Human Resource Management Exam 3

Similarity Error

Despite the fact that many other candidates were better qualified for the position than Farooq, Mateo hired Farooq due to ________.

False

Growing birthrates among the post-baby boom generations, which account for larger percentages of new entrants into the labor force, have changed the average age of U.S. workers.

Organization willing to spend more money attracts better-qualified people.

Identify a true statement regarding the efficiency wage theory.

Signaling

In an organization, which of the following functions of compensation serves to indicate to employees what is important to focus on by paying for certain kinds of activities or behaviors?

Experience

In the context of basic selection criteria, the amount of time an individual may have spent working in either a general capacity or a particular field of study is called _______.

Problems with internal equity can result in conflict, feelings of mistrust, and low morale.

In the context of compensation, which of the following statements is true of internal equity?

usually made available only to members of top management.

In the context of compensations, perquisites are:

understanding the perspectives of others.

In the context of the actions that individuals can take to deal with diversity, empathy most likely means:

have a control group of employees who work on the same job, but do not receive training.

In the context of the evaluation of training programs, the best way to ensure that changes have occured

A perquisite

Is an extra benefit that may or may not have any direct financial value but is considered an important reward.

False

Research shows that unstructured interviews are much better predictors of subsequent job performance than structured interviews.

a supervisory recommendation for recruiting

Rochelle, the head of the content team at Artsy Inc., was asked by her manager to nominate candidates from her team for a promotion to the position of editor. Rochelle carefully considered all potential candidates in her team and submitted the names of the two most promising employees to the manager. The manager later chose one of the two employees. In this scenario, Rochelle's manager used _____.

True

The basic aim of the Affordable Care Act was to lower the number of uninsured employees.

a needs analysis where HR managers determine the organization's true needs related to training.

The process of designing a training and development program should begin with:

Acknowledge the differences among people.

To manage a diverse organization effectively, managers should first:

It bases gaps in organizational identification on cultural identity groups.

Which of the following is a characteristic of a multicultural organization?

Social Security benefits do not directly depend on the with holdings assessed against the employee who is retiring.

Which of the following is a problem of the Social Security system?

A consulting firm that sells its expertise in dealing with management problems.

Which of the following organizations most likely trades in knowledge?

They are typically voluntary, and referrals are confidential.

Which of the following statements is true of employee assistance plan?

It is a way of bringing in new perspectives and ideas into an organization.

Which of the following statements is true of external recruiting?

It is a method used by organizations to fill higher-level openings with current employees.

Which of the following statements is true of internal recruiting?

It includes provisions for the minimum wage and overtime.

Which of the following statements is true of the Fair Labor Standards Act?

It can easily accommodate changes in the value of various individual jobs in an organization.

Which of the following statements is true of the classification system as a job-evaluation method?

The percentage of Hispanics has increased in the past 20 years.

Which of the following statements is true of the ethnic composition of the workforce in the United States?

An engineer who develops software applications for a phone company.

Who among the following is knowledge worker?

Continous aging of the baby boom generation.

Which of the following is a factor that contributes to the gradual increase in the average age of U.S. workers?

stock-option plan

Donald, the CEO of a multinational organization, is given a reward by the organization in the form of a contract that allows him to purchase 5 percent shares of the company anytime in the future at a predetermined price. Three years later, Donald purchases those shares at half their market price. Additionally, he becomes more motivated to work toward increasing the performance of the organization. In this scenario, Donald is given a _____.

The Projective Technique

Gibson Security, a security services agency in North Carolina, adds another process to its traditional interview round to make its selection procedure more stringent. In this new process, shortlisted candidates are individually sent into a room in which a trained clinician shows them an ambiguous inkblot as a stimulus and asks them what they see in it. This process helps the firm measure the personality traits of prospective employees. In this scenario, Gibson Security is using _______.

An internship

Identify a recruiting approach that enables an organization to combine the elements of both internal and external methods of recruiting.

Employees are more likely to be satisfied with firms that provide better benefits.

Identify a true statement regarding benefits programs.

Evaluating the qualifications of each applicant from among the recruiting pool

In the context of employment decisions that organizations make, which of the following is the second step in the selection process?

Life-cycle benefits

In the context of nonmandated benefits, which of the following are targeted at different stages of an employee's existence?

False

In the context of nonmandated employee benefits, contributions to private pension plans come solely from the employer.

It is a necessary condition for organizational learning to occur.

In the context of organizational learning, which of the following statements is true of individual learning?

Application Blanks

In the context of popular selection techniques in employment decisions, which of the following provides a quick and inexpensive mechanism for gathering several kinds of objective information about an individual that can be easily verified?

Recommendation Letters

In the context of popular selection techniques, which of the following is used by an organization for assessing a person's past experiences and work history?

generally have higher levels of productivity and lower levels of turnover and absenteeism.

In the context of the arguments that have been proposed on how diversity contributes to competitiveness, the cost argument suggests that organizations that learn to cope with diversity will:

The resource acquisition argument

In the context of the competitive advantage of diversity, which of the following arguments suggests that organizations that manage diversity effectively are in a better position to attract the right talent from minority groups?

Vestibule Training

In the context of training and development, _____ involves a work-simulation situation in which a job is performed under a condition that closely simulates the real work environment.

A supervisory recommendation for recruiting

Rochelle, the head of the content team at Artsy Inc., was asked by her manager to nominate candidates from her team for a promotion to the position of editor. Rochelle carefully considered all potential candidates in her team and submitted the names of the two most promising employees to the manager. The manager later chose one of the two employees. In this scenario, Rochelle's manager used ______.

True

The most commonly used method of job evaluation is the point system.

External recruiting is more expensive than internal recruiting because of the advertising and other processes that must by undertaken.

Which of the following is a difference between internal recruiting and external recruiting?

It can result in stagnation and stifle creativity.

Which of the following is a disadvantage of internal recruiting?

It assumes that a constant and inflexible relationship exists between job factors and their value to an organization.

Which of the following is a disadvantage of the classification system for job evaluation?

Workers Compensation

Which of the following is a form of a mandated benefit?

Providing company-paid day-care facilities to employees.

Which of the following is a life-cycle benefit offered by employers?

Some women choose to slow their career progression to have children.

Which of the following is a reason for the existence of the glass ceiling?

Keeping the pool of qualified applicants at a manageable size

Which of the following is one of the three specific organizational goals that are important to the recruiting process?

Benchmark or key jobs in the organization are identified.

Which of the following is the second step in the factor-comparison method for job-evaluation in an organization?

It rewards employees for mastering information that relates to global issues.

Which of the following is true of an organization's pay-for-knowledge approach?

Pay compression

Which of the following occurs when individuals with substantially different levels of experience, performance abilities, or both in an organization are paid wages or salaries that are relatively equal?

A software firm that is looking for an engineer to develop a new product.

Which of the following organizations is most likely hiring a knowledge worker?

Pay secrecy

Which of the following refers to the extent to which the compensation of any individual in an organization is formally made available to other individuals?

Adverse Selection

Which of the following refers to the fact that the employee most likely to use the benefit, which tend to drive up cost?

It is characterized by an absence of prejudice and discrimination.

Which of the following statements is true of a multicultural organization?

It specializes in finding applicants for high-level positions.

Which of the following statements is true of an executive search firm?

Some evidence suggests that these programs can lead to increased satisfaction and reduced turnover.

Which of the following statements is true of cafeteria-style benefits plans offered by organizations?

It is aimed at helping managers better understand and solve problems.

Which of the following statements is true of development?

It can help an organization achieve a return on the labor cost of an employee almost immediately.

Which of the following statements is true of on-the-job training?

It permits a challenge to managers that try to balance treating everyone the same with treating everyone equitably.

Which of the following statements is true of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?

Tolerance

Charles, a manager is a multinational company, leads a team of 10 people from various countries. Although he does not like certain behaviors exhibited by his team, he accepts them as fundamental cultural differences between himself and them. Therefore, Charles is a dealing with the diversity of his team by using ______.

achieves full structural integration.

A multicultural organization is one that:

Word-of-Mouth Recruiting

Alan, a content analyst, frequently attends seminars at his workplace. At one such seminar, a new content development position in Alan's department was announced. The management asked employees to refer friends or family members that they thought were suitable for the position. Alan referred Sam, a cousin with previous experience in content creation. After various selection processes, Sam was hired. In this scenario, which of the following recruiting methods did Alan's organization use?

Utility analysis

An attempt to determine the extent to which a selection system provides real benefit to an organization is known as _____.

True

Apprenticeships involve a combination of on-the-job training and classroom instruction.

The classification system.

Barry & Finch, a law firm in Connecticut, performs job evaluation by organizing different sets of jobs in the firm into clusters called grades. The job evaluator then writes definitions and descriptions of each grade, which serves as a tool for deciding the compensation for each job. Which of the following job-evaluation methods is Barry & Finch using in the given scenario?

The factor-comparison method

Brad, a manager at a new investment firm, is performing job evaluation. He selects 12 benchmark jobs in the firm and then ranks each of these jobs against compensable job factors such as physical effort, responsibility, skill, and nature of the working conditions. Thus ranking is based on job descriptions created during job analysis. Later, the management meets as a group and develops a consensus on the assigned values for each job. In the given scenario, which of the following systems or methods is Brad most likely using for job evaluation?

A perquisute

Brenda, the chief technical officer of a telecommunications company, is a member of the Golden Country Club, one of the most exclusive country clubs in the United States. Having a membership in such country clubs is usually expensive. It is, however, free of cost for Brenda as it is paid for by her company. In the given scenario, which of the following options best describes the membership given to Brenda by her company?

The first-impression error.

Jacob applied for the position of correspondent at The News Curator, a news agency in New Orleans. At the beginning of his interview at The News Curator, Jacob had a few awkward minutes until he eventually regained his confidence. This led the interviewer to make a negative judgment about Jacob even though Jacob later performed well. The news agency did not hire him as it felt that he was not skilled enough for the job. Jacob then joined another news agency as a correspondent and won the best crime beat reporter award within a year. Which of the following selection errors did The News Curator most likely make?

False

Job posting is an external recruiting mechanism.

Recruiting

Judd is a HRM at an information technology firm. He is asked by his supervisor to develop a pool of qualified applicants for the position of senior content analyst. His employer will then conduct tests and interviews to select the best candidate. In this scenario, Judd is involved in the process of ______.

True

Language training is sometimes part of diversity training.