Deck 8: The Workplace 1: Basic Issues

Question 1

When did the U.S.Supreme Court ratify the common law principle that an employer may dismiss their employees at will?

A)1865
B)1897
C)1915
D)1936

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The First Amendment does not protect speech

A)Public employees make in the course of their official duties
B)Public employees make contributing to civic discourse
C)Private employees make in the course of their duties
D)Private employees make contributing to civic discourse

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Francis Bacon referred to biases as

A)Work of idle minds
B)Idols of the mind
C)Pleasures of the idle
D)Immoral idolatry

Answer 3

B

Question 4

How many employees must a company have to fall under the jurisdiction of the Americans with Disabilities Act?

A)12
B)15
C)20
D)25

Question 5

Who thought the human understanding was like a false mirror?

A)Bacon
B)Shakespeare
C)Browning
D)Poe

Question 6

Which court case led U.S.firms to retreat from administering preemployment tests?

A)Griggs
B)Roe
C)Brown
D)Duke

Question 7

Common law requires that an employee

A)Give 90 days' notice before quitting a job
B)Act as her employer requires off the job
C)Be loyal to her employer
D)Pay into any employer insurance scheme available

Question 8

What led to the unionization of the U.S.auto industry?

A)The Flint Sit-Down Strike
B)The Flint Walk-Out Strike
C)The Republic Sit-Down Strike
D)The Bank of America Walk-Out Strike

Question 9

Who contends that a person's rights as an American citizen disappear when you walk through the office door?

A)John Rawls
B)Ellen Simonetti
C)Kenneth Arrow
D)Lewis Maltby

Question 10

Which type of interview requires employees to engage in role play in a mock office scenario?

A)Positional interview
B)Situational interview
C)Postemployment interview
D)Review interview

Question 11

Seniority refers to

A)Age
B)Longevity of employment
C)Longevity with a firm
D)Position in a firm

Question 12

The practice of promoting from within a firm is called

A)Seniority preference
B)Location preference
C)Inbreeding
D)Nepotism

Question 13

Jazzercise now agrees that

A)Being overweight need not be unhealthy
B)People should not be fired because of their looks
C)People of varying weights can be fit
D)People of varying races can communicate with the public

Question 14

Acting morally is generally

A)Required by U.S.companies
B)Required by the U.S.Government
C)In one's long-term best interests
D)Not in one's long-term best interests

Question 15

Who sees the corporate invasion of American civil liberties as rampant?

A)John Rawls
B)Michael Walzer
C)A.C.Ewing
D)David W.Ewing

Question 16

The U.S.Supreme Court has ruled that a state cannot deny unemployment benefits to employees who are fired for refusing to work on

A)Their own time
B)A holiday
C)A Sabbath day
D)Sunday

Question 17

Job specifications to which the civil rights law does not apply are called

A)BFOOs
B)BFOQs
C)BFFOs
D)BFQQs

Question 18

The practice of showing favoritism to relatives and close friends is called

A)Bushwacking
B)Nepotism
C)Inbreeding
D)Relationalism

Question 19

According to Charles Arons, the hurdles men face returning to the job market are ow many times greater than those faced by women?

A)Two
B)Three
C)Four
D)Five

Question 20

How many Americans have contracts that have contractual provisions contrary to employment at will?

A)About 10%
B)About 20%
C)About 25%
D)About 32%

Question 21

A living wage is the amount of money a full-time employee needs to live on at the poverty line.

Question 22

Union membership decreases in periods of economic crisis.

Question 23

Temporary unemployment in which an employee is subject to recall is a

A)Firing
B)Termination
C)Forfeiture
D)Lay-off

Question 24

Franklin D.Roosevelt opposed labor unions.

Question 25

The National Labor Relations Act was replaced by the Taft-Hartley Act.

Question 26

The AFL and the GIO merged in 1955.

Question 27

Kant endorsed the principle of respect for human dignity.

Question 28

A card check is when the majority of workers in a company sign up to join a union.

Question 29

It is recommended not to terminate employees on a Friday.

Question 30

The requirement that the reasons for discipline or discharge deal directly with job performance is called

A)Just war
B)Just cause
C)Due process
D)Due restraint

Question 31

An employees' poor performance could result in

A)Firing
B)Position elimination
C)Termination
D)Forfeiture

Question 32

It is usual to distinguish between four types of employee discharge.

Question 33

The principle that refers to the fairness of the procedures for worker discipline and discharge is called

A)Just war
B)Just cause
C)Due process
D)Due restraint

Question 34

The National Labor Relations Act is also called The Wagner Act.

Question 35

Twenty-two states are right to work states.

Question 36

Adam Smith believed that usually employers enjoy advantages over employees.