Defintions
Interviewing and surveying are used to get information from employees who are leaving the organization.
What are Exit Interviews?
The generic federal, state, and local laws that specify the responsibilities of employers and the rights of employees.
What are Employment Laws?
The process of acclimating a new hire to the organization and its culture.
What is Onboarding?
(T/F) Every employee has the right to see and copy documents such as performance appraisals, reports, and letters of recommendation in their personnel file.
True
(T/F) Employment-at-will is uncommon is most parts of the world.
True
Most countries throughout the world allow employers to dismiss employees only for cause.
A series of systematic procedures designed to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization's HR management system.
What are HR Audits?
(T/F) In Ohio, every company must provide rest breaks for its employees as dictated by federal law.
False
Under Ohio law, there is no requirement for an employer to provide a meal period or rest break to its adult employees age 18 or older.
What is Severance Pay?
(T/F) An employee gives two weeks’ notice of his intention to quit. The company lets them go before that date. The company therefore owes him severance pay.
False
This is an advantage of using internet recruiting
What is fast and effective distribution of listings.
The process of assessing the scope, duties, responsibilities, and complexity of a job to determine the most appropriate rank and job title.
What is Job Classification?
A federal law that governs minimum wage, overtime, child labor, and recordkeeping rules and regulations for most U.S. workplaces.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)?
The organization's values, philosophy, norms, expectations, and beliefs that help guide employee behavior.
What is Organizational Culture?
The company has recently changed its leave policies and wants to know how employees feel about the changes. 1000 employees are located in locations around the US. This is the best way to capture the highest response rate.
What is conducting an online survey?
The company should do this prior to implementing a random drug testing program and testing employees.
What is verifying that the proposed program complies with applicable local, state, and federal laws?
A US federal-state partnership created by the Social Security Act to protect workers with regard to pay who have lost their job due to no fault of their own.
What is Unemployment Compensation?
This Act prohibits discrimination against employees who are age 40 or older and applies to employers with 20 or more employees.
What is the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)?
Organizational techniques and policies aimed at improving job satisfaction and motivating employees to stay with the organization.
What is Retention?
An employee comes to HR with a complaint but asks that their name is not disclosed. This is the best HR response.
What is "I cannot promise confidentiality, as it is our obligation to fully investigate concerns for your benefit, but for others who may be experiencing the same problem. Information will only be with those who need to know."
This is a strategy for identifying development of high-potential employees who, over time, may move into leadership positions.
What is Succession Planning?
An employer's response to an employee's misconduct, poor performance, or rule-breaking.
What is Disciplinary Action?
Employees are eligible for this if they have worked for their employer for at least 12 months and work at a location where the company employs 50 or more employees within 75 miles.
What is Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)?
The process of providing support toward an employee's professional growth that enables the employee to gradually progress within the organization.
What is Career Development?
The HR Dept. receives a letter from an anonymous employee that accuses an executive of bullying lower-level employees. The employee has chosen to remain anonymous because the employee fears retaliation. This is first step to address the accusations in this letter.
What is review the executive's personnel file for information that suggests that a pattern of behavior exists.
Technology can support these areas of HR practice.
What is nearly every HR functional area?