Deck 10: Social Responsibility: Legal Issues, Managing Diversity, and Career Challenges

Question 1

The cornerstone of the _____ system is One-Stop service delivery,which unifies numerous training,education,and employment programs into a single,customer-friendly system in each community.

A) workforce investment
B) school-to-work opportunities
C) dual-career-path
D) social security

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which of the following is true of repatriation?

A) Employees are guaranteed a higher standard of living in their home country than the host country when they return after the completion of the foreign assignment.
B) Employees may leave the company if the assignments given to them upon returning to their home country have less responsibility.
C) Expatriates experience no stress and anxiety when they return to their home country after the completion of foreign assignments.
D) Employees should not be asked to self-manage the repatriation process.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following is true about lifelong learning accounts (LiLAs)?

A) If an employee leaves the company, the employer will own the account.
B) Employees do not make any contributions to these accounts.
C) Employers will receive a 25 percent tax credit on their contributions to these accounts.
D) Employees can use these accounts to learn skills that are only related to their jobs.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The _____ refers to a barrier to advancement to higher-level jobs in the company that adversely affects women and minorities.

A) mum effect
B) funnel effect
C) glass ceiling
D) spiral career path

Question 5

Which of the following is a characteristic associated with the long-term success of diversity programs?

A) Diversity programs are evaluated using metrics such as sales and promotion rates.
B) Managers and demographic groups are blamed for problems.
C) Manager involvement in diversity programs is optional and not mandatory.
D) Diversity programs are seen as one-shot programs.

Question 6

_____ prepares expatriates for return to the parent company and home country from the foreign assignment.

A) Repatriation
B) Immigration
C) Emigration
D) Inpatriation

Question 7

_____ refers to having two employees divide the hours,the responsibilities,and the benefits of a full-time job.

A) Job rotation
B) Job sharing
C) Job enlargement
D) Job shadowing

Question 8

Which of the following causes overseas assignments to fail?

A) Including an employee's family in orientation programs.
B) Employees' high levels of tolerance of ambiguity and sensitivity to cultural differences.
C) Asking employees to self-manage the repatriation process.
D) Emphasizing on developing employees' technical skills over cross-cultural preparation.

Question 9

Which of the following is a disadvantage of virtual expatriates?

A) They expose the family to the culture shock of an overseas move.
B) They are more expensive than traditional expatriates.
C) They lack a strong personal relationship with local employees.
D) They have no interactions with the home office.

Question 10

In the _____ stage of employees' careers,individuals are concerned with keeping their skills up to date and being perceived as someone who is still contributing to the company.

A) exploration
B) decline
C) establishment
D) maintenance

Question 11

The best way to provide cross-cultural training for international assignments with a high level of cultural and job novelty that require a good deal of interpersonal interaction with host nationals is through:

A) standard lecture method.
B) group-building method.
C) self-paced learning.
D) presentation method.

Question 12

The Cedian government's employment agency and the steel industry's trade groups work along with the local colleges and universities to help match the skills of employees that local employers require.This arrangement is typically known as _____.

A) learning organization
B) limited partnership
C) sector partnership
D) knowledge organization

Question 13

_____ involves changing one's major work activity after having been established in a specific field.

A) Job repositioning
B) Job novelty
C) Career recycling
D) Telecommuting

Question 14

An expatriate is an employee:

A) working as a spy in a competitor's company.
B) who has been headhunted from a firm to join another company.
C) who works in a country other than his or her country of origin.
D) working for a multinational company in his home country.

Question 15

The establishment stage of an employee's career involves:

A) pursuing the type of education and training an employee needs.
B) finding employment, achieving more responsibility, and financial success.
C) a self-assessment of the employee's interests, values, and work preferences.
D) being perceived as someone with many years of experience and job knowledge.

Question 16

Which of the following is a disadvantage of job hopping?

A) Job hopping makes it difficult for a company to downsize if necessary.
B) Job hopping makes it difficult to sustain continuity in employee-customer relationships.
C) Job hopping reduces a company's opportunity to hire employees with a variety of experiences.
D) Hiring employees who job hop decreases the company's flexibility and adaptability.

Question 17

A legal action against a company will be invalid when:

A) employees incur injuries during training conducted by the company.
B) employees incur injuries or damages in training conducted by a vendor or consultant.
C) the company uses small amounts of copyrighted material as per the fair use doctrine or standards.
D) decisions about training and development opportunities are made on the basis of age.

Question 18

_____ refer to employees who have an assignment to manage an operation abroad without being located permanently in that country.

A) Virtual expatriates
B) Market mavens
C) Offshore employees
D) Intrapreneurial employees

Question 19

Which of the following is considered as discrimination based on disability?

A) Providing a disabled person with the option of paying a part of the cost that causes undue hardship in setting up reasonable accommodation.
B) Modifying instructional or training media based on the disability of an individual.
C) Adjusting training policies and providing disabled trainees with readers or interpreters.
D) Excluding a person with a disability from training in relation to a function that may be performed in the job but does not have to be performed by all persons.

Question 20

_____ refers to employees changing jobs,usually between companies,every two to three years.

A) Job hopping
B) Job rotation
C) Job migration
D) Job shadowing

Question 21

Federal laws require companies in the gaming industry,such as casinos,to train employees to report suspicious activity.

Question 22

Job hopping is extremely prevalent in high-technology industries.

Question 23

Companies can deduct the cost of training provided to employees as a business expense.

Question 24

The glass ceiling facilitates women and minorities to advance to higher levels of the organization.

Question 25

The _____ Act makes it easier for veterans to find employment when they return from previous jobs.

A) Workforce Investment
B) Age Discrimination in Employment
C) Equal Employment Opportunity
D) Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment

Question 26

_____ involves employees transitioning from full-time employment to full-time retirement by working part-time.

A) Compressed retirement
B) Early retirement
C) Phased retirement
D) Golden parachute retirement

Question 27

Copyrights protect the ideas that a material contains.

Question 28

Managing diversity may require changing the company culture.

Question 29

Which of the following involves employees leaving a job and a work role and making a transition into life without work?

A) Retirement
B) Retrenchment
C) Retreatment
D) Recycling

Question 30

It is important for companies to place more emphasis on developing employees' technical skills than on preparing them to work within other cultures.

Question 31

Through sector partnerships,workforce skill needs can be met faster than if individual employers worked alone.

Question 32

Injuries incurred by employees during any employment-related activity such as training does not result in a legal action.

Question 33

Sector partnerships focus on jobs that require more than a four-year college degree.

Question 34

Which of the following is true of early retirement programs?

A) Early retirement programs are part of a company's strategy to lay off employees.
B) Eligibility for early retirement is usually based on age and years of service.
C) It is good to exclude the early retirement program from the employee benefit plan.
D) It is mandatory for the chosen employees to accept early retirement, that is, it is involuntary.

Question 35

Millennials and Gen Xers are more used to change and job insecurity than baby boomers.

Question 36

Virtual expatriates are more expensive than traditional expatriates.

Question 37

The individual contributor career path is used to satisfy poor performers who have no managerial potential.

Question 38

Career recycling is limited to older employees who are nearing retirement.

Question 39

_____ is a way to reduce head count (the number of employees)and lower labor costs.

A) Offering an early retirement plan
B) Encouraging flextime
C) Job hopping
D) Compressing the workweek

Question 40

Expatriates and their families are likely to experience high levels of stress and anxiety when they return from foreign assignments.

Question 41

What should companies do in order to melt the glass ceiling?

Question 42

What are the challenges with the use of work-life balance policies?

Question 43

Delayed retirement is disappointing for companies,particularly those in knowledge-based industries.

Question 44

The use of phased retirement plans is complicated by regulations regarding taxation of retirement benefits.

Question 45

What does diversity training mean and what are its goals?

Question 46

Preretirement socialization helps employees avoid being forced to return to work because of poor financial planning.

Question 47

Companies typically devote more resources to outplacing employees who have lost their jobs than to employees who remain.

Question 48

What should companies do in order to prepare employees for layoffs and to reduce their potential negative effects?

Question 49

Companies need to ensure that the older employees are kept away from new technology or learning new skills.

Question 50

List the training-related situations that may result in legal action.