Talent Planning and Acquisition Flashcards
A job with duties that can be clearly identified, defined, and compared to other jobs in the marketplace are called ________ jobs.
Benchmark
What term describes when a company projects where the market will be at the end of the structure plan year and matches those rates at the start of the plan year?
Lead policy
What is the term for the process of evaluating the medical appropriateness of health care services with the purpose of ensuring that patients receive cost-efficient, high-quality health care?
Utilization review (UR)
This prevents plan participants with coverage under two or more plans from being able to collect duplicate benefit payments.
Coordination of Benefits (COB)
ERISA requires reporting and disclosure of pension and profit sharing plans and welfare plans such as those dealing with what 5 areas?
- Group life
- Group accident
- Hospitalization
- Medical and surgical
- Dental care
________ is a group-oriented incentive pay plan that links pay directly to specific operational and productivity improvements in the company’s profitability performance.
Gainsharing
The practice of union members seeking work at unorganized workplaces in order to organize them is referred to as _________.
Salting
A conflict style in which both parties give and receive factors in a series of trades in order to reach a mid-point, or temporary solution, is what?
Compromising
Define “inclusion.”
An environment where everyone has access to the same opportunities and is treated equally.
When a company operates in a way to hold itself socially accountable it is engaging in what practice?
Corporate Social Responsibility
Unions, work councils, and employee collectives are all examples of what?
Organized Labor Groups
Which model, involving 8 steps, lists a variety of factors to aid in successful change in the organization?
Kotter’s 8-step Change Model
__________ Intelligence is the ability of the individual to understand the emotions that their peers, supervisors, and subordinates have in order to navigate them appropriately.
Emotional
What act is the principal federal law governing wage garnishments?
Consumer Credit Protection Act
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) prohibits arbitrary age discrimination against employees or applicants age __ and above.
40
In this conflict style both parties pool their goals in order to achieve all of them. This is also known as a “win-win” style.
Collaborating (collaboration)
A line of interviewing questions that follows no particular pattern is a ______.
Non-directive interviewing technique
How many years does FLSA require that basic recordkeeping (name, address, sex, date of birth, occupation, pay, and hours worked) be kept?
3 years
When significant aspects of performance are not measured by the performance appraisal form, this is called:
Criterion deficiency
An exception to ADEA that allows the establishment of a mandatory retirement age is applied to what group only?
Highly paid executives
The best defense an employer has in a defamation of character lawsuit arising from providing reference information is:
That the information given was the truth.
Drug tests may be given at the pre-offer stage. True or false?
True, while most drug tests are given at the post-offer stage, cost prohibitions, not legal restraints, cause most employers to wait to give drug tests at the post-offer stage.
What limits the weekly amount that may be withheld from an employee’s wages that are different for tax levies than they are for other types of garnishments?
Internal Revenue Code
What is the principal reason employers use application forms?
They provide a systematic way to compare candidates.
What act requires employers with 100 or more employees to give 60 days notice of a plant closing or large-scale layoff?
Worker Adjustment and Retaining Notification (WARN) Act
A _______ is a formal document that describes the essential functions of a particular job.
Job description
Using an aptitude test in a selection program best predicts:
Training potential
These are proactive policies aimed at increasing the employment opportunities of certain groups (typically, minority men and/or women of all racial groups).
Affirmative Action Plans
A workforce staffing program that lacks consistent results, is underfunded, and results in high turnover among new hires most likely lacks:
Top management support
As part of the selection process, a medical examination should be ____________.
Scheduled after an employment offer has been extended, per ADA.
Conducting background checks is the best defense from what kind of charge?
Negligent hiring
Per federal law, which employers must use e-verify?
All federal contractors and vendors
What act prohibits most private sector employers from requiring or requesting employees or job applicants to take any lie detector tests or from using the results of such a test, even if an outside agency screens employees or applicants?
Employee Polygraph Protection Act
What act requires employers with group health plans to offer continued coverage to employees and their dependents under certain circumstances where coverage would otherwise end?
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)
___________ organize information gathered through the job analysis and allow a meaningful comparison of jobs for evaluation and pricing.
Job specifications
Which landmark case established rules on pre-employment testing that states that selection testing must be job related?
Griggs v. Duke Power Co.
Define “constructive discharge.”
When an employee resigns due to intolerable working conditions imposed by a supervisor or coworker.
A full-time work schedule that is completed in less than five days is best known as a:
Compressed workweek
Under ADA, can an employer be required to reallocate an essential function of a job to another employee as a reasonable accommodation?
No, that is not a reasonable accommodation.
What is an advancement system that offers a technical employee the choice between “management” or “advanced technical work”?
Dual career ladder/path
What is the best predictor of future performance?
Past performance
Underutilization is having fewer minorities or women in a job classification than would be expected based on:
Their availability in the “relevant job market.”
Which discriminatory act is intentional: disparate treatment or disparate impact?
Disparate treatment
For virtual jobs performed by individuals working on cross-functional teams that change frequently or shift from project to project, a job analysis must focus on:
The competencies required and how they are assessed and maintained.
Layoffs, reductions in force (RIFs), and downsizing are terms for employment terminations due to _______ rather than ______ factors.
Economic, performance
What is the best approach for settling the claims when two employment agencies are claiming the fee for referring a candidate when that candidate is recruited and hired?
Examine the referral documents as to dates referred and pay the fee to the agency whose referral was received first.
Name the 4 stages of the classic “business cycle.”
- Trough or introduction
- Expansion or growth
- Peak or maturity
- Recession or decline
A selection test that measures certain characteristics, traits, or behaviors that are important to successful job performance, when on the job, is known as ________ validity.
Construct
_________ is an employee benefit administered through a joint federal-state program designed to provide qualifying workers with financial security while they are temporarily unemployed.
Unemployment insurance
Define “employee engagement.”
Employee engagement is the extent to which employees feel passionate about their jobs, are committed to the organization, and put discretionary effort into their work.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of what 5 categories?
- Race
- Color
- Religion
- Sex
- National origin
Which positions are most ideal for a telecommuting option?
Those with well-defined and measurable tasks.
Weighted application forms are most appropriate for?
Multiple incumbent positions
The heavy use of employee referrals for filling job vacancies could violate nondiscrimination laws. How?
It may perpetuate a status quo of underrepresented classes of workers.
What should orientation programs do in order to reduce information overload?
- Be modularized and spread out over a period of time.
- Have measurable objectives that focus on developing specific KSAs.
What is the best way to gain support for the anticipated opposition to a shift in company culture?
Involve worker representatives at the outset.
