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Family and Medical Leave Act
Provides up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for Birth/adoption, family illness, serious illness, and urgent needs that arise when military called to duty |
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| Organizations formed for the purpose of representing members interesting and solving conflicts with employers |
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| Emphasizes skills that managers and leaders can use to foster |
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| National Labor Relations Act |
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| Federal law that supports collective bargaining and sets out the rights of employees to form unions. |
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| Set balance. Right to refrain from union activity. Right to Work. |
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| Prevailing wages for federal contracts |
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| Barred federal injunctions and yellow dog contracts |
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| The big labor law. Allowed closed shops. Established ULPs for employers. Allowed collective bargaining. |
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| Protects union members funds, protections from violence and abuses. Establishes bill of rights and freedom of speech. |
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| Two or more employees acting together to improve wages or working conditions, but the action of a single employee may be considered concerted if he or she involves co-workers before acting, or acts on behalf of others. |
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Sets minimum wage
Child labor restrictions
Overtime pay
Travel time pay
Exempt and non-exempt pay |
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| Resets clock with every discriminatory paycheck, not 180 days after first discriminatory pay check |
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Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act
Provisions for
Leaves of absence
Return to employment rights
Prompt re-employment on return
Protection from discharge/retaliation
Health insurance continuation
Continued seniority rights |
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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
The agency of the United States Government that enforces the federal employment discrimination laws |
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| TITLE VII of the Civil Rights Act |
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Prohibits employment discrimination based on
Race
Color
Religion
Sex
National origin |
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| Differing treatment of individuals, where the differences are based on the individuals’ race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability status. |
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| refers to policies, practices, rules, or other systems that appear to be neutral, but result in a disproportionate impact on protected groups |
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Bona Fide Occupational Qualification
A necessary (not merely preferred) qualification for performing a job |
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Age Discrimination in Employment Act - 1967
outlaws hiring, firing, setting compensation rates, or other employment decisions based on a person’s age being over 40. |
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| American Disabilities act of 1990Disability discrimination occurs when an employer treats a qualified individual with a disability who is an employee or applicant unfavorably because she has a disability. |
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| According to the ADA, it is a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one of more major life activities. There is a record of having an impairment or being regarded as having such an impairment. |
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| Cannot pay employees less…..of the opposite sex for equal work, requiring equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and performed under similar working conditions. |
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| Allowable exceptions to Equal Pay Act |
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a seniority system;
a merit system;
a system which measures earnings by quantity or quality of production; or
a differential based on any other factor other than sex (shift work) |
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Actions that are sexually directed, are unwanted, and subject the worker to adverse employment conditions or create a hostile work environment.
Can occur between a boss and a subordinate, among co-workers, and when non-employees have business contacts with employees. |
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| Harassment in which employment outcomes are linked to the harassed individual granting sexual favors to the harasser |
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| Intimidating or offensive working conditions that unreasonably affect an individual’s work performance or psychological well-being |
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| Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is the federal agency responsible for protecting the health and safety of workers. |
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| - Employers shall furnish to each of his employees employment and a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to his employees; |
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| unless there is a union or other contract that says otherwise, people can usually be fired at any time for a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason at all -- as long as the reason is not considered illegal discrimination |
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| Kant's Philosophy of Human Rights |
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Right of free consent
Right of privacy
Right of freedom of conscience
Right of freedom of speech
Right to due process |
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| Human Resource Management |
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The policies, practices, and systems that influence employees’:
behavior
attitudes
performance |
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An organization’s employees described in terms of their:
training
experience
judgment
intelligence
relationships
Insight |
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| High-Performance Work System |
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| An organization in which technology, organizational structure, people, and processes all work together to give an organization a competitive advantage. These activities enhance employees efforts and abilities |
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HR Strategy that includes
Broadly defined tasks.
High levels of employee participation.
Highly skilled workers.
Extensive training.
High wages.
High benefits. |
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HR Strategy that includes
Narrowly defined jobs.
Low participation.
Low skill requirements.
Intense supervision or control.
Limited training.
Low wages.
Low benefits. |
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| Three Paths to Competitive Advantage |
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Operational Excellence
Product Leadership
Customer Intimacy |
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| Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Other |
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RAW INPUTS, EQUIPMENT, HUMAN RESOURCES
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ACTIVITY
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| Importance of Job Analysis |
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Work redesign
Human resource planning
Selection
Training
Performance appraisal
Career planning
Job evaluation
Safety |
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| Look in-depth at what job. Detailed information. |
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| Tasks, duties, and responsibilities (TDRs) that a job entails. |
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| The study of the interface between individuals’ physiology and the characteristics of the physical work environment. (ie standing desks, yoga balls for chairs) |
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| Job Characteristics Model |
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| A model that shows how to make jobs more motivating |
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Job Characteristic
Skill variety |
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| Employee uses a wide range of skills. |
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Job Characteristic
Task identity |
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| Worker is involved in all tasks of the job from beginning to end of the production process |
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Job Characteristic
Task significance |
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| Worker feels the task is meaningful to organization. |
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Job Characteristic
Autonomy |
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| Employee has freedom to schedule tasks and carry them out. |
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Job Characteristic
Feedback |
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| Worker gets direct information about how well the job is done. |
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Position
The set of duties (job) performed by a particular person. |
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| Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) |
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A standardized job analysis questionnaire containing 194 questions about
work behaviors, work conditions, and job characteristics that apply to a wide variety of jobs. |
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| The study of jobs to find the simplest way to structure work in order to maximize efficiency. |
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| Broadening the types of tasks performed in a job. |
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| Empowering workers by adding more decision-making authority to jobs. |
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A scheduling policy
in which full-time employees may choose starting and ending times within guidelines specified by the organization. |
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| A work option in which two part-time employees carry out the tasks associated with a single job. |
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| Main researcher involved with hawthorne studies |
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| Psychological and workplace studies conducted at Hawthorne Electric which showed that workers wanted to be observed/cared about and by doing so it would improve production |
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| Deadly fire in NYC in 1911 Which changed worker relations and rights forever, called for change in age for work and better safer conditions for workers |
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| Human Resource Management |
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| The policies, practices, and systems that influence employees’ behavior, attitudes, and performance. |
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An organization’s employees described in terms of their:
training
experience
judgment
intelligence
relationships
Insight
Employees are RESOURCES to the employer |
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| Human Resource/Strategy Diagram |
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| Strategy/Performance Diagram |
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