Test 1 HRM Fundamentals Ch 1-4

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According to the Job Characteristics Model, which of the following would motivate employees the most?

A job that requires a variety of skills and is an independent project.

Who among the following belongs to the external labor market of a company?

An employee referral

Identify the job in which gender is a bona fide occupational qualification.

Bathroom attendant

The _____ is an agency of the Department of Labor that tracks changes in the composition of the U.S. labor force and forecasts employment trends

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Which of the following is an example of reverse discrimination?

Discrimination against white men in the U.S.

The processing and transmission of digitized HR information, especially using computer networking and the Internet is termed

Electronic human resource management. self-service.

The _____ is responsible for enforcing Title VII of CRA and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

The _____, used to gather information about worker requirements, is constituted of a survey that is based on 52 categories of abilities, ranging from written comprehension to deductive reasoning, manual dexterity, stamina, and originality.

Fleishman Job Analysis System

Which of the following is a scheduling policy where full-time employees are allowed to choose starting and ending times within guidelines specified by the organization?

Flextime

Which of the following HR professionals earns the least salary?

HR generalist

In situations involving _____, equal employment opportunity may require that an employer make reasonable accommodation.

Individuals with disability

Recruitment:

Is the process through which the organization seeks applicants for potential employment.

Which of the following refers to the process of getting detailed information about jobs?

Job analysis

_____ is the process of getting detailed information about jobs.

Job analysis

The process of defining how work will be performed and what tasks will be required in a given job is referred to as

Job design

_____ is a work option in which two part-time employees carry out the tasks associated with a single job.

Job sharing

Which of the following U.S. laws authorize the federal government to establish and enforce occupational safety and health standards for all places of employment engaging in interstate commerce?

OSH Act

Which of the following is a challenge presented by downsizing?

Surviving employees' morale would decline

The extent to which the job has an important impact on the lives of other people is referred to as:

Task significance.

_____ is a method of promoting safety by determining which specific element of a job led to a past accident.

Technic of operations review

"Employment at will" refers to:

The principle that an employer may terminate employment at any time without notice.

A job specification focuses on:

The qualities or requirements the person performing the job must possess.

Which of the following refers to a planned effort to enable employees to learn job related knowledge, skills, and behavior?

Training

_____ refers to a comparison of the race, sex, and ethnic composition of the employer's workforce with that of the available labor supply.

Utilization analysis

In a Position Analysis Questionnaire, the physical activities, tools, and devices used by the worker to perform the job relate to the section termed _____.

Work output

Job description refers to:

a list of the tasks, duties, and responsibilities that a particular job entails.

Reasonable accommodation refers to:

an employer's obligation to do something to enable an otherwise qualified person to perform a job

Right to freedom of speech refers to the right to

criticize an organization's ethics in good conscience.

Full involvement in one's work and commitment to one's job and company is termed:

employee engagement.

The _____ is responsible for enforcing the human resource laws passed by US Congress.

executive branch

The process of ensuring that employees' activities and outputs match the organization's goals is called:

performance management.

People have the right to refuse to do what violates their moral beliefs, as long as these beliefs reflect commonly accepted norms. This right is referred to as:

right of freedom of conscience

Members of the HR department should be credible activists. This means that they should be:

well respected in the organization.

Decisions related to training and development include:

whether to offer programs to select employees or to all employees.

The process of analyzing the tasks necessary for the production of a product or service is referred to as:

work flow design.


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