Deck 9: The Workplace 2: Todays Challenges

Question 1

For consent to be legitimate, it must be

A)Coerced
B)Compensated
C)Voluntary
D)Confirmed

Answer 1

C

Question 2

How many large corporations test their employees or job applicants for illegal substances?

A)46%
B)67%
C)87%
D)92%

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Informed consent implies deliberation and ____ _____.

A)Free choice
B)Eager participation
C)Worker benefit
D)Employer risk

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Polygraphs infringe on

A)Autonomy
B)Liberty
C)Privacy
D)Property

Question 5

How many of the Fortune 100 companies use the Myers-Brigg Type Indicator?

A)36
B)67
C)89
D)92

Question 6

Voluntary assumption or risk presupposes

A)Higher wages
B)Ignorance of risk
C)Love of risk
D)Informed consent

Question 7

Enterprise Rent-A-Car lays down ____ dress-code guidelines for women.

A)15
B)20
C)25
D)30

Question 8

Christopher Pyle holds that polygraphs infringe on

A)Autonomy
B)Liberty
C)Privacy
D)Property

Question 9

According to the director of OSHA, about how many workers are killed on the job each day in the United States?

A)24
B)32
C)54
D)67

Question 10

Polygraph tests record changes in

A)Psychological processes
B)Honesty
C)Physiological processes
D)Environment

Question 11

David T.Lykken holds that polygraphs have, at most, been measured as being accurate

A)27% of the time
B)63% of the time
C)74% of the time
D)90% of the time

Question 12

Our concern for privacy has ____ dimensions.

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

Question 13

The Employee Polygraph Protection Act was passed in

A)1976
B)1984
C)1988
D)1996

Question 14

According to the U.S.Census Bureau, about how many workers are killed on the job in any given year?

A)5,000
B)7,000
C)10,000
D)12,000

Question 15

The use of polygraphs is argued to allow business to abolish the use of

A)Audits
B)Salary decreases
C)Random firing
D)Nepotism

Question 16

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act was passed in

A)1976
B)1986
C)1996
D)2006

Question 17

The strength of a privacy right depends on

A)The law
B)Circumstances
C)Whose right it is
D)Corporate culture

Question 18

Lynn March holds that polygraphs are accurate

A)33% of the time
B)45% of the time
C)78% of the time
D)90% of the time

Question 19

Wellness programs are

A)Clearly immoral
B)Paternalistic
C)Illegal
D)Imprudent

Question 20

Compulsion comes in

A)Packets
B)Flavors
C)Degrees
D)Bundles

Question 21

OSHA exerts direct control over the shifts peole work.

Question 22

The average American puts in 1200 hours on the job a year.

Question 23

Women's participation in the workforce has nearly doubled since 1960.

Question 24

The right to refuse dangerous work is a

A)Legal right
B)Dangerous precedent
C)Employment flaw
D)Legal loophole

Question 25

Musculoskeletal disorders are becoming an epidemic.

Question 26

More personal styles of management are thought to be less congenial to women.

Question 27

Sleep deprivation and fatigue cost Americans $100 billion a year

Question 28

A study showed that OHSA declined to prosecute in what percentage of cases of "willful" safety violations?

A)67
B)73
C)82
D)93

Question 29

Douglas McGregor described two styles of management.

Question 30

We have only just begun to appreciate the health implications of job stress.

Question 31

The average American works 350 more hours a year than their German counterparts.

Question 32

The Occupational Health and Safety Act was passed in

A)1968
B)1970
C)1976
D)1984

Question 33

Six out of ten employees now work non-standard hours.

Question 34

Theory X managers assume that employees like work.

Question 35

Theory Z is a Japanese style of management.

Question 36

Critics say that OSHA has moved from being a

A)Beat cop to a social worker
B)Maverick cop to a team player
C)Government agent to a corporate lackey
D)Social worker to a toothless dragon