Final Review Flashcards
(41 cards)
What is a responsible employer?
Someone who is ethical and follows their legal duties.
It is a managers job to what?
Make employees want to work
What should employers do about harassment in the workplace?
They have a legal and ethical duty to have zero tolerance of harassment.
Employment at will
Employers and employees can end the working relationship at any time, given that there is no binding contract.
Right-to-work law
Employees cannot be forced to join a union if unwilling.
Privacy in the workplace
Employers owe employees their privacy as long as it doesn’t affect their work performance or waste company time
Employers should develope a clear, specific, and Reasonable _______, which should only relate to work.
Monitoring policy
New “Gig” Economy
People who work for themselves as freelancers or contact workers.
Enculturation
Learning the rules, skills, customs, abd values to participate in society. No one is born with culture, it must be learned.
Acculturation
The transmission of culture behavior/customs between 2 cultures when they interact.
NDAs
Non-Disclosure Agreement, protects against left of intellectual property
Which law mandates advance notice for mass layoffs to workers so they can adequately prepare for such an event?
WARN
Which law ensures that employers provide a workplace environment free of risk to employees’ safety and health
OSHA
If you feel harassed, prejudiced against or disadvantaged in your workplace, you may file a complaint with the ____
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Unwelcome touching, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or personal harassment of sexual nature from a supervisor, coworker, client, or customer is known as ______
Sexual harassment
In the new ‘gig’ economy, people who work for themselves are known as what?
Freelance workers
Employers are well within their rights to have policies indicating employees are expected to honor and maintain the secrecy of proprietary material. What is this called?
Duty of confidentiality
Non-Disclosure agreements most often used for what reason?
Protection against the theft of trade secrets
What duty requires that an employee refrains from acting in a major that is contrary to the employers interests?
Duty of loyalty
Laws in a democracy mentally reflect society’s minimal moral standards that in turn recognize:
The nature and understanding of the work of an individual human being
In the objective model of analysis for moral problems in Management, the legal requirements process involves
Reviewing the laws adopted by members of society to regulate the behavior of members of that same society
To achieve a greater degree of diversity in the workplace, managers goals should encompass what?
Inclusion
If a person has a disability the reduces participation in a “major life activity,” such as work, an employer is obligated to provide ____.
Reasonable accommodations
What best describes a diversity dividend?
The financial benefit of improved performance resulting from a diverse workforce.