MNGT482 – Chapter 16

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The employment relationship confers rights and duties on both sides.
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true
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OSHA is a private organization that represent workers on job safety issues.
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false
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Studies show that Union and non-union workers earn roughly the same amount of income and benefits.
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false
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Some labor unions have departed from their traditional adversarial approach to work cooperatively with employers for their mutual benefit.
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true
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Ergonomics is another name for adapting the worker to the job.
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false
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Employment-at-will is a legal doctrine that means employees are hired and retain their jobs at the sole discretion of the employer.
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true
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The implied understanding between an organization and its stakeholder is sometimes referred to as a social contract.
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true
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In a business context, \"privacy rights\" refers primarily to protecting an individual's personal life from unwarranted intrusion by his or her employer.
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true
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For the most part, electronic monitoring of employees is legal.
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true
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According to a recent study, nearly ninety percent of all companies test employees or job applicants for drugs.
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false
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Drug testing for cause is commonly used after an accident or some observable change in behavior.
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true
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In general, employee assistance programs have been very cost effective.
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true
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The American Psychological Association noted there is a significant potential for honesty tests to generate false negatives.
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true
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The term labor standards refers to the conditions under which a company's employees, or others in the commercial chain, work.
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true
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In 2009, Merck paid $1.4 billion to settle charges it had illegally marketed Zyprexa.
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false
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If someone is entitled to be treated a certain way, this refers to a:
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right
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To which of the following does (do) most employees in the United States have a legal right?
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a and b, but not c
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An employee for which team was terminated for saying detrimental things about his employer on his Facebook page.
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Philadelphia Eagles
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Under U.S. laws:
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most private and public workers have the right to hold an election to choose what union they want to represent them, if any
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During the 1930s, many workers joined unions, and the ranks of organized labor grew rapidly. This was called:
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The New Deal Period
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Since the mid-1950s the proportion of American workers represented by unions has:
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Decreased
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Which of the following employees is listed in the text as more likely to suffer from repetitive motion disorders.
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meat cutter
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The Occupational Safety and Health Act gives workers the right to a job:
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free from recognized hazards that are caused or likely to cause death or serious physical harm
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Approximately how many workers are murdered annually in the United States:
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six hundred
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What law requires most large employers to provide 60 days notice when laying off 500 or more workers (acronym)?
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WARN
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Privacy rights seek to protect the employees' private lives from:
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unwarranted intrusion by the employer
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Roughly how many Americans are independent contractors
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1 in 14
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Which of the following is true about random drug testing of employees?
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it may occur at various times through the year
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Which of the following is not an argument favoring employee drug testing?
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it is an intrusion on individual privacy
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Which of the following is (are) true about Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs)?
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they offer counseling and follow-up to alcohol abusers
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The Employee Polygraph Protection Act became law in?
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1988
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Polygraph testing:
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has been replaced at some level by written psychological tests
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Which of the following is (are) true about honesty tests?
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it is a written psychological test trying to predict employee honesty on the job
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The right to free speech is protected in the:
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US Constitution
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When an employee believes their employer has done something that is wrong or harmful to the public, and he or she reports alleged organizational misconduct to the media, government, or high-level company officials, what has occurred?
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Whistle-blowing
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act makes it illegal for employers to:
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retaliate in anyway against whistle-blowers who report information that could have an impact on the value of a company's shares
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Which law allows individuals who sue federal contractors for fraud to receive up to 30 percent of any amount recovered by the government?
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US False Claims Act (as amended in 1986)
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Only after which of the following conditions is (are) met, should the whistle-blower go public?
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both A and B
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The conditions under which a company's employees work is called:
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labor standards
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The Council of Economic Priorities has developed a set of workplace rules called:
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Social Accountability 8000
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When groups of companies define industry-wide standards that they can all agree to, these are called:
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industry-wide labor codes
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