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Employees can sue employers for wrongful discharge only if the employee was contracted under an employment-at-will.
False
In general, employers may conduct random searches of areas like desks, lockers, and toolboxes at any point in time without any justification to the employee.
False
Job withdrawal is a set of behaviors that dissatisfied individuals enact to avoid the work situation physically, mentally, or emotionally.
False
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, an employer may need to grant a clinically depressed employee time off or a flexible schedule to accommodate treatment.
True
The Fair Labor Standards Act exempts managers and professionals from its requirement that the company pay overtime to employees who work more than a 40-hour week.
True
Pay level is the average amount (including wages, salaries, and bonuses) the organization pays for a particular job.
True
The laws governing Equal Employment Opportunity guarantee equal pay for men and women, whites and minorities, and other groups within the United States.
True
In states that have laws specifying minimum wages, employers must pay whichever rate is higher—the federal or state.
True
Paying a salary does not necessarily mean a job is exempt.
True
Pay grades allow rates of pay for individual jobs to be more precisely matched to market rates and the organization's job structure.
False
Broad bands increase the opportunities for promoting employees.
False
Incentive pay is influential because the amount paid is linked to certain predefined behaviors or outcomes.
True
Merit pay incentive system is usually used to attract employees who are more team-oriented.
False
Piecework rates are most suited for routine, standardized jobs with output that is easy to measure.
True
Standard hour plans are quality-oriented incentives for professional employees.
False
From employers' perspective, an advantage of merit pay is that it is cheap.
False
Retention bonuses are one-time incentives paid to top managers, engineers, top-performing salespeople, and information technology specialists in exchange for remaining with the company
True
Under profit sharing, payments are a percentage of the organization's profits and become part of the employees' base salary.
False
A balanced scorecard is a combination of performance measures directed toward the company's long- and short-term goals.
True
All U.S. employees, including federal, state, and local government employees, are covered under the Old Age, Survivors, Disability, and Health Insurance program.
False
Social Security benefits are free from federal income taxes and state taxes in all U.S. states.
False
The funding for unemployment insurance comes from federal and state taxes on employees.
False
Under the workers' compensation laws, employees are eligible to receive compensation even if their injuries are self-inflicted.
False
The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 requires organizations with 50 or more employees within a 75-mile radius to provide as much as 12 weeks of unpaid leave to qualifying employees
True
Employers in the U.S. are legally required to provide 30 days of paid vacation to both new and existing employees every year.
False
As an employee benefit, personal days are scheduled so that they extend a Tuesday or Thursday holiday into a long weekend.
False
Employees are most likely to benefit from a flexible spending account if they have predictable health care expenses, such as insurance premiums.
True
A defined contribution plan guarantees a specified or fixed level of retirement income.
False
According to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), employers are required to take care not to discriminate against workers over age 40 in providing pay or benefits.
False
Employees and job applicants often have a poor idea of what benefits they have and what the market value of their benefits is.
True
A union steward is a person hired by management to monitor union activity and report violations, if any.
False
On average, unionized workers receive higher pay than their nonunionized counterparts.
True
Most studies have found that union workers are more productive than nonunion workers.
True
Right-to-work laws grant both the employee and employer the right to terminate the employment relationship at any time with or without cause or notice.
False
If at least 30 percent of an organization's employees sign an authorization card, the union may request that the employer voluntarily recognize the union.
False
Bargaining over a new contract typically occurs only about every three years
True
Under the National Labor Relations Act, the union has a duty of fair representation, which means the union must give equal representation to all members of the bargaining unit, whether or not they actually belong to the union.
True
The host country is the country in which the organization's headquarters is located.
False
Third-country nationals are employees from a country other than the parent country or the host country.
True
The usual way that a company begins to enter foreign markets is by setting up operations in those countries.
False
A global organization uses cultural differences as an advantage.
True
The most important influence on international HRM is the economic system of the country in which a facility is located.
False
Job design aimed at empowerment is likely to be difficult in cultures with high power distance.
True
A country's political system does not usually affect human resource management
False
Companies usually prefer hiring parent-country nationals for filling positions in host-countries.
False
Research has found successful completion of overseas assignments to be most likely among employees who are extroverted, agreeable, and conscientious.
True
Culture shock is the first emotional stage an expatriate experiences upon starting a foreign assignment.
False
The general principles of performance management may apply in most countries, but the specific methods that work in one country may fail in another.
True
Apart from developing an appreciation of the host-country's culture, cross-cultural training requires developing a greater awareness of one's own culture too.
True
The balance sheet approach for determining expatriate compensation adjusts a manager's compensation so that it equals the host country's standard of living, further ensuring assimilation into the local culture.
False
According to research, organizations that introduce integrated high-performance work practices usually experience increases in productivity and long-term financial performance.
True
The reward systems of an organization include the performance measures by which employees are judged and the methods of measuring performance.
True
The most popular way to empower employees is to design work so that it can be performed single-handedly by individuals.
False
To create a learning organization, one challenge is to shift the focus of training away from merely generating and sharing knowledge toward a stronger focus on teaching skills.
False
Research supports the idea that employees' job satisfaction and job performance are unrelated.
False
People experience occupational intimacy when they love their work, when they and their co-workers care about one another, and when they find their work meaningful.
True
Transaction processing includes the activities required to meet government reporting requirements.
True
A benefit of e-HRM is that employees can help themselves to information they need when they need it, instead of contacting an HR staff person.
True
One way to measure HRM effectiveness is to measure a program's success in terms of whether it achieved its objectives and whether it delivered value in an economic sense.
True
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