MGT 316T Wk 4 – Practice: Knowledge Check

Salaried executive, administrative, and professional employees are exempt from ______ rules.

Multiple Choice

• Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

• overtime

• Fair Labor Standards Act

• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

___ is the set of processes and managerial behaviors that involve defining, monitoring, measuring, evaluating, and providing consequences for performance expectations.

Multiple Choice

• Orientation

• Performance management

• Performance appraisal

• Employee development

• Workforce evaluation

Applications, résumés, interviews, and employment tests are all ______ tools.

Multiple Choice

• sorting

• performance

• investigation

• recruitment

• selection

__ is the process of analyzing the underlying causes.

Multiple Choice

• Management through analysis

• Undermining

• Digging

• Analytics

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Onboarding programs help employees to integrate and transition to new jobs by making them familiar with corporate policies, procedures, cultures, and politics by clarifying work-role expectations and responsibilities.

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Benefits account for about one-third of compensation costs.

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____ is the arrangement of having discrete parts of a task done by different people.

Multiple Choice

• An employee structure

• An organization chart

• A contingency approach

• A common purpose

• A division of labor

Before applying for a job as a contracts analyst, Diego read the job analysis for the available position. This document indicated that the responsible employee reviews contracts for technical accuracy and completeness, and tracks invoices against the executed contracts.

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Two advantages of decentralization are that (1) managers are encouraged to not solve their own problems, but rather to ask for assistance as soon as possible, and (2) decisions are made more slowly because they are discussed at a higher level of management.

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During a management workshop, Gerald, the HR manager, spoke about making decisions related to firing an employee. He said, “I have several rules of thumb that I use to make a decision. First, I ask if it’s legal and then if it’s ethical.” He then laid out several other steps he uses in the decision-making process related to firing. Gerald’s “rules of thumb” are also known as heuristics.

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