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