Personnel Planning and Recruitment

Succession planning

The process of deciding how to fill executive positions at a firm is known as ________.

Developing skills inventories

All of the following are methods used by firms to develop high-potential candidates for future positions EXCEPT ________.

Fill a specific job opening quickly

An employer will most likely use a private employment agency in order to ________.

Working as a contingent worker

Kate works as a nurse on temporary assignment for hospitals throughout the region on an as-needed basis. Kate is most likely ________.

personnel planning

Marcus, an HR manager for Samsung, must decide what positions the firm should fill in the next six months, which means Marcus is currently working on ________.

What percentage of employers in the service industry use succession planning?

Maria Boyd has been hired by Barnum Hotels to manage staffing for the regional hotel chain. Barnum intends to open two new hotels within the next three years and will have many job positions to fill. Historically, employee turnover is high at Barnum as employees remain with the company for one or two years before quitting. Maria realizes that Barnum needs to make significant changes in its personnel strategy in order to meet the company's goals for the future and improve employee retention rates. All of the following questions are relevant to Mari's decision to fill top positions at the new hotels with internal candidates EXCEPT

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Newton Building Supplies hopes to generate an extra $4 million in sales next year. A salesperson traditionally generates $800,000 in sales each year. Using ratio analysis, how many new salespeople should Newton hire?

Provide the agency with an accurate job description

Newton Manufacturing is using a private employment agency to recruit individuals for management positions. As the HR manager at Newton, you need to ensure that applicants are screened properly, so you should ________.

True

Publicizing an open job to current employees through a firm's intranet or bulletin board is known as job posting.

Develop an applicant pool

Recruiting is necessary to ________

Outsourcing

Smith Industries is thinking of having another company take care of its benefits management. This is called ________.

Applicants have received realistic job previews.

What is an advantage of using employee referral campaigns?

Deciding what positions to fill

What is the first step in the recruitment and selection process?

Skills inventories

When managers need to determine which current employees are available for promotion or transfer, they will most likely use ________.

Skills inventories

Which one of the following contains data regarding employees' education, career development, and special skills and is used by managers when selecting inside candidates for promotion?

Skills needed for the job

Which one of the following factors plays the greatest role in determining the best medium for a job advertisement?

Intranet job postings

Which one of the following is NOT a tool used by firms to recruit outside candidates?

Potential to lose employees who aren't promoted

Which one of the following is the primary disadvantage of using internal sources of candidates to fill vacant positions in a firm?

Trend analysis

Which one of the following terms refers to studying a firm's past employment needs over a period of years to predict future needs?