Taft-Hartley Act (1947), 467, 468–469, 487

Tardiness, 450

Task analysis, 242

Task force, 51

Task inventory analysis, 59

Tasks, 57

Team-based job design, 57

Team-based pay-for-performance plans. See also Pay-for-performance plans

• advantages of, 337, 339

• conditions favoring, 338–339, 344

• disadvantages of, 337–338

• explanation of, 337

Teams

• explanation of, 50

• performance appraisals for, 219

• problem-solving, 51, 497–498

• self-managed, 12, 50–51

• special-purpose, 51

• training, 51, 249–250

• virtual, 52, 249–250

Technology/social media

• career building with, 283

• as cause of employee terminations, 188

• digital performance appraisal, 230

• diversity, 145

• in hiring process, 178–179

• information technology, 13–15

• from performance appraisal to performance management, 220–221

• as recruitment tool, 159–160

• as a skill and a tool, 275

• telecommuting, 80, 299

• training, 238–239

• wellness programs, 521–522

• workplace training, 257–258

• you’re fired, 201–202

Telecommuting

• cases, 80

• compensation, 299

• explanation of, 72–73

• multimedia technology use for, 409–410

• trends in, 13, 139

Teleconferencing, 406

Telematics technologies, 13

Teletraining, 246

Temporary employees, 68, 160

Terrorism

• coping with, 562

• human resources challenges, 10

• religious minorities, 134–135

Tests

• ability, 165–166

• drug, 170

• honesty, 167

• performance, 437

• personality, 166

• psychological, 269

Theft, employee, 437–440

360º feedback, 215

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

• background of, 87

• discrimination defined in, 88

• general provisions of, 87–88, 430

• performance appraisals and, 219

• pregnancy and, 90

• sexual harassment and, 90–94

Total quality management (TQM), 11

TQM (total quality management), 11

Tracking stock options, 348

Traditional health insurance plans, 375–376

Training. See Employee training

Trait appraisal instruments, 210

Traits, 166

Transitional corporations, 533

Triple bottom-line reports, 405

Troubled employee, 415, 416

Trust, 331, 412–413

Tuition assistance programs, 277

Turnover. See Employee turnover

Turnover rate, 182, 183

Two-factor theory of motivation, 53

Two sides to every story, 563