HRM Quiz 8 BUS 362

Course	Human Resource Management
Test	Quiz 8
Status	Completed
Attempt Score	42.5 out of 50 points
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• Question 1

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	Dismissal for just cause means that
	Selected Answer: 2. employees may be dismissed only for valid, job-related reasons, such as poor performance.

• Question 2

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	The employment-at-will rule is based on the idea that an employee may quit at any time, without notice, and for any reason.
	Selected Answer: 1. True

• Question 3

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	Management can replace striking workers with new employees
	Selected Answer: 1. during an economic strike, that is, a strike over wages, hours, or working conditions.

• Question 4

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	Under the Privacy Act of 1974,
	Selected Answer: 1. controlled access to records and confidentiality are guaranteed to all employees.

• Question 5

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	Productivity bargaining is
	Selected Answer: 1. an approach that ties wage increases to the union’s acceptance of more efficient work practices.

• Question 6

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	For all workers, joining a union is voluntary.
	Selected Answer: 1. True

• Question 7

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	Contract rights refer to an employee’s right to moonlight or take a second job.
	Selected Answer: 2. False

• Question 8

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	The basic unit of union organization is
	Selected Answer: 5. the local.

• Question 9

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	The employment-at-will rule does not apply when
	Selected Answer: 4. dismissal constitutes discrimination.

• Question 10

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	A shop steward is elected from among the workers to participate in resolving grievances and to work on negotiating the labor contract in
	Selected Answer: 1. an industrial union.

• Question 11

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	A labor union is an organization that bargains for employees over wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment.
	Selected Answer: 1. True

• Question 12

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	Age harassment violates the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
	Selected Answer: 1. True

• Question 13

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	The union steward in a craft union negotiates and administers the contract.
	Selected Answer: 1. True

• Question 14

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	Employees who speak out against their employers’ illegal, immoral, or irresponsible practices are protected by the federal “whistle-blower” law.
	Selected Answer: 1. True

• Question 15

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	Closed door policy gives employees access to their superiors so that problems can be brought into the open and resolved in a mutually satisfying way.
	Selected Answer: 2. False

• Question 16

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	Employers are not responsible for unwanted sexual advances one employee makes on another.
	Selected Answer: 2. False

• Question 17

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	Which type of union is composed of workers who possess the same skill or perform essentially the same task or function?
	Selected Answer: 2. Craft

• Question 18

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	Under collective-bargaining agreements, contract rights
	Selected Answer: 4. include the right to file grievances, and they also give protection against dismissal without just cause.

• Question 19

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	It is perfectly legal for one side to withhold data from negotiations if it feels such data would weaken its bargaining position.
	Selected Answer: 2. False

• Question 20

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	Jill refused to go out with her supervisor, although he repeatedly implied that she would not get the sales manager’s position until she did. This is
	Selected Answer: 5. sexual harassment and therefore discriminatory.