Privacy
Testing
Working Conditions
Job Satisfaction
Miscellaneous
100
Widely acknowledged to be a fundamental right.
What is The right of privacy? (page 317)
100
It is a fast and economical way to verify information provided by a job applicant and to screen candidates for employment.
What is a polygraph test? (page 324)
100
Critics call this the "toothless tiger"
What is OSHA? (Occupational Safety and Health Act) (page 332)
100
The most common reason people leave their job...
What is a poor relationship with their supervisor. (page 333)
100
Prohibits most employers from using lie detector tests in "pre-employment" testing.
What is Employee Polygraph Protection Act? (page 325)
200
The burden is on this party to establish the legitimacy of infringing on what would normally be considered the personal sphere of the individual.
What is an organization? (page 319)
200
implies deliberate and free choice.
What is informed consent? (page 323)
200
This amount of workers killed on the job each year.
What is about 5,000? (page 330)
200
Showed that attention and recognition can enhance worker productivity and motivation.
What is the Hawthorne Effect? (page 338)
200
It falsely identifies a person as a liar when they are telling the truth.
What is a false positive? (page 324)
300
The general proposition that a firm has a legitimate interest in employee behavior that significantly influences work performance applies equally here.
What is off the job conduct? (page 320)
300
Used by companies to determine whether prospective employees are emotionally mature, get along well with others, and have a good work ethic, and, more generally, whether they would fit n with the organization.
What is a personality test? (page 326)
300
The US Supreme Court has acknowledged this as a legal right for employees.
What is the right to refuse dangerous work? (page 330)
300
A lack of job satisfaction can create this.
What is mental health problems? (page 339)
300
In some organizations this group is "immune" from drug testing or electronic monitoring.
What is senior executives? (page 329)
400
This conflicts with an employee's right to privacy.
What is an organization's interests? (page 319)
400
Although many companies remain skeptical of the benefits of this, 67% of large corporations still do this to their current employees or job applicants.
What is drug testing? (page 327)
400
These are prime causes of industrial accidents and cost employers billions a year in absences, accidents, and diminished productivity.
What is fatigue and sleep deprivation? (page 333)
400
This country lags behind many industrialized nations in the provision of child care.
What is the US? (page 335)
400
A concept that in some industries and in certain occupations an injured worker can reasonably be said to have voluntarily...
What is assumed the risk? (page 330)
500
This is highly debatable.
What is what constitutes a significant influence on work performance? (page 320)
500
gathers personal information without informed consent - although some employers believe that notice constitutes consent (it does not).
What is monitoring of employees? (page 329)
500
More than 30 percent of Americans say they are "always" or "often" under this at work...
What is job stress? (page 333)
500
How managers conduct themselves on the job (and can do more to enhance or diminish the work environment than any other facet of employer-employee relations.
What is management style? (page 333)
500
epidemic of occupational injury and illness known as
What is musculoskeletal disorders? (page 332)
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