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| human resource management |
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| the set of organizational activities directed at attracting, developing, and maintaining an effective workplace |
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| a tem that reflects the organizations investment in attracting, retaining, and motivating an effective workplace |
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| Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
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| forbids discrimination based on sex, race, color, religion, or national origin in all areas of the employment relationship |
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| a selection standard for employment is said to have an adverse impact when minority group members or women pass that standard at a rate less than 80 percent of the pass rate of majority group members |
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| Equal employment opportunity commission |
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| the body charged with enforcing Title 7 of the civil rights act of 1964 |
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| age discrimination in employment act |
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| a law that prohibits discrimination against people older than forty years, passed in 1967, amended in 78 and 86. |
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| intentionally seeking and hiring employees from groups that are underreperesented in the organization |
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| americans with disabilities act |
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| a law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities |
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| a law that sets a minimum wage and requires overtime pay for work in excess of forty hours per week, passed in 1938 and amended frequently since then |
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| a law that requires that men and women be paid the same amount for doing the same job. |
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| family and medical leave act of 1993 |
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| a law that requires employers to provide up to twelve weeks of unpaid leave for family and medical emergencies |
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| national labor relations act |
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| a law passed in 1935 to set up procedures for employees to vote on whether to have a union; also known as the Wagner Act. |
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| Occupational Safety and health act of 1970 |
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| A law that directly mandates the provision of safe working conditions |
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| a systematized procedure for collecting and recording information about jobs within an organization. |
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| the process of attracting individuals to apply for jobs that are open |
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| considering current employees as applicants for higher-level jobs in the organization. |
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| attempting to attract job applicants from outside the organization |
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| the practive of providing the applicant with a realistic picture of what it will be like to perform the job that the organization is trying to fulfill. |
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| determining the extent to which a selection device is really predictive of future job performance. |
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| teaching operational or technical employees how to do the job for which they were hired |
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| teaching managers and professionals the skills needed for both present and future jobs. |
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| a formal assessment of how well an employee is doing his or her job |
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| Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale |
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| a performance rating method that is tied to behavioral anchors |
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| an appraisal method in which managers are evaluated by everyone around them |
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| the financial remuneration given by the organization to its employees in exchange for their work |
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| an attempt to assess the worth of each job relative to other jobs |
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| things of value other than compensation that the organization provides to its employees |
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| a characteristic of a group of organization whose members differ from one another along one or more important dimensions such as age, gender, or ethnicity/. |
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| the process of dealing with employees who are represented by a union |
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| the process of agreeing on a satisfactory labor contract between management and a union |
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| the means by which a labor contract is endorsed. |
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| workers whose contributions to an organization are based on what they know |
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