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FMLA requires Ees to notify e3mployers at least how many days prior to anticipated start of the leave date due to foreseeable leave clause?

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30 days

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Theory X Management Style

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Est by Douglas McGregor in 1960. Managers assume EEs have little ambition, avoid responsibility, and are individual goal oriented. EEs lazier and only work to meet basic needs. Managers are autocratic & use top down mgmt style.

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Theory Y Management Style

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Est by Douglas McGregor in 1960. Managers believe EEs internally motivated and will do work w/o reward. See value EEs bring to org & more likely to support inclusive decision making process.

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5 HR risk classifications

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  1. Legal compliance
  2. Safety & health
  3. Security
  4. Business continuity
  5. Workplace privacy
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Total Quality Management (TQM)

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Continual process of detecting and reducing or eliminating errors in manufacturing, streamlining SCM, improving cust ep, and ensuring that EEs are up to speed w training. Originated during 1940s in manufacturing.

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Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa

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Developed tools used in TQM movement: check sheet, histogram, Pareto chart, cause-and-effect diagram, stratification chart, and scatter chart.

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Stratification Chart

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Separates data in a way that illustrates patterns, aids in ID poss strats for problems as the problems are easier to ID

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Who should a breach of fiduciary responsibility be reported to?

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Either CEO or Chief legal officer. If no resolution, report to auit committee of the BOD.

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What are some tactics unions can use to organize employees?

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Salting, leafleting, bannering, picketing

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Salting

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Labor Union tactic. Union pays individual to apply for a position at a specific workplace with intent of organizing a union

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Leafleting

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Labor union tactic. Union members produce and distribute materials to communicate the advantages of the union and the benefits it will bring to the workforce

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Bannering

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Labor union tactic. Union members attempt to pressure org by placing obvious signs outside the org to advertise a msg to public and EEs about the org business practices

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Picketing

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Labor union tactic. Group of EEs protest outside a business to draw public attention to the dispute or prevent deliveries to a business that the union is trying to influence in some way

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Promissory estoppel

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Contract law that prevents an individual from retracting a promise provided that the promise is clear, specific, reasonable, and one party acts on the agreement even w/o a legal contract

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4 factors that allow for use of a copyrighted work w/o infringement

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(Copyright Act of 1976)

  1. Purpose and character of use
  2. Nature of the work
  3. Amount of work
  4. The effect
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Reasonable-suspicion drug test

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Suspicion the EE is under influence of drugs/alcohol based on observable behs, or there has been an accident the EE was involved in

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Types of drug tests

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  1. Pre-employment
  2. Reasonable suspicion
  3. Random
18
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EGTRRA

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Econonmic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001. “Bush tax cuts” EGTRRA lowered federal income tax rates, reduced capital gain taxes, raised pre-tax contribution limits for defined contribution plans and Individual Retirement Accounts, and eliminated the estate tax. (some of which ended in 2011)

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Under EGRTRRA, when are EEs allowed to make catch-up contributions for 401k and IRA accounts?

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50+ years of age

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Injunction

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Court orders that either requires/forbids an action from being performed. Legally binding. Originally used against labor union to end strikes

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What are acceptable ways to destroy a credit report?

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It must be destroyed in a way so it can not be read or reassembled. Shredding, burning, or pulverizing.

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Types of leadership styles

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  1. Authoritarian
  2. Democratic
  3. Laissez-faire
  4. Coaching
  5. Transactional
  6. Transformational
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Transactional Leadership style

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Focus on getting job done and seeks to do this by offering reward in exchange for completing org goals

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Transformational Leadership style

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Focus on r/s in the group, building them to achieve org goals

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Laissez-faire Leadership style

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Allow group members to operate on their own. Coaches work with group members to develop skills and abilities so that they can operate independently

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Authoritarian Leadership style

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Effective in situations reqing immediate action or that are life-threatening. When productivity is the highest concern, this works well

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Democratic Leadership Style

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Most effective in env of highly skilled professional EEs who are self-motivated and accomplish tasks on their own

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Coaching Leadership Style

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Focus on a collaborative, partnership approach to leadership. Leaders work w their teams to dev and enhance their KSAs to lead and empower EEs to perform their work more effectively and independently

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5 Value Dimensions of Culture

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(Geert Hofstede- focus on impact of nat’l and org culture)

  1. Identity (Individualism vs. Collectivism)
  2. Power (Egalitarian vs Hierarchical)
  3. Gender (feminine vs Masculine)
  4. Time (LT/Relationship vs ST Orientation/Task)
  5. Uncertainty (ambiguity vs. structure)
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Cultural Noise

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Candidate tells interviewer what they think the interviewer wants to hear and interviewer doesn’t pick up on it

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Contrast Interview Bias

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Candidates are all compared to each other or all compared to one single candidate

32
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Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (LHWCA)

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Federal law that provides for payment of compensation, med care, and vocational rehad services to EEs disabled from on the job injuries that occur on the navigable waters of the US, or in adjoining areas customarily used in the loading, unloading, repairing or building of a vessel

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Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA)

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Provides compensation for current/former EEs of the Dept of Energy (DOE) who were diagnosed w cancer, chronic beryllium disease, beryllium sensitivity or chronic silicosis as a result of exposure to radiation, beryllium, or silica while employed at covered facilities

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Black Lung Benefits Act (BLBA)

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Provides monthly payments and med benefits to coal miners totally disabled from pneumoconiosis (black lung disease) arising from employment in/around the nation’s coal mines

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Federal Employees Compensation Act (FECA)

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Enacted to provide fed EEs with benefits for injuries obtained on the job

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