lower-cost rewards and provide a flexible and broad array of rewards.
Ideally, the human resource department should conduct a scheduled follow-up after the employee has been on the job for
a month
Violent workplace incidents may be minimized by
adopting a "zero tolerance" policy as part of a plan for preventing violence.
In a differential piece rate plan, the rate is raised
after a given number of pieces have been produced.
The Roth IRA
allows for nondeductible contributions and tax-free withdrawals with certain restrictions.
An employee who receives a promotion also feels a sense of accomplishment. This exemplifies how
an extrinsic reward often provides the recipient with intrinsic rewards.
The difference between succession planning and replacement planning is that succession planning
anticipates changing organization needs.
The general principle behind reinforcement is that behavior that
appears to lead to a positive consequence is repeated.
Organizational objectives should do all of the following EXCEPT
become the basis upon which the corporate mission is defined.
The _____ pay system rewards employees based on knowledge, skills, and behaviors that result in performance.
competency-based
The use of polygraph testing is
currently prohibited in most employment settings.
A learning curve most frequently manifests as a
decreasing returns curve
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) encourages organizations to avoid recruiting primarily by _____ and walk-ins.
employee referral
An employee's lack of time or conflicting demands upon it, inadequate work facilities and equipment, restrictive policies that affect the job, lack of cooperation from others, type of supervision, temperature, lighting, noise, machine or equipment pacing, shifts, and even luck, are all examples of
environmental factors as performance obstacles.
A layoff is synonymous with termination.
false
Behavior evaluation is easier than the learning evaluation.
false
The focus of behaviorally anchored rating scale (BARS) and, to some extent, the graphic rating scale and checklist methods of performance appraisal is primarily on performance outcomes.
false
Management inventories and succession plans are
generally kept confidential.
Generally, research in recruiting
has not identified a single best source of recruitment.
Generally, it can be said that those employees who were recruited using RJPs
have more job satisfaction
Orientations work best when presented
in sessions of a couple of hours over several days.
Training involving the handling of a specific manager's mail and calls and reacting accordingly is termed
in-basket technique.
One of the best ways to encourage application form accuracy is to
include a statement that termination could result from inaccuracies. make the applicant comfortable while filling out the form.
A typical job description
is a formal, written document that describes the job as it is currently being performed. lists the job duties and responsibilities. explains organizational relationships that are relevant to the job. includes a job specification.
Garnishment of wages
is a legal procedure by which an employer is empowered to withhold wages for payment of an employee's debt to a creditor.
A satisfied employee
is not necessarily motivated or productive.
At Veritas Systems, trainees fresh out of college go from one job to another within the organization, generally remaining in each job from six months to a year. This is an example of the method of management development termed ____.
job rotation
Newspaper delivery involves the same few tasks each time, but there is considerable freedom in organizing and pacing the work. Based on this information we can say that this job is
low in scope but high in depth.
The job of receptionist requires similar skills, effort, and responsibility in different organizations so being a receptionist may be viewed as a(n) ____.
occupation
Performance management systems present a more powerful incentive for diligent work when linked to the
organizational reward system.
The Civil Rights Act
permits protected groups to have a jury trial and sue for punitive damages if they can prove they are victims of intentional hiring or workplace discrimination.
A word processing test given to applicants for a secretarial job is an example of a(n) _____ test.
proficiency
The text identifies the primary function of the human resource department as that of
providing support to operating managers on all human resource matters.
Disclosure of a person's race, color, national origin, or religion should be avoided on an application form because
recording of such information can be proven as discriminatory.
Research has more closely linked successful counseling to
similar characteristics that make people likable and effective.
A needs assessment helps determine those activities that can link management development with
stated objectives.
A technique that allows an executive to share in the increase of a company's stock without putting up the money to buy stock via the exercise of options is called
stock appreciation rights.
In determining whether discrimination against groups protected by the law has occurred, the EEOC considers the relevant labor market to be
the geographical area from which the employer recruits.
The most popular method of gathering data in the OD process is
through questionnaires filled out by employees.
The evaluation phase of OD in effect repeats the diagnostic phase.
true
When a job decreases in attractiveness, the employee is more likely to be tardy, quit, or become dissatisfied with the job itself.
true
With respect to sexual harassment of employees in the workplace, an employer may also be responsible for the acts of nonemployees if the employer (or its agents or supervisory employees) knows or should have known of the conduct and fails to take immediate and appropriate corrective action.
true
The part of the affirmative action plan that analyzes minority group representation in all job categories; past and present hiring practices; and upgrades, promotions, and transfers is referred to as the ____.
utilization evaluation
How accurately a predictor actually predicts the criterion of job success, i.e., how well it predicts what it is supposed be predicting, is called
validity.
_____ comes into play when an employer has a job specification that is neutral but excludes members of one sex at a higher rate than members of the other. The focus here is on the validity of stated job qualifications and their relationship to the work performed.
Business necessity
Which of the following is a major benefit of employee stock ownership plans to stockholders?
Can result in preferential consideration for a government-guaranteed loan.
The potential disadvantage of fatigue is typically associated with which of the following flexible work arrangements?
Condensed workweek
Currently, most statutory influence regarding sexual orientation as a protected segment of equal employment rests within
EEOC regulations.
Which of the following is a major weakness of the graphic rating scale method?
Evaluators are unlikely to interpret written descriptions in the same manner due to differences in background, experience, and personality.
Even though not vested, an employee can still receive funds paid by the employer upon leaving the company.
False
Which of the following statements is true about strategy-linked HRP?
HR managers serve as consultants to line managers concerning the people-management implications of business objectives and strategies. All managers should view human resource planning as one of their most important job responsibilities.
Which of the following statements is NOT true about recruiting from internal sources?
It decreases the likelihood of the employee having accurate expectations from the organization.
Which of the following is characteristic of employee assistance programs?
The accepted viewpoint now is that employees' personal problems are private until they begin affecting job performance.
Which of the following is the primary advantage of individual incentives as opposed to group or organizational incentives?
There is a clear relationship perceived between actions and rewards.
Which of the following is a myth held by employees related to career development and advancement?
There is always room for one more person at the top.
Which of the following is true about dual-career couples vis-à-vis dual-employed couples?
They view their employment as part of a career path involving progressively more responsibility, power, and financial remuneration.
Which of the following is true regarding the comparable worth theory?
This theory holds that entire classes of jobs are traditionally undervalued because they are held by women.
Which of the following is a potential use of job evaluations?
To reduce pay grievances by reducing their scope.
What is the goal of the right-to-know rule?
To reduce the incidence of illness and injuries caused by chemicals.
The Scanlon plan technically is not a profit-sharing plan, but rather a plan that shares with employees measurable savings in labor and production costs.
True
_____ use(s) Web-based communities and hosted services such as social networking sites, blogs, and wikis.
Web 2.0
Which of the following questions is to be avoided in a pre-employment inquiry?
What type of discharge did you receive from the military?