Labor Ethics and Employee Rights Quiz

uestion 1 According to David Ewing, Selected Answer: Correct Answer: the corporate invasion of employees' civil rights is rampant. the corporate invasion of employees' civil rights is rampant. Question 2 Choose the factual statement concerning wages: Selected Answer: Correct Answer: A fair wage presupposes a fair work contract. A fair wage presupposes a fair work contract. Question 3 The key moral ideal in promotions is Selected Answer: Correct Answer: fairnes s. fairnes s. Question 4 Which of the following is a correct statement about union activities? Selected Answer: Correct Answer: A sympathetic strike occurs when workers who have no particular grievance of their own and who may or may not have the same employer decide to strike in support of others. A sympathetic strike occurs when workers who have no particular grievance of their own and who may or may not have the same employer decide to strike in support of others. Question 5 The hiring process needs to include screening, testing, and Selected Answer: Correct Answer: interviewin g. interviewin g. Question 6 According to David Ewing, two factors explain the absence of civil liberties and the prevalence of authoritarianism in the workplace. Which of the following is one of them? Selected Answer: Correct Answer: discriminatory employment practices due to strict constructionist interpretations of the Constitution the rise of personnel engineering and professional management Question 7 Austin Fagothey and Milton Gonsalves believe a direct strike is justified Selected Answer: Correct Answer: when it is a last resort. when it is a last resort. Question 8 Fair personnel policies and decisions must be based on criteria that are clear, job related, and Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Question 9 equally applied. equally applied. Griggs v. Duke Power Company, which prohibits Selected Answer: Correct Answer: employers from requiring a high school education as a prerequisite for employment or promotion without demonstrable evidence that the associated skills relate directly to job performance. employers from requiring a high school education as a prerequisite for employment or promotion without demonstrable evidence that the associated skills relate directly to job performance. Question 10 In union terms, a direct strike occurs Selected Answer: Correct Answer: when an organized body of workers withholds its labor to force the employer to comply with its demands. when an organized body of workers withholds its labor to force the employer to comply with its demands. Question 11 Tests are designed to measure the applicants’ skills in verbal, quantitative, and Selected Answer: Correct Answer: logical skills. logical skills. Question 12 To be successful any test used by a corporation must be Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Question 13 vali d. vali d. In the interview process, the interview should avoid rudeness, coarseness, condescension, and Selected Answer: Correct Answer: hostilit y. hostilit y. Question 14 Since Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1994, Selected Answer: Correct Answer: employers must make "reasonable accommodations" for disabled workers. employers must make "reasonable accommodations" for disabled workers. Question 15 Of the four types of discharge, firing Selected Answer: Correct Answer: is for-cause dismissal—the result of employee theft, gross insubordination, release of proprietary information, and so on. is for-cause dismissal—the result of employee theft, gross insubordination, release of proprietary information, and so on.