Module 2 Workforce Planning & Employment

Question 1

Annualized formula that tracks number of separations and total number of workforce employees per month

Answer 1

Turnover

Question 2

Type of interview in which interviewer asks every applicant the same questions; also called a repetitive interview

Answer 2

Structured interview

Question 3

Computerized talent or skill inventories that can furnish a list of qualified people

Answer 3

Skill tracking systems

Question 4

Allow organization’s to partner with communities and schools to help develop the skilled workforce they will need for the future

Answer 4

School-to-work programs

Question 5

Act that prohibits discrimination based on physical or mental disabilities

Answer 5

Rehabilitation Act

Question 6

Act that protects the employment records of federal government employees from disclosure without prior authorization

Answer 6

Privacy Act

Question 7

Streamlined process for obtaining labor certification for foreign nationals seeking permanent residence through their employment

Answer 7

Program Electronic Review Management (PERM)

Question 8

Any discrete component of an organization in which there is a level of supervision responsible and accountable for the selection, compensation, etc., of employees within the unit

Answer 8

Organizational unit

Question 9

Group of individuals who meet face to face forecast ideas and assumptions and prioritize issues

Answer 9

Nominal group technique

Question 10

Act that creates a rolling time frame for filing wage discrimination claims and expands plaintiff field beyond employee who was discriminated against

Answer 10

Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

Question 11

Part of affirmative action plan that lists all job titles that comprise each job group having similar content and responsibilities, wage rates, and opportunities for advancement

Answer 11

Job group analysis

Question 12

All encompassing term used to describe anyone on an international assignment

Answer 12

International assignee

Question 13

Court ruling that established reasonable person standard in a sexual harassment case

Answer 13

Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc.

Question 14

Occurs when a creditor obtains a court order requiring an employer to attach an employee’s earnings in order to pay back a debt

Answer 14

Exit interview

Question 15

Process of positioning an organization as an “employer of choice” in the labor market

Answer 15

Employment branding

Question 16

List of job titles ranked from lowest to highest paid within an organizational unit

Answer 16

Workforce analysis

Question 17

Occurs when a creditor obtains a court order requiring an employer to attach an employee earnings in order to pay back the debt

Answer 17

Garnishment

Question 18

Interview conducted when an employee is terminating with an organization in which employee is asked to share views on selected issues

Answer 18

Exit interview

Question 19

Process of positioning an organization as an employer of choice in the labor market

Answer 19

Employment branding

Question 20

Failure to recognize responses of a candidate that are socially acceptable rather than factual

Answer 20

Cultural noise

Question 21

Type of criterion related validity he determined by relating the test scores a group of test takers who take a test (Test A) to some other criterion measure (Test B) that is administered at the same time

Answer 21

Concurrent Validity

Question 22

1989 court ruling that the numerical quota system of Richmond Virginia was unconstitutional because this city has not laid the proper groundwork and had not adequately identify or documented discrimination

Answer 22

City of Richmond v. J. A. Carlson Company