Exam 9: Management Rights, employee Rights, and Discipline

Which statement will lower employee acceptance and understanding of the organizational rules?

What is the most significant cause of a manager's inadequate documentation of employee misconduct?

What is the most common means of electronic surveillance for employee monitoring?

Step-review systems involving non-union employees are very similar to grievance procedures used in union contracts.

The concept of due process,in general,does guarantee employees assurance of employment.

Hearing officers are compensated by the employer but are expected to be neutral in cases involving the employer and its employees.

ABC Co.wants to dismiss an employee for failing to maintain an acceptable performance level.What must the company do before it dismisses that employee?

Drug testing policies have not had any impact on employee absenteeism and accidents.

Ethics can be defined as a set of standards of acceptable conduct and moral judgement.

What should employers apply before firing an employee?

What is one issue associated with the growth of electronic information systems?

Positive discipline is based on the concept that employees must assume responsibility for their personal conduct and job performance.

Mediation and arbitration are two methods used to handle employee complaints and labour disputes.Describe mediation and identify the key difference between mediation and arbitration.

Implied contract may become binding when management urges an employee to leave another organization by promising higher wages and benefits and then reneging after the person has been hired.

In dismissing employees,managers must inform the employees honestly,yet tactfully,of the exact reasons for the action.

Organizational policies and rules regarding discipline should be clearly written to avoid the possibility of different interpretations by different supervisors.

Because personnel files are the employer's property,an employee may be barred from seeing his or her file.

Which common meaning of the term "discipline" is associated with the correction of undesirable behaviour?

When investigating a disciplinary problem,an investigative interview is part of the process.Describe the timing,purpose and approach to conducting an investigative interview.

What is due process the central issue in?