Exam 10: Human Resource Management and Labor Relations

Which term refers to employees hired to supplement a firm's permanent workforce?

What type of pay system rewards middle managers for especially high output, often exceeding the value of bonuses?

Which of the following will help a manager be more successful both now and at some point in the future?

Under which legal concept is it legal for a manager to discharge all her employees without advance notice?

Describe how wages, salaries, incentives, and benefits programs help companies attract and keep skilled workers.

What options are available to the union when contract negotiations break down?

What options are available to management when contract negotiations break down?

In a company-sponsored pension plan, employees are not allowed or required to make contributions.

Workers such as computer scientists, engineers, and software developers who typically require extensive and highly specialized training, are known as what?

Which Act regulated the minimum wage and overtime payable to employees?

A work slowdown is an alternative to striking where large numbers of workers perform at a much slower pace than normal.

In setting wage and salary levels, a firm may start by looking at competitors' levels.

Identify the difference between a job description and a job specification and explain how they each support the job analysis process.

Which of the following set up procedures for employees to vote on their desire for union representation?

What type of rating system incorporates feedback from customers, subordinates and peers, among others?

The increased demand for knowledge workers will require firms to use extra measures, such as higher salaries and signing bonuses, to attract qualified employees.

It is illegal to use any pre-employment test that creates adverse impact.

Which legal concept holds that both employer and employee have the mutual right to terminate an employment relationship any time, for any reason, and without advance notice to the other?

A solution to a long-term contract based solely on COLA is called a wage reopener clause that does not allow wage rates to be renegotiated.

What occurs when a neutral third party dictates a settlement between two sides that have agreed to submit to outside judgment?