Workforce Planning and Employment Flashcards
Occurs when the selection for an employment decision works to the disadvantage of a protected class.
Disparate impact, also known as adverse impact.
Amendment to Americans with Disabilities Act covering the definition of individuals regarded as having a disability, mitigating measures, and other rules of construction to guide the analysis of what constitutes a disability.
ADA Ammendments Act (ADAAA) - 2008
Practice in which employers make efforts to increase the presence of women, minorities, covered veterans, and disabled individuals in the workplace and take positive steps to correct their underutilization.
Affirmative action (AA)
Written plans that outline an organization’s programs, policies, and procedures for proactively ensuring equal opportunity in all aspects of employment, such as recruiting, hiring, training, promoting, and compensation.
Affirmative action plans (AAPs)
Act that prohibits discrimination in employment for persons age 40 and over except where age is a bona fide occupational qualification.
Age Discrimination in Employment Act. (ADEA) - 1967
1975 court ruling that items used to validate employment requirements must be job-related.
Albemarle Paper v. Moody
Use of alternative recruiting sources and workers who are not regular employees; also known as flexible staffing.
Alternative staffing
Act that prohibits discrimination against a qualified individuals with a disability because of his / her disability.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) - 1990
Test that measures the general ability or capacity to learn or acquire a new skill.
Aptitude test
Method of evaluating candidates using content-valid work samples of a job; typically for managerial positions.
Assessment centers
Analysis in which organization considers internal and external availability in determining theoretical availability of minorities and women for established job groups.
Availability analysis
Type of interview that focuses on how applicant previously handled real situations.
Behavioral interview
Situation in which religion, sex, or national origin is reasonably necessary to carrying out a particular job function in the normal operations of an organization.
Bona Fide occupational qualification (BFOQ)
1989 Court ruling that the numerical quota system of was unconstitutional because the defender had not laid the proper groundwork and had not adequately identified or documented discrimination.
City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Company
First comprehensive U.S. law making it illegal to discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Act that expands the possible damage awards available to victims of intentional discrimination to include compensatory and punitive damages; gives plaintiffs in cases of alleged discrimination the right to a jury trial.
Civil Rights Act of 1991
Questions that can usually be answered with yes or no.
Closed questions
Situation in which an organization shares responsibility and liability for their alternative workers with an alternative staffing supplier.
Co-employment, also known as joint employment.
Tests that assess skills the candidate has already learned
Cognitive ability tests
Set of competencies that together make up a profile for success for a particular job.
Competency model
Evaluation that requires an organization to provide details on and documentation of its affirmative action plan.
Compliance evaluation
Type of criterion-related validity determined by relating the test scores of 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.
Concurrent validity
Act that identifies selected federal employee relations and civil rights legislation enacted by Congress that applies to employee of Congress.
Congressional Accountability Act of 1995
Extent to which a selection device measures the theoretical construct or trait. (e.g. intelligence or mechanical comprehension)
Construct validity