Quiz 6

A  A wellness program

B  Employee assistance programs

C  HR specialists

D  An organizational ombudsman

A  attempt to detect impairment of abilities.

B  specific test for substance abuse.

C  test of physical fitness and mental stability.

D  medical examination to check for serious illness or disease.

A  workers holding stressful jobs, including executives

B  young single men

C  minorities in low-wage jobs

D  healthcare workers

A  investigating accidents.

B  developing safety reporting systems.

C  designing employee identification systems.

D  assisting in disaster planning.

A  Dangerous

B  Serious

C  Other-than-serious

D  De minimis

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  Industrial physiology

B  Occupational safety and health

C  Ergonomics

D  Environmental design

A  one or more

B  50 or more

C  25 or more

D  10 or more

A  bodily reaction.

B  faulty equipment.

C  overextending.

D  falling.

A  Safety, Security

B  Health, Security

C  Wellness, Risk management

D  Protection, Prevention

A  Positive discipline

B  Step-wise punishment

C  Progressive discipline

D  Behavior modification

A  negative rewards for

B  punishment of

C  a public rebuke for

D  behavior modification to

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  covers all intoxicating substances, including alcohol.

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

D  applies to all private sector employers.

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

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

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

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

A  the life of the company or its successor companies.

B  7 years.

C  1 year.

D  3 years.

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

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  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.

D  Blogs are protected under free speech.

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

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

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

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

A  implied obligations.

B  employment-at-will rights.

C  responsibilities without rights.

D  contractual rights.

A  contract.

B  duty.

C  responsibility.

D  tradition.