Exam 8: Managing Employee Behavior

This type of sexual harassment occurs when sex-related behavior interferes with an employee's work performance or creates an intimidating,hostile,or offensive working environment.

Workplace violence accounts for about _______________ of the all workplace fatalities in 2014.

Studies found that theft rates were significantly lower in organizations in which employee compensation was reduced.

This type of sexual harassment occurs when an employee "feels harassed" regardless of whether or not the sex-related behavior is illegal.

Researchers have concluded that workers' substance use and abuse has more to do with personal characteristics than with working conditions.

A "consensual relationship agreement," also known as a "love contract," typically includes all of the following provisions except:

_______________ at work is the effort of an individual to inflict harm on others with whom the person works,or has worked,or on the organization itself.

Within the Vardi and Weitz model,management interactions are the actions taken by managers to prevent,control,or respond to harmful misbehavior.

Passive aggression is accomplished through the withholding of something desired.

Pryor and Stoller found that men who scored high on a characteristic designated "likelihood to sexually harass" were more likely to display all of the following behavior except:

The concept of "wages in kind" suggests that the more dissatisfied the employee,the more motivated he or she will be to engage in incivility.

The _______________ under the Bill of Rights protects against communications from unreasonable searches and seizures.

From a legal perspective,which of the following is not one of the types of sexual harassment?

The impact of occupational structure on criminal workplace behaviors,such as embezzlement,vandalism,and sabotage,has been investigated by _______________.

Sabotage is a tangible expression of aggression or violence.

_______________ is defined as the unauthorized taking,consuming,or transferring of money or goods owned by the organization.

A recent study reported that males with high levels of the characteristic designated "likelihood to harass" tend to give attractive females higher scores on performance appraisals.

Your friend states that an employer must notify its employees if it intends to read their e-mails.Are they correct?

Are privacy rights the same for public and private employees?

________________ is defined as the behavior exhibited by an individual or group that is purposeful (intentional)and can be harmful to the person and others,as well as financially and socially costly.