Quiz 6

A  Employee assistance programs

B  A wellness program

C  An organizational ombudsman

D  HR specialists

A  specific test for substance abuse.

B  medical examination to check for serious illness or disease.

C  test of physical fitness and mental stability.

D  attempt to detect impairment of abilities.

A  minorities in low-wage jobs

B  healthcare workers

C  workers holding stressful jobs, including executives

D  young single men

A  developing safety reporting systems.

B  designing employee identification systems.

C  investigating accidents.

D  assisting in disaster planning.

A  Other-than-serious

B  De minimis

C  Dangerous

D  Serious

A  their fear is objectively reasonable.

B  the employees have tried to have the dangerous condition corrected.

C  using normal procedures to solve the problem has not worked.

D  they are not receiving hazardous-duty pay.

A  Ergonomics

B  Industrial physiology

C  Occupational safety and health

D  Environmental design

A  50 or more

B  10 or more

C  25 or more

D  one or more

A  overextending.

B  falling.

C  faulty equipment.

D  bodily reaction.

A  Wellness, Risk management

B  Health, Security

C  Protection, Prevention

D  Safety, Security

A  Progressive discipline

B  Behavior modification

C  Step-wise punishment

D  Positive discipline

A  a public rebuke for

B  behavior modification to

C  negative rewards for

D  punishment of

A  Policies, rules

B  Procedures, regulations

C  Regulations, rules

D  Rules, procedures

A  requires government contractors to take steps to eliminate employee drug usage.

B  applies to all private sector employers.

C  covers all intoxicating substances, including alcohol.

D  covers on-the-job use of legal substances, but both on- and off-the-job use of illegal substances.

A  Employee use of e-mail and voice mail is restricted and subject to employer review.

B  The employer may search e-mail or voice mail upon 24 hours notice to the employee.

C  All computer passwords and codes must be available to the employer.

D  E-mail and voice mail are for business use only.

A  3 years.

B  7 years.

C  1 year.

D  the life of the company or its successor companies.

A  Blogs are protected under free speech.

B  Employers can require employees to sign a non-disclosure privacy agreement that limits what they can say in their blogs.

C  As long as what employees say in their blogs about their company, bosses, and co-workers is true, the employees are protected against employer retaliation.

D  Private-sector employees have free speech rights in their blogs, but employees of the federal government can legally be forbidden from blogging about anything concerned with their workplace.

A  employees can be asked to leave a company only if they are willing to do so.

B  an employee must provide a minimum of two weeks’ notice before quitting a job.

C  employees are free agents, but employers must have a just cause for terminating them.

D  employer has the right to hire, fire, demote, or promote whomever it chooses.

A  employment-at-will rights.

B  implied obligations.

C  responsibilities without rights.

D  contractual rights.

A  duty.

B  tradition.

C  responsibility.

D  contract.