Deck 7: Employees and Business

Question 1

Match the following employee duties with the examples of the issues involved.
-Due to comply with labour contract

A) Loyalty to firm
B) Bribery
C) Work quality
D) Fraud, theft, and embezzlement

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Match the following employee duties with the examples of the issues involved.
-Duty to comply with law

A) Loyalty to firm
B) Bribery
C) Work quality
D) Fraud, theft, and embezzlement

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Match the following employee duties with the examples of the issues involved.
-Duty to comply with labour contract

A) Loyalty to firm
B) Bribery
C) Work quality
D) Fraud, theft, and embezzlement

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Match the following employee duties with the examples of the issues involved.
-Duty to respect employer's property

A) Loyalty to firm
B) Bribery
C) Work quality
D) Fraud, theft, and embezzlement

Question 5

Match the following employee rights with the examples of the issues involved.
-Right to privacy

A) Work-life balance
B) Disciplinary proceedings
C) Occupational health and safety
D) Fair treatment in the interview

Question 6

Match the following employee rights with the examples of the issues involved.
-Right to due process

A) Work-life balance
B) Disciplinary proceedings
C) Occupational health and safety
D) Fair treatment in the interview

Question 7

Match the following employee rights with the examples of the issues involved.
-Right to healthy and safe working conditions

A) Work-life balance
B) Disciplinary proceedings
C) Occupational health and safety
D) Fair treatment in the interview

Question 8

Match the following employee rights with the examples of the issues involved.
-Right to work

A) Work-life balance
B) Disciplinary proceedings
C) Occupational health and safety
D) Fair treatment in the interview

Question 9

Which of the following do Crane et al not provide as an example of an issue associated with an employee's duty to respect their employer's property?

A) Working time
B) Unauthorized use of company resources for private purposes
C) Whistleblowing
D) Embezzlement

Question 10

Institutional discrimination means that the very ________ of the organization is prejudiced against certain groups.

Question 11

Imagine a retailer introduces a programme aimed at making sure employees smile and appear happy in front of customers. This is an example of which of the four kinds of threat to privacy that Simms (1994) suggests we might want to protect? Choose the best fit.

A) Physical privacy
B) Social privacy
C) Informational privacy
D) Psychological privacy

Question 12

The two key ethical issues that arise from the downsizing process are involvement of employees and remuneration.

Question 13

'Presenteeism' is a common cultural force in many organizations - but what is it?

A) Social pressure to give gifts to colleagues upon return from a business trip.
B) The phenomenon of being at work when you should be at home recovering or enjoying time off.
C) The assumption that an employee can only work effectively in the workplace.
D) The reality that employees are expected to stay at work until after the boss has left.

Question 14

With regard to differences between national cultures and moral values, what do Crane et al suggest should be the starting point for providing direction between the two poles of absolutism and relativism on questions of employment conditions?

A) The moral standards of the employer.
B) Moral standards of the host country.
C) The economic development of the host country.
D) Human rights should be a basic compass.

Question 15

Which of the following is Not a step that companies can take to try and achieve 'greener workplaces'?

A) Incentivizing car pooling
B) Reducing travel through use of videoconferencing
C) Moving into low energy usage office space
D) Encouraging employees to work from home less.

Question 16

Match the following 'rhetoric' with the 'reality' of HRM.
-Team working

A) Reducing the individual's discretion
B) Manipulation. Maximisation of productivity
C) Management can do what it wants. Zero-hour contracts.
D) Temporary and part-time jobs. Precarious working arrangements

Question 17

Match the following 'rhetoric' with the 'reality' of HRM.
-Training and development

A) Reducing the individual's discretion
B) Manipulation. Maximisation of productivity
C) Management can do what it wants. Zero-hour contracts.
D) Temporary and part-time jobs. Precarious working arrangements

Question 18

Match the following 'rhetoric' with the 'reality' of HRM.
-Flexibility

A) Reducing the individual's discretion
B) Manipulation. Maximisation of productivity
C) Management can do what it wants. Zero-hour contracts.
D) Temporary and part-time jobs. Precarious working arrangements

Question 19

Match the following 'rhetoric' with the 'reality' of HRM.
-New working patterns

A) Reducing the individual's discretion
B) Manipulation. Maximisation of productivity
C) Management can do what it wants. Zero-hour contracts.
D) Temporary and part-time jobs. Precarious working arrangements

Question 20

Diverse workforces are increasingly seen as sources of business success

Question 21

Which is of the following are main areas of affirmative action?
1)Active recruitment of under-represented groups
2)Construction of job criteria which are open to all
3)Training programmes for discriminated minorities
4)Lack of active efforts to promote under-represented groups to senior management

A) 1,2,3
B) 1,2,3,4
C) 2,3,4
D) 1,2,4

Question 22

_______ is an individual employee's ability to control information about themselves and the circumstances under which that information is shared inside and outside the workplace.

Question 23

Which of the following is not an element of employee operational participation? Choose all that apply.

A) Delegation
B) Information
C) Incentive Alignment
D) Co-Determination

Question 24

______________ is the phenomenon of being at work when you should be at home, or even just at rest and recreation, which occurs due to cultural pressures relating to working hours, productivity and organisational commitment.