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Job analyses, job descriptions, and job specifications help companies meet the legal requirement that their human resource decisions be job related.

People at the postconventional level of moral development make moral decisions based on selfish reasons.

Environmental ____ determines how well managers can understand or predict the external changes and trends affecting their businesses.

Fully functional change occurs when incremental improvements are made to a dominant technological design so that the improved version of the technology is fully backward compatible with the older version.

The research on technology cycles and technological innovation applies only to high-tech products developed in the bioengineering, robotics, and computer industries.

There are three sets of federal laws that are important to the human resource management process. They are federal employment laws, federal labor laws (which regulate the interaction between management and labor unions that represent groups of employees, and the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)).

A company facing a simple environment would:

A creative work environment requires organizational encouragement and supervisory encouragement, as well as work group encouragement.

Nearly all technology cycles follow a bell-shaped pattern of innovation.

CASE STUDY 9:  The Red School House provides education and care for preschool children along with kindergarten students who attend a half-day of school at the local public schools. The mission of the School House is to provide the best individual care for children based on their developmental needs. The program emphasizes safety first, along with education about how to get along with others, good health and hygiene, the arts, and basic educational elements. A group of 16 young children in one classroom range from ages 4 to 5. Jay, the only 4 year old, was placed in the class because of his size (he is taller than any of the 5 year olds in the class) and his ability to learn quickly. Jay can perform mathematics at the second grade level and he is quite verbal, also. Jay and his family are Bulgarian Canadian and Jay is bilingual. Adrienne, who is 5 years old, has been protected closely in the first years of her life by her mother, and her attendance at the Red School House for half a day is her first time to be with other children without her mother. Ricardo (also 5 years old), another child at the center, moved with his family to the city from Bulgaria two years ago. During the morning educational period, which generally lasts about four hours, group instruction is given on a variety of subjects. The class was finishing a 45-minute long lesson on vocabulary building. The students were all sitting in their desks in a row and paying attention when Laurie noticed that Jay was lying on the floor under a table, looking up at the teacher once in a while, but reading a book. Jay had done this kind of thing in the past few weeks, too. While she recognized that Jay already knew the material being studied, Laurie decided that he needed to learn social skills appropriate to the class, so she told him to get up, sit in his desk, put the book down, and pay attention.