Flashcards in Chapter 8 Deck (31):
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AFL-CIO
Merged unions, which have increased membership by recruiting outside basic industry. (Ex: education, gov't, white-collar professions, service jobs)
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ADA - Americans with Disabilities
Protects the rights of people with disabilities to obtain gainful employment. Forbids employers from discrimination
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BFOQs - Bona fide occupational qualifications
Job specifications to which civil rights laws do not apply (no BFOQs for race, color or sex)
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Card Check
A way for workers to form a union - by signing up to join it
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Corporate Campaign
Unions enlist the cooperation of a company's creditors to pressure the company to allow its employees to unionize or comply with other union demands
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Direct Strike
Cessation of work by employees with the same industrial grievance. May be justified when there is just cause and proper authorization, and when it is called as a last resort.
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Due Process
Fairness of the procedures an org uses to impose sanctions on employees
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Employment at will
Either side is free to terminate at any time without advance notice or reason
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Firing
For-cause dismissal -result of theft, insubordination, release of proprietary info.
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Inbreeding
Practice of promoting exclusively from within firm
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Job Description
List of pertinent details about content of job (duties, responsibilities, phys. requirements)
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Job Screening
Ensures a pool of competent candidates & guarantees that everyone has been dealt with fairly. When done improperly, undermines effective recruitment and invites injustices
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Job Specification
Qualifications employee needs (skills, background, education, experience)
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Just Cause
Requires that reasons for discipline or discharge deal directly with job performance
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Layoff
Temporary unemployment experienced by hourly employees and implies they are subject to recall.
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Living Wage
Amount of money a full time employee needs to afford necessities of life, support of family and live above poverty line
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National Labor Relations Act - AKA Wagner Act
(Most important labor law) guarantees employees the right to organize and join unions and to bargain collectively through reps of their own choosing. Prohibits employers from interfering with employees trying to organize unions
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Nepotism
Showing favoritism to relatives and close friends
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Open-shop laws
Prohibit union contracts requiring all employees on a job site to either join the union or pay equivalent of union dues, once hired.
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Position elimination
Designates the permanent elimination of a job as a result of workforce reduction, plant closing, or departmental consolidation
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Primary boycott
Occurs when union members and their supporters refuse to buy products from a company being struck.
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Right-to-work state
22 states, mostly with the south and west
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Secondary boycott
Occurs when ppl refuse to patronize companies that handle products of struck companies. (Sympathetic strike)
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Seniority
Longevity on a job or with a firm
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Situational Interview
Engage in role playing. Predicts future job performance more accurately
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Sympathetic Strike
More controversial. occurs when workers who have no particular grievance of their own and who may or may not have the same employer decide to strike in support of others.
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Taft-Hartley Act
Amended NLR act. Outlawed the closed shop(requirement that a person must be a union member before being hired). Permitted individ. states to outlaw the union shop (requirement that a person must join the union within a specified time after being hired.) Also prohibits unfair labor practices like sympathetic strikes and secondary boycotts
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Termination
Employee's poor performance - from failure to fulfill expectations
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Test Reliability
Whether test results are replicable (whether a subject's scores will remain relatively consistent test to test)
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Test Validity
Whether test scores correlate with performance in some other activity (whether test measures skill or ability intended)
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