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