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What act prohibits discrimination on the basis of physical and mental disabilities? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Rehabilitation Act of 1973
What is the maximum amount that could be awarded to a victim of discrimination if an organization is found liable for violating the Civil Rights Act of 1991? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ $300,
A group of people who share a common characteristic and who are safeguarded from discrimination and harassment on the basis of that shared characteristic - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Protected class
Bona Fide Occupational Qualification is considered a legal exception to what? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
This case focused on the requirement for employees seeking internal transfer or promotion to possess a HS diploma and certain scores on
aptitude tests. The court found that under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that tests could disparately impact ethnic minority groups. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Griggs v. Duke Power (based on a company policy of segregating employees by race)
This case was heard before the Supreme Court and regarded how plaintiffs and defendants may present evidence of violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ McDonnell Douglas Corp v. Green
This is the case that was heard before the Supreme Court in 1976 regarding two African Americans who had applied for positions with a police department but were not given jobs based on testing of verbal skills. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Washington v. Davis (the plaintiffs lost, ruled test was still lawful as long as shown to be valid and job related)
Safety
Social
Esteem
Self-Actualization
If the company has decided to "transfer" the risk, this means... - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ The company will use insurance to cover the risk
Managing organizational risk can be handled one of the following four ways: - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ 1) Mitigation
Acceptance
Avoidance
4)Transfer
Type of bias in which an interviewer has difficulty deciding which candidate is the best, therefore rates all in the middle or average - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Average/central tendency
Type of bias in which candidates are compared to a single candidate, therefore may appear more or less qualified depending on the comparison candidate - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Contrast
This bias occurs when candidates answer questions based in information they think will get them the job (what they think the interviewer wants) - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Cultural noise
This bias occurs when people are influenced by the first piece of information they are exposed to about the candidate, and they are biased in evaluating subsequent information based on the initial information or impression - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ First impression
This bias occurs when an interviewer judges a candidate based on personal, irrelevant preferences, such as height, size, tone of voice, or hairstyle - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Negative emphasis
A bias in which the interviewer is influenced by body language or other nonverbal communication - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Nonverbal bias
A bias in which the interviewer recalls the most recently interviewed candidate more clearly than earlier candidates - Correct Answer ✔️
✔️ Recency
This occurs when candidates are asked different interview questions - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Question inconsistency
This occurs when the candidate has interests or characteristics that align with the interviewer, causing the interviewer to overlook negative traits - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Similar-to-me
When the interviewer assumes the candidate has specific traits because they're a member of a specific group - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️
Stereotyping
Under a graduated vesting schedule, what is the maximum amount of time participants must contribute to a defined benefit plan before becoming fully vested in the employer contributions? - Correct
Answer ✔️ ✔️ After 7 years of service
OSHA's established hierarchy of situations, 1-5 - Correct Answer ✔️
✔️ 1) Imminent danger
Catastrophes and fatal accidents
Complaints and referrals
Programmed high-hazard inspections
Follow-up inspections
Design
Development
Implementation
Evaluation
This Act provides compensation to coal miners who are totally disabled by a pneumoconiosis arising out of coal mine employment, and to survivors of coals miners whose deaths are attributed to the disease. It also provides eligible miners with medical coverage for the treatment of lung diseases related to pneumoconiosis. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Black Lung Benefits Act (BLBA)
This Act compensates current or former employees (or their survivors) of the Department of Energy, its predecessor agencies, and certain vendors, contractors and subcontractors, who were diagnosed with a radiogenic cancer, chronic beryllium disease, beryllium sensitivity, or chronic silicosis, as a result of exposure to radiation, beryllium, or silica
while employed at covered facilities. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ The Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program (EEOICPA)
This was enacted to provide workers' compensation coverage to federal and postal workers for employment-related injuries and occupational diseases. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ The Federal Employees Compensation Act (FECA)
This was enacted to provide workers' compensation coverage to maritime workers for employment-related injuries and occupational diseases while navigating U.S. waters or while on piers, docks, or terminals. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ The Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA)
Employment at will was first defined in 1884, by Justice Ingersoll, and was not altered until: - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ 1959
days, unless an election petition is filed before that period expires. Thirty days is the outside limit; fewer than 30 days may be found to be unreasonable.
This is a federal law that grants employees the right to form or join unions; engage in protected, concerted activities to address or improve working conditions; or refrain from engaging in these activities. For more information, see our Employee Rights page. - Correct Answer
✔️ ✔️ The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)
Which employees are protected under the NLRA? - Correct Answer
✔️ ✔️ Most employees in the private sector are covered under the NLRA. The law does not cover government employees, agricultural laborers, independent contractors, and supervisors (with limited exceptions).
What percentage of employees need to show interest in forming or decertifying a union to file a petition with the NLRB? - Correct Answer
✔️ ✔️ At least 30%
What are the rules governing collective bargaining for a contract? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ If a union is selected as the representative of employees, the employer and union are required to meet at reasonable times to bargain in good faith about wages, hours, and other mandatory subjects. Even after a contract expires, the parties must bargain in good faith for a successor contract, or the termination of the agreement, while terms of the expired contract continue.
What is the National Labor Relations Board's role? - Correct Answer
✔️ ✔️ The NLRB is an independent federal agency created to enforce the National Labor Relations Act.
What term describes the technique in which predictions are made by experienced managers considered to be subject matter experts in their
What types of employees can never be considered exempted from overtime provisions? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Manual workers, i.e. people that complete repetitive work with their hands, physical skill, and energy
What is a SWOT analysis? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats
Which business organization has just one person who is responsible for all decisions in the business, retains all profits, and has unlimited personal liability for all business decisions? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Sole Proprietership
What statements best describes the three core roles of an HR professional? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Strategic
Operational
Administrative
During which of the following steps of the grievance procedure might the president of the local union meet with the manager of the plant at which the employee with the grievance works? - Correct Answer ✔️
✔️ Escalate the complaint internally
What captures and projects how human resources will contribute to achieving the organization's strategic plan? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️
Human capital management plan
What plan describes the competency and skills improvement for human capital in the organization? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Resource development plan
An HR audit is designed to help management do what? - Correct
Answer ✔️ ✔️ *Improve employee morale
What is the best definition of an HR audit in regard to risk management? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Identify the HR areas that may be out of compliance with legal requirements
What are three examples of administrative law? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ *Agency rules and regulations
*Executive orders
*Agency orders
This is a statement of behaviors that the organization expects from its employees - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Code of conduct
Who is responsible for choosing the board of directors for a company? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Shareholders
What are the four areas (legs) of a Balanced Scorecard? - Correct
Answer ✔️ ✔️ Learning and growth
Business processes
Customers
Finance
"Protected veterans" are veterans who fall into one or more of the following categories: - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ *Disabled veterans: Those who are "entitled to compensation...under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs" or
*Those who were released from active duty because of a service- connected disability
*Recently separated veterans
*Active duty wartime or campaign veterans
*Campaign badge veterans
*Armed Forces service medal veterans.
Which employers have obligations under the new VEVRAA Final Rules?
- Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Enforced by the Office of Federal Contract
