UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Capacity to work - CORRECT ANSWER - Skills, knowledge, capabilities, personality of
each individual to work
capital - CORRECT ANSWER - assets that can enhance ones power to perform
economically useful work
capitalist economy - CORRECT ANSWER - an economic system in which the market
determines production, distribution, and price decisions, and property is privately owned
employment relationship - CORRECT ANSWER - a contractual relationship whereby an
employer provides remuneration to an employee in exchange for work or services
gender-based analysis (GBA) - CORRECT ANSWER - a policy, program, initiative or
service can be examined for it's impacts on various groups of women and men
Human Resource Management - CORRECT ANSWER - the process of determining
human resource needs and then recruiting, selecting, developing, motivating, evaluating,
compensating, and scheduling employees to achieve organizational goals
labour - CORRECT ANSWER - workers performing a task that creates a profit for an
employer
labour market - CORRECT ANSWER - the availability and the ability of workers to work
and for employers to hire them
Labour process - CORRECT ANSWER - may be defined as the social relations that people
enter into when they are employed. It also includes the work that they actually do and the
, conditions under which it is done. Studying the labour process has given rise to a distinct labour
process perspective that focuses on management as a struggle for control of the labour process
between employees and managers.
male norm - CORRECT ANSWER - jobs are usually designed for men; mon-fri, 9-5
non-standard employment - CORRECT ANSWER - Employment that falls outside of the
more traditional working hours of 8 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday; part-time, evening,
temp work, contract, self-employed
Pluralism - CORRECT ANSWER - the theory that all interests are and should be free to
compete for influence in the government; the outcome of this competition is compromise and
moderation
Precarious employment - CORRECT ANSWER - non-standard employment
production - CORRECT ANSWER - The process of creating goods and services
Profit imperative - CORRECT ANSWER - where a portion of net profit of a business is
distributed to its employees in proportion to their wages and length of service
remuneration - CORRECT ANSWER - payment for work done
social reproduction - CORRECT ANSWER - reproductive tasks such as bearing, raising
and educating children; maintains households, cares for dependants so workers can go to work
unitarism - CORRECT ANSWER - assumes everyone in an organization is a member of a
team with a common purpose
wage gap - CORRECT ANSWER - The average difference between a man's and a
woman's remuneration.