Misc Flashcards
FMLA requires Ees to notify e3mployers at least how many days prior to anticipated start of the leave date due to foreseeable leave clause?
30 days
Theory X Management Style
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.
Theory Y Management Style
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.
5 HR risk classifications
- Legal compliance
- Safety & health
- Security
- Business continuity
- Workplace privacy
Total Quality Management (TQM)
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.
Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa
Developed tools used in TQM movement: check sheet, histogram, Pareto chart, cause-and-effect diagram, stratification chart, and scatter chart.
Stratification Chart
Separates data in a way that illustrates patterns, aids in ID poss strats for problems as the problems are easier to ID
Who should a breach of fiduciary responsibility be reported to?
Either CEO or Chief legal officer. If no resolution, report to auit committee of the BOD.
What are some tactics unions can use to organize employees?
Salting, leafleting, bannering, picketing
Salting
Labor Union tactic. Union pays individual to apply for a position at a specific workplace with intent of organizing a union
Leafleting
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
Bannering
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
Picketing
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
Promissory estoppel
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
4 factors that allow for use of a copyrighted work w/o infringement
(Copyright Act of 1976)
- Purpose and character of use
- Nature of the work
- Amount of work
- The effect
Reasonable-suspicion drug test
Suspicion the EE is under influence of drugs/alcohol based on observable behs, or there has been an accident the EE was involved in
Types of drug tests
- Pre-employment
- Reasonable suspicion
- Random
EGTRRA
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)
Under EGRTRRA, when are EEs allowed to make catch-up contributions for 401k and IRA accounts?
50+ years of age
Injunction
Court orders that either requires/forbids an action from being performed. Legally binding. Originally used against labor union to end strikes
What are acceptable ways to destroy a credit report?
It must be destroyed in a way so it can not be read or reassembled. Shredding, burning, or pulverizing.
Types of leadership styles
- Authoritarian
- Democratic
- Laissez-faire
- Coaching
- Transactional
- Transformational
Transactional Leadership style
Focus on getting job done and seeks to do this by offering reward in exchange for completing org goals
Transformational Leadership style
Focus on r/s in the group, building them to achieve org goals
