HR management midterm
Awareness building in diversity training provides employees with the KSAOs necessary for working with people who are different from them with regard to race, gender, or age. (chapter 7)
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Employee empowerment refers to a situation in which workers are enthusiastic and immersed in their work to the degree that it improves the performance of their companies. (chapter 4)
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If employees consistently achieve their productivity objectives, it might be a signal that training is needed. (chapter 7)
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In most companies, the senior executives of an organization propose HR policies to the HR managers who actually issue and implement them. (chapter 1)
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Job specifications usually cover two areas: (1) the skill required to perform the job, and (2) the physical demands of the position. (chapter 4)
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One reason that employers are hesitant to hire applicants who come to them through an employee referral is that they tend to quit more quickly. (chapter 5)
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Performance appraisals are generally a good mechanism in determining why employees are not meeting the firm's expectations when conducting a person analysis. (chapter 7)
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State and local governments are exempted from the provisions of the Civil Rights Act and Equal Employment law. (chapter 3)
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Strategy formulation and strategy execution are essentially the same thing. (chapter 2)
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Supervisors play the most important role in the orientation of new employees. (chapter 7)
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The Fair Labor Standards Act requires the payment of overtime to regular workers who work more than eight hours in a day. (chapter 4)
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The three different types of training needs assessment are objectives, trainee readiness, and principles of learning. (chapter 7)
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When developing a statement that provides a perspective on where the company is headed and what the organization can become in the future, Elan and Yuri are working on the organization's mission. (chapter 2)
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Sucession planning
the process of identifying,developing, and tracking key individuals for executive positions
Courts have defined business necessity as a practice that is necessary to the safe and efficient operation of an organization. (chapter 3)
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Downsizing is often used by organizations for the planned elimination of jobs. (chapter 1)
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During training session, a trainer uses behavior modification by dispensing rewards such as praise to positively reinforce trainee behaviors. (chapter 7)
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Employees today are less likely to define their personal success only in terms of financial gain. (chapter 1)
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Employers who permit their customers to sexually harass their employees are guilty of sexual harassment. (chapter 3)
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Firms sometimes attempt to gain secrets from a competitor by hiring away its employees. (chapter 5)
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If a firm gives as much or more weight to seniority as to ability and productivity when considering layoffs, it is likely that the organization is unionized. (chapter 2)
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Instructional objectives are the formal statement of the desired outcomes of a training program. (chapter 7)
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It is inappropriate for an interviewer to ask men if they are married or have children. (chapter 6)
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Job sharing is one approach to reducing layoffs in difficult economic times. (chapter 4)
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Labor unions can be a recruiting source for some professional job openings. (chapter 5)
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Most job descriptions include a job title, a job identification section, and a job duties section. (chapter 4)
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Often, applicants respond to an advertisement even if they don't meet the job requirements. (chapter 5)
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On application forms, questions about arrests are not permissible. (chapter 6)
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One of the responsibilities of HR managers is to provide strategic advice and counsel to supervisors. (chapter 1)
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Organizations need specific job descriptions of jobs with the firm because federal guidelines and court decisions require job requirements to be based on valid job-related criteria. (chapter 4)
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Organizations need to continuously examine the effectiveness of their recruiting strategies. (chapter 5)
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Outsourcing decisions are often linked to low-cost strategies. (chapter 2)
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Professional employer organizations lease employees to firms and perform all the HR duties including hiring, payroll, performance appraisal, and benefits administration. (chapter 5)
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Providing individual assistance is an important aspect for successful trainers. (chapter 7)
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Sequential interviews are common. (chapter 6)
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Skill inventories are an important tool for succession planning. (chapter 5)
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Spot reward programs in which encouragement is immediately after a trainee successfully accomplishes a certain task serve to strengthen desired employee behaviors. (chapter 7)
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Strategic human resources management (SHRM) is a combination of strategic planning and HR planning. (chapter 2)
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Strategic planning involves a set of procedures for making decisions about an organization's long-term goals and strategies. (chapter 2)
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The Americans with Disabilities Act severely limits the types of medical inquiries and examinations that employers may use. (chapter 6)
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The concept of employee teams holds that employees, not managers, are in the best position to contribute to work performance. (chapter 4)
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The law requires employers to be able to show that the job criteria they use to select employees for a particular position relate specifically to the duties for that job. (chapter 4)
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The number of steps in the selection process and their sequence will vary, not only with the organization, but also with the type and level of jobs to be filled. (chapter 6)
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The target company for benchmarking does not need to be a competitor. (chapter 2)
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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. (chapter 3)
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While the overall selection process is the responsibility of the HR department, managers or supervisors often make the final decision about hiring personnel into their unit. (chapter 6)
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A SWOT analysis helps executives summarize the major facts and forecasts derived from external and internal analyses. (chapter 2)
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outsourcing
Contracting outside the organization to have work done that formerly was done by internal employees.
furlough
a situation in which an organization asks or requires employees to take time off for either no pay or reduced pay
vision statement
a statement about where the company is going and what it can become in the future
A behavioral description interview focuses on hypothetical situations. (chapter 6)
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A firm monitored its employees' emails and Internet use while on the job. That firm is in violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986. (chapter 1)
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A test that gives comparable scores when it is administered to the same individual a few days apart is unreliable. (chapter 6)
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mission statement
the basic purpose of the organization as well as its scope of operations
A core principle for HR managers is to establish professional credibility by developing good relationships with people both internal and external to the firm. (chapter 1)
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A disadvantage of overemphasizing seniority is that less competent employees receive the same rewards and security as more competent employees. (chapter 2)
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A firm that offers employees options such as flexible hours, job sharing, and telecommuting is engaging in family-friendly practices. (chapter 1)
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A human resources information system (HRIS) provides current and accurate HR-related data needed for control and decision making. (chapter 1)
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A realistic job preview informs applicants about all aspects of the job, including both its desirable and its undesirable facets. (chapter 5)
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Adding more meaningful tasks to an employee's job in an effort to make it more rewarding is an example of job enrichment. (chapter 4)
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An employer that permits sick leave for medical conditions such as flu or surgical operations cannot legally deny sick leave for morning sickness or other pregnancy-related illnesses. (chapter 3)
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An interviewer who needs to find out if a candidate is physically capable of performing the job may not ask the date or results of the candidate's last physical, but may ask if the candidate would be willing to take a physical exam. (chapter 6)
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An organization's recruitment success is correlated with the accuracy and completeness of information provided in its job advertisement. (chapter 5)
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Contributing to an organization's overall strategic goals is the goal of training. (chapter 7)
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