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What is the act of recruiting, selecting, training and maintaining a workforce needed to achieve an organization's goals?
What is Human Resource Management?
What Guarantees of fair treatment that become rights when they are granted to employees by the courts, legislatures, or employers?
What is employee rights?
What agency is responsible for administering and enforcing the Wagner Act. It serves the public interest by reducing interruptions in production or service caused by labor-management strife?
What is the national labor relations board?
What is the name of the piece of legislation that guarantees equal pay for equal work, regardless of gender?
What is the Equal Pay Act of 1963?
What is a country in which an international corporation operates?
What is a "host country"?
What is a discharge, or termination, of an employee that is illegal?
What is wrongful discharge?
What is the right of an employer to fire an employee without giving a reason and the right of an employee to quit when he or she chooses?
What is employment-at-will relationship?
What group of two or more employees who share common employment interests and conditions and may reasonably be grouped together for purposes of collective bargaining?
What is a bargaining unit?
What is the name of the piece of legislation that forbids discrimination. It also helped to establish the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission?
What is Title VII of the Civil Rights Act?
What is a firm with independent business units operating in multiple countries?
What is a "multidomestic corporation" (MDC)?
What is the process of anticipating and making provision for the movement of people into, within and out of an organization?
What is Human Resource Planning?
What is the name of the process that involves the comparison of an applicant skills, knowledge and education with the requirements of a job and choosing the most qualified applicant?
What is a term applied to different employee complaint or dispute resolution methods that do not involve going to court?
What is alternative dispute resolution (ADR)?
What kind of unions that represent all workers—skilled, semiskilled, unskilled—employed along industry lines?
What are industrial unions?
What is the name of the piece of legislation that forbids the discrimination of employees between the ages of 40-70?
What is the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967?
What are employees from the home country who are on international assignment?
What is the expatriates, or home-country nationals?
What is a third-party neutral who resolves a labor dispute by issuing a final decision in the disagreement?
What is an arbitrator?
What is the use of an impartial neutral to reach a compromise decision in employment disputes?
What are questions that that you cannot ask of a prospective job applicant?
What is mediation?
What is the power of labor and management to achieve their goals through economic, social, or political influence?
What is bargaining power?
What is the name of the piece of legislation that disallows discrimination based on pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition?
What is the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978?
What is a government document granting a foreign individual the right to seek employment?
What is a work permit, or visa?
What is the name of the process of determining the duties and tasks of a job?
what is a domestic firm that uses its existing capabilities to move into overseas markets?
What is an international corporation?
What are complaints to governmental agencies by employees about their employers’ illegal or immoral acts or practices?
What is whistle-blowing?
What is the most critical step in the selection process of a job applicant?
What is the formal procedure that provides for the union to represent members and nonmembers in processing a grievance?
What is "grievance procedure"?
What is the name of the piece of legislation that disallows discrimination based on citizenship or nationality? It also dictates that employees need to be authorized to work in the US.
What is the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1985?
What is a manager equipped to run an international business?
What is a global manager?