Week 11 Quiz

An illustrative hospital kitchen needs two more cooks. It posts the opening on its job page and asks its current cooks to refer people they know. Which hiring step is this?

Select one.

• Selection, because the kitchen is already choosing which of its applicants it will hire
• Recruitment, because the kitchen is drawing qualified people into a pool of applicants
• Training, because the kitchen is teaching new cooks the skills of the job
• Performance evaluation, because the kitchen is comparing cooks with its standards

The illustrative coffee cart's owner writes down four lines for the part-time helper's job. Which line belongs in the job specification rather than the job description?

Select one.

• Take orders and payment at the counter
• Keep the cart stocked with cups and lids
• Reliable on weekday mornings
• Clean up after the morning rush

The illustrative coffee cart's hiring plan has one part-time helper working 20 hours a week for 50 weeks a year at 16 dollars an hour. What are the helper's yearly wages?

Select one.

• 16,000 dollars
• 1,000 dollars
• 320 dollars
• 35,000 dollars a year

Which statement about the federal minimum wage under the Fair Labor Standards Act is accurate?

Select one.

• It is 7.25 dollars an hour in every state, and no state is allowed to require a higher wage
• It was set at 7.25 dollars by the National Labor Relations Act of 1935
• It is 16 dollars an hour, the wage the coffee cart pays its helper
• It has been 7.25 dollars an hour since 2009, and many states set higher ones

The illustrative coffee cart pays its helper 16 dollars an hour, and the federal minimum wage is 7.25 dollars an hour. How far above the federal floor is the cart's wage?

Select one.

• 7.25 dollars an hour
• 23.25 dollars an hour
• 8.75 dollars an hour
• 9.25 dollars an hour

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a union membership rate of 20.1 percent of wage and salary workers in 1983 and 10.0 percent in 2025. Which statement describes the change correctly?

Select one.

• A fall of 10.1 percentage points
• A fall of 10.1 percent
• A fall of 50.2 percentage points
• A rise of 10.1 percentage points since 1983

Collective bargaining and a strike are the same thing: both name the pressure a union puts on management during a contract dispute.

True or false.

• True
• False

Which federal law, passed in 1947, amended the National Labor Relations Act and, in its section 14(b), lets states pass right-to-work laws?

Select one.

• The Fair Labor Standards Act
• The Equal Pay Act
• The Americans with Disabilities Act
• The Taft-Hartley Act

Federal law alone would let the illustrative coffee cart pay its helper less than 16 dollars an hour. Which statement best separates the legal question from the ethical one?

Select one.

• Because a lower wage is legal, it is also the ethical choice for the cart
• The law sets a floor the wage must meet; whether a wage is fair is a separate question
• Because 16 dollars is above the floor, the law now requires the cart to keep paying that wage
• Ethics and legality ask the same question, so the federal minimum answers both

Unions are a contested question in this course, argued as positions with no verdict. Which statement is a documented fact rather than one side's position?

Select one.

• Unions give every worker a fair hearing that every workplace in the country needs and should have
• Union contracts make businesses too rigid to compete with rivals that have no union contract at all
• The BLS reported a union membership rate of 10.0 percent of wage and salary workers in 2025
• Falling union membership over the years shows that unions no longer matter to most workers