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WGU D351 FUNCTIONS OF HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT
VERSION 1 AND 2 NEWEST 2025 ACTUAL EXAM
COMPLETE 200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
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- Who is responsible for Affirmative Action (AA)?
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: Affirmative action is any
action taken by an employer to overcome discriminatory effects of past or current practices or policies that create barriers to equal employment opportunity
- What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: A federal law passed in 2010
that prohibits insurers from denying coverage to individuals with pre-existing conditions, sets minimum standards for health insurance policies, and expands Medicaid eligibility for many individuals and families
- What is Age Discrimination?
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: The denial of rights or
privileges or other unfair treatment of someone (an applicant or employee) on the basis of age
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- What is the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
(ADEA)?
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: A federal law that protects
workers age 40 and older from employment discrimination based on their age
- What is an Agency Shop?
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: A type of union agreement
in which employees do not have to belong to the union for employment, but all employees must still pay union dues
- What is Alderfer's ERG Theory?
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: A motivational theory that
categorizes human needs into existence, relatedness, and growth. Individuals can pursue needs from multiple categories simultaneously and may regress to lower-level needs if higher- order ones are unfulfilled
- What is Alternative Ranking?
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: A performance evaluation
method in which a superior lists the subordinates on the basis of overall performance, with the best at the top of the list and the worst at the bottom, then alternately selects the best and worst from the remaining subordinates to fill the list
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- What is the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA)?
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: A federal law that prohibits
discrimination on the basis of disability. The ADA ensures equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities in all aspects of employment as well as in other public services
- What is an Application?
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: A screening instrument that
gathers a large amount of applicant biographical and vocational information for relatively little cost
- What is Arbitration?
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: A neutral third party studies
a bargaining situation, listening to both parties, and then makes recommendations that are binding on the parties
- What are Assistantships?
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: An arrangement in which a
person is given a full-time position assisting other workers to expose the person to a wide range of jobs
- What are Bona Fide Occupational Qualifications (BFOQ)?
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- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: Bona fide occupational
qualifications are employment qualifications that employers are permitted to consider while making decisions about hiring and retaining employees. However, consideration of these qualities in any other contexts might be deemed discriminatory
- What is Business Ethics?
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: The values and principles
that are used to evaluate whether the collective behavior of an organization's members is appropriate
- What is a Cash Plan?
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: Provides for payment of
profit shares at regular intervals
- What are Cash Plans?
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: A type of profit-sharing
plan that pays profit shares at regular intervals
- What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: Comprehensive civil rights
legislation signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson that prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin