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UPDATED D351 STUDY SET Exam
Questions and Answers
What are the four implicit HR objectives? - Answers✓✓1. Improve productivity 2.Improve
quality of work 3. Ensure legal compliance 4. Ensure ethical behavior
Affirmative Action - Answers✓✓any act taken by an employer to overcome discriminatory
effects of past or current practices or policies that create barriers to equal employment
opportunity.
Affordable Care Act (ACA) - Answers✓✓Federal legislation passed in 2010 that includes a
number of provisions designed to increase access to healthcare, improve the quality of
healthcare, and explore new models of delivering and paying for healthcare.
Age Discrimination - Answers✓✓different and unequal treatment of people based solely on
their age
Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) - Answers✓✓A federal law that
protects workers age 40 and older from employment discrimination based on their age.
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) - Answers✓✓A federal law that prohibits
discrimination on the basis of disability. The ADA ensures equal opportunity for individuals
with disabilities in all aspects of employment as well as in other public services.
BFOQ - Answers✓✓Bona fide occupational qualifications are employment qualifications that
employers are permitted to consider while making decisions about hiring and retaining
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employees. However, consideration of these qualities in any other contexts might be deemed
discriminatory.
Baby Boomers - Answers✓✓People born between 1946 and 1964; in general, they greatly value
loyalty, financial security, stability, and a positive work ethic.
Business Ethics - Answers✓✓The values and principles that are used to evaluate whether the
collective behavior of an organization's members is appropriate.
Cash Plan - Answers✓✓Provides for payment of profit shares at regular intervals.
Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Answers✓✓Comprehensive civil rights legislation, signed into law
by President Lyndon B. Johnson, which prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of
race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Civil Rights Act of 1991 - Answers✓✓This Act allows for compensatory and punitive damages
for violations of Title VII.
Civil Rights Acts of 1866, 1870, and 1871 - Answers✓✓These acts prohibit employers from
discriminating against minorities.
Consequentialist Theories - Answers✓✓evaluates the rightness or wrongness of an action based
on the consequences of that action.
Content Validity - Answers✓✓A method used to confirm that a selection test measures what it
is intended to measure by comparing the test to the job description (knowledge, skills, and
abilities required to complete a job).
Correlation Coefficient - Answers✓✓reflects the stability of a test over time—the higher the
coefficient of stability, the more reliable the measure.