Midterm

Nuri is in the process of recruiting and selecting new employees in a way that caters to the welfare of organization existing employees. Nury is working on human resource planning.

True

Often applicants respond to an ad advertisement, even if they don't meet the job requirements

True

Organizations need to continuously examine the effectiveness of their recruiting strategies

True

Reliability refers to the extent to which two method yield similar results, or are consistent with one another

True

Strategic human resources management (SHRM) is a combination of strategic planning and HR planning

True

Strategic planning involves a set of procedures for making decisions about an organizations, long-term goals and strategies

True

Strategy, formulation, and strategy execution are essentially the same thing

True

Technology, in the form of automation, has increased the number of jobs that require considerable skill

True

The Equal Pay Act makes it illegal to discriminate against people in terms of the pay, employee benefits, and pension they earn based on their gender when they do equal work.

True

The marketing department at SkyGen is immense. Then the senior marketing manager, Zhen, is responsible for completing performance reviews on all members of the department since Zhen does not have the opportunity to work with them all personally, zhen bases, her reviews on the sales figures for their products on the assumption that sells reflect the success of the marketing efforts. It is likely that these performance reviews do not comply with the law.

True

The number of steps in the selection process, and their sequence will vary, not only with the organization, but also with the type and level of jobs to be filled

True

The two most common purposes of performance management programs are administrative and developmental

True

Training in and knowledge of equal employment opportunity (EEO) legislation are central for managers and supervisors, because organizations can be held accountable and legally responsible for their managers decisions

True

Using the compensation, scorecard provides companies with a cooperative tool to reinforce desired outcomes that are unique to the company strategy

True

While the overall selection process is the responsibility of the HR department, managers or supervisors, often make the final decision about hiring personnel into their unit

True

Without a systematic approach to training many organizations, fine training to be a waste of money

True

As Skygen supervisors, peers and subordinates, all provide input into an employees performance appraisal skygen uses an error, free evaluation format

false

Are you works between 40 and 50 hours every week with the number of hours worked in a given week, depending on how much work is needed if Ari is paid every other Friday and the amount of the check is always the same. Then Ari is an hourly employee.

False

Compete.org, is using a form of the QR system, as a way to link compensation to performance an appropriate objective, for the production unit might be productivity should increase

False

Developmental purposes for performance, appraisal include promoting employees and weaknesses and meeting legal requirements

False

Equal employment opportunity refers to actions required of employers to correct past discrimination against members of protected groups

False

For a new position that is being created in the department, Tam has been asked to create a statement of the different duties tasks and responsibility of the job. Tam is writing a job specification.

False

If employees consistently achieve their productivity objectives, it might be a signal that training is needed

False

Internal analysis focuses on culture and conflict with an organization

False

Managers in companies with compensation scorecards, often struggled to know if their promotions raises bonuses and pay adjustments they make our in line with the rest of the organization and its strategy.

False

Most US clothing makers have outsourced or offshore work, because the quality of the items produced is much greater when Max manufactured outside the United States

False

Most performance appraisals, focused on long-term improvement rather than short-term achievements

False

One reason that employers are hesitant to hire applicants to come to them through an employee referral is that they tend to quit more quickly

False

Pay for performance programs have little, if any effect unemployed productivity

False

Requiring a high school diploma, even for a laborer job is acceptable under the law if the company has a policy that all employees must be high school graduates

False

Strategic compensation is the term used for all the processes used to determine the market rates to pay employees

False

Strategic vision forms, the foundation of a firms decisions

False

The HR manager at Liftronics been tasked with performing a cultural audit of the organization. This manager will be looking at the attitudes and expectations of employees of the organizations customers.

False

The primary responsibility of knowledge workers is known as touch labor

False

To proactively manage change, organizations should wait to see how external forces impact an organization's performance and then develop a plan to address those changes

False

Training is oriented toward broadening employees individual skills for future responsibilities

False

US business has been nearly 10 times as much on formal instruction as they do on informal instruction

False

When developing a statement that provides a perspective on where the company is headed and what the organization can become in the future, Elan and Yuri are working on the organization's mission

False

Chevron employees file discrimination charges against Valu Tech if they cannot get satisfaction through the EEOC they can appeal to the course for a consent decree to remedy the situation

False so laggy with the false

LennoCorp. introduced a new recognition program in which employees are publicly recognized for outstanding efforts or contributions to the firm. This is a form of non-financial compensation.

True

A test that gives comparable sources when it is administered to the same individual a few days apart is unreliable.

False

5. A job candidate who has experience working abroad or knows more than one language may have an advantage in the hiring process because the strategies companies are pursuing today increasingly involve one or more elements of globalization

True

A Human Resources information system (HRIS) provides current and accurate HR- related data needed for control and decision making

True

A review of OpTechs's hiring practices indicated that it has a selection ratio of 0.05. This level of selectivity indicates that only the most promising applicants are hired.

True

According to the expectancy theory of motivation, employees, level of motivation, depends on the attractiveness of rewards stop by employees, and the probability of obtaining those rewards

True

An internal analysis enabled strategic decision-makers to assess the organizations workforce to its skills, cultural beliefs and values

True

An organization achieves pay equity, when employees compensation is equal to the value of the work they perform

True

An organization can reduce its training, cost by raising selection, standards, and hiring better qualified employees

True

An organizations recruitment success is correlated with the accuracy and completeness of information provided in its job advertisement and completeness of an advertisement and an organizations recruitment success

True

Because a job analysis includes information about the requirements of someone doing a job. It provides the criteria for evaluating the performance of the people who do the work.

True

Changes in labor supply can place limits on the strategies available to firms

True

Contributing to an organization overall strategic goals is the goal of training

True

Early nondiscrimination laws were ineffective in large part because they failed to give enforcement power to the agencies charged with upholding them

True

Job specifications state the specific knowledge, skills and abilities, needed by a person who is to perform a job

True

KSAO's referred to the knowledge skills and abilities necessary to the job

True