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HCM 390 Final Exam Questions & Answers 2024/2025 Human resources - ANSWERS- function, denoting a subunit within a larger organization - started as employment office - our concept of HR started in 1964 with the Civil Rights Act federal and state wage and hour laws - ANSWERS- fair labor sta...

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Human resources - ANSWERS- function, denoting a subunit within a larger organization

- started as employment office

- our concept of HR started in 1964 with the Civil Rights Act



federal and state wage and hour laws - ANSWERS- fair labor standards act

- establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, record keeping, and youth employment status



labor unions - ANSWERS



equal employment opportunity - ANSWERS- agency that was developed to investigate employee
complaints

-organizations began documentation to cover their ass



personnel department - ANSWERS- department responsible for recruitment and welfare of staff or
employees



employment office - ANSWERS- became a full-time position as work increased

- clerks from many areas brought in to work in one place

- supervisor appointed to oversee activities of clerks

- this led to consistency in hiring practices



outsourcing - ANSWERS- A decision by a corporation to turn over much of the responsibility for
production to independent suppliers

- only if it saves money or help with confidentiality

,statutory benefits - ANSWERS- required by law

- ex: workers comp, unemployment insurance, and maybe (paid) sick days



Wagner act - ANSWERS- same things as National labor relations act

- compelled management to negotiate with unions



government-mandates benefits - ANSWERS- workers compensation

- unemployment compensation

- family medical leave

- COBRA

- social security



fringe benefits - ANSWERS- created to entice workers to stay with their employers

- worker compensation and retirement programs were created

- size of payroll grew



the clerical model - ANSWERS- most common stereotype of HR

- file papers, keep records, track stats and dates, and administer employee benefits

- HR rarely called upon aside from these basics



employee assistance programs - ANSWERS- program that assists employees with personal problems
and/or work-related problems that may impact their job performance, health, mental, and emotional
well-being

- confidential



reengineering - ANSWERS- fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve
dramatic improvements in critical measures of performance, such as cost, quality, service, and speed

- optimization and continued development/improvement

, technological changes - ANSWERS- Improvements in a firm's ability to produce due to improved
processes, methods and machines.



professional employer organization - ANSWERS- assumes all HR functions of a client company by hiring
all of its employees and leasing them back to the company



employee conduct - ANSWERS- code of how employee can and cannot act during work hours and
possibly extends to off-hours for specific things



compensation - ANSWERS- workers insurance covers employees who get sick or injured on the job

- disability benefits

- missed wage replacement

- death benefits



line and staff activities - ANSWERS- line managers are first line of access to employees

- first line managers must be honest to have less frustrated employees



human resources director - ANSWERS- responsible for making executive HR decisions about policies,
practices, and strategies



role of human resources p 68 - ANSWERS- employee acquisition

- employee support or maintenance

- employee retention

- employee separation



human resource model - ANSWERS- HR has no authority on anyone outside of their department

- rarely has power of enforcement

- they DO have influence on employees though



chief executive officer - ANSWERS- HR reports to them

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