Final Review Flashcards

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What is a responsible employer?

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Someone who is ethical and follows their legal duties.

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It is a managers job to what?

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Make employees want to work

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What should employers do about harassment in the workplace?

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They have a legal and ethical duty to have zero tolerance of harassment.

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Employment at will

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Employers and employees can end the working relationship at any time, given that there is no binding contract.

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Right-to-work law

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Employees cannot be forced to join a union if unwilling.

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Privacy in the workplace

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Employers owe employees their privacy as long as it doesn’t affect their work performance or waste company time

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Employers should develope a clear, specific, and Reasonable _______, which should only relate to work.

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Monitoring policy

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New “Gig” Economy

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People who work for themselves as freelancers or contact workers.

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Enculturation

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Learning the rules, skills, customs, abd values to participate in society. No one is born with culture, it must be learned.

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Acculturation

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The transmission of culture behavior/customs between 2 cultures when they interact.

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NDAs

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Non-Disclosure Agreement, protects against left of intellectual property

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Which law mandates advance notice for mass layoffs to workers so they can adequately prepare for such an event?

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WARN

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Which law ensures that employers provide a workplace environment free of risk to employees’ safety and health

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OSHA

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If you feel harassed, prejudiced against or disadvantaged in your workplace, you may file a complaint with the ____

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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

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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 ______

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Sexual harassment

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In the new ‘gig’ economy, people who work for themselves are known as what?

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Freelance workers

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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?

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Duty of confidentiality

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Non-Disclosure agreements most often used for what reason?

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Protection against the theft of trade secrets

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What duty requires that an employee refrains from acting in a major that is contrary to the employers interests?

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Duty of loyalty

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Laws in a democracy mentally reflect society’s minimal moral standards that in turn recognize:

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The nature and understanding of the work of an individual human being

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In the objective model of analysis for moral problems in Management, the legal requirements process involves

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Reviewing the laws adopted by members of society to regulate the behavior of members of that same society

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To achieve a greater degree of diversity in the workplace, managers goals should encompass what?

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If a person has a disability the reduces participation in a “major life activity,” such as work, an employer is obligated to provide ____.

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Reasonable accommodations

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What best describes a diversity dividend?

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The financial benefit of improved performance resulting from a diverse workforce.

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Which act was passed in 1990 and stipulates that a person hasa disability of they have an impairment that reduces participation in "a major life activity," such as work.
Americans with disabilities act
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What is the primary law prohibiting religious discrimination I'm the private sector workplace?
Title VII of the civil rights act
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A firms social performance is difficult to measure but it can be described as ________
The overall well-being and satisfaction of the population in relation to the firm
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An objective model of analysis demonstrates a balance of what 4 criteria?
Stakeholder interest, economic outcomes, legal requirements, and ethical duties
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In objective model of analysis for moral problems in Management, the Economic Outcomes process involves what?
Determining the net balance of benefits over costs for the full society
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Ethical Duties can be described as _______
Duties your believe you owe to other people based upon your rational thought processes.
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Universal principals are not limited to any cultural or religious tradition or a specific economic out social situation, but they can ________
Last to the overall well-being and general satisfaction of the full society
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Some companies, like Facebook, have opted for ____ instead of traditional office spaces
Workplace campuses
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The term, ____ emerged in the 1970s and describes a practice of reducing commuting time to instead work in a specific location, such as an alternative office or an employee's home
Telecommuting
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What corporate culture challenge exists when employees are allowed to work remotely
Employees may slack off if not supervised
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Which brand of computer science uses computers to replicate human behavior with machines?
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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What is the most significant employee relations issue to be considered when expanding the use of AI?
Retaining of workers
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What is a positive workplace safety outcome from the use of robots?
Employees can be protected from dangerous work
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Companies should have written policies for telecommuting employees that specify expectations.
True
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There is a prevailing view that all employers offering more perks do so because they expect more from employees.
False
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Stressed workers are less productive in the workplace.
True
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Automation advancement are likely to result in reduction in the workforce and higher unemployment.
True