HR

The formula used by federal agencies to determine disparate rejection rates is based on a selection rate for any racial, ethnic, or sex group less than ________ percent of the rate for the group with the highest rate.

80

Which court case provided details regarding how employers could validate the relationship between screening tools and job performance?

Albemarle Paper Company v. Moody

Which of the following requires employers to make reasonable accommodations for disabled employees

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

________ is the right to make decisions, to direct the work of others, and to give orders.

Authority

________ exists when an employer treats an individual differently because that individual is a member of a particular race, religion, gender, or ethnic group.

Disparate treatment

The ________ provides that a person who commits a crime of violence motivated by gender thus deprives another of rights shall be liable to the party injured.

Federal Violence Against Women Act of 1994

________ refers to the tendency of firms to extend their sales, ownership, and/or manufacturing to new markets abroad.

Globalization

Which Supreme Court case was used to define unfair discrimination in conjunction with EEO laws?

Griggs v. Duke Power Company

________ is the process of acquiring, training, appraising, and compensating employees, and attending to their labor relations, health and safety, and fairness concerns

Human resource management

________ is a process involving setting objectives, making forecasts, reviewing alternative courses of action, evaluating options and implementing the plan.

Managerial planning

The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution addresses the subject of ________.

SLAVERY

________ functions involve assisting and advising line managers, and they are the central aspect of a human resource manager's job.

Staff

________ defines the nature of the company's business in terms of the markets in which it will compete and the ways it will differentiate itself from its competitors.

Strategic planning

________ is a strategic planning tool that shows the "big picture" of how each department performance contributes to achieve the company's overall strategic goal.

Strategy map

________ has affected how people work, and therefore on the skills and training today's workers need.

Technology

What is the most common next step in the EEOC enforcement process after a person files an employment discrimination claim?

The EEOC either accepts or refers the charge.

The ________ Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed slavery, and courts have held that it bars racial discrimination.

Thirteenth

According to experts, the primary hindrance to a firm's productivity is its inability to ________.

acquire and maintain human capital

Which defense requires showing that there is an overriding company-related purpose for a discriminatory practice and that the practice is therefore acceptable?

business necessity

A company's ________ strategy identifies how to build and strengthen the business's long-term competitive position in the marketplace.

competitive

When managers use metrics to assess performance and then develop strategies for corrective action, they are performing the ________ function of the management process.

controlling

A company's ________ strategy identifies the portfolio of businesses that comprise a firm and the ways in which these businesses relate to each other.

corporate-level

What is the first step in the strategic management process?

defining the current business and its mission

Which of the following refers to the standards someone uses to decide what his or her conduct should be?

ethics

Strategic human resource management refers to ________.

formulating and executing human resource policies and practices that produce the employee competencies and behaviors the company needs to achieve strategic aims

Which of the following strategies identifies the broad activities that each department will pursue in order to help a business attain its competitive goals?

functional

What term refers to the knowledge, skills, and abilities of a firm's workers?

human capital

In most firms, line managers work in conjunction with HR managers when ________.

interviewing job applicants

Which of the following human resource management specialties calls for collecting data to write job descriptions?

job analyst

The EEOC was initially established to investigate complaints about ________.

job discrimination

Race, color, religion, sex, or national origin is a motivating factor in a termination, but the employee would have been terminated for failure to perform anyway. Which of the following most likely exists in this situation?

mixed motive

The basic functions of the management process include all of the following EXCEPT ________. leading organization outsourcing planning

outsourcing

What is the primary reason that mergers and acquisitions fail?

personnel

Human resource strategies are the ________ used to support a firm's strategic goals.

policies and practices

Which of the following involves comparing the percentage of the minority/protected group and white workers in an organization with the percentage of the corresponding group in the labor market?

population comparisons approach

According to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, it is unlawful to ________.

require employees to retire at age 65

In Bakke v. Regents of the University of California, which of the following claims was made by Allen Bakke?

reverse discrimination

In most organizations, human resource managers are categorized as ________, who assist and advise ________ in areas like recruiting, hiring, and compensation.

staff managers; line managers

A course of action that a firm can pursue to achieve its strategic aims is known as a ________.

strategy

Over the next few years, employers may face a severe labor shortage because ________.

there are fewer people entering the workforce than there are retiring baby boomers