Exam 14: Employee Rights and Responsibilities

Employees who test positive or report for duty and cannot perform their jobs properly are not immune from reprimand, even in states where recreational and medical marijuana use is legal.

Which of the following is typically a responsibility of operating managers for ensuring that policies, procedures, and rules are effectively followed in a company?

Roger is hired by an international HR consulting firm as its Outplacement Counselor. Prior to receiving extensive training on the company's copyrighted techniques and programs, Roger is asked to agree in his employment contract that he will not work as a trainer for a rival outplacement company in a specified list of states for a period of one year from the time he quits or his employment will be terminated. This best exemplifies a _____.

In the positive approach to discipline, counseling is the last step before the termination of an employee.

_____ involves the termination of an individual's employment for reasons that are illegal or improper.

Describe an employee handbook. What are the best practices that companies should consider when developing employee handbooks?

Which of the following statements is true of the Employee Polygraph Protection Act?

Explain the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988.

Wrongful discharge is the process of deliberately making conditions intolerable to get an employee to quit.

Describe separation agreements.

Claudia is hired as a Senior Engineer by Hexagon Inc. Allen, the HR Manager of the company, promises her that she will start working on live projects within three months from joining. He also tells her that she is expected to give three months' notice before quitting the job. Which of the following statements is true of the given scenario?

The use of arbitration in employment-related situations can be considered unfair because it is the employers who often select the arbitrators.

How does the concept of "just cause" affect employment-related action?

Which of the following exceptions to employment at will holds that employees should not be fired from an organization as long as they perform their jobs?

The process of deliberately making conditions intolerable to get an employee to quit is referred to as _____.

How do ombuds contribute to dispute resolution in organizations?

Employee handbooks should be customized to fit a company's current situation instead of being too generalized.

In the context of approaches to discipline, the _____ incorporates steps that become increasingly more severe and are designed to change an employee's inappropriate behavior.

Ramona manages a team of 10 designers at Purple Inc. She encourages all her subordinates to directly approach her and speak with her at any time of the day regarding issues they may be facing at work. Given this information, it can be said that _____.

Grace is asked by her employer to quit her job on the grounds that she is not punctual. Considering that the common-law doctrine of employment at will holds in the given scenario, which of the following statements is true?