Exam 16: Appendix-Managing Human Resources and Diversity

Job security is an employee expectation that existed with the old social contract,but is no longer an expectation in the new social contract.

In 1970,Joseph Searles became the first African American member of the New York Stock Exchange.

Multicultural teams are made up of members from diverse national,racial,ethnic,and cultural backgrounds.

A higher-ranking,senior organizational member who is committed to providing upward mobility and support to a protégé's professional career is known as a sponsor.

According to SPOTLIGHT ON SKILLS in chapter 9,job applicants should wear clothing that makes a fashion statement to interviews.

A type of training in which an experienced employee "adopts" a new employee to teach him or her how to perform job duties is known as on-the-job training.

Human resource management is a matching process,integrating the federal laws with employee skills.

Hiring and keeping quality employees is one of the most urgent concerns for today's organizations.

Most organizations make a conscious effort to shift from a pluralism perspective to one of monoculture.

Uncovering diversity problems,strengthening top management commitment,choosing solutions to fit a balanced strategy,and demanding results are all steps to implementing a diversity plan.

The first three steps involved in attracting an effective work force are HR planning,choosing recruiting sources,and selecting the candidate.

One of the questions that human resource planning should consider includes "what is the profit margin and inventory turnover rate?"

Assessment centers are normally located in a firm's accounting department and have the responsibility of assessing other departments for the costs involved with human resource management.

The Family and Medical Leave Act prohibits gender-based differences in pay for substantially equal work.

In 2005,according to the text,women employed full-time earned 81 cents for every dollar that men earned.

Standard training programs and routine jobs are part of the old social contract between employees and employers.

Today's workforce is growing older with an average age of 40.8 years in 2006 and it is expected to increase to 42.1 years in 2016.

The traditional dimension of diversity can be acquired or changed throughout one's lifetime.

The belief that ethics are not absolute but instead need to be evaluated relative to the situation refers to ethnorelativism.

The set of activities that are undertaken to attract,develop,and maintain an effective workforce refers to human resource management.