Human Resources 3rd Prd. Review

Workers Compensation is an employee ___________.

An HR manager at a cosmetics company invites the new employees to a meeting to discuss company policies and to explain the benefits plans used by the company. As part of this benefits plan, he give each employee a list of benefits and asks him or her to choose the benefits that he or she really wants. The company aims to increase employee satisfaction by using this benefit. Which of the following benefits plans is the cosmetics company using in the given scenario?

• A defined contribution plan

• An employee assistance plan

• A cafeteria-style benefits plan

• A defined benefits plan

Jennifer, an account manager is an automobile company, has work experience of 6 years and has become one of the best employees of the company in the 2 years since joining. However, she resigns from her job when she finds out that most of the new employees with only 2 or 3 years of experience in the company are paid that same salary as hers. In the given scenario, Jennifer most likely resigns because of:

• External inequity

• Wage elasticity

• Pay inversion

• Pay compression

Organizations that practice pay secrecy:

• Encourage greater camaraderie and teamwork among employees.

• Experience pay inversion in the long run.

• Believe an individual's is not for public knowledge.

• Motivate low performers to work harder for better compensation.

Private pension plans, wellness programs and paid time off are all _______.

Performance appraisals CANNOT accomplish their goals if:

• Managers and employees do not use the same set o standards to rate performance.

• There are no false negative or false positive errors in the selection process.

• The immediate supervisors of employees play the largest role in the employees' appraisal.

• Appraisals are conducted for less than 30 employees at at time.

Matthew is always late to office. Matthew's manager does not like Matthew's tardiness. Therefore, during a performance review, Matthew's manager gives him low ratings even though his work was impeccable during the performance -review period. In this scenario, Matthew's manager is making a:

• Severity

• Halo error

• Horns error

• Central tendency error

The goal of performance management is:

• to formally evaluate the performance of employees.

• to help employees learn and adopt ethnocentric skills relevant to their job.

• to prevent employees from reaching the disengagement stage of their careers.

• to improve employee performance.

The traditional career stages are:

• exploration, establishment, maintenance, and engagement

• exploration, establishment, maintenance and disengagement

• experimentation, movement, maintenance, and disengagement

• expulsion, establishment, maintenance, and engagement

Individuals are most likely to retire when:

• adequate financial resources are available.

• health makes it difficult to continue work.

• employers let them know they are too old to work.

• both a and b