UARK MGMT 2103 Exam 1 Questions and
Answers
Behavioral Job Interview - -(experience based)
seeks to understand how employees may have handled past situations
- Situational Job Interview - -(future-oriented)
uses "what ifs" to measure how well a situation would be performed
- Individual Differences - -broad category used to collectively describe the
vast number of attributes that describe a person
- Basic Steps of Affirmative Action Programs - --written affirmation action
commitment statement
-publicize policy and commitment
-appoint top officials to direct and implement
-survey minority employees by department
-develop goals to utilize minorities in each area
-develop and implement specific programs to achieve goals
-establish system to monitor and evaluate progress
-develop support in community programs
- Concurrent Validation - -testing individuals presently performing a job and
then attempting to establish a correlation between those test scores and
existing measures of job performance
- Personality - -stable, physical, behavioral, and mental characteristics that
give individuals their unique identities
- Intelligence - -represents individual's capacity for constructive thinking,
reasoning, and problem solving
- Multiple Intelligences - -Linguistic
Logical/mathematical
Musical
Bodily/Kinesthetic
Spacial/Visual
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Naturalist
- Practical Intelligence - -ability to solve everyday problems from experience
and adapt to environments
, - Core Self-Evaluation - -broad personality trait comprised of 4 individual
traits:
-self-efficacy (belief about own chances of success)
-self-esteem (belief about self worth)
-locus of control (how much responsibility one takes for their behavior and
consequences)
-emotional stability (stable, content, secure)
- Emotional Intelligence - -ability to monitor own emotions and those of
others and use information to guide your thinking and actions
- Emotions - -complex, relatively brief, affective responses associated with a
particular target
- Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) - -illegal to discriminate against any
individual with respect to employment because of their race, color, religion,
sex, or national origin
established Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
- Civil Rights Act of 1991 - -Same as Title VII but allows for compensatory
and punitive damages in cases of intentional discrimination
- Age Discrimination Act of 1967 - -prohibits discrimination agains
employees over the age of 40
- Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 - -prohibits discrimination against
employees with disabilities
-disability must limit 1 or more major life activities
- Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 - -requires employers to provide
employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for:
-birth or adoption of child
-care for sick spouse, child, or parent
-care for own serious health problems
-spouse, child, or parent is in military and called to active duty status
- Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1973 - -2 functions:
-inspection and enforcement
-research and training
- General Duty Claus - -employers responsibility to furnish employees with a
safe place to work
Answers
Behavioral Job Interview - -(experience based)
seeks to understand how employees may have handled past situations
- Situational Job Interview - -(future-oriented)
uses "what ifs" to measure how well a situation would be performed
- Individual Differences - -broad category used to collectively describe the
vast number of attributes that describe a person
- Basic Steps of Affirmative Action Programs - --written affirmation action
commitment statement
-publicize policy and commitment
-appoint top officials to direct and implement
-survey minority employees by department
-develop goals to utilize minorities in each area
-develop and implement specific programs to achieve goals
-establish system to monitor and evaluate progress
-develop support in community programs
- Concurrent Validation - -testing individuals presently performing a job and
then attempting to establish a correlation between those test scores and
existing measures of job performance
- Personality - -stable, physical, behavioral, and mental characteristics that
give individuals their unique identities
- Intelligence - -represents individual's capacity for constructive thinking,
reasoning, and problem solving
- Multiple Intelligences - -Linguistic
Logical/mathematical
Musical
Bodily/Kinesthetic
Spacial/Visual
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Naturalist
- Practical Intelligence - -ability to solve everyday problems from experience
and adapt to environments
, - Core Self-Evaluation - -broad personality trait comprised of 4 individual
traits:
-self-efficacy (belief about own chances of success)
-self-esteem (belief about self worth)
-locus of control (how much responsibility one takes for their behavior and
consequences)
-emotional stability (stable, content, secure)
- Emotional Intelligence - -ability to monitor own emotions and those of
others and use information to guide your thinking and actions
- Emotions - -complex, relatively brief, affective responses associated with a
particular target
- Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) - -illegal to discriminate against any
individual with respect to employment because of their race, color, religion,
sex, or national origin
established Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
- Civil Rights Act of 1991 - -Same as Title VII but allows for compensatory
and punitive damages in cases of intentional discrimination
- Age Discrimination Act of 1967 - -prohibits discrimination agains
employees over the age of 40
- Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 - -prohibits discrimination against
employees with disabilities
-disability must limit 1 or more major life activities
- Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 - -requires employers to provide
employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for:
-birth or adoption of child
-care for sick spouse, child, or parent
-care for own serious health problems
-spouse, child, or parent is in military and called to active duty status
- Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1973 - -2 functions:
-inspection and enforcement
-research and training
- General Duty Claus - -employers responsibility to furnish employees with a
safe place to work
