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| List the major HR functions |
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P= planning
A= acquisition
D= development
S= sanction |
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Describe the major HR functions:
Planning |
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| strategic planning, job analysis, budgeting, workforce planning, classification, job evaluation, benefits administration |
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Describe the major HR functions:
Acquisition |
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Describe the major HR functions:
Development |
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| orientation, training, appraisal, motivation, flex policies |
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Describe the major HR functions:
Sanction |
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| discipline, grievance, health & safety, employer rights, collective bargaining |
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| List and describe the ten tenets (HR principles) |
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1. Many roles of public service.
2. Values matter
3. Understanding the rationale for a personnel system
4. Alternatives to civil service
5. Rule of law
6. Performance.
7. Public accountability and access
8. Transparency.
9. Human resource management leadership.
10. Invest in human capital. |
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| Describe the significance of the Pendleton Act: |
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| The Pendleton Act of 1883 introduced the merit system to the federal government. Testing and qualifications were adhered to. The intent was to get rid of the spoils system (appointing people for political favor.) |
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| What act created the bipartisan Civil Service Commission that serves as a buffer against partisan pressures from the executive and legislative branches. |
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| What act gives federal personnel the right to request that suits against them individually be converted into suits against the government. |
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| The Federal Employees Liability Reform and Tort Compensation Act of 1988 |
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| What major federal law prohibits political activities among most federal employees? |
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| Hatch Act of 1939 (Prohibits Political Activity for Federal Employees) |
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| Prohibits Public Sector from discriminating on the basis of Race, Color, Religion, Sex or National Origin |
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| National Labor Relations Act (1935) |
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| Protects workers exercising freedom of association rights to join a labor union |
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| Fair Labor Standards Act (1938 |
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| Minimum wage, 40 hour workweek and paid overtime. |
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| Prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex for compensating |
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| Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
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| Applied to all organizations with 15 or more employees. Acts as the umbrella law outlawing discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin |
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| Age Discrimination in Employment Act |
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| Protects Workers Aged 40 and Over |
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| Americans With Disabilities Act |
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| Protects disabled persons |
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| Name the first major Supreme Court decision to emphasize job-related selection criteria. |
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Griggs v. Duke Power Company.
The Supreme Court ruled that the company's employment requirements did not pertain to applicants' ability to perform the job, and so was discriminating against African-American employees, even though the company had not intended it to do so. |
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| Which Supreme Court decision ruled against “reverse discrimination” while upholding affirmative action? |
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| Baker v. University of California at Davis (1978) |
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| The process of transferring ownership of a business, enterprise, agency, public service or public property from the public sector (a government) to the private sector, either to a business that operate for a profit or to a non-profit organization. It may also mean government outsourcing of services or functions to private firms, e.g. revenue collection, law enforcement, and prison management. |
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| Which types of questions are not legal/ethical in pre-employment stage? |
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| arrest records, child care, national origin, religious affiliation, relationship status, unrelated to job height and weight, reason of military discharge and race |
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| What is the difference between rank in person and rank in position? |
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Rank in person – individual on the basis of individual qualifications, seniority, performance etc. rather than on the basis of work performed.
Rank in position – based primarily on the classification and level of the position held by the employee. |
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| no contratcts, unions, can be fired for whatever. Federal employees are not. |
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| based on actual samples of the kind of work the job requires. |
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| Criterion Related Validity |
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| compares scores on test to some measurement of job performance (such as job appraisal) |
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| measures certain traits or qualities identified as important as important for performing a particular job. |
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| selection procedure appears related to the actual job |
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| test scores & criterion data are obtained at essentially the same time. |
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| increases the “N” by combining numerous smaller studies. |
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| What three types of test validity are specified by the EEOC's uniform guidelines on employee selection procedures? |
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content validity
criterion related Validity
Construct Validity |
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| Uses one or more questions that pose a hypothetical job situation to determine what the applicant would do in such a situation. |
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| Interviewer consistently presents the same series of job-related questions to each applicant and uses the same criteria for scoring. |
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| operational issues that confront women and minorites with invisible, cululative barriers to advancement. Women only hold 3% of management jobs. |
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| What state governments have significantly reformed their merit systems? |
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| New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Georgia, Florida |
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| Planning, organizing, staffing, directing, coordinating, reporting and budgeting. |
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emphasizes higher performance, results, outcomes and evaluations.
Al Gore and Richard Nixon are the patron saints |
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| the major focus was on hierarchy, division of labor, specialization and well defined chains of command. Major focus Efficiency. The patron saint is Herbert Hoover |
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has an emphasizes on the economy. The use of auditors, investigators and inspectors were used to pursue this goal.
Jack Anderson and W.R. Grace are the patron saints for this reform. |
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emphasizes fairness and openness. Congress and the courts seek to ensure fairness. Whistleblowers, medical and interest groups require access to make sure the public’s interests are being protected.
John Gardner and Ralph Nader are the patron saints for this reform. |
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Competition for government jobs that is open to everyone.
Selection of civil servants based on their qualifications for office.
Protection of civil servants from partisan coercion.
Protection of civil servants from arbitrary treatment in all personnel actions. |
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| Through what process does an organization replace its key workforce positions most effectively? |
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| Why is a “realistic job preview” important? |
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| Devices used in the early stages of personnel selection to provide potential applicants with information on both positive and negative aspects of the job. Important because it keeps the organization from seeing high turnover in the job due to workers being “surprised” by aspects of the job. |
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| belief that the government answers to the will of the people |
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| traditional Public HR values (4) |
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responsiveness
efficiency/effectiveness
individual rights
social equity |
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the guardian period
government by gentlemen |
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government by the common man
The spoils period |
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government by the good
reform period |
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| what phase did the garfield assasination happen |
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| phase 3 reform period 1881 |
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government by the efficient
scienfific management period
new york bureau of municipal research |
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government by administration
advent of new deal
Brownlow committe
first Hoover commission |
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government by the professionals
shared power
unionization of public sector
civil service reform act of 1978 |
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government by contractors
increased privitization
accelerated convergence of public and private HR |
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government for customers
national performance review |
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government by the desperate
capacity strained by: homeland security, natural disaster, demographics, 2008 economic meltdown |
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government as platform
from central tower to vending machine to iPhone |
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| no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law |
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protects citizens from discrimination
allows workers access to courts |
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originally used to protect against KKK
prohibits public sector employment discrimination on race, religion, sex, origin |
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| prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex for compensation |
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| civil rights act of 1964 (Title 7) |
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| umbrella law that outlaws discrimination based on on race, sex, origin with 15 or more employees |
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| equal employment opportunity commission |
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independent federal agency in the executive branch
enforces title 7 |
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| age discrimination in employment act of 1967 |
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| prohibits discrimination against employees aged 40 years or more |
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| occupational safety & health act 1970 |
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| regulates safety and health conditions |
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| vocational rehabilitation act of 1973 |
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| prohibits discrimination on the basis of persons with disabilites by federal contractors |
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| vietnam era veterans readjustment assistance act of 1974 |
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| calls for affirmative action by government contractors to employ and advance qualified veterans fo the vietnam era and disabled veterans |
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| pregnancy discrimination act of 1978 |
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amended title 7
pregnant women must be treated the same as other applicants and employees on the basis of their ability to work |
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| Immigration reform and control act (IRCA) 1986 |
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| employees must attest to emplyees immigration status. Illegal to knowingly hire or recruit illegal immigrants |
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| american with disabilities act 1990 |
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| prohibits discrimination against a qualified person with disability who can perform the work with or without reasonable cause |
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| protects security and privacy of health data |
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| genetic nondiscrimination act 2008 |
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| prohibits employers from discriminating on basis of genetics |
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| patient protection and affordable health care act 2010 |
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| employees shall provide break time and place for nursing mothers to express milk |
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| grutter vs bollinger 2003 |
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| law school used race as a predominant factor. giving minorities a greater chance of admission. upheld by supreme court |
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| where did sexual harrassment come from? |
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| court interpretations of title 7 |
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| oncale vs sundowner offshore services 1998 |
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| victim was sexually harrassed on oil rig. court said now sexual harrassment applied to members of same sex as well |
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| pabst brewing company used posters in plant. had to take them down |
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| faragher v city of boca raton 1998 |
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| an employer is liable for actionable discriminitaion if it is reasonable that they could have known |
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| forecasting personnel needs of an organization, developing/implememnting programs to ensure availability of sufficient qualified employees |
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| estimate of numbers and kinds of employees an organization will need at future dates to reach its goals |
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| information maintained an emplyees in organization regarding their availability and preparation to move into lateral or higher positions |
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| process to determine whether an organization will be able to secure employees with the necessary skills from internal skills |
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| identification, development, prepearation, and retention of internal talent to assume executive and senior leadership positions as needed |
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| process to establish: why an agency exists, where it should go, how it will get there |
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| connecting HR management with agency goals without losing sight of public service values like individual rights and social equity |
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| a test that is reliable will yield consistent results |
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| does the test measure what its purpose is |
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| participant prioritized and takes appropitae action on a variety of letters, memos, reports during a work day |
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| simulates realistic personnel encounters typical of those experienced on the job |
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| presented with case scenario, asked to respond quickly and appriotely |
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| reassign personnel efficiently in order to cover variations in the workplace |
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| total simulation approach |
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| simulations/exercises are built into common scenarios |
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