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398 Multiple choice questions
Definition 1 of 398
Career development programs that identify meaningful career paths for professional and
technical people outside traditional management roles.
Career development
Career planning
Talent management
Dual career ladders
Definition 2 of 398
Statistical method that studies the way in which a variable may change over time.
Performance appraisal
Trend analysis
Disability
Career Planning
,Term 3 of 398
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
1st comprehensive U.S. law making ti unlawful to discriminate on the basis of race, color,
religion, sex, or national origin.
U.S. act the creates a rolling time frame for filing wage discrimination claims and expands
plaintiff field beyond employee who was discriminated against.
Method of nonbinding dispute resolution involving a third party who helps disputing
parties reach a mutually agreeable decision; also known as conciliation.
HR structural alternative established as an independent department that provides services
within a focused area to internal clients.
Term 4 of 398
On-the-job training (OJT)
Training provided to employees at the work site utilizing demonstration and performance
of job tasks.
Organizational structure in which geographic regions define the organization chart.
Analyzing candidates' application forms, curriculum vitae, and resumes to locate the most-
qualifies candidates for an open job.
Metrics that provide an early signal of increasing risk exposures in the various areas of an
enterprise.
Term 5 of 398
Staff units
Work groups that assist line units by providing specialized services, such as HR.
The ability to manage interactions to provide service and to support the Organization.
Work groups that conduct the major business of an organization.
Statement that reports revenues, expenses, and net income (profit) for a specified Period.
,Term 6 of 398
Pregnancy Discrimination Act
Process of enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of an organization and the well-
being of its members through planned interventions.
U.S. act that generally prevents most private employers engaged in or affecting interstate
commerce from using lie detector tests either for pre-employment screening or during the
course of employment, with certain exemptions.
U.S. act that prohibits discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related
medical conditions.
U.S. act that protects the employment reemployment, and retention rights of persons who
serve or have served in the uniformed services.
Term 7 of 398
Human resource information system (HRIS)
Systematic tool for gathering, storing, maintaining, retrieving, and revising HR data.
Payments in return for the achievement of specific, time-limited, targets objectives.
The ability to manage interactions to provide service and to support the organization.
The ability to integrate core values, integrity, and accountability throughout all
organizational and business practices.
Definition 8 of 398
Raw average of data that gives equal weight to all values, with no regard for other factors.
Variance analysis
Unweighted average
Succession planning
Totaization agreements
, Definition 9 of 398
Monies sent back home by migrants working in foreign countries.
Sustainability
Global remittances
Gamification
Lagging indicator
Term 10 of 398
Conflict of interest
Situation in which religion, sex, or national origin is reasonably necessary to carrying out a
particular jobs function in the normal operations of an organization.
People who learn best by relying on their sense of hearing.
A rule or order issues by an administrative agency; often has the force of law.
Situation in which a person or organization has the potential to be influenced by opposing
sets of incentives.
Term 11 of 398
Reliability
Actions, processes, or results that are needed to deliver a desired value.
Developmentally oriented relationship between two individuals.
Ability of an instrument to provide results that are consistent.
Work groups that conduct the major business of an organization.
398 Multiple choice questions
Definition 1 of 398
Career development programs that identify meaningful career paths for professional and
technical people outside traditional management roles.
Career development
Career planning
Talent management
Dual career ladders
Definition 2 of 398
Statistical method that studies the way in which a variable may change over time.
Performance appraisal
Trend analysis
Disability
Career Planning
,Term 3 of 398
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
1st comprehensive U.S. law making ti unlawful to discriminate on the basis of race, color,
religion, sex, or national origin.
U.S. act the creates a rolling time frame for filing wage discrimination claims and expands
plaintiff field beyond employee who was discriminated against.
Method of nonbinding dispute resolution involving a third party who helps disputing
parties reach a mutually agreeable decision; also known as conciliation.
HR structural alternative established as an independent department that provides services
within a focused area to internal clients.
Term 4 of 398
On-the-job training (OJT)
Training provided to employees at the work site utilizing demonstration and performance
of job tasks.
Organizational structure in which geographic regions define the organization chart.
Analyzing candidates' application forms, curriculum vitae, and resumes to locate the most-
qualifies candidates for an open job.
Metrics that provide an early signal of increasing risk exposures in the various areas of an
enterprise.
Term 5 of 398
Staff units
Work groups that assist line units by providing specialized services, such as HR.
The ability to manage interactions to provide service and to support the Organization.
Work groups that conduct the major business of an organization.
Statement that reports revenues, expenses, and net income (profit) for a specified Period.
,Term 6 of 398
Pregnancy Discrimination Act
Process of enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of an organization and the well-
being of its members through planned interventions.
U.S. act that generally prevents most private employers engaged in or affecting interstate
commerce from using lie detector tests either for pre-employment screening or during the
course of employment, with certain exemptions.
U.S. act that prohibits discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related
medical conditions.
U.S. act that protects the employment reemployment, and retention rights of persons who
serve or have served in the uniformed services.
Term 7 of 398
Human resource information system (HRIS)
Systematic tool for gathering, storing, maintaining, retrieving, and revising HR data.
Payments in return for the achievement of specific, time-limited, targets objectives.
The ability to manage interactions to provide service and to support the organization.
The ability to integrate core values, integrity, and accountability throughout all
organizational and business practices.
Definition 8 of 398
Raw average of data that gives equal weight to all values, with no regard for other factors.
Variance analysis
Unweighted average
Succession planning
Totaization agreements
, Definition 9 of 398
Monies sent back home by migrants working in foreign countries.
Sustainability
Global remittances
Gamification
Lagging indicator
Term 10 of 398
Conflict of interest
Situation in which religion, sex, or national origin is reasonably necessary to carrying out a
particular jobs function in the normal operations of an organization.
People who learn best by relying on their sense of hearing.
A rule or order issues by an administrative agency; often has the force of law.
Situation in which a person or organization has the potential to be influenced by opposing
sets of incentives.
Term 11 of 398
Reliability
Actions, processes, or results that are needed to deliver a desired value.
Developmentally oriented relationship between two individuals.
Ability of an instrument to provide results that are consistent.
Work groups that conduct the major business of an organization.
