HRM 360 Exam #1 Flashcards
Works closely with the hiring manager, specific units and upper management to determine and forecast HR needs and communicate new laws and training.
HR Business Partner
HR Terms
The firm’s corporate image or culture created to attract and retain the type of employees the firm is seeking.
Employer Branding
HR Terms
Systematic tool for gathering, storing, maintaining, retrieving, and revising HR data.
HRIS System
HR Terms
The design of formal systems in an organization to ensure the effective and efficient use of human talent to accomplish the organization’s goals.
HR Management
HR Terms
An individual who normally acted in an advisory or staff, working with other managers to help them deal with human resource matters.
HR Manager
HR Terms
This was enacted on July 21, 2010, includes 3 sections that add whistle-blower protections, and it also amended the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and False Claims Act to expand their whistle-blower protections.
Dodd-Frank Act
Ethics
A system of moral principles and values that establish appropriate conduct.
Ethics
Ethics
Ensuring that factors are in place to provide for and encourage the continued development of a diverse workforce by melding these actual and perceived differences among workers to achieve maximum productivity.
Diversity
Ethics
Follow directions from the boss (49%).
Meet overly aggressive objectives (48%).
Help the organization survive (40%).
Ethical Dilemmas
Ethics
The implied, enforced, or felt obligation of managers, acting in their official capacity, to serve of protect the interestes of groups other than themselves.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Ethics
Spells out the necessary qualifications to perform the job.
Job Specification
Recruiting
Prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
Title VII
Recruiting
3 key elements in a job analysis and job description.
KSAs - Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Recruiting
Summarizes the most important features of a job.
Job Description
Recruiting
Computerized talent or skill inventories that can furnish a list of qualified people.
Skill Banks
Recruiting
In revising its employee pay plan, respondent City granted raises to all police officers and police dispatchers in an attempt to bring their starting salaries up to the regional average. Officers with less than five years’ service received proportionately greater raises than those with more seniority, and most officers over 40 had more than five years of service. Petitioners, a group of older officers, filed suit under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967.
Smith v. Jackson, Mississippi - Age Discrimination
Court Cases
Act that creates a rolling
time frame for filing wage
discrimination claims and
expands plaintiff field
beyond employee who was
discriminated against. First
thing Obama signed in his
administration.
The Act requires employers to redouble their efforts to ensure that their pay practices are non-discriminatory and to make certain that they keep the records needed to prove the fairness of pay decisions.
Lily Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tires - Pay Discrimination
Court Cases
Ledbetter sued Goodyear Tires for gender discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, alleging that the company had give her a low salary because of her gender.
This employee worked at a plant employing
30,000 people and he was laid off. He participated in protest activities and blocked the entrance. When the company hired new employees he was not hired back. He filed a suit and prevailed. What was the name of the case and the criteria for the lawsuit?
McDonnell Douglas v. Green
Court Cases
McDonnell Douglas v. Green set the precedent that a case doesn’t require direct evidence of discrimination.
The agency that works in conjunction with Title VII in enforcing federal employment discrimination laws and gives advice, but does not litigate.
EOCC - Equal Opportunities Commission
Court Cases
1971 court case that recognized adverse impact discrimination. An employer imposed a requirement preliminary to employment or transfer of having a high school diploma or passing an intelligence test. However, these tests were not related to aptitude for the job.
Griggs v. Duke Power - Adverse Impact
Court Cases
Even if there is no discriminatory intent, an employer may not use a job requirement that functionally excludes members of a certain race if it has no relation to measuring performance of job duties.
