Alexi works for an annual salary of $36,000\$$ and gets$12\ $$ monthly paychecks. As a salaried employee, she is not given any overtime pay. Yet she works more than $60$ hours each week. a. Do you think she should be entitled to overtime pay? b. Compute her overtime rate . How much additional pay would she earn each week if she were paid for her overtime hours? $$

For employees, what is the advantage of cafeteria-style benefit plans

Andrew is single and claims zero allowances. He gets a big refund each year. With weekly earnings of $400\

$$, how much less would be withheld for federal and state taxes if he increased his allowances to two?$$

Johnson Co. operates $12$ hours a day (in a single $12$-hour shift). In an average month , $6$ employees work $22$ days, and a total of $30$ hours are missed each month . What is the rate of absenteeism?

Conduct online research about unions and professional organizations in two other countries (one of which should be in Europe) . How do working conditions in these other countries compare with those in the United States?

What is the main function of unions?

List benefits provided to most full -time, permanent employees.

Match the terms with the definitions . Some terms may not be used.

___Time worked beyond regular work hours

a. benefits

b. bonus

c. gross pay

d. incentive pay

e. net pay

f. overtime

g. profit sharing

h. salary

i. vested

j. wage

What is the gross pay for an hourly employee who earns $12\$$ an hour and worked$56$ hours last week?

Match the terms w ith the definitions . Some terms may not be used.

___A work schedule that allows employees to choose their working hours within a defined time limit

a. bargaining

b. compressed workweek

c. flextime

d. job rotation

e. job sharing

f. lobbying

g. seniority

h. telecom muting

i. union

(a) find the test statistic, (b) find the standardized test statistic, (c) decide whether the standardized test statistic is in the rejection region, and (d) decide whether you should reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis. The samples are random and independent.

Claim: $\mu_1<\mu_2 ; \alpha=0.05$. Sample statistics: $\bar{x}_1=2435, s_1=75, n_1=35$ and $\bar{x}_2=2432, s_2=105, n_2=90$

$$z_0=-1.645$$

In his critique of psychoanalysis, John Watson claimed that psychology should focus on _____________.

A teacher gave students three questions and wrote that she would randomly choose one of the three questions for an exam. If Harry prepared for only one of the questions, what is the probability that he did not study for the question that the teacher put on the exam?

Our language influences the way we perceive and think about the world. This idea, adapted from Whorf’s hypothesis, helps explain why a. a person who learns a second language thinks differently in that language. b. children have a built - in readiness to learn grammatical rules. c. children’s babbling contains sounds not found in the languages spoken in their homes. d. artists, athletes, and others