Chapter 8

Question 1

AFL-CIO

Answer 1

Merged unions, which have increased membership by recruiting outside basic industry. (Ex: education, gov’t, white-collar professions, service jobs)

Question 2

ADA - Americans with Disabilities

Answer 2

Protects the rights of people with disabilities to obtain gainful employment. Forbids employers from discrimination

Question 3

BFOQs - Bona fide occupational qualifications

Answer 3

Job specifications to which civil rights laws do not apply (no BFOQs for race, color or sex)

Question 4

Card Check

Answer 4

A way for workers to form a union - by signing up to join it

Question 5

Corporate Campaign

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Direct Strike

Answer 6

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.

Question 7

Due Process

Answer 7

Fairness of the procedures an org uses to impose sanctions on employees

Question 8

Employment at will

Answer 8

Either side is free to terminate at any time without advance notice or reason

Question 9

Firing

Answer 9

For-cause dismissal -result of theft, insubordination, release of proprietary info.

Question 10

Inbreeding

Answer 10

Practice of promoting exclusively from within firm

Question 11

Job Description

Answer 11

List of pertinent details about content of job (duties, responsibilities, phys. requirements)

Question 12

Job Screening

Answer 12

Ensures a pool of competent candidates & guarantees that everyone has been dealt with fairly. When done improperly, undermines effective recruitment and invites injustices

Question 13

Job Specification

Answer 13

Qualifications employee needs (skills, background, education, experience)

Question 14

Just Cause

Answer 14

Requires that reasons for discipline or discharge deal directly with job performance

Question 15

Layoff

Answer 15

Temporary unemployment experienced by hourly employees and implies they are subject to recall.

Question 16

Living Wage

Answer 16

Amount of money a full time employee needs to afford necessities of life, support of family and live above poverty line

Question 17

National Labor Relations Act - AKA Wagner Act

Answer 17

(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

Question 18

Nepotism

Answer 18

Showing favoritism to relatives and close friends

Question 19

Open-shop laws

Answer 19

Prohibit union contracts requiring all employees on a job site to either join the union or pay equivalent of union dues, once hired.

Question 20

Position elimination

Answer 20

Designates the permanent elimination of a job as a result of workforce reduction, plant closing, or departmental consolidation

Question 21

Primary boycott

Answer 21

Occurs when union members and their supporters refuse to buy products from a company being struck.

Question 22

Right-to-work state

Answer 22

22 states, mostly with the south and west

Question 23

Secondary boycott

Answer 23

Occurs when ppl refuse to patronize companies that handle products of struck companies. (Sympathetic strike)

Question 24

Seniority

Answer 24

Longevity on a job or with a firm

Question 25

Situational Interview

Answer 25

Engage in role playing. Predicts future job performance more accurately

Question 26

Sympathetic Strike

Answer 26

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.

Question 27

Taft-Hartley Act

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Termination

Answer 28

Employee's poor performance - from failure to fulfill expectations

Question 29

Test Reliability

Answer 29

Whether test results are replicable (whether a subject's scores will remain relatively consistent test to test)

Question 30

Test Validity

Answer 30

Whether test scores correlate with performance in some other activity (whether test measures skill or ability intended)

Question 31

Wagner Act

Answer 31

AKA National Labor Relations Act