MAN 4320 Quiz 1-3
Which of the following refers to the training of employees to extend their capabilities and prepare them to assume other jobs and roles in the firm?
Employee development
An organization that is currently composed of primarily white males may discriminate against minorities and women if it uses which recruiting source?
Employee referrals
A recruit's perception of the recruiter's knowledge has little impact on how attractive a job is.
False
A reward's differential refers to the uniqueness of the reward.
False
Analyzing the requirements of a job as it exists today is a future-oriented job analysis.
False
Eternal hiring reduces organizational diversity.
False
It is legal to compare an applicant's scores only to members of his or her own racial subgroup and set separate passing or cutoff scores for each subgroup.
False
Most companies can replicate a competitor's capabilities by imitating the competitor's staffing practices.
False
Reducing the turnover rate of high performers is an example of a staffing process goal.
False
Which of the following statements is true of a recruiting guide?
It details which staff members are responsible for recruiting
Alex and Jane are the best economists that FlexMoney Inc., a consulting firm, has. However, FlexMoney is in urgent need to hire more economists and Alex and Jane are told to come up with all the criteria that they think will influence the ability to succeed in this field. This should give the higher management a good idea of the nature of the job and the kind of people they should be looking to hire. Which job analysis method is being used by FlexMoney?
Job elements method
Which of the following means of sourcing talent is sometimes considered unethical
Lateral hiring
Which of the following is the best way for an organization to prepare employees for future ethical situations?
Provide scenario-based ethics training
Even if a staffing system hires talented people, without performance goals and accurate performance feedback employees won't perform their best.
True
Facially neutral means that all employees and applicants are treated consistently, regardless of their protected characteristics, such as their sex and race.
True
For firms whose talent philosophy supports promotion from within, internal sourcing is the core of the staffing system.
True
Recruiters influence job seekers if they are seen as reliable signals of what it would be like to work for that company.
True
Socialization is the process of assimilating or integrating newly hired or recently promoted employees with their job, workgroup, and organization.
True
Viewing employees as an asset to be managed generally lead to a low-cost approach to staffing.
True
Software that tracks recruits to help recruiters identify how many candidates are at each stage of its hiring process is called a(n) ____.
applicant tracking system
A(n) _____. only employs people who are already union members.
closed shop
Axis Auto tries to keep its operational spending as low as possible so that it can pass its savings on to customers in the form of lower prices. This is known as a _____ srtategy.
cost-leadership
When viewing employees as assets, the staffing focus is on managing _____.
costs
The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act _____.
ensures that members of the uniformed services can return to their civilian employment after their military service ends.
Promotions are likely to be that fastest in organizations in the _____ stage of their life cycle.
growth
Mrs. Peters filed a complaint against her employers for firing her. She admitted to being late for 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
about other jobs, but might be tempted by a great opportunity is a(n) ________.
passive job seeker
A summary of the characteristics of someone able to perform the job well is a _____.
person specification
When a staffing professional analyzes which recruiting source(s) produced the highest quality new hires he is performing a ________.
recruiting yield analysis
A role that directly generates revenue for an employer is a _____.
value creator
Web sites that continually search the Web for information about people with desirable talents and sell access to their database of potential recruits are called ________.
web crawlers
Which of the following external recruiting sources is useful for finding both active and passive job seekers?
What is the disadvantage of getting line managers to recruit for a firm?
They have to take time out from their actual jobs
Someone who provides their services to a firm as an independent contractor is considered an employee of that firm.
False
Strategic staffing consists of filling a job as quickly and cheaply as possible.
False
A job duty is an observable unit of work with a beginning and an end.
Flase
Putting together an attractive job offer and negotiating with the candidate the company wants to hire is part of ________.
acquiring
Employment-at-will is an employment relationship which _____.
allows either the employee or employer to terminate the employment at any time
A company that outsources all its recruiting to an outside company is using ________.
full-scale recruitment process outsourcing
If a company wants to promote from within rather than hire higher level managers from outside the company it should focus on _________.
hiring people who can perform the current job who also have leadership potential
Amy was unhappy with the way she was treated when she applied for the position of a shop-floor assistant at a local retail outlet. When her friend Carrie hears about this, she stops shopping at that store. This is an example of ________.
spillover effect
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 protects people ______.
40 years of age and older
While interviewing Denise for the position of counselor at the local rehabilitation facility for troubled teens, she was informed that her line of work would involve interacting with youths who have a history of violent behavior as well as drug and alcohol abuse. Denise accepts the position without hesitation. What function of the realistic job preview is being discussed here?
A commitment to the choice
Which of the following is NOT an ethical issue commonly faced by staffing professionals?
Being asked not to lower hiring standards to meet a demanding hiring goal
An affirmative plan should ______.
be remedial
When the employees of an organization cooperate well together and achieve very high performance as a result of how they work together this is an example of a ____.
human process advantage
Retainer firms are ________.
search firms who charge employers a fixed fee in advance of placement
Tracy has an interview with a disorganized, unprepared recruiter and concludes that the company does not have a very professional culture. This is an example of ________.
signaling
Locating qualified individuals and labor markets from which to recruit is ________.
sourcing
When an employer studies the causes of turnover among its high performers it is engaging in __________.
staffing analytics
When Mary hires a candidate because they went to the same university, which of the following has occurred?
Like-me bias
If a staffing specialist evaluates the external labor market to determine how challenging it will be to hire the talent her employer needs over the next few years, which of the following is being done?
Planning
Dana works as a financial consultant at a start-up company called MoneyCare. While some of her friends earn more than she does working for similar positions in other companies, Dana finds her work far more interesting and challenging than what her friends do. As MoneyCare is a small organization, Dana has a lot of responsibilities and believes that she is actually learning far more on the job than she thought she would. Which of the following statements is true about Dana?
She finds the intrinsic rewards from this job very satisfying
A staffing function is centralized when an organization that has multiple business units has on staffing unit that is responsible for meeting the critical needs of all the company's business units.
True
Applicant flow is the number and type of applicants coming from each recruiting source.
True
Distributive fairness is the perceived fairness of the hiring or promotion outcome.
True
Which of the following recruiting metric gives the number of employees who voluntarily quit within their first year?
Turnover data of the company
When the main job duties have already been determined, a(n) ________ job analysis would be required.
deductive
When a manager specifies what a new job will require and how it should be done she is engaging in job _____.
design
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