Exam 10: Human Resource Management: Nurturing Turns Potential Into Performance

When a new employee is assigned to an experienced employee who offers performance advice, it is called ________.*

Although marked by a troubled past, the trend in modern labor-management relations is toward more cooperation than adversity.

In the dynamic workplace environment of today, more and more of the responsibility for career planning is falling on the individual employees to do their own.

The Human Resources department is tasked with all of the following EXCEPT:*

One of the benefits that an organization gets by using independent contractors is that independent contractors __________.*

The purpose of performance appraisals are both to __________ and document performance, as well as initiate a process of __________.

A performance appraisal method that uses a log of the employee's effective and ineffective job behaviors is called a__________.

Marketing surveys show that women influence only 20% of car purchases and that most men prefer dealing with a female salesperson.

A(n) __________ center evaluates a candidate's job potential by simulated testing.

In order to avoid the problem of managers ranking all their employees at about the same level, companies should use graphic rating scales.

During selection, the process that attempts to reveal both the good and bad points of the job is called:

__________ means behaving with internalized commitments to special standards determined by personal values, academic degrees, professional associations, and company culture and practices.

The right to privacy at work applies to __________.*

A performance appraisal method that formally gathers input from the many people that work with, and depends on the person being appraised is called a __________.

In order to get performance feedback from more sources than just the employee's supervisor, a program of 360 $\degree$ feedback can be implemented.

All of the following are true of labor unions EXCEPT:*

Name and define three methods used in conducting performance appraisals.

The right to employment and advancement without regard to race, sex, color, religion, or national origin is called __________.

Human capital is the personal value of an employee and is not related to economic value.

A multiperson comparison method that requires evaluators to place each employee into a frequency distribution with several fixed performance classifications is called a(n) __________.