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Question 1

A listing of what a job includes such as tasks, duties and responsibilities

Answer 1

Job description

Question 2

Increasing the number of tasks an employee must complete

Answer 2

Job enlargement

Question 3

Improving employee satisfaction by increasing the number of responsibilities or tasks

Answer 3

Job enrichment

Question 4

How essential job tasks are related to the job

Answer 4

Job relatedness

Question 5

Moving employees from one department to another to increase their skills

Answer 5

Job rotation

Question 6

When two or more individuals trade off hours for one full-time job

Answer 6

Job sharing

Question 7

An inventory management system in which inventory arrives only when it is needed

Answer 7

Just in time inventory management

Question 8

There is an inverse relationship between supply and demand

Answer 8

Law of demand

Question 9

The path authority follows in a chain of command

Answer 9

Line authority

Question 10

The presence of both line and staff authority in an organization

Answer 10

Line staff organization

Question 11

When employees and management define goals and work to achieve them

Answer 11

Management by objectives

Question 12

An increase in the price of a product before it is sold

Answer 12

Markup

Question 13

The tendency to hire relatives of current employees

Answer 13

Nepotism

Question 14

NLRA

Answer 14

National labor relations act

Question 15

Made yellow dog contracts unenforceable

Answer 15

Norris-LaGuardia Act

Question 16

When you learn the job by actually doing it

Answer 16

On-the-job training

Question 17

A legal document giving exclusive rights to produce a product to one person or company

Answer 17

Patent

Question 18

Deals with recruitment, selection, placement, training, compensation, and working conditions

Answer 18

Personnel management

Question 19

Total weekly earnings divided by the total number of hours worked that week

Answer 19

Piece rate

Question 20

Any strategy used by a company to make it stock less attractive

Answer 20

Poison pill

Question 21

The profit which is kept and used by the company

Answer 21

Retained earnings

Question 22

The belief that there should be a clearly defined chain of command

Answer 22

Scalar principal

Question 23

A government agency created to protect small businesses

Answer 23

Small business administration

Question 24

A systematic method of filling a position in an organization structure

Answer 24

Staffing

Question 25

This states that people dislike work, and therefore must be closely supervised

Answer 25

Theory X

Question 26

This states that people enjoy work and work better with little supervision

Answer 26

Theory Y

Question 27

The added value of a product to the convenience

Answer 27

Time utility

Question 28

The illegal infringement of a right

Answer 28

Tort

Question 29

When people work jobs that are below their skill level

Answer 29

Underemployment

Question 30

Provides weekly pay to those employees who lose their jobs

Answer 30

Unemployment insurance

Question 31

Formal associations of employees to represent employees in negotiations with management

Answer 31

Unions

Question 32

A promise from an employee to not join a union as a condition for getting hired

Answer 32

Yellow dog contract