Dismissing an Employee

Test Yourself

This section offers ten multiple-choice questions to help you identify your baseline knowledge of dismissal essentials. Answers to the questions are given at the end of the test.

1. To dismiss an employee is to:
   1. Terminate an individual’s employment with a company owing to inadequacies or problems with his or her performance or behavior.
   2. Terminate an individual’s employment with a company owing to the firm’s desire to take a new strategic direction or cut costs.
   3. Terminate an individual’s employment with the company owing to the fact that the worker and his or her manager do not get along on a personal level.
2. Which of the following statements would not be appropriate to make when explaining to your team why someone was dismissed? ...