Talent Management Mid Term

Putting together an attractive job offer and negotiating with the candidate the company wants to hire is part of ________.

acquiring

A BFOQ is a(n) ________.

characteristic that is essential to the performance of a specific job

Which of the following recruitment strategies can help an organization reduce labor costs and improve customer service together with accessing top talent?

offshoring

Which of the following are advantages of using structured questionnaires for job analysis?

speed and low cost

Compstar Limited establishes a mutually beneficial relationship in which employees are recognized as investing their resources, such as time or energy, in exchange for pay and benefits and an opportunity to develop their skills. This is an example of ________.

Viewing employees as investors

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 protects people ________.

40 years of age or older

Which of the following is true for employment contracts?

An implicit contract is not specified in a written or verbal contract.

The use of social media for recruiting and sourcing will continue to increase due to:

Its targeted search capability

Which term refers to the proportion of applicants moving from one stage of the hiring process to the next?

Staffing Yields

A Japanese company that makes electronic watches exports 90 percent of its products to the United States. Which of the following will happen if the dollar strengthens against the Japanese Yen?

The company's watches will become less expensive in the US

What is the best conclusion given the following information about research technicians employed in the scientific wing of a pharmaceutical organization? Females comprise 60 percent of the current workforce and 50 percent of the relevant population (research technicians) and males comprise 40 percent of the current workforce and 50 percent of the relevant population.

There is a disparate impact on males as research technicians.

Identify the primary limitation of all forecasting techniques.

They rely on historical patterns and activity levels.

A service-based organization has adopted an expansionist strategy. It has taken on a number of big contracts from clients and is on a tight schedule to supply services by the deadlines promised. Which of the following statements, if true, will result in the staffing goals being best aligned to the organizational strategy?

Time taken to fill a position should be tracked for each recruiting source and the fastest possible source should be utilized.

________ is a quantitative technique that can be used to analyze a firm's internal labor markets and forecast its internal labor supply.

Transition analysis

Idiosyncratic jobs are ________.

created around a current or new employee's unique skills

Which of the following is more likely to warrant changes in an organization's compensation policy and induce it to offer above-market wages?

decreasing unemployment rates

When the main job duties have already been determined, a(n) ________ job analysis would be required.

deductive

If a company's employees have talents that would be useful to the organization and the company is not taking advantage of these talents, it is not being efficient in the activity of ________.

deploying

Phoebe Johnson is a senior HR executive at CarMakers Corp. She has been informed that the company needs to hire five line workers for their Kingston plant. Phoebe decides to go down to the plant to get a better idea of the work. She speaks to the line workers there and gets firsthand information about the important aspects of the job involved. Phoebe is using the ________ method to collect information.

desk audit

A job analysis ________.

determines a jobs entry requirements

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

A software company has a high turnover rate. What staffing strategy would be most appropriate?

filling vacancies quickly with people who are able to perform with minimal job training

Greg's Bakery chain is planning to diversify into producing and selling candy. It has opened a new factory to support this plan, and the factory is ready to be staffed. The top management at Greg's has decided to offer the best salaries in the industry to its latest employee additions. In this situation, which of the following staffing goals should Greg's follow?

hiring the best qualified employees

Publicizing open jobs to employees is known as ________.

internal job posting

Which of the following recruitment strategies can reduce the possibility of overlooking qualified internal talent?

internal job posting systems

Staffing influences organizational performance because ________.

its outcomes determine who will work for and represent the firm

When Mary's Macaroons conducted a ________ on its customer service positions, it found that 35% of the customer service employee's time was being spent on administrative duties, not focusing on customer service.

job analysis

The job analysis method that uses expert brainstorming sessions to identify the characteristics of successful workers is the ________.

job elements method

With which of the following competitive advantages is cost less of a barrier in attracting top talent for companies?

product innovation

An engineering firm is looking for a civil engineer to head their new project to build a highway. Unable to find the right candidate for the job, the firm resorts to scouting for potential candidates among the employees of rival firms. It offers the assistant chief engineer of its rival firm an extremely lucrative package and the chance to assume greater responsibilities. This practice is known as ________.

pull-up hire

Hiring top talent away from another company is an example of using which recruiting source?

raiding competitors

An organization that is currently composed of primarily white males may discriminate against minorities and women if it uses which recruiting source?

employee referrals

Bella Vista Inc. needs to hire a new marketing manager after the former manager retired. The company recruited James Anderson, who was employed in Webster & Co., and offered him the job of manager. This is an example of ________.

external talent focus

A company fails to do a background check that would have revealed that a person it has hired has the potential to harm others. The employee then physically harms a customer during a disagreement. The company could be found guilty of ________.

negligent hiring

Hiring people who are entrepreneurial, creative, and have a high tolerance for ambiguity would support a ________ competitive advantage.

operational excellence

The primary goal of ________ is to get the right people interested in working for an organization or in a specific job, then persuade them to apply and ultimately accept the job offer if they are extended.

recruiting

Which of the following visually shows each of the possible successors for a job and summarizes their strengths, present performance, promotion readiness, and development needs?

replacement charts

The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act ________.

requires that a job board be maintained for the sole use of veterans transitioning to civilian jobs after their service ends

Retainer firms are ________.

search firms who charge employers a fixed fee in advance of placement

The ongoing process of recruiting, evaluating, developing, and preparing employees to assume other positions in the firm in the future is ________

succession management