Recruitment test 1 Man 4320

Which of the following is contained in a task statement?

The physical working conditions of the job--

_______are more broadly defined components of a successful workers repertoire of behavior needed to do the job well...

Competencies

Comparing the percentages of men, women, or minorities in various job categories to see if men, women, or minorities are disproportionately represented in certain workforce categories is an example of a:

Concentration statistic

When viewing employees as assets, the staffing focus is on managing________...

Costs

Recruiting large numbers of applicants is always the best way to ensure quality hires?

False

Strategic staffing systems are not necessarily aligned with the firm's business strategy...

False

firms should select only those candidates who already possess the skills that are necessary to be quickly and cheaply trained by the firm...

False

Comparing the percentage of applicants hired from different subgroups to determine if they are significantly different from each other is an example of:

Flow statistic

The first step in conducting a job analysis is to:

Get the support of top management

The Equal Employment Opport Commission imposed compensatory damages on CZAR Microsystems Ltd. for discriminating against an employee on the basis of age. CZAR defended itself by claiming to be unaware of any such law. This is a __________defense.

IGNORANCE Defense

Which of the following forecasting methods relies on the experience and insights of people in the org to predict a firm's future employment needs?

Judgmental forecasting

Mrs. Peters filed a complaint against her employers for firing her. She admitted to being late to work five days in a month but she claimed that she was fired on the grounds of being a female employee... This is an example of:

Mixed Motive Case

A company fails to do a background check that would have revealed that a person it has hired has the potential to harm others. The employee then physically harms a customer during a disagreement. The company could be found guilty of:

Negligent hiring

This is true of a closed shop?

Only union workers are employed

A summary of the characteristics of someone able to perform the job well is a .....

Person specification

Which of the following is a way in which many organizations try to reduce their need for skills that will be in short supply for a number of years?

Redesigning jobs

Which of the following visually shows each of the possible successors for a job and summarizes their strengths, present performance, promotion readiness, and development needs?

Replacement charts

Which term refers to the proportion of applicants moving from one stage of the hiring process to the next?

STAFFING YIELDS

Interviewing job candidates to assess their fit with the job and organization is part of:

Selecting

Indiosyncratic jobs are...

created around a current or new employee's unique skills

Which of the following are detailed records or databases that summarize each employee's skills, competencies, education, training, languages spoken, and chances of being promoted?

talent inventories

Hiring yields refers to...

the percent of applicants ultimately hired

Promotions are likely to be fastest in organizations in the ________ stage of their life cycle...

"Growth"

Taking the time to explain the hiring process and making every effort to follow up with candidates and minimize delays is an example of-

A commitment to ethical behavior

A BFOQ is a(n)...

Characteristic that is essential to the performance of a specific job

Which of the following is compromised when retaining workers?

A regular infusion of new ideas and perspectives

Employment at will is an employment relationship which ....

Allows either the employee or employer to terminate the employment at any time

Succession management ensures that:

An organization has people ready to assume leadership positions when they become available

Deployment involves

Assigning talent to appropriate jobs and roles in the organization

Which of the following is a hiring process goal?

Attracting diverse applicants

If the job of a loader exists to load packages on delivery trucks, the ability to safely lift and load packages onto a truck is a (n)......

ESSENTIAL FUNCTION

In which of the following cases would a company opt for a short term staffing strategy?

Employee turnover is high

Creating a favorable image in desired applicant's minds about the organization being a good place for them to work is...

Employer branding

In analyzing a job of a stenographer that is to be advertised as a vacancy, an employer found that the _____for the job was rapid typing skills

Essential function

A JOB DUTY is an observable unit of work with a beginning to an end....

FALSE

A reward's differential refers to the uniqueness of the reward.

False

Affirmative action plans give preferential treatment to the qualified applicant on a permanent basis:

False

An organization evaluating its staffing practices as a result of a hiring discrimination lawsuit, is an example of proactive staffing:

False

Attracting sufficient numbers of appropriately qualified applicants is an example of a staffing outcome goal....

False

External hiring reduces organizational diversity

False

Firms should select only those candidates who already possess the skills that are necessary to be quickly and cheaply trained by the firm...

False

In an inductive job analysis, the main job duties and work tasks have been determined beforehand....

False

Comparing the percentage of men, women, or minorities employed in a job category with their availability in the relevant pop of qualified people interested in the position is an example of a....

Stock statistic

______Involves looking at past employment patterns and using those patterns to predict a firm's future labor needs.

TREND ANALYSIS

A job task is an observable unit of work with a beginning and an end...

TRUE

A transition matrix can be used to model the flow internally of human resources

TRUE

The employer health insurance mandate in the 2010 Patient Protection & Affordable care act, requires employers with at least 50 full time employees to provide gov't approved affordable health insurance to at least 95% of their employees and dependents beginning in 2014.

TRUE

Which of the following, if true, would require a company to make adjustments to it's historical employee productivity ratios?

The company is adopting a more efficient manufacturing system

***Identify the primary limitation of all forecasting techniques?

They rely on historical patterns and activity levels

Acquiring, developing, and retaining the right talent helps businesses create the org capability and intellectual capital driving their strategy execution:

True

An independent contractor performs services and the employer controls or directs only the result of the work

True

Disparate impact occurs when an action has a negative employment effect on a protected group, regardless of intent:

True

Under which of the following circumstances does a company prefer to "churn" rather than keep existing employees?

When technology is developing very rapidly

When a firm determines that it will need to hire 50 customer service representatives within the next 3 months, it has engaged in...

Workforce planning

________forecasting uses historical data on the average number of hires typically made per recruiter on the average number of recruits processed per recruiter over a given period of time, say, a week, month, or year...

Workload- driven

A company that lets each of its business units staff in whatever way they choose and house their own staffing function, is an example of:

decentralized staffing

A job analysis

determines a job entry's requirements