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16. Of the following acts, which one requires that companies with federal construction contracts must pay their laborers and mechanics the standard wage of employees in the geographic area in which the work is being performed?
  1. The Fair Labor Standards Act
  2. McNamara-O’Hara Service Act
  3. Federal Labor Relations Act
  4. The Davis-Bacon Act
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17. Which of the following is the concept that recognized that businesses are social organizations and economic systems and recognized that employee productivity was directly related to job satisfaction?
  1. Human relations
  2. Human resource management
  3. Human resource strategy
  4. Strategic management
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18. Which type of learning curve initially begins slowly, with smaller learning increments, but generally increases in pace and with larger increments as learning proceeds?
  1. Negatively accelerating learning curve
  2. S-shaped learning curve
  3. Positively accelerating learning curve
  4. Plateau learning curve
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19. According to the FLSA, employers are required to pay nonexempt employees for time spent doing which of the following?
  1. Travelling to and from job sites
  2. Being on-call while at home
  3. Sitting around at work, doing something else while waiting for an assignment
  4. Company training programs
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20. Which motivational theory surmises that people are motivated only by the reward they will receive when they succeed and that they will constantly weigh the value of that reward against the effort they believe is required to achieve it?
  1. The ERG Theory
  2. The Expectancy Theory
  3. The Motivation/Hygiene Theory
  4. The Equity Theory
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