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Human Resources Management: Staffing
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Human Resources Management: Staffing
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1. The result of an employer punishing an employee for engaging in activities protected by the law (e.g. filing a discrimination charge - opposng unlawful employer practices)

2. The degree to which inferences made from an interview or a test are correct and accurate

3. External recruiting method; firms that provide support and assistance to displaced employees - including career counseling - resume preparation - interviewing workshops - job referral assistance - and retraining

4. Court ruling that distinguished between supervisor harassment that results in tangible employment action and supervisor harassment that does not

5. Amended Title VII to prohibit discrimination on the basis of pregnancy - childbirth - or related conditions

6. Court ruling that heldthat a represenatative of the company invaded privacy by questioning a psychologist (to whom an employee has been referred by the employee assistance program)

7. Makes the hiring decision official; should immediately follow the final decision to hire a candidate; aka employment offer

8. Uses info provided by a group - group members take turns presenting forecast assumptions and the forecast is revised until a composite emerges that incorporates many of their assumptions

9. Court ruling that a nonremedial affirmative action plan cannot form the basis for deviating from the antidiscrimination mandate of Title VII

10. Any part of the selection process that provides an applicant with honest and complete info about a job and the work environment

11. Requires employers to give a minimum of 60 days notice if a plant is to close or if mass layoffs will occur

12. Type of interviewer bias; involves forming generalized opinions about how people of a given gender - religion - or race appear - think - act - feel or respond

13. A physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities such as caring for oneself - performing manual tasks - seeing - hearing - etc.

14. Occurs when the employer make working conditions so intolerable that the employee has no choice but to resign

15. Court ruling that colleges and universities could legitimately consider race as a factor in the admissions process

16. Part of an affirmative action plan that compared the percentages of miinorities and women in each job group with the rates of availability for each job group

17. Court ruling in the private sector dealing with reverse discrimination charges; upheld that Title VII allows for voluntary - private - race-conscious programs aimed at eliminating racial imbalance in traditionally segregated job categories

18. Normally expressed as a percentage and computed as: Number of separations/Total Number in the workforce

19. The degree to which an interview - test - or other selection device measures the knowledge - skills - abilities or other qualifications that are part of the job.

20. When the interviewer asks every applicant the same questions; aka structured interviews

21. External recruiting method; firms seek out candidates - usually for executive - managerial or professional positions.

22. Set of job competencies that together make up a profile for success for a particular job

23. When the interviewer asks each applicant questions that are from the same knowledge - skill or ability area; the questions however are not necessarily the same

24. Court ruling that distinguised btw supervisor harassment that results in tangible employment action and supervisor harassment that does not

25. Any discrete component at which tere is a level of supervision responsible and accountable for the selection - compensation - etc. - of employees within the unit