What Employers Owe Employees Full Test Bank Chapter 6 1e

Chapter 6: What Employers Owe Employees

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Multiple Choice/Fill in the Blank

1. Which of the following laws mandates advance notice of mass layoffs to workers so they can adequately prepare for such an event?

A. CRA

B. WARN

C. FLSA

D. EEOC

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Application

1. The economic concept of ________ is critical to the nation as a whole in an economic system like capitalism, in which individuals pay for most of what they need in life rather than receiving government benefits funded by taxes.

A. the Paycheck Fairness Act

B. a federal wage standard

C. a fair wage

D. a nominal wage

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Evaluate

AACSB: Analytical

1. Which laws give workers the option of not joining the union, even at companies where the majority has voted to be represented by a union?

A. right-to-work laws

B. closed-shop laws

C. consent-exception laws

D. union-shop laws

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Analysis

AACSB: Analytical

1. Which of the following is a positive attribute of unions from a manager’s perspective?

A. Unions create a formal dispute resolution process for workers.

B. Unions can lead to a closed culture that makes it harder to diversify the workforce.

C. Workers are required to pay regular union dues and fees.

D. Unions can make it harder to fast track promotions for high-performing workers.

Difficulty: Difficult

Blooms: Evaluate

AACSB: Analytical

1. If you feel harassed, prejudiced against, or disadvantaged in your workplace, you may file a complaint with the ________.

A. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

B. Worker Adjustment and Retraining

C. Occupational Safety and Health

D. Civil Rights Act

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Ethics

1. What is the difference between nominal wage and real wage?

A. Real wages only take into account taxable wages; nominal wage counts all wages.

B. Nominal wage represents the nominal wage adjusted for inflation; real wage represents the actual amount of money a worker earns per hour.

C. Nominal wages are based on take-home pay; real wage includes all pay.

D. Nominal wage represents the actual amount of money a worker earns per hour; real wage represents the nominal wage adjusted for inflation.

Difficulty: Difficult

Blooms: Evaluate

AACSB: Analytical

1. Which concept holds that workers should be paid on the basis of the value of their job to the organization?

A. comparable worth

B. Fair Pay Act

C. Paycheck Fairness Act

D. equivalent work

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Evaluate

AACSB: Analytical

1. Which of the following is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization funded by many of the largest American companies to research issues affecting workers and their employers?

A. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

B. Society for Human Resources Management

C. Center for Financial Services Innovation

D. Economic Policy Institute

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Ethics

1. The negotiation process aimed at getting management’s agreement to a fair employment contract for members of the union is called ________.

A. collective bargaining

B. fair wage

C. pay ratio

D. the Fair Pay Act

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Application

1. Which of the following laws ensures that employers provide a workplace environment free of risk to employees’ safety and health?

A. CFSI

B. ECPA

C. OSHA

D. WARN

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Application

1. Which concept requires that all new hires for certain types of unionized jobs automatically be enrolled in the labor union appropriate to their job function and that union dues automatically be deducted from their pay?

A. compensation equity

B. closed shop

C. employment at will

D. comparable worth

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Analytical

1. ________ is a popular way to compare the fairness of a company’s executive compensation system with that in other countries.

A. The pay ratio

B. Collective bargaining

C. Management compensation

D. The Fair Pay Act

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Analyze

AACSB: Analytical

1. Which of the following exceptions allows employers to monitor employee communications, provided employees have given their consent?

A. business-purpose exception

B. business exception

C. consent exception

D. codetermination

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Analyze

AACSB: Application

1. The United States has shifted from a ________ economy to a ________ economy over the past three decades.

A. service; manufacturing

B. minimum wage; fair wage

C. public-sector; private-sector

D. manufacturing; service

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Analyze

AACSB: Analytical

1. In the United States, the pay of a person with a high status in the workplace, such as a CEO, is, on average, ________ times higher than the pay of an average worker at the same company.

A. 300

B. 50

C. 500

D. 100

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Real-world

1. Which of the following benefits is typically valued more highly by men than by women?

A. work-from-home options

B. better health insurance

C. flexible hours

D. free gym membership

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Real-world

1. Which workplace concept embraces shared governance, in which management and workers cooperate in decision-making and workers have the right to participate on the board of directors of their company?

A. unionization

B. labor union membership

C. closed shop

D. codetermination

Difficulty: Difficult

Blooms: Analyze

AACSB: Analytical

1. Which of the following would help employers devise a worker pay scale that more accurately reflects value added?

A. business purpose

B. concept exception

C. comparable worth

D. internal policies

Difficulty: Difficult

Blooms: Evaluate

AACSB: Analytical

1. The unwelcome touching, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature from a supervisor, coworker, client, or customer is known as ________.

A. sexual harassment

B. gender discrimination

C. racial discrimination

D. same-sex harassment

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Understand

AACSB: Ethics

1. Which of the following commissions was created by the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964?

A. Center for Financial Services Innovation

B. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

C. Office of Safety and Health Administration

D. Economic Policy Institute

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Diversity

1. What is the federal minimum hourly wage?

A. $9.00

B. $8.50

C. $10.50

D. $7.25

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Real-world

1. Wage growth for all workers must be fair, which, in most cases, means higher wages for which of the following groups?

A. low-income workers

B. middle-income workers

C. low- and middle-income workers

D. all workers

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Evaluate

AACSB: Application

1. Whose responsibility is it to prevent harassment in the workplace?

A. management

B. each employee

C. customers

D. CEO

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Understand

AACSB: Application

1. Which of the following is a legal philosophy that holds that either the employee or the employer may dissolve the employment arrangement at any time and without cause?

A. employment at will

B. codetermination

C. right to work

D. pay ratio

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Analyze

AACSB: Analytical

True/False

1. True or false? OSHA does not have the authority to levy criminal fines against companies that commit serious violations.

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Evaluate

AACSB: Application

1. True or false? The two complaints most frequently filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which strives to eliminate racial, gender, and religious discrimination in the workplace, are sexual harassment and racial harassment

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Application

1. True or false? Union Carbide was responsible for the largest oil spill is U.S. history.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Real-world

1. True or false? Findings of the Center for Financial Services studies indicate that employee financial stress permeates the workplaces of virtually all industries and professions.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Interpersonal

1. True or false? A woman with the same education, experience, and skills, doing the same job as a man, is still likely to earn less, at all levels from bottom to top.

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Apply

AACSB: Application

1. True or false? Organizational pay structures are set by a variety of methods, including internal policies, the advice of outside compensation consultants, and external data.

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Understand

AACSB: Real-world

1. True or false? In a company, if the majority has voted to be represented by a union, the workers must join and do not have the chance to opt out.

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Understand

AACSB: Application

1. True or false? All 50 states in the United States have right-to-work laws.

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Application

1. True or false? Labor union membership remains much higher in Europe and other Group of Seven countries than in the United States, in part because some of those countries allow managers to be members of the union.

Difficulty: Difficult

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Application

Short Answer

1. Summarize an employer’s duty to provide a safe workplace, and the penalties for violators who do not.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Evaluate, Remember

AACSB: Application

1. Is workplace harassment still a major issue? If so, what types of harassment are most prevalent today, compared with thirty years ago?

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Interpersonal

1. In addition to OSHA penalties, discuss additional potential liabilities of employers for safety violations.

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Understand

AACSB: Application

1. What type of workplace behavior might be considered legal but unethical?

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Understand

AACSB: Ethics

1. Why should a manager be concerned with employee morale and happiness?

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Evaluate

AACSB: Application

1. What are the business variables to consider when deciding which fringe benefits to offer?

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Evaluate

AACSB: Analytical

1. Evaluate wage growth over the past few decades and whether it is moving in the right direction for economic growth for the United States.

Difficulty: Difficult

Blooms: Analyze

AACSB: Analytical

1. What could Congress do to help achieve pay equity?

Difficulty: Difficult

Blooms: Analyze

AACSB: Analytical

1. What might be accomplished at the state level to address pay inequality?

Difficulty: Difficult

Blooms: Evaluate

AACSB: Analytical

1. What are some of the basic pros and cons of labor unions?

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Evaluate

AACSB: Reflection

1. Distinguish unionization from codetermination.

Difficulty: Difficult

Blooms: Understand

AACSB: Analytical

1. Discuss the pros and cons of right-to-work laws.

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Evaluate

AACSB: Analytical

1. How does executive pay in the United States compare with that of executives around the world? Is it fair pay?

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Analyze

AACSB: Analytical

1. Evaluate some of the issues a good manager should consider related to employee privacy.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Understand

AACSB: Real-world

1. What happens if an employee refuses to take a drug test at work? Does it matter if the test is for marijuana in a state where marijuana use is legal?

Difficulty: Difficult

Blooms: Analyze

AACSB: Analytical

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