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Human Resource

Q: What are some forms planning can take? (107108)
Q: What are examples of important issues that can be found by a needs assessment? (104)
Q: Why do a needs assessment? (107)
Q: What is a labor-market survey? (107)
Q: What are three ways government reform initiatives have changed staffing? 106107)
Q: What is proceduralism? (105)
Q: What are the three steps in recruitment or staffing? (105)
Q: What is your experience with recruitment from an applicants perspective? (101)
Q: Which is often the first factor that potential applicants review and consider? How do the private, public, and nonprofit sectors compare in this respect? (103)
Q: What five factors affect finding talented workers? (102)
Q: Which decades were the high water mark for prestige of the public service? (100)
Q: What are key paradoxes of recruiting? (99100)
Q: Would an employee with cancer be covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act? Which functions are expected to be carried on by the employee? (87)
Q: What constitutes reasonable accommodation regarding employer actions and religious freedom? (8889)
Q: What is race norming and what purpose did it serve? (87)
Q: What is the 80% rule? (86)
Q: What is the paradox contained in affirmative action programs? (84)
Q: What is reverse discrimination? (84)
Q: What is the reason for the harassment? (84)
Q: What did the U.S. Supreme Court say about the University of Michigans law school admissions policy? Why? (86)
Q: In which ways can intentional discrimination be proved? (8081)
Q: Who is protected under the Civil Rights Act of 1964? . . . the Age Discrimination in Employment Act? . . . the ADA of 1990? (80)
Q: When does defamation occur in post-employment references? (77)
Q: Define BFOQ? (82)
Q: When it is OK to administer AIDS tests? (78)
Q: When is it OK to use medical tests? (78)
Q: What approach should be adopted by agencies in matters of grooming and dress? (75)
Q: What questions should not be asked in preemployment checks? (77)
Q: What is Executive Order 12564? (73)
Q: How can employers remove expectations of privacy? (70)
Q: How does the balance doctrine apply to matters of privacy? (73)
Q: Define official immunity. (72)
Q: What is qualified immunity and absolute immunity? To whom do they apply? (72)
Q: What does the Affordable Care Act require? (71)
Q: What is required under the FMLA of 1993? (71)
Q: How are retirees and same-sex domestic partners treated in terms of health insurance? (71)
Q: What coverage is provided under the workers compensation acts? (70)
Q: Are public employers legally obligated to provide health insurance to employees? (70)
Q: What does the 1963 Equal Pay Act requires? (65)
Q: What is the white-collar exemption? (68)
Q: What is the overtime pay requirement under the FLSA of 1938? (68)
Q: Identify the key finding in Branti v. Finkel (1980)? (67)
Q: The U.S. Office of Special Counsel that publishes guides to the Hatch Act has divided federal employees in two groups. List them and explain how they differ. (67)
Q: What is the Hatch Act? (67)
Q: Whom does the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 protect? (6667)
Q: What did the court seek to do in the Pickering case? (66)
Q: Define adverse action and explain who is affected by it. (64)
Q: What are Loudermill rights? (63)
Q: What did the Supreme Court seek to do in Board of Regents v. Roth (1972)? (61)
Q: What is the implication of having property interests in a job? (63)
Q: List some of the federal employment laws. (5455)
Q: What two trends have increased individual rights and eroded the at-will doctrine? (63)
Q: Which institutions are responsible for most federal employment laws? (60)
Q: Define at-will employment? (62)
Q: Define the principle of stare decisis. (60)
Q: Explain the difference between a binding precedent and a persuasive precedent? (60)
Q: What is a civil law system? (57, 60)
Q: What is a common law system? (57)
Q: How can managers stay up-to-date with legal changes? (5758)
Q: Describe the overarching paradox in the legal arena and list some of the reasons for it. (5556) Those in charge are expected to uphold the law, but the complexities and uncertainties of constitutional, statutory, administrative and common law make complying frustratingly difficult.
Q: What are three competing interests that need to be kept in balance? (56)
Q: What are the reasons a manager should be familiar with basic legal principles? (5455)
Q: Explain the following paradox: Managers must embrace the law to avoid the law. (54)
Q: Why are the quotes from FDR and Thomas Jefferson profound?
Q: How are value conflicts resolved?
Q: What are the four overarching principles that administrators need to be mindful of?
Q: How does your organization stack up against the values of HRM?
Q: What are the key criticisms of reinvention applied to HRM?
Q: The recommendations of the Winter Commission (National Commission on the State and Local Public Service) are remarkably relevant today and continue to be promoted. What are the major recommendations?
Q: Compare Germany before and after the Civil Service Reform Law of 1997. How did the civil servants react? Why? (Exhibit 1.11)
Q: The civil service has to try to please at least three major constituents. Who are they?
Q: What are the five key areas emphasized in George W. Bushs plan for reform?
Q: What were the components of Clintons three-part strategy for civil service reform?
Q: What two writers are associated with reinventing government? What is the federal program implementing it?
Q: How did CSRA of 1978 alter public service?
Q: How did the Pendleton Act alter public service?
Q: In what ways does CSRA reflect each of the tides of reform?
Q: What is liberation management? What are its implications for HRM?
Q: What is the watchful eye? What are its implications for HRM?
Q: What is the war on waste? What are its implications for HRM?
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