Quiz 6

A  A wellness program

B  An organizational ombudsman

C  Employee assistance programs

D  HR specialists

A  test of physical fitness and mental stability.

B  specific test for substance abuse.

C  medical examination to check for serious illness or disease.

D  attempt to detect impairment of abilities.

A  workers holding stressful jobs, including executives

B  healthcare workers

C  young single men

D  minorities in low-wage jobs

A  investigating accidents.

B  developing safety reporting systems.

C  assisting in disaster planning.

D  designing employee identification systems.

A  Serious

B  De minimis

C  Other-than-serious

D  Dangerous

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

B  they are not receiving hazardous-duty pay.

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

D  their fear is objectively reasonable.

A  Occupational safety and health

B  Environmental design

C  Ergonomics

D  Industrial physiology

A  25 or more

B  one or more

C  50 or more

D  10 or more

A  faulty equipment.

B  overextending.

C  bodily reaction.

D  falling.

A  Safety, Security

B  Wellness, Risk management

C  Protection, Prevention

D  Health, Security

A  Step-wise punishment

B  Positive discipline

C  Behavior modification

D  Progressive discipline

A  negative rewards for

B  punishment of

C  behavior modification to

D  a public rebuke for

A  Rules, procedures

B  Regulations, rules

C  Procedures, regulations

D  Policies, rules

A  applies to all private sector employers.

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

C  covers all intoxicating substances, including alcohol.

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

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

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

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

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

A  3 years.

B  the life of the company or its successor companies.

C  7 years.

D  1 year.

A  Blogs are protected under free speech.

B  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.

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

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

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

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

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

A  responsibilities without rights.

B  contractual rights.

C  implied obligations.

D  employment-at-will rights.

A  tradition.

B  contract.

C  responsibility.

D  duty.