exam 1 Flashcards
What does a physical abilities test consist of
Is physical ability essential to perform the job? Is it mentioned prominently in the job description; Physical tests measure:
Muscular tension, power, endurance, flexibility, balance, cardiovascular endurance, coordination
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Human resources management
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refers to the policies, practices & systems that influence employees’ behavior, attitudes, and performance.
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Describe what a High-Performance Work System is.
A high performance work system maximizes the fit between the company’s social system and its technical system
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Describe the benefits of incorporating a high-performance work system:
knowledge, skilled, and able workforce; motivated workers; a workforce that has the opportunity to use its ability and motivation to achieve objectives
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Core Capabillies/Competencies
are integrated knowledge sets within an organization that distinguish it from its competitors and deliver value to customers. What 3 things indicate this as a source of competitive advantage
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According to Porter’s Typology, value is created in what 2 ways?
Low-cost strategy: create value by reducing costs;
produce a product or deliver a service at the lowest possible cost
by keeping costs low, the firm is able to charge less than competitors and maintain a profit.
Differentiation strategy: create value by convincing the market that your product/service is different from all the others produce a product or deliver a service that is different than competitors
By differentiating the product or service the firm is able to charge a premium, maintaining a profit
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Define strategy formulation:
developing the business strategy given market and other conditions, outlines specifically how the firm will create value In a particular market
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Title VIl of the Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of
race, color, religion, sex, national origin
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Disparate treatment
•exists when individuals in similar situations are intentionally treated differently based upon race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability status.
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Disparate Impact (Adverse)
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impact occurs when a neutral employment practice disproportionately excludes a protected group from employment opportunitles (not intentional)
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•According to the Uniform Guidelines, a selection program has an adverse impact when the selection rate for any racial, ethnic, or sex class is less than
four-fifths (or 80 percent) of the rate of the class with the highest selection rate.
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Describe what employment at will means:
provisions state that either party in the employment relationship can terminate that relationship at any time, regardless of cause (exceptions: contacts, federal and state law, violations of public policy, implied contract and good faith and fair dealing
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Legislative
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House of Representatives & Senate; Develop laws that govern many HRM activities; Usually from a societal need
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Executive
President of the United States and regulatory agencies;
President has power to veto any law passed by Congress;
Regulatory agencies enforce laws
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Judicial
Federal court system: US District Courts, U.S. Court of Appeals, Supreme Court; Hears cases involving alleged violations of federal law’s
At what age does the Age Discrimination Act begin protections
40 years old
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Explain the purpose of the Equal Pay Act. What are some exclusions?
Outlaws discrimination in pay, benefits, and pensions based on the employee’s gender
Employers are prohibited from paying employees of one gender at a rate lower than that paid to members of the other gender for doing equal work
Equal work means they require substantially the same skill, effort, and responsibility under similar working conditions and in the same establishment
Exclusions: seniority, merit, quantity and quality of production
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, an organization must make _______to a physically or mentally disabled individual unless doing so would impose _________
‘reasonable accommodations”; “undue hardship’.
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What is sexual harassment:
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unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical contact of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment
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•What are the two types of sexual harassment?
Quid pro quo: some kind of benefit/punishment is made contingent on the employees submitting/or not to sexual advances
Hostile work environment: more subtle. Behavior creates making it difficult to work
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Situational Interview
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Confronts applicants on specific issues, questions, or problems likely to arise on the job, consists of Experience-based questions; Future-oriented questions (behavioral-based)
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•What was the Occupational Safety & Health Act created to do?
-This act created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which develops and enforces mandatory job safety and health standards
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Explain the difference between concurrent validation & predictive validation
Content validation is a test-validation strategy performed by demonstrating that the items, questions, or problems posed by a test are a representative sample of the kinds of situations or problems that occur on the job; best for small samples and achieved primarily through expert judgment
predictive validation to perform a long-term validity study by administering employment tests to job applicants and then seeing if those test scores are correlated with the future job performance of the hired employees.
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Content validation:
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a test-validation strategy performed by demonstrating that the items, questions, or problems posed by a test are a representative sample of the kinds of situations or problems that occur on the job; Best for small samples; Achieved primarily through expert judgment
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