Exam 14: Employee Rights and Responsibilities

In the context of conducting workplace investigations, which of the following statements is true of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions (FACT) Act?

After a personality conflict with his manager, Will is asked to work extra hours every day. Will is given the toughest assignments and is often ignored and even insulted during team meetings and discussions. Will considers quitting the job owing to the intolerable work conditions. Will's manager can be held responsible for _____.

Statutory rights are the result of specific laws or statutes passed by federal, state, or local governments.

Which of the following is a primary objective of using employment contracts that are created for protecting trade secrets?

Ken works in a pharmaceutical company that sells antibiotics at a low cost to several African countries. He later learns that most of these drugs are expired antibiotics that have been repackaged by the company. Ken immediately informs one of his friends, a federal agent, of his company's illegal activities. Which of the following statements is true of the given scenario?

If drug testing is done for probable cause, it needs to be based on performance-related behaviors and not just the substance use itself.

Employment is a reciprocal relationship in that both the employer and the employee have rights and obligations.

Companies are more likely to use a formal employment contract when:

What are the consequences of substance abuse in workplaces? What rights do employees have with regard to drug testing?

What consequences are employers likely to face if they fail to follow up on implied promises?

Which of the following statements is true of employee handbooks?

Discipline is a process of corrective action that enforces organizational rules.

If the organizational "norm" is to avoid penalizing problem employees, then managers are more likely to use discipline or to dismiss problem employees.

The goal of the _____ phase of the positive discipline approach to discipline is to heighten employee awareness of organizational policies and rules.

In the context of guidelines used by the courts to determine whether noncompete agreements are legally acceptable, a noncompete agreement should:

The Privacy Act of 1974, which includes provisions affecting HR recordkeeping systems, applies only to _____.

Chu, an Operating Manager, needs to terminate one of his subordinates, who works on the same floor. The employee, even after several warnings, has been poorly executing work-related duties. Which of the following is the most appropriate medium for dealing with the termination?

Individuals outside the normal chain of command who act as independent problem solvers for both the management and employees of an organization are called _____.

One industry in which dress and appearance codes and policies are important is the food and beverage industry.

One of the advantages of using a peer review panel for dispute resolution is the provision of a due process.