Office Safety & other stuff
The study of the relationship between people and their work environment; it includes the study of ways to change conditions to make tasks easier and more natural.
What is Ergonomics?
The study of how people make choices about ways to use limited resources to fulfill their wants.
A document that includes questions an employer would like answered by the applicant.
What is an application?
System in which economic decisions are based on customs and beliefs that have been handed down from generation to generation.
What is a Traditional Economy>
A formal conversation between two or more people, typically with one person, the interviewer, asking questions to obtain information.
What is an interview?
The federal legislation affecting the way office environments treat disabled
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
This is the basic economic problem that results from a combination of limited resources and unlimited wants.
What is scarcity?
This is best to put on a job application if asked for an expected wage
What is negotiable?
System in which the government controls the factors of production and makes all of the decisions about their use.
What is a command economy?
Sacrificing one good or service to produce or purchase another.
What is a trade-off?
Name the Agency that handles complaints about workplace safety.
What is OSHA?
This is the branch of economic theory that deals with behavior and decision making by small units such as individuals and firms.
What is microeconomics?
A one page document that is traditionally submitted along with your resume when applying for a job.
What is a Cover Letter?
System in which individual's own the factors of production and make economic decisions through free interaction while looking out for their own and their family’s best interest
What is a Market economy?
Amount earned after a business subtracts its cost from its revenue
What is a Profit?
Document sent by the employer sends to its employees and the IRS at the end of the year. It reports the annual wages and the amount of taxes withheld from their paycheck. Essential for filing federal and state income taxes
What is a W-2?
The branch of economic theory dealing with the economy as a whole and decision making by large units such as governments.
What is macroeconomics?
Is a document created and used by a person to present their background, skills, and accomplishments. This usually contains a summary of relevant job experience and education.
What is a resume?
System combining characteristics of more than one type of economy
What is a mixed economy?
Rivalry among producers to win business
What is competition?
Filled out by an employee when they start a new job. It tells the employer how much federal and state taxes to hold out of an employee’s paycheck
What is a W-4 ?
Value of the next best alternative given up for the alternative that was chosen.
What is opportunity cost?
A section of the cover letter designed to address the hiring manager.
What is the greeting?
What is left for you on you paycheck AFTER all withholdings are taken out
What is NET pay?
What you are paid prior to withholding of any kind.