a function whose objective is to preserve and enhance employees’ competence in their jobs through improving their knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics
What is Development
100
It established the first national minimum wage
(25 cents an hour) in 1938
What is Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
100
Includes anything an employee values and desires that an employer is able and willing to offer in exchange for employee contributions.
What is Organizational Reward System
100
________ is a kind of compass—one that indicates actual direction as well as desired direction
What is Performance management
100
a long-lived bird that is cyclically regenerated or reborn and associated with the worship of the sun.
What is a Phoenix
200
The free movement of capital, goods, services, ideas, information, and people across national boundaries
What is Globalization
200
Equal Pay required for men and women doing “substantially similar” work in terms of skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions
What is Equal Pay Act (1963)
200
The requirements of an effective incentive system are: Be simple, be specific, be attainable, and be ______________?
What is Measurable
200
an administrative exercise they typically do once a year to identify and discuss job-relevant strengths and weaknesses of individuals or work teams
What is Performance appraisal
200
founder of University of Phoenix
What is Dr. John Sperling
300
can assume a variety of forms, of which employment downsizing is probably the most common. Companies can restructure by selling or buying plants or lines of business, or by laying-off employees.
What is Restructuring
300
Executives (CEOs and CFOs) cannot retain bonuses or profits from selling company stock if they mislead the public about the financial health of the company.
What is Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX, 2002)
300
What is another name for the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986
What is COBRA
300
Describes work and personal requirements of a particular job
What is Job Analysis
300
University of Phoenix is _____________by The Higher Learning Commission
What is accredited
400
the giving of an unfair advantage (or disadvantage) to the members of a particular group in comparison with members of other groups
What is Discrimination
400
Grants all citizens the right to make and enforce contracts for employment
It provides a federal remedy against racial discrimination in private employment
What is Civil Rights Act (1866)
400
Christmas bonus is an example of Employee Services True or False
What is True
400
A process of managing that relies on goal-setting to establish objectives for the organization as a whole
What is Management By Objectives (MBO)
400
The University Library houses more than __________electronic periodicals as well as e-books of interest
What is 100,000
500
The amendment that prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude
What is the 13th amendment
500
Gives workers up to 12 weeks unpaid leave each year for:
Birth/adoption/foster care of a child within a year of the child’s arrival;
Care for a spouse/parent/child with a serious health condition;
The employee’s own serious health condition if it prevents him/her from working
What is The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA)
500
An organizational reward system can have both financial and ______________?
What is Non-financial
500
Clear links between the performance standards for a particular job and organizational objective
What is Relevance
500
University of Phoenix began offering online degree programs in 1989 and awarded degrees to its first online class of MBA students in _______