SPHR Flashcards
What are two additional names for the “Sources of Laws”?
Seat or Sovereign of Power
Under sources of law, supreme law is a source of all government powers?
United States Constitution
Under sources of law, written enactments are authorizations made by legislature and expressed in a formal written document to pass law.
Statutes
Under sources of law, it is also known as judicial precedents or judge-made law, and is the body of law derived from judicial decisions of the court, and similar tribunals.
Case Law
They are authorized to develop rules and criteria for measuring whether employers are in compliance.
Agency Regulations
It is the powers of the agency to force compliance with federal laws. It’s operated in a administrative law court and issued by an administrative law judge (ALJ). And final decisions are published in the Federal Register.
Agency Orders
Orders written and issued by the President of the United States for the actions of the executive agencies to set policies for the executive branch to follow.
Executive Orders
Provides important limitations on the government that protect the fundamental rights of the US Citizen.
Constitution
This document is the blueprint of the entire government and all governments must create laws in the boundaries of this document or it is struck down.
The Constitution
A body of law that governs the regulations of government agencies at the federal and state levels, it refers to the regulations created by administrative agencies, which are part of the executive branch and are charged with the administration of government functions.
Administrative Law
They develop rules or regulations published in the Federal Register for public comment.
Agency Regulations
After the Agency of Regulations are published, how many days after the public date of notice does the final rules goes into effect?
No less than 30 days after public date of notice.
What three sources can the President of the United States draw upon to issue an Executive Order?
The Constitution, Legislative Branch, and President’s inherent authority.
What law dictionary defines the President’s inherent authority as a power that necessarily derives from an office position or status?
Black’s Law Dictionary
When does a Executive Order become law?
30 days after published in the Federal Register.
How are regulations used?
Regulations reflect how laws will be implemented and often have the force of law.
What agency may issue guidelines that interpret how regulations will be enforced?
Regulatory Agencies
What was the first Anti-Discrimination Act to protect women and prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex?
The Equal Pay Act of 1963
What study involves how humans act in groups?
Hawthorne Studies of Experiments
Who created the Hawthorne Effect?
Henry Lance Berger
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
It indicates that workers were motivated by the interest shown in them and this interest led to an upturn of their productivity rather than actual physical changes.
What principle is best known for understanding that employees had to be seen as members of a group and that salary and good working conditions were not as important?
Elton Mayo’s Human Relations Principle
Who created the Elton Mayo’s Human Relations Principle?
George Elton Mayo
What three factors has the term relations referenced in human dynamics as influence?
Organizational Behavior, individual behavior, and relational factors.
Examples of Organizational Behavior are:
Company culture, power dynamics, emotional intelligence.
Examples of Individual Behavior are:
Personality and motivation.
Examples of Relational Factors are:
Employees to managers and employees to peers.
What are two main drivers of organizational behaviors?
Unwritten rules and perceived expectations.
What must be aligned to enhance organizational performance and increases financial results?
Culture to strategy
When thinking about the “Organizational Culture Tree”, what are the four parts of that tree?
Mission, operating principles, climate, and culture.
When thinking about the “Organizational Culture Tree”, what part of the tree is the mission?
Fruit - it represents what is produced; which are corporate results
When thinking about the “Organizational Culture Tree”, what part of the tree is the Operating principles?
Trunk - how things are done.
When thinking about the “Organizational Culture Tree”, what part of the tree is the climate?
Branches - temporal characteristics; which are things that are atmospheric and can quickly change.
When thinking about the “Organizational Culture Tree”, what part of the tree is the culture?
Roots - shared beliefs, assumptions; which are grounded an heavily rooted.
Can you name the four different Culture Typologies Types of 1999, by Robert Quinn and Kim Cameron?
Clan, Adhocracy, Hierarchy, and Market culture.
True or False: Clan culture acts like a community?
True, also known as a “Family Culture”.
True or False: Clan Culture is low structure and low focus?
False, its high structure and low focus.
True or False: Adhocracy Culture is high structure and high focus?
True
Adhocracy culture is entrepreneurial in nature and revolves around _______. ____, and _____.
Innovation, success and flexibility.
In what industries is Adhocracy culture mostly found?
Aerospace and Technology.
Market culture focus on _____.
results. It is also performance oriented.
True or False: Market culture is low structure and high focus.
True
In which organizational culture are employee encouraged to set goals for themselves?
Market Culture
True or False: Hierarchy culture is low focus and high structure?
False, its low structure and low focus.
Hierarchy culture is the most common culture that revolves around control, efficiency and ____ avoidance.
risk
What are the four levels of Organizational Culture? (Not topologies, but levels)
Cultural artifacts, shared norms, cultural values, and shared assumptions.
Tangible aspects of culture perceived by senses - behaviors, a language, and physical symbols. Reflect the rules and core beliefs.
Cultural artifacts
Situation - specific rules that are often not directly visible. Can be inferred from the business’s artifacts
Shared Norms
Collective beliefs, ideals, and feelings of members about things. Good, proper, valuable, and right
Cultural Values
Foundation for how people think about what happens in businesses. Represent the deepest level of culture.
Shared assumptions.
Encourages a nonjudgmental respect for the differences of others without abandoning your own cultural values or supporting the practices or beliefs of other cultures.
Cultural intelligence
Who introduced a “High-context and Low-context culture” in 1976?
Edward T. Hall
In this type of Context culture, there is a long standing networks of relationships, complex, rich history of common experience and implicit rules, and what you say may not be what you mean.
High-context culture
In this type of context culture, relationships have less history, background information is packaged with explicit communication, and what you say is what you mean.
Low-context culture
What are cultural schemas?
It is the mental framework on members of a cultural group interpret the world. They act as a social code to guide an individual’s behavior.
Name the five cultural schemas.
Ethnocentrism, Parochialism, Cultural Stereotypes, Cultural relativism, and Cultural determinism.
A belief that an individual’s cultural ways are the ONLY ways.
Ethnocentrism
A belief that an individual’s cultural ways are the BEST ways.
Parochialism
A fixed belief and overgeneralized belief about a particular group or class or people.
Cultural Stereotypes
Understanding another’s culture on its terms without judgements suing your cultural standards.
Cultural Relativism
The belief that your culture determines who you are at different levels both emotionally and behaviorally.
Cultural Determinism
What are the four “R”s of managing culture differences?
Recognize, Respect, Reconcile, and Realize.
What are the three elements of cultural development?
Leadership expectations, employee contributions, and historical accommodations.
In the development of culture, what is the element from treatment of people, decisions, value, employee’s value, dispersion of time?
Leadership Expectations
In the development of culture, what is the element from families, nationalities, religions, communities, and professional associations?
Employee Contributions
In the development of culture, what is the element from survival of coping with constant changes and establishment and maintenance of effective working relationships.
Historical Accommodations.