The percentage of eligible employees that must sign authorization cards before the NLRB will order an election.
What is 30%?
100
When new college graduates start at salaries that are higher than those of current jobholders.
What is wage or salary compression?
100
Offering a person something of value in order to influence his or her judgement or conduct.
What is a bribe, payoff, or kickback?
100
The name of the calculation you can make with the information that a company has 30 qualified candidates out of 100 total applicants.
What is a yield ratio?
100
The easiest training evaluation level to use.
What is Reaction?
200
The type of employees who are customarily excluded from the collective bargaining unit.
What are supervisors?
200
The type of compensation that would include workers' compensation and unpaid leave.
What is indirect compensation?
200
The first step in setting up a Human Resource Information System.
What is analyzing needs, or a needs assessment?
200
When a federal contractor identifies discrepancies in the employment of protected group members and sets written goals to overcome these discrepancies.
What is an affirmative action plan, or AAP?
200
The type of training program that generally focuses on process-oriented applications.
What is Management and Supervisory training?
300
The type of collective bargaining issue that working conditions are considered.
What is mandatory?
300
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act.
What does COBRA stand for?
300
Calculating the ratio of employee separations during a specific period, compared to the average number of employees during this period.
What is turnover analysis?
300
A developmentally-oriented relationship between two individuals in an organization.
What is mentoring?
300
The best way for managers to measure observable changes in behavior.
What is a Performance test?
400
Refusing to bargain with an NLRB-recognized union.
What is an unfair labor practice?
400
When a company announces that in six months it will close a plant, these are the federally or state-mandated benefits that must be provided if the employee is actively seeking work.
What are unemployment benefits?
400
People who are not citizens of either their host or home country.
What are third-country nationals?
400
The type of requirement when an applicant for a sales position is asked to "demonstrate product features" as part of the recruitment process.
What is a skill?
400
When a training program includes role plays dealing with the acceptance of disabled workers and HIV-positive employees in the work environment.
What is Awareness training?
500
When an employer has both union and nonunion operations.
What is double breasting?
500
The type of plan when an employer provides a retirement program and, at the company's discretion each year, puts in an amount for each eligible employee.
What is a Defined contribution (DC) pension plan?
500
What Hofstede would say a "masculine" culture would place strong emphasis on.
What is performance?
500
The statistical technique used in a validation study.
What is correlation, or the correlation coefficient?
500
The curve that is common when a trainee is learning a difficult task that also requires specific insight.