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◉ Griggs v Duke Power. Answer: U.S. case that recognized adverse
impact discrimination.
◉ Hazard. Answer: Potential for harm, often associated with a
condition or activity that, if left uncontrolled, can result in injury or
illness.
◉ High-context culture. Answer: Society or group where people have
close connections over a long period of time and where many
aspects of behavior are not made explicit, because most members
know what to do and thing from years of interaction.
◉ Global integration (GI) strategy. Answer: Globalization strategy
that emphasizes consistency of approach, standardization of
processes, and a common corporate culture across global
operations.
◉ Global remittances. Answer: Monies sent back home by migrants
working in foreign countries.
,◉ Globalization. Answer: Growing interconnectedness and
interdependency of countries, people, and companies.
◉ Glocalization. Answer: Characteristic of an organization with a
strong global image but an equally strong local identity.
◉ Gender. Answer: Refers to the society constructed system that
associates masculinity or femininity to certain roles, behaviors,
activities, and attributes.
◉ Gender identity. Answer: Refers to one's internal, personal sense
of being a man or a woman (or boy or girl), which may or may not be
the same as one's sexual assignment at birth.
◉ General Duty Clause. Answer: Statement in U.S. Occupational
Safety and Health Act that requires employers subject to OSHA to
provide employees with a safe and healthy work envrionment.
◉ Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). Answer: U.S.
act that prohibits discrimination against individuals on the basis of
their genetic information in both employment and health insurance.
◉ Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). Answer: U.S. act that protects
privacy of background information and ensures that information
supplies is accuate.
,◉ Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Answer: U.S. act that establishes
minimum wage, overtime pay, youth employment, and record-
keeping standards affecting full-time and part-time workers in the
private sector and in federal, state, and local governments.
◉ Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Answer: U.S. act that
provides employees with up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for
family members or because of a serious health condition of the
employee.
◉ Faragher v. City of Boca Raton. Answer: U.S. court ruling that
distinguished between supervisor harassment that results in
tangible employment action and supervisor harassment that does
not.
◉ Equal Pay Act (EPA). Answer: U.S. act that prohibits wage
discrimination by requiring equal pay for equal or "substantially
equal" work.
◉ Ethics. Answer: Set of behavioral guidelines by which all directors,
managers, and employees of an organization are expected to behave
to ensure appropriate moral and ethical business standards,
typically beyond the letter of the law.
, ◉ Exempt employees. Answer: Employees who are excluded from
U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act minimum wage and overtime pay
requirements.
◉ Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACT Act). Answer: U.S.
act that provides some relief to employers using third parties to
conduct workplace investigations.
◉ Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). Answer: U.S.
act that established uniform minimum standards for employer-
sponsored retirement and health and welfare benefit programs.
◉ Employees. Answer: Individuals who exchange work for wages or
salary; in the U.S. workers who are covered by Fair Labor Standards
Act regulations as determined by the IRS.
◉ Employment practices liability insurance (EPLI). Answer: Type of
liability insurance covering an organization against claims by
employees, former employees, and employment candidates alleging
that their legal rights in the employment relationship have been
violated.
◉ Equal Employment Opportunity Act. Answer: U.S. act that
amended Title VII and gave the Equal Opportunity Commission
authority to implement its administrative findings and conduct its
own enforcement litigation.