SHRM 200 Final
In _______________ Cultures, people are expected to look after the interest of the larger community, which is expected to protect people when they are in trouble
Collectivist
______cultures tend to have flatter salary structures
Collectivist
Which of the following is most likely a collectivist country
Colombia
Mel heads a team within the HR department that is responsible for the traditional HRM activities. Which of the following activities is Mel likely to be overseeing?
Employee relations
Attempting to estimate the financial impact of substance abuse is an example of human resource accounting
False
Business linked HR functions begin with identifying major people outcomes
False
In strategically designed HR structures, centers for expertise ensure that transactional activities are delivered throughout the organization
False
Individualist cultures such as those found in the United States often exhibit minimal differences between the highest and lowest paid individuals in an organization
False
Masculine cultures value relationships over money
False
The analytic approach to evaluating HR effectiveness focuses exclusively on reviewing the various outcomes of the HRM functional areas
False
The basic process of building HR strategy starts with scanning the internal environment
False
Transactional HRM activities provide the greatest strategic value to a firm
False
Uncertainty avoidance describes how a culture deals with hierarchical power relationships
False
_____systems provide employees with an equitable return for their investment of skills and effort
Reward
Which of the following is likely to be valued most in a feminine culture
Solidarity
Which of the following is true of cultures that are strong in uncertainty avoidance
These cultures condition people to seek security through technology and law
The human resource accounting approach places a dollar value on human resources as if they were physical or financial resources
True
___________________________Describes how cultures seek to deal with the fact that the future us not perfectly predictable
Uncertainty avoidance
For an HRM function to become truly strategic in its orientation, it must
adopt a customer-orientation approach
Which of the following HRM activities adds the lowest strategic value to a firm
benefits administration
Which HR strategy begins by identifying the major business needs an issues, considers how people fit in and what people outcomes are necessary, and builds HR systems focused on meeting those needs?
business-driven
Which of the following is true of how human capital affects foreign investment in a country
countries that invest in education are likely to attract foreign investment
Lucas, an HR executive, is responsible for the transactional HRM activities at Coldstore Inc. If he is the sole HR person handling transactional HR activities, which of the following is most likely his responsibility
employee services
Minority turnover rate is a key indicator of the ______function of HRM
equal employment opportunity
Examining the need to develop new technologies is part of
identifying strategic business issues
The first step toward customer orientation is
identifying the customers
According to Hofstede, a country's economic health is positively correlated with
individualist cultures
______________ usually exhibit greater differences between the highest and lowest paid individuals in an organizations
individualist cultures
Which of the following is true of the audit approach
it typically collects key indicators and customer satisfaction measures
Which of the following HRM activities adds the highest strategic value to a firm
knowledge management
Since the HR strategy seeks to address business issues, involving _______can increase the quality of information from which the HR strategy is created
line executives
US companies tend to relocate their low skill high wage manufacturing and assembly jobs to Mexico because it has a _________________________________
low level of human capital
A country with a large power distance
maintains the inequalities in wealth among different sections of the society
Which of the following is most likely to occur during the communication process of an organization in a collectivist culture
participative management
____functions have been clearly identified and articulated, and they have aligned their HR activities around people issues and outcomes, but not business issues and outcomes
people-linked
_______________Activities of HRM have the lowest strategic value in a firm
transactional
Countries such as Mexico with low human capital are likely to attract
unionized low skill high wage jobs
A culture characterized by easygoing and flexible people who take each day as it comes is one that is _____________
weak in uncertainty avoidance
The audit approach to evaluating the effectiveness of HR practices focuses on
reviewing the various outcomes of the HR functional area
which of the following stages involves identifying an increasing immigrant population in a basic HR strategy process
scanning the external environment
In the context of Hofstede's cultural dimensions, the masculinity-femininity dimension describes
the division of roles between sexes within a society
Which of the follow is likely to be valued in a culture with a short-term orientation
tradition
Which of the following strategies include activities such as selection and compensation?
traditional
Which of the following meet the needs of both the line managers and the employees by giving employees opportunities to ensure that they increase their human capital, thus providing increased value to the company?
training and development systems
________functions begin with an assessment of what HR is doing and then identifying the major people outcomes they should focus on
Business linked
____functions' articulation of people outcomes stems from an analysis of what their functions currently do
HR-focused
Which of the following is likely to be valued most in a masculine culture
Performance
Which of the following is likely to be valued in a culture with a long-term orientation
Persistence
Sam visits Mexico for a business meeting. At the meeting, Sam addresses the VP by his first name instead of his title. This is considered offensive. In the context of Hofstede's cultural dimensions, this difference in cultures is part of the ___________________ dimension
Power distance
Which of the following cultural dimensions describes the degree of inequality among people that is considered normal?
Power distance
Which of the following is most likely to be valued in feminine cultures
Relationships
In a generic structure, the HRM function effectively consists of three divisions: the centers for expertise, the field generalists, and the service center
True
A new trend that is consistent with the total quality management philosophy is HR executives moving to a customer-oriented approach while implementing the function
True
According to Geert Hofstede's research, countries with individualist cultures were wealthier
True
Achieving something visible and showing off are considered masculine values
True
Capitalist systems attempt to reward individuals for their efforts by allowing them to keep more of their earnings
True
Countries with high human capital are attractive sites for direct foreign investment that creates high skill jobs
True
Cultures with wear uncertainty avoidance tend to be rather easygoing and flexible regarding different views.
True
Employee relations are part of traditional HRM activities
True
How decisions are handled within the hierarchy of an organization has implications for the selection and training of managers in different countries
True
Human capital refers to the productive capabilities of individuals
True