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Buss. Environment 18
Business Environment Chapter 18
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| American with Disabilities Act (ADA) | Legislation enacted to prohibit employer discrimination based on disability. |
| Background checks | The review of background information by employers of applicants or current employees; most states give employers relatively free reign |
| Broad brush EAPs | Employee Assistance Programs that extend into a broad array of employee problem areas beyond substance abuse |
| Chief privacy officer (CPO) | high ranking executives responsible for monitoring and protecting the private information held by firms. |
| Consumer reports | official term for employment background checks |
| Drug testing | Employer testing of employees for any suspected substance abuse |
| Electronic Communication Privacy Act of 1986 | The only federal level of privacy protection in the United States for employees in the workplace |
| Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) | Programs developed by companies to deal with alcohol- and drug-abuse issues in the workplace; designed to be confidential and nonpunitive |
| Employee monitoring | An employer's monitoring of employees' work activities |
| Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) | A 1988 law that banned most uses of the lie detector test in the private sector |
| Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) | Federal law that governs how employers may use consumer reports in evaluating current employees or new hires |
| Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) | A 1993 law requiring employers to give employees leave for family-related or health issues; later extended to protect families of active duty service members deployed abroad |
| Family-friendly | A description of company benefits such as flextime |
| Integrity tests | Tests used by companies as an alternative to the polygraph to measure employee honesty; critics claim they invade employees' privacy by the nature of their inquiries and that they are not reliable |
| Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) | The federal agency responsible for overseeing the safety and health of America's workers |
| Personality tests | Tests that measure person's social interaction skills and patterns of behavior. |
| Polygraph | A machine that measures certain physiological responses to detect whether a person may be lying |
| Privacy Act of 1974 | Federal law that sets controls on the right of the government to collect |
| Privacy in the workplace | the extent to which employers monitor and collect information on the activities |
| Right-to-know laws | State laws requiring employers to provide employees with information on the hazards of workplace chemicals |
| Smoking in the workplace | smoking at work |
| Type 1 error | Statistical term for false positive; in integrity tests |
| Type 2 error | In integrity tests |
| USA Patriot Act | Law passed in 2001 in response to the September 11th attacks which in part relaxed privacy restrictions on the use of information about individuals |
| Work-life balance | A state of equilibrium between the demands of a person's personal and professional lives; more and more companies are searching for ways to facilitate this balance |
| Workplace violence | One of the four leading causes of death in the workplace and the leading cause for women; may stem from coworkers or from an outside source |
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