Human Resource Management Test 3 Review (Part 1)

_____ forecast and monitor the proportion of various protected group members, such as women and minorities that are in various job categories and career tracks

Affirmative action plans

Recruiting advertisements in newspapers and periodicals:

Are likely to typically generate less desirable candidates than direct applications or referrals

Which of the following options is considered a fast option for reducing an expected labor surplus but results in high human suffering?

Demotions

_____ are people who apply for a vacancy without prompting from the organization

Direct applicants

Which of the following is true of the several options available to reduce expected labor surplus?

Early retirement causes relatively less human suffering

Policies that state that either party in an employment relationship can terminate that relationship at any time, regardless of cause, are called _____

Employment-at-will policies

The final step in the planning process is to _____

Evaluate results

Baby boomers are fast approaching retirement, and early indicators show that this group will retire as expected

False

Employers prefer hiring and training new employees rather than having to pay existing workers extra for overtime production

False

Hiring employees from external sources is a fast option to avoid an unexpected labor shortage plus its revocability is high

False

Recruiters tend to be viewed by job seekers as more credible when they are personnel specialists rather than subject matter experts in the job being filled

False

Recruiting advertisements in newspapers and periodicals typically generate more desirable recruits than direct applications or referrals

False

Referrals are people who apply for a vacancy without prompting from the organization

False

The last step in the human resource planning process is forecasting

False

The first step in the human resource planning process is _____

Forecasting

_____ is the practice or activity carried on by an organization with the primary purpose of identifying and attracting potential employees

Human resource recruitment

Which of the following best explains why older people approaching retirement age have no intention of retiring?

Improved health of older people in general, in combination with the decreased physical labor in many jobs has made working longer a viable option

Which of the following is NOT one of the forces that draw out an older worker's career?

Insufficient younger workers to replace the older workforce

Which of the following is an advantage of relying on internal recruitment sources?

It generates a sample of applicants who are well known to the firm

The approach that pays employees higher wages than what competitors pay their employees in similar roles is called the _____

Lead-the-market approach

A special case of outsourcing where the jobs that move actually leave one country and go to another is called _____

Offshoring

Which of the following is true about outsourcing?

Outsourcing is a logical choice when a firm simply does not have certain expertise and is not willing to invest time and effort into developing it

Yield ratios express the:

Percentage of applicants who successfully move from one stage of the recruitment and selection process to the next

_____ is a generic term used to refer to organizational decisions that affect the nature of the vacancies for which people are recruited

Personnel policies

The programs developed in the strategic-choice stage of the process are put into practice in the _____ stage

Program-implementation

Which of the following actions is most likely to enable organizations to increase the impact that recruiters have on those they recruit?

Providing timely feedback

Which of the following is an example of image advertising?

Rain Inc. releases television advertisements that give an idea about the pleasant working conditions in the organization

Jack is a maintenance supervisor at a large petroleum refinery in Texas. His friend, Ronald, who works at another refinery in Louisiana, informs Jack about a vacancy for a maintenance manager's position at the Louisiana refinery and asks him to apply for the position. Jack is an example of a(n) _____

Referral

Executive search firms (ESFs):

Serve as an important confidentiality buffer between the employer and the recruit

Which of the following is true about temporary workers?

Some full-time employees perceive the temporary help as a threat to their own job security

How do statistical forecasting methods differ from judgmental forecasting methods with regard to the labor market?

Statistical methods are excellent for capturing historic trends

Statistical planning models almost always have to be complemented by _____

Subjective judgments

Which of the following options for avoiding an expected labor shortage is a slow solution and has low revocability?

Technological innovation

Which of the following options for avoiding an expected labor shortage has the benefit of being a fast solution with high revocability?

Temporary employees

The goals that are set in the human resource planning process should come directly from:

The analysis of the labor supply and demand

Which of the following is a disadvantage of employing temporary workers as a means of eliminating a labor shortage?

The low levels of commitment to the organization and its customers that temporary workers bring with them often reduces the level of customer loyalty

The purpose of setting specific quantitative goals is:

To focus attention on a problem and provide a benchmark for determining the relative success of any programs aimed at redressing a pending labor shortage or surplus

A comparison of the proportion of workers in protected subgroups with the proportion that each subgroup represents in the relevant labor market is called a workforce utilization review

True

A leading indicator is an objective measure that accurately predicts future labor demand

True

A reason why downsizing efforts often fail is that employees who survive the purges often become narrow-minded, self-absorbed, and risk-averse

True

An advantage of employing temporary workers is that it frees a firm from many administrative tasks and financial burdens associated with being the "employer of record"

True

Image advertising is often effective because job applicants develop ideas about the general reputation of the firm and then this spills over to influence their expectations about the nature of specific jobs at the organization

True

One of the reasons organizations engaged in downsizing was that many firms changed the location of where they did business for economic reasons

True

Promote from-within policies make it clear to applicants that there are opportunities for advancement within the company

True

Statistical planning models are useful when there is a long, stable history that can be used to reliably detect relationships among variables

True

The purpose of setting specific quantitative goals is to focus attention on the problem and provide a benchmark for determining the relative success of any programs aimed at redressing a pending labor shortage or surplus

True

The second step in human resource planning is goal setting and strategic planning

True

The typical organizational response to a labor shortage has been either hiring temporary employees or outsourcing, responses that are fast and high in revocability

True

In the face of demographic pressures dealing with an aging workforce, many employers try to use _____ among their older workers through early retirement incentive programs

Voluntary attrition

Which of the following pairs of recruiter characteristics does an applicant tend to respond to most positively?

Warmth and informativeness