HB 307 Quiz 1

Approcimately what percentage of people in the USA work for small firms?

50%

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

70%

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

Employee engagement

Since HR is important to all mangers which is NOT a personnel mistake a manager wants to make while managing:

Experience low turnover

(T/F) As baby boomers retire from the workforce, there will be more people entering the labor pool than leaving it

False

(T/F) In the next few years, almost all of the jobs added to the US will be in goods-producing industry

False

What term refers to teh knowledge, skills, abilities of a firms workers?

Human capital

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

Human resource management

HR manager generally exert --- within the HR department and --- outside the HR 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

Involves formulating and executing human resource policies and practices that produce the employee competencies and behaviors the comapny needs to achieve its strategic aims

Strategic HR management

(T/F) According to research, less than 1/3 of all worker in the US are mentally and emotionally invested in their work

True

(T/F) Distributed HR is the idea that more and more HR management tasks are now being redistributed from a central HR department to the company's employees and line mangers

True

(T/F) Ethics are the standards someone uses to decide what is his or her conduct should be

True

(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

True

(T/F) The evidence used in evidence-based HR management may come from actual measurements, existing data, or critially evaluated research studies

True

The recent trend where in some occupations (such as high-tech) unemployment rates are low, while in others unemployment rates are still very high adn recruiters in many companies cant find candidates, while in others there's a wealth of candidates is called:

Unbalanced workforce

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

White