Exam 9: Rights and Employee Development

If conducted in a universal or random form,drug testing is considered a major right of the employer.

Because of employees' right to privacy,managers never have the right to monitor the workplace to ensure safe and ethical behavior.

After one month on the job,Tanner was fired for not learning the job fast enough.His employer can do this under a(n) _________.

What are the four types of problem employees and how should they be handled?

It is not always easy to distinguish between the types of employee problems,but a manager should always start with coaching and counseling first before taking disciplinary action.

What are the three exceptions to employment-at-will that courts have found? Provide an example of each.

What are the three major factors in developing employees that were discussed in the chapter? Discuss the basic process associated with each factor.

Due process involves:

Spencer's manager,who is the owner of the business,asked Spencer to record some of the manager's personal expenses as business expenses to make the expenses deductible for income tax.Since this practice is illegal,Spencer refused to do it.He was fired.It would appear that Spencer's right to _________ was violated.

"Dina,do you recall our conversation about logging into other coworkers' computers?" This statement ___________ and helps refresh the employee's memory.

If the company punishes one person for an infraction by a written reprimand,and punishes the other person for the same infraction with a disciplinary discharge,the employer applied their rule in an equitable manner.

Which of the following is not a correctly paraphrased test for just cause as noted in the text?

A manager who uses the empowering style lets employees alone to do their own thing.

Employees who perform poorly or don't follow reasonable rules must be terminated because these types of behaviors can be contagious in the organization.

In the case of cutting edge technology,such as Google Glass,it is in an employer's best interest to ban the devices altogether.

In the commitment stage of the change process:

When an employee's behavior does not improve over time through progressive disciplinary measures,_______ is the final option.

Change is not critical for firm performance.

Organizations have a set of rights available to them so they can protect the people in the organization and the organization itself.

Before cleaning up a toxic spill,workers have the right to _________to voluntarily agree to do the job after knowing what they will be doing and the consequences of doing it.