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

Question 1

_____ 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

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which of the following causes overseas assignments to fail?

A) Including an employee's family in orientation programs
B) High tolerance of ambiguity
C) Asking employees to self-manage the repatriation process
D) Developing technical skills over cross-cultural preparation

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which of the following is true of repatriation?

A) Employees are guaranteed a higher standard of living.
B) Employees may leave the company if their assignments upon returning home have less responsibility.
C) Expatriates tend to experience little or no stress.
D) Employees should not be asked to self-manage the repatriation process.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

In the _____ stage, 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 5

The _____ Act is designed to assist states in building school-to-work systems that prepare students for high-skill, high-wage jobs or for future education.

A) School-to-Work Opportunities
B) Workforce Innovation and Opportunity
C) Workforce Investment
D) Sector Partnership

Question 6

The _____ refers to a barrier to advancement for women and minorities.

A) adverse effect
B) funnel effect
C) glass ceiling
D) discrimination effect

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 is the best way to provide training for international assignments with a high level of cultural and job novelty that require a good deal of interpersonal interaction with host nationals?

A) Standard lecture method
B) Group-building method
C) Self-paced learning
D) Presentation method

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

_____ prepares expatriates for their return to the parent company and home country.

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

Question 11

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 12

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

Question 13

Legal action against a company may likely not be incurred 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
D) decisions about training and development opportunities are made on the basis of age

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

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

Question 16

Which of the following statements is most true regarding dual career paths?

A) They were designed to enhance work-life balance for working families.
B) They were designed to help chart future employment prospects for individual contributors.
C) They were designed to primarily meet the needs of Millennials.
D) There were designed to help with early retirement.

Question 17

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

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

Question 18

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 are blamed for problems.
C) Manager involvement in diversity programs is optional and not mandatory.
D) Diversity programs are "one-shot" efforts.

Question 19

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 interests, values, and preferences
D) being perceived as someone with many years of experience

Question 20

In the _____ stage, individuals are largely concerned with achieving more responsibility and financial success.

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

Question 21

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

Question 22

_____ is a way to reduce head count and lower labor costs.

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

Question 23

Which of the following is true of early retirement programs?

A) They should be an integral part of a strategy to lay off employees.
B) Eligibility is usually based on age and years of service.
C) These programs should be informal.
D) These programs are often involuntary.

Question 24

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) provides protection for all individuals based on age.

Question 25

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

Question 26

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

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

Question 27

Sector partnerships are designed to help individuals recycle their careers.

Question 28

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

Question 29

Which of the following relates to employees making a transition into life without work?

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

Question 30

Repatriation is the process of preparing individuals for expatriate assignments.

Question 31

In most circumstances, organizations are not required to pay employees for attending training.

Question 32

Managing diversity may require changing company culture.

Question 33

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

Question 34

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

Question 35

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

Question 36

_____ refers to giving employees the option of choosing when to work during the workday or workweek.

A) Telecommuting
B) Compressed workweek
C) Job autonomy
D) Flextime

Question 37

Injuries incurred by employees during training cannot result in legal action.

Question 38

_____ 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 39

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

Question 40

Copyrights protect the ideas that materials contain.

Question 41

Millennials and Gen Xers are more used to change and job insecurity than Baby Boomers.

Question 42

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

Question 43

Job hopping is prevalent in high-technology industries.

Question 44

Virtual expatriates are more expensive than traditional expatriates.

Question 45

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

Question 46

Describe what is meant by a dual career path and the characteristics associated with these paths.

Question 47

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

Question 48

Individuals must wait until the age of 65 to begin receiving social security benefits.

Question 49

Describe six characteristics associated with a diversity program's long-term success.

Question 50

Describe what companies can do to prepare employees for layoffs and to reduce their potential negative effects?

Question 51

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

Question 52

Discuss the advantages and challenges of job hopping from the employer's and the employee's perspectives

Question 53

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