Exam 3 Flashcards
The most comprehensive U.S. law regarding
worker safety. It was enacted in 1970.
Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
The most obvious examples of sexual harassment involve ________________, meaning that a person makes a benefit (or punishment) contingent on an employee’s submitting to (or rejecting) sexual advances.
Quid pro quo harassment
What act applies to organizations that employ 15 or more persons working 20 or more weeks a year and that are involved in interstate commerce, as well as state and local governments, employment agencies, and labor organizations?
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
In 1967, Congress passed the ________________, which prohibits discrimination against workers who are over the age of 40.
Age Discrimination in Employment Act
The concept of _________________ implies that employees are resources of the employer.
Human resource management
An effective incentive pay plan should have ______________ linked to _______________.
Performance measures; The organizations goals
On average, out of every dollar spent by a company on employee compensation, more than _____________ go to employee benefits.
30 cents
What 4 benefits provided by the employer are required by law in the United States?
Social security, unemployment insurance, workers compensation, and FMLA
A federal mandated program administered by states to minimize unemployment hardships. Unfavorable experience ratings of employers lead to higher premiums.
Unemployment insurance
Requires organizations with 50 or more employees to provide up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave after childbirth or adoption, to care for a seriously ill family member, or for an employee’s own serious illness. Employers must guarantee these employees same or comparable job when they return to work.
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Means that an employee is paid a given amount regardless of the number of hours worked or quality of the work.
Salary
Refers to incentive pay in which the wage paid is higher when a greater amount is produced.
Differential piece rate
A type of incentive pay in which payments are a percentage of an organization’s profits and do not become part of its employees’ base salary.
Profit sharing
A group incentive program that measures improvements in productivity and effectiveness and distributes a portion of each gain to employees.
Gainsharing
When an employee’s pay is calculated as a percentage of sales.
Commission pay
The FLSA’s restrictions on the use of child labor apply to children ______________________.
Younger than 18
An incentive plan that pays workers extra for work done in less than a preset “standard time.” They encourage employees to work as fast as they can.
Standard hour plan
A wage based on the amount they produce.
Piecework rate
Pay structure specifically designed to energize, direct, or control employees’ behavior.
Incentive pay
Turnover initiated by an employer (often with employees who would prefer to stay).
Involuntary turnover
Turnover initiated by employees (often when the organization would prefer to keep them).
Voluntary turnover
Refers to the meeting of a departing employee with the employee’s supervisor and/or a human resource specialist to discuss the employee’s reasons for leaving.
Exit interview
A principle of discipline that gives clear warning and follows up with consistent, objective, immediate consequences.
Hot stove rule
Results when too many expectations or demands are placed on a person.
Role overload
