Evaluation Assignment Chapters 10-12

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________ discrimination is a catchall term that describes when people are denied employment opportunities because of their identity group or personal characteristics such as sex, race, age, or other factors.

ACCESS

Which act prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, public services, public accommodations, and in telecommunications?

ADA

Which of the following was developed in 2001 as the dissatisfaction with performance management processes began to increase?

Agile Manifesto

Jay Patel is the HR manager at BNB Manufacturing. Jay is interested in establishing the pay-for-performance structure at BNB. Which of the following should be the final step in establishing this framework Jay should focus on?

Communicate and train managers and employees on the pay for-performance philosophy and process changes.

Jay Patel is the HR manager at BNB Manufacturing. Jay is interested in establishing the pay-for-performance structure at BNB. Which of the following should be the first step in establishing this framework Jay should focus on?

Define the organization's pay philosophy.

A diffuse organization concentrates resources in only a one or very few locations, or only a few individuals are authorized to make decisions about the use of resources.

FALSE

A geographic structure describes an organization that has multiple reporting lines of authority.

FALSE

Discrimination is a term that has been used to describe a situation in which dominant group members perceive that they are experiencing discrimination based on their race or sex.

FALSE

Due to the fact that multiracial births have risen tenfold between 1970 and 2013, their participation in the labor force is around 20%.

FALSE

Four different drives that underlie motivation include the drives to acquire, enjoy, expand, and defend.

FALSE

In organizations today, success depends on talent acquisition outsourcing to external recruiters.

FALSE

One downside of diverse teams, according to research, is that they enhance groupthink.

FALSE

Organizational design refers to the constant shifts that occur within an organizational system.

False

Jay Patel is the HR manager at BNB Manufacturing. Jay wants to establish the pay-for-performance structure at BNB. Jay's boss tells him that if any of BNB's current human resources and compensation policies conflict with pay for performance, they should be reviewed and changed. Jay should focus on which of the following step in the framework to address these issues?

Identify any gaps that exist in the current processes.

In 1981, _____ championed the forced-ranking system.

JACK WELCH

Which act prohibits any discrimination as it relates to pregnancy, including hiring, firing, compensation, training, job assignment, insurance, or any other employment conditions?

PDA

Jay Patel is the HR manager at BNB Manufacturing. Jay wants to establish the pay-for-performance structure at BNB. Jay's boss is interested in the following questions: How much differentiation of performance will we have? What is the cost of doing this pay-for-performance? Jay should focus on which of the following step in the framework to obtain these answers?

Review the financial impacts of creating pay-for-performance changes.

_____ discrimination describes a situation in which people are employed but are treated differently while employed, mainly by receiving different and unequal job-related opportunities or rewards.

TREATMENT

An organization with a horizontal structure is also known as a flat organization because it often features only a few levels of organizational hierarchy

TRUE

Best practices for effective recruiting of key leadership hires suggest that every two to three years there should be a review of high-level leadership requirements based on the strategic plan.

TRUE

Higher-potential employees, no matter what the level, often display the following competencies: business acumen, strategic thinking, leadership skills, people skills, learning agility, and technology skills.

TRUE

Studies show that women and minorities have greater job-pursuit intentions and higher attraction toward organizations that promote workplace diversity in their recruitment materials compared to organizations that do not.

TRUE

Talent development and succession planning are two of the most critical human resource management processes within an organization.

TRUE

The informal organization is emergent, meaning that it is formed through the common conversations and relationships that often naturally occur as people interact with one another in their day-to-day relationships.

TRUE

Two of the advantages of diversity include cost advantages and improved resource acquisition.

TRUE

Performance management can be tracked back to which of these?

The U.S. military's merit rating system

Jay Patel is the HR manager at BNB Manufacturing. Jay wants to establish the pay-for-performance structure at BNB. In these efforts, Jay's boss tells him to include the design of a merit matrix that ties employee annual pay increases to performance as well as the design of a short-term bonus matrix and a long-term bonus pay-for-performance strategy. Jay should focus on which of the following step in the framework to address these issues?

Update compensation processes with new pay for-performance elements.

Performance management began as a simple tool to drive _____ but has evolved more recently into a tool used for ____

accountability; employee development

By the 1960s nearly _____% of all U.S. companies were using a performance appraisal process.

90

With growing dissatisfaction with performance management processes, Agile Manifesto was developed by software developers and emphasized principles of all of these EXCEPT:

emotional intelligence.


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