BAM 411 Human Resource Management
Unit 3 Examination
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- The process of evaluating an employee’s current and/or
past performance relative to his or her performance standards is called
________.
- employee selection
- recruitment
- performance appraisal
- organizational development
- The “S” in the acronym for SMART goals stands for
________.
- straightforward
- specific
- strategic
- support
- Who is the primary person responsible for doing the
actual appraising of an employee’sperformance?
- the EEO contact person
- the company appraiser
- the employee’s direct supervisor
- None of the above.
- Because in most organizations there is a hierarchy of
goals, employee performance standardsshould ________.
- make sense in terms of the broader organizational goals
- be standard
- be decided by the top executive
- All of the above.
- Besides the supervisor, which of the following is
available to managers as an alternative sourceof performance appraisal
information?
- the employee
- rating committees
- peers
- All of the above.
- Suppose you have five employees to rate. You make a
chart of all possible pairs of employees for each trait being evaluate
Then, you indicate the better employee of the pair for each pair. Finally,
you add up the number of positives for each employee. In this case, you
have used the________ method of performance appraisal.
- forced distribution
- alternation ranking
- paired comparison
- graphic ranking scale
- To protect against bias claims when using the forced
distribution method, employers should
________.
- train raters to be objective
- appoint a review committee to review any employee’s low
ranking
- consider using multiple raters in conjunction with the
method
- All of the above.
- All of the following are advantages of using the
critical incident method for appraisingperformance except that:
- incidents can be tied to performance goals.
- it does not include a numerical rating.
- it provides examples of good performance.
- it provides examples of poor performance.
- What is the fourth step in the Management by Objectives
Method?
- set the organization’s goals
- set departmental goals
- discuss departmental goals
- define expected results
- One personality study focused on how individual traits
influenced the evaluations that studentsgave their peers. Raters who
scored higher on ________ tended to give their peers lowerratings.
- openness
- agreeableness
- conscientiousness
- extroversion
- One way of reducing the problems of leniency or
strictness in performance appraisals is to________.
- consider the purpose of the appraisal
- be aware of the problem
- train supervisors to avoid it
- rank employees
- When an employee’s personal characteristics, such as
gender, influence a supervisor’sevaluation of his or her performance, the
problem of ________ has occurred.
- stereotyping
- halo affect
- central tendency
- bias
- When subordinates provide feedback for supervisors, the
comments should be anonymousbecause identifiable responses tend to result
in more ________.
- critical ratings
- inflated ratings
- negative attitudes from managers receiving the feedback
- All of the above.
- The process through which someone becomes aware of
personal skills, interests, knowledge, motivations; acquires information
about opportunities; identifies career goals; and establishesaction plans
to attain those goals is called ________.
- career management
- career development
- career planning
- organizational development
- Responsibility for career development should always be
left to the ________.
- employee
- manager
- career success team
- supervisor
- What is another term for 360-degree feedback?
- multi-source feedback
- upward feedback
- wheel feedback
- feedback loop
- Direct financial payments include all of the following
except:
- insurance
- salaries
- incentives
- wages
- Which of the following is addressed by the Fair Labor
Standards Act?
- child labor
- minimum wage
- maximum hours
- All of the above.
- According to the Fair Labor Standards Act, if a worker
covered by the act works more than 40hours, he or she will receive
overtime pay at a rate of ________ of normal pay for any hoursworked over
40 in a workweek.
- 150%
- 50%
- 125%
- 100%
- Which of the following occupations is exempt from
overtime and minimum pay provisionsstated in the Fair Labor Standards Act?
- hourly cashiers
- data entry
- department heads
- none of the above
- Under which condition is it acceptable for employees of
the opposite sex to receive differentpay for doing roughly equivalent
work?
- it is never acceptable
- when the difference exists because of a merit system
- when the difference exists despite similar
responsibility
- when the difference exists despite equal skills
- The ________ prohibits discriminating against employees
who are 40 years of age and older inall aspects of employment, including
compensation.
- Civil Rights Act
- Fair Labor Standards Act
- Equal Pay Act
- Age Discrimination in Employment Act
- The ________ allows a firm to borrow against employee
stock held in trust.
- Employer Retirement Income Security Act
- Fair Labor Standards Act
- National Labor Relations Act
- Civil Rights Act
- A ________ is comprised of jobs of approximately equal
difficulty or importance as establishedby job evaluation.
- class
- pay grade
- benchmark
- pay group
- Which health benefit listed below is offered by almost
all employers?
- wellness program
- chiropractic insurance
- medical care insurance
- mental health insurance
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