Environment
Misc. Environment
Workplace (1)
The Laws
General Employment
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That individual pursuit of self-interest can sometimes make everyone worse off.
What is "tragedy of the commons"? top of page 245
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This group contends that some natural objects are morally considerable in their own right, apart from human interests.
What are advocates of the naturalistic ethic? page 260
100
To be successful, any test used by a corporation must be
What is valid (to not be discriminatory) page 287
100
What act prohibits employers from interfering with employees trying to organize unions?
What is The Wagner Act of 1935? (Also National Labor Relations Act) - page 299
100
the practice of promoting exclusively tom within the firm.
What is Inbreeding? page 290
200
Who believes that the right to a livable environment is a fundamental human right?
Who is William T. Blackstone? page 246
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True or False: Regulation is always the most effective way to allocate the costs of environmental protection.
What is False.
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practice of showing favoritism to relatives and close friends in the workplace.
What is Nepotism? page 291
200
What case established that employer are prohibited from requiring a high school education as a pre-requisite for employment without demonstrable evidence that the associated skills relate directly to job performance?
What is Griggs v. Duke Power Company? page 287
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the amount of money a full-time employee needs to afford the necessities of life, support a family, and live above the poverty line.
What is a living wage? page 297
300
Business has considered the environment to be
What is free and nearly limitless. page 244
300
A decade after wolves were introduced to Yellowstone Park, their presence was discovered to
What is have changed the behavior of elk. page 243
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Employers and employees have a right to terminate employment at any time without advance notice or reason.
What is employment at will? page 279
300
Which act requires that all employers must make "reasonable accommodations" for disabled workers?
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1994? page 284
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requires that reasons for discharge or discipline relate directly to job performance.
What is "just cause"? page 292
400
This refers to a total ecological community, both living and non-living.
What is "ecosystem"? page 243
400
This discipline calculates the value of an ecosystem, not in terms of what people are willing to pay for it, but in terms of what it would cost to provide the benefits and services that the ecosystem now furnishes us.
What is "ecological economics"? page 247
400
Increasing popular, this is supposed to predict future job performance more accurately than a standard one.
What is a situational interview? page 289
400
Job specifications to which the civil rights law does not apply. They are very limited in scope.
What is a BFOQ? (Bona fide occupational qualification) page 284
400
Unions employ two kinds of boycotts to enforce their demands.
What is primary and secondary? page 305
500
These people reject eating meat based on moral grounds.
What is (are) moral vegetarians? page 263
500
are an example of which of the following methods of achieving our environmental goals?
What are "pollution permits"? page 254
500
Requires specific and systematic means for workers to appeal a discharge or disciplinary decisions.
What is "due process"? page 292
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Certain _______________________ prohibit discrimination against those who are short or overweight.
What are local city ordinances? (will accept local laws) page 285
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these organizations have been driven by an attempt to protect workers from abuses of power at the hands of employers and have been given credit by some for raising the standard of living and creating the middle class?
What are unions? page 298
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