MIE 330 NCSU Exam With Correct Answers
Psychological Contract - ✅✅ Unspoken expectations of both employee and
employer
Employees expected to take responsibility in careers
Employers expected to provide perks in exchange
Legislative Branch - ✅✅ Has enacted a number of laws governing HR activities;
these laws have usually be in response to perceived societal needs
Executive Branch - ✅✅ Includes regulatory agencies that are responsible for
enforcing the laws passed by Congress
Judicial Branch - ✅✅ Influences employment law by interpreting the law and
holding trials concerning violations of the law
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) - ✅✅ All individuals have equal chance
for employment
Government regulates HRM to ensure EEO
Efforts to create EEO include: constitutional amendments, legislation, executive
orders, court decisions
Thirteenth Amendment - ✅✅ Abolished slavery in U.S.
Has been applied in cases where discrimination involved symbols and incidents of
slavery
, Fourteenth Amendment - ✅✅ Forbids states from taking life, liberty, or property
without due process of law
Prevents states from denying equal protection of discrimination
Applies to decisions or actions of government or private groups whose activities
are deemed government actions
Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1871 - ✅✅ 1866 - granted all persons the same
property rights as white citizens
1871- granted all citizens the right to sue in federal court if they feel they have
been deprived of some civil right
Equal Pay Act of 1963 - ✅✅ men and women in an organization doing the same
work must be paid equally. Equal is defined in terms of skill, effort, responsibility,
and working conditions. Under the Equal Pay Act of 1963, pay differences are
allowed if they result from differences in seniority, merit, quality or quantity of
production, or any factor other than gender (such as work shift differentials).
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - ✅✅ prohibits employers from
discriminating based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. Applies to
organizations that employ 15 or more people.
Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) - ✅✅ prohibits discrimination
against workers over the age of 40. Age discrimination complaints make up a large
portion of the complaints filed with the EEOC.
Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - ✅✅ covered organizations must engage
in affirmative action for individuals with disabilities. Employers are encouraged to
recruit qualified individuals with disabilities and to make reasonable
accommodations to them
Psychological Contract - ✅✅ Unspoken expectations of both employee and
employer
Employees expected to take responsibility in careers
Employers expected to provide perks in exchange
Legislative Branch - ✅✅ Has enacted a number of laws governing HR activities;
these laws have usually be in response to perceived societal needs
Executive Branch - ✅✅ Includes regulatory agencies that are responsible for
enforcing the laws passed by Congress
Judicial Branch - ✅✅ Influences employment law by interpreting the law and
holding trials concerning violations of the law
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) - ✅✅ All individuals have equal chance
for employment
Government regulates HRM to ensure EEO
Efforts to create EEO include: constitutional amendments, legislation, executive
orders, court decisions
Thirteenth Amendment - ✅✅ Abolished slavery in U.S.
Has been applied in cases where discrimination involved symbols and incidents of
slavery
, Fourteenth Amendment - ✅✅ Forbids states from taking life, liberty, or property
without due process of law
Prevents states from denying equal protection of discrimination
Applies to decisions or actions of government or private groups whose activities
are deemed government actions
Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1871 - ✅✅ 1866 - granted all persons the same
property rights as white citizens
1871- granted all citizens the right to sue in federal court if they feel they have
been deprived of some civil right
Equal Pay Act of 1963 - ✅✅ men and women in an organization doing the same
work must be paid equally. Equal is defined in terms of skill, effort, responsibility,
and working conditions. Under the Equal Pay Act of 1963, pay differences are
allowed if they result from differences in seniority, merit, quality or quantity of
production, or any factor other than gender (such as work shift differentials).
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - ✅✅ prohibits employers from
discriminating based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. Applies to
organizations that employ 15 or more people.
Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) - ✅✅ prohibits discrimination
against workers over the age of 40. Age discrimination complaints make up a large
portion of the complaints filed with the EEOC.
Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - ✅✅ covered organizations must engage
in affirmative action for individuals with disabilities. Employers are encouraged to
recruit qualified individuals with disabilities and to make reasonable
accommodations to them
