Exam 9: Control Processes and Systems

An employment test is reliable when its scores demonstrate links with future job performance.

Which of the following plans allows employees to share in cost savings or productivity gains realized by their efforts?

__________ is the extent to which an individual's values, interests, and behaviors are consistent with the culture of an organization.

Which of the following performance review techniques evaluates each employee against every other and then creates a summary ranking based on the number of superior scores?

__________ plans provide one-time payments based on performance accomplishments.

The __________ requires the maintenance of a log to capture the employee's effective and ineffective behaviors during the evaluation period.

It is legal for men to earn twice as much as women for doing the same job.

__________ programs allow choice to personalize benefits within a set dollar allowance.

In the U.S. workforce, the proportion of employees aged 40 or above is:

__________ are nonmonetary forms of compensation such as health insurance and retirement plans.

Which of the following bodies deals with employers on the workers' collective behalf?

In __________, younger and newly hired employees mentor their seniors.

As a human resource manager, in order to raise recruitment and retention rates, you have been asked to design a new employee compensation package for the company. What plans and benefits would you include in this package? How much importance would you give to each component of your design?

Affirmative action attempts to enforce equal employment opportunity legislation.

__________ work as needed and part-time, often on a longer-term basis.

List the three basic responsibilities of human resource management and the activities necessary to achieve them.

Criteria for hiring that are linked to a person's ability to perform a job are called __________.

Job discrimination, the denial based on non-performance related issues, occurs when an organization denies someone all of the following EXCEPT:

Workers who have more flexibility with start and stop times find it difficult to maintain work-life balance.

Performance management aligns human capital with organizational strategies.