HRCI HRCI-PHRCA Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

HRCI HRCI-PHRCA Online Questions & Answers

• Question 161:

  Which one of the following best describes Progressive discipline?

  A. Discussion of substandard performance, written warning, final written warning, termination.
  B. Series of documents of employee's incompetence or insubordination that precedes an employee's termination.
  C. Discussion of substandard performance, verbal warning, written warning, and final written warning.
  D. Series of documents of employee's substandard performance prior to each step of discipline or termination.
  C. Discussion of substandard performance, verbal warning, written warning, and final written warning.

• Question 162:

  The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is to the Occupational Safety and Health Act as the National Labor Relations Board is to which of the following?

  A. The Norris-La Guardia Act
  B. The National Labor Relations Act
  C. The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act
  D. The Labor-Management Relations Act
  B. The National Labor Relations Act

• Question 163:

  "When the workplace is permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule and insult that is sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victim's employment and create an abusive working environment, Title VII is violated." This is a statement made with regard to which of the following sexual- harassment court cases?

  A. Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc.
  B. Faragher v. City of Boca Raton
  C. Burlington Industries v. Ellerth
  D. Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services
  A. Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc.

• Question 164:

  If an employee files a complaint with OSHA, under which of the following would they be protected?

  A. Emergency action
  B. Physical environmental hazard
  C. General-duty clause
  D. Whistle-blower protection
  D. Whistle-blower protection

• Question 165:

  As an HR Professional you must address risk in the work place. There are two general categories of risk: pure risk and business risk. Which one of the following is an example of pure risk?

  A. Loss of investment
  B. Loss of life or limb
  C. Safety training for workers in construction
  D. Fines and penalties for breaking regulations
  B. Loss of life or limb

• Question 166:

  Which of the following standards is the most frequently cited type of OSHA violation?

  A. Construction
  B. Maritime
  C. Whistle-blower
  D. Agriculture
  A. Construction

• Question 167:

  Which of the following is a communication that damages an individual's reputation in the community, preventing them from obtaining employment?

  A. Gain sharing
  B. Constructive discharge
  C. Duty of loyalty
  D. Defamation
  D. Defamation

• Question 168:

  Drag and drop the types of picketing beside their corresponding descriptions.

  Select and Place:

  

  

• Question 169:

  As an HR Professional you should be familiar with the terminology, practices, and rules governing union- based strikes. What term is assigned to a group of employees who are not directly affected by a group of striking employees, but they choose not to cross a picket line of strike?

  A. Common situs picketing
  B. Scabs
  C. Sympathy strike
  D. Wildcat strikes
  C. Sympathy strike

• Question 170:

  Your organization offers an employees' retirement benefit program that is covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. The administrative responsibility for enforcement of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 is divided among three government agencies. Which one of the following is not a government agency that helps to enforce ERISA?

  A. FDIC
  B. Department of Labor
  C. IRS
  D. PensionBenefit Guaranty Corporation
  A. FDIC