Human Resource Management in Government Flashcards
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Which concept describes an employee's psychological investment in the organization's mission and their motivation to exert effort on its behalf?
Answer: Employee engagement
Employee engagement captures the degree to which employees are emotionally and intellectually committed to the organization's goals and willing to go beyond minimum requirements.
Under the Federal Employees' Compensation Act (FECA), a government employee injured on the job is entitled to:
Answer: Workers' compensation benefits administered by the Department of Labor
FECA provides federal workers' compensation benefits, including medical care and wage replacement, administered by the Department of Labor's Office of Workers' Compensation Programs.
A supervisor documents a series of specific incidents where an employee failed to meet performance standards over 90 days. This practice supports which HR process?
Answer: Performance improvement plan (PIP) and potential adverse action
Documenting specific performance failures over time is the evidentiary foundation for a formal Performance Improvement Plan and any subsequent adverse action.
The concept of 'broadbanding' in government compensation systems refers to:
Answer: Consolidating multiple pay grades into wider salary bands to allow more flexibility
Broadbanding merges several traditional pay grades into fewer, wider bands, giving managers greater flexibility in setting and adjusting pay within a band.
Which federal law governs the right of most federal employees to form and join unions and engage in collective bargaining?
Answer: Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute (Title VII of CSRA)
Title VII of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, known as the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute, governs collective bargaining rights for most federal employees.
An agency wants to assess whether its recruitment sources are yielding high-quality hires. The BEST metric to evaluate this is:
Answer: Quality-of-hire ratio comparing source to performance outcomes
Quality-of-hire metrics link the recruitment source to actual post-hire performance, revealing which channels produce the most successful employees.
A government HR director is reviewing the agency's classification system and finds positions have been inflated to higher grades over time without changes in duties. This phenomenon is called:
Answer: Grade creep or classification inflation
Grade creep occurs when positions are gradually classified at higher grades than warranted by actual duties, distorting the pay structure and payroll costs.