OBHR Exam 2 Review - OBHR Exam 2 Review Action learning O...

OBHR Exam 2 Review
Action learning:
O Managers work on projects outside their department
O Usually a team project
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial:
• The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
• Voluntary federation of about 100 national and international labor unions in the U.S.
• Formed by a merger of the AFL and CIO in 1955
• It is basically what people think of when the think about unions
• In 2011 the AFL-CIO claimed about 11 million members
• That leaves about 3 million in unions not affiliated with the AFL-CIO
• The largest non-affiliated group makes up about half of this, the United Auto Workers
Broadbanding:
• A current trend is to collapse multiple salary grades and ranges down to a smaller number that
contains a relatively wide range of jobs and salary levels
• Advantage is greater flexibility, especially when companies flatten their hierarchies and organize
around self managing teams
• Facilitates movement of employees up and down in job level without pay raises or cuts
• If an employee must temporarily spend time in a lower level job to develop a certain skill set, no
adjustment is necessary and other employees cannot insinuate an equity violation
Building two way communication, 3 principles:
o Engagement
 Involving individuals in decisions that affect them
 Asking for their input
 Allowing them to refute the merits of your ideas and assumptions
o Explanation
 Making sure that everyone understands why decisions are made
 Making sure everyone follows the logic that led to the decision
o Expectation clarity
 Making sure everyone knows what the standards are
 And what the penalties are for failure
Case study method:
o Written cases are analyzed by trainees

o The problem presented is diagnosed
o Solutions are usually discussed among a group of trainees
o Aims to give a realistic experience in identifying and analyzing complex problems
o Five main features of the case method
 Use of real problems
 Maximum involvement of participants
 In stating views
 Inquiring into other’s views
 Confronting different views
 Making decisions
 Minimal reliance on the instructor
 Hold the position that there are rarely purely right or wrong answers
 Make the case study as engaging and realistic as possible
Civil Rights Act of 1964:
 Unlawful to discriminate in the compensation/hiring process on the basis of race, color, religion,
sex, or national origin
comparable worth:
 Should women who are performing jobs equal to men’s or comparable to men’s be
paid the same as men
 There is a difference between equal to and comparable to
 Equal to has been the standard
o Resulted in classifications of relatively low pay positions traditionally held by
women
 “Comparable to” could include comparisons between jobs that are quite dissimilar: such
as secretaries to electricians
The assumption