Unit 1
A strategy of bringing in outside people into the organization and making them feel obligated to contribute because of their organizational involvement.
What is Cooptation?
A legal foundation for charges of illegal discrimination that is available when employment actions are improperly based on membership in a protected class. Evidence of motive must be shown.
What is Disparate Treatment?
When the training activities inhibit performance in the new situation.
What is Negetive Transfer of Training?
A piece-rate incentive plan that provides a low piece rate for individuals who produce less than the standard and a high piece rate for individuals who meet or exceed the standard.
What is a Differential Piece-Rate Plan?
The right of EE's to have union representation at investigatory interviews.
What are Weingarten Rights?
The visible symbols and objects that are unique to an organization and that suggest the kinds of shared beliefs and expectations of members
What are Cultural Artifacts?
A method of long-term forecasting in which probabilities of movement amond job categories in one period are used to forecast movement in a later period
What is Markov Analysis?
The degree of consistency between two evaluators who have evaluated teh same employee or job applicant?
The tendence for people to become fulfilled and achieve all that htey have the potentil to achieve according to their genetic blueprint.
What is Self-Actualization?
The practice of requiring employers to hire extra workers who are not wanted or needed.
What is Featherbedding?
An organizational structure where jobs are assigned to units or departments by function
What is Functional Departmentalization?
A legal theory that makes employers liable for the abusive acts of employees if the employer knew or should have known about the EE's propensity for such conduct.
What is Negligent Hiring?
A form of evaluation bias in which one attribute influences the evaluation of other,, possible negetive, traits.
An thoery of motivation built around the need for achievement and its influence over behavior. The characteristics of high needs achievers are 1) personal responsibility, 2) moderate risk taking, and 3) a desire for immediate feedback (money and incentives are a form of feedback)
What is McClelland's Achievement Need?
What is the Bargaining Zone?
A statistical technique for predicting the value of one dependent variable by a weighted combination of other independent variables
What is Regression Analysis?
What is Qualified Privelege Doctrine?
An evaluation procedure consisting of specified dimensions of performance and a rating scale for each dimension to evaluate the EE's behavior.
What is a Graphic Rating Scale?
An agreement between a company and an executive employee specifying that the executive will recieve certain significant benefits if employment is terminated due to events such as a merger or takeover.
What are "Golden Parachutes"?
Refusing to hire or insisting on transferring a pregnant or fertile woman who would be unavoidably exposed to substances creating a reproducitve hazard.
What is a Fetal Protection Policy?
The balance achieved in an empoyment exchang where the rewards offered by an organization are roughly equivalent to the contributions that an employee is required to make
What is an Inducement-Contributions Balance?
A long-term forecasting method that is based on the estiates of each unit manager. These estimates are aggregated to identify the overall needs.
What is Unit Demand?
Essay description of especially good or bad responses by EE's to their jobs. These descriptions are useful in identifying the important dimensions of succesful performance.
What are Critical Incidents?
One of the major deciision involved in designing a compenstaion system; it compares the wages paid in one organization with the pay in other organizations for employees performing similar work.
What is the Wage-Level Decision?
Categorizing EE's into specified groups according to relevant characteristics such as job classification or organizational level, and then selecting individuals randonly within each group according to group size.