HB 307 Exam 1

The ____ Amendment to the US Constitution outlawed slavery and courts have held that it bars racial discrimination

13th

According to the text, approximately what percentage of the US workforce feels engaged?

30%

Approximately what percentage of people in the United States work for small firms?

50%

About what percentage of all job openings are now posted online?

70%

which of the following requires employers to make reasonable accomodation for disabled employees?

Americans with disabilities act pf 1990

High performance work organizations are most likely characterized by all of the following except:

Commitment to high production rates

John wants his shoe store to adopt the strategy of having the lowest prices on shoes in town. John is adopting which competitive strategy?

Cost leadership

Which of the following will be the most likely result of the ADA Amendments Act of 2008?

Employees will find it easier to prove that their disability is limiting

t/f As baby boomers retire from the workforce, there will be more people entering the labor pool than leaving it.

F

t/f In the next few years, almost all the new jobs added in the United States will be in goods-producing industries.

F

T/F Although applicant tracking systems typically increase overall recruiting costs, the benefits of hriing high performing employees are worth the investment for most firms

False

t/f a mission statement is a general statement of a companys intended direction that evokes emotional feelings in the organizations members

False

t/f benchmarking involves analyzing the demographic make up of an organization over a specific period to determine the overall diversity of the firm

False

________ is the process of acquiring, training, appraising, and compensating employees, and attending to their labor relations, health and safety, and fairness concerns.

HR management

Which of the following terms refers to the quantitative measure of a HR management yardstick such as employee turnover or qualified applicants per position?

HR metrics

The evidence used in evidence-based human resource management may come from actual measurements, existing data, or critically evaluated research studies.

T

t/f According to research, less than one-third of all workers in the U.S. are mentally and emotionally invested in their work.

T

t/f Distributed HR is the idea that more and more human resource management tasks are now being redistributed from a central HR department to the company's employees and line managers.

T

t/f Ethics are the standards someone uses to decide what his or her conduct should be.

T

t/f On-demand workers are freelancers and independent contractors who work when they can, on what they want to work on, and when the company needs them.

T

T/F A strategy map is a strategic planning tool that shows how each department performance contributes to achieve the company's overall strategic goal.

True

T/F HR metrics are used to assess a firm's HR performance and to compare one firm's HR performance with that of another firm

True

T/F McDonald's addressed its lagging profitability by first closing stores operating below its guidelines. McDonalds used a consolidation strategy.

True

according to title VIIof the 1964 civil rights act, which of the following employers would be legally allowed to refuse employment to a person based on race, religion, or sex?

a local restaurant with 10 employees

What is the first step in the strategic management process?

asking "Where are we now as a business?"

Which of the following terms refers to the process of comparing and analyzing the practices of one firm with those of a high performing company?

benchmarking

the____gives all persona the same right to make and enforce contracts and to benefit from the laws of the land

civil rights act of 1866

An HR manager conducting an HR audit on compensation would most liekly search for:

compliance with state and federal laws

A company's _____ strategy identifies the portfolio of business that comprise a firm and the ways in which these businesses relate to each other

corporate-level

The primary purpose of implementing high-performance practices such as recruiting, screening, and training is to

develop a trained, flexible, and self motivated workforce

________ refers to being psychologically involved in, connected to, and committed to getting one's jobs done.

employee engagement

under the civil rights act of 1991, once a plantiff shows disparate impact, who has the burden of proving that the challenged practice is job related?

employer

critical HR tasks during mergers and acquisitions include all of the following except:

enforcing current rules

The use of HR metrics is essential for:

evidence based management

Since human resources is important to all managers, which is NOT a personnel mistake a manager wants to avoid making while managing?

experience low turnover

What term refers to the knowledge, skills, and abilities of a firm's workers?

human capital

The primary purpose of strategic HR management is to:

integrate a company's strategic plan witih its HR strategies

Human resource managers generally exert ________ within the human resources department and ________ outside the human resources department.

line authority;staff authority

Which term refers to exporting jobs to lower-cost locations abroad?

offshoring

The basic/primary functions of the management process include all of the following EXCEPT ________.

outsourcing

What is the primary reason that mergers and acquisitions fail?

personnel

All of the following practices are most likely implemented by companys with high performance work systems except:

providing pay increases based on service years

What is the first step in the basic planning process?

setting an objective

title VII of the 1964 civil rights act explicitly prohibits employers from discrimination based on all of the following except

sexual orientation

Which function of the management process includes selecting employees, setting performance standards, and compensating employees?

staffing

________ involves formulating and executing human resource policies and practices that produce the employee competencies and behaviors the company needs to achieve its strategic aims.

strategic HR management

___ defines the anture of the companys business in terms of how it will match its internal strengths and weaknesses witih its external opportunities and threats in order to maintain a competitive position:

strategic planning

like the scientific method, evidence based HR management should have all of the following characteristics except:

subjectivity

Which of the following is the final step in the strategic HR management process?

the manager asks, "Specifically, what recruitment, selection, training, and other HR policies and practices should we put in place so as to produce the required employee skills and behaviors?"

The recent trend where in some occupations (such as high-tech) unemployment rates are low, while in others unemployment rates are still very high and recruiters in many companies can't find candidates, while in others there's a wealth of candidates is called:

the unbalanced labor force

When Apple Opened its own Apple stores, this was an example of:

vertical integration

Between 2012 and 2022 what ethnic group is projected to decrease as a percentage of the workforce?

white