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Questions # 61:

As an HR Professional, you must be familiar with the collective bargaining agreements and the process that rights are given, contracts, and union and management cooperation. Consider an arbitration process between the management and the union. What term is assigned to the resolutionof the disagreement, by an arbitrator's interpretation of the language of the contract?

Options:

A.

Resolution


B.

Interpretation


C.

Decision


D.

Outcome


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Questions # 62:

During a unionizing campaign, management may do which of the following in response to union allegations?

Options:

A.

Ask employees what the union is saying about the company.


B.

Point out the consequences of unionization based on past facts.


C.

Encourage nonunion employees to talk about the reasons they don't want the union.


D.

Tell employees that the company will have to move the jobs to another country if the union is elected.


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Questions # 63:

As an HR Professional you must be familiar with the strategic business management of your organization. Henry Fayol identified five functions of business management which still apply to businesses today. Which one of thefollowing answers correctly identifies the five functions of a manager?

Options:

A.

Prevoyance, to command, to execute, to close, and to control


B.

Prevoyance, to organize, to command, to coordinate, and to control


C.

To plan, to organize, to control, to propose, and to close


D.

Initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing


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Questions # 64:

What term describes a manager who makes himself visible, being present for employees, and getting out of hisoffice to interact with employees?

Options:

A.

Open door policy


B.

Progressive discipline


C.

Active management


D.

Management by walking around


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Questions # 65:

An employee has resigned. During the exit interview, the employee tells HR that the reason for the resignation is that for the last 3 months the supervisor has been hostile, refused to provide instructions on work assignments, given the employee all the most unpleasant tasks in the department, and verbally reprimanded the employee in front of co-workers and customers. The employee may have a cause of legal action based on which of the following?

Options:

A.

Fraudulent misrepresentation


B.

The employer's duty of good faith and fair dealing


C.

Constructive discharge


D.

Promissory estoppel


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Questions # 66:

As a HR Professional you must be familiar with several different lawsuits and their affect on human resource practices today. This adverse impact lawsuit determined that discrimination need not be deliberate or observable to be real. Employees were segregated by race and were allowed to work only in the lowest paid position. What lawsuit is described?

Options:

A.

Griggs versus Duke Power, 1971


B.

Albemarle Paper versus Moody, 1975


C.

Washington versus Davis, 1976


D.

McDonnell Douglas Corp. versus Green, 1973


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Questions # 67:

Which of the following is an action taken by the employer to stop employees from working?

Options:

A.

Calling conference


B.

Security checks


C.

Strike


D.

Lockout


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Questions # 68:

Employee pension rights are protected by which of the following acts or regulations?

Options:

A.

The Sherman Antitrust Act


B.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Act


C.

Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act


D.

Executive Order 11246


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Questions # 69:

As an HRProfessional you must be familiar with the project management processes and the stakeholders of projects. All projects can map to the project management lifecycle. Which one of the following best describes the project management lifecycle?

Options:

A.

It is the aggregation of the nine knowledge areas of project management: integration management, scope, schedule, costs, quality, human resources, communication, risk, and procurement.


B.

It is the life of the management of the project -from initiation, planning, execution, controlling, through closing.


C.

It is the life of a project to interact with all areas including scope, schedule, costs, quality, human resources, communication, risk, and procurement.


D.

It is a unique life of each project -from its initiationthrough its closing.


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Questions # 70:

Management and union representatives are working through a collective bargaining agreement. What term is used in this process to describe arbitration that is used to resolve conflicts around contract language in the collective bargaining agreement?

Options:

A.

Decisions


B.

Permanent arbitration


C.

Interest arbitration


D.

Ad hoc arbitration


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