Quiz 6

A  HR specialists

B  An organizational ombudsman

C  A wellness program

D  Employee assistance programs

A  attempt to detect impairment of abilities.

B  specific test for substance abuse.

C  medical examination to check for serious illness or disease.

D  test of physical fitness and mental stability.

A  minorities in low-wage jobs

B  healthcare workers

C  young single men

D  workers holding stressful jobs, including executives

A  assisting in disaster planning.

B  investigating accidents.

C  designing employee identification systems.

D  developing safety reporting systems.

A  Serious

B  Dangerous

C  Other-than-serious

D  De minimis

A  they are not receiving hazardous-duty pay.

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

C  their fear is objectively reasonable.

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

A  Environmental design

B  Occupational safety and health

C  Industrial physiology

D  Ergonomics

A  25 or more

B  50 or more

C  10 or more

D  one or more

A  bodily reaction.

B  faulty equipment.

C  falling.

D  overextending.

A  Safety, Security

B  Wellness, Risk management

C  Protection, Prevention

D  Health, Security

A  Positive discipline

B  Progressive discipline

C  Step-wise punishment

D  Behavior modification

A  behavior modification to

B  punishment of

C  a public rebuke for

D  negative rewards for

A  Regulations, rules

B  Rules, procedures

C  Policies, rules

D  Procedures, regulations

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

B  applies to all private sector employers.

C  covers all intoxicating substances, including alcohol.

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

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

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

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

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

A  3 years.

B  7 years.

C  1 year.

D  the life of the company or its successor companies.

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

B  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.

C  Blogs are protected under free speech.

D  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.

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  implied obligations.

B  employment-at-will rights.

C  responsibilities without rights.

D  contractual rights.

A  tradition.

B  contract.

C  responsibility.

D  duty.