HR

__________ states that if there is no specific employment contract saying otherwise, the employer or employee may end an employment relationship at any time, regardless of cause.

Employment at will

Internal sources of recruitment help in filling entry-level positions for an organization.

False

Joe needs ordinary eyeglasses or contact lenses to perform most of his daily activities, but he has little or no difficult completing those activities. Joe would be considered...

Not disabled and not protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act for his glasses

In theory, No two human resource departments have precisely the same roles and responsibilities.

True

Work Flow Design involves analyzing the tasks necessary for the production of a product or service

True

What is an element in the final stage of human resources planning?

evaluating outcomes

Which HR function includes preparing and distributing employee handbooks that detail company policies?

maintaining positive employee relations

According to the Job Characteristics Model, what best describes task identity?

the degree to which a job requires completing a "whole" piece of work from beginning to end

What is the objective of job enlargement?

to make jobs less repetitive and more interesting

An employer's refusal to hire a pregnant woman because she is pregnant is still legal today.

False

Ergonomics involves analyzing the tasks necessary for the production of a product or service

False

Executive orders are directives, which are passed by Congress during emergencies.

False

In a nondirective interview, the interviewer always asks questions from an established set of questions.

False

In employment law, reasonable accommodation refers to an employee's obligation to adjust and make compromises on their personal beliefs and practices, including completely disregarding them, if they conflict with an organization's policies.

False

In the context of recruitment sources, referrals are people who apply for a vacancy without prompting from the organization or anyone inside the organization.

False

Job extension refers to empowering workers by adding more decision-making authority to their jobs.

False

Mobility refers to the process by which the organization attempts to identify applicants with the necessary knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics that will help the organization achieve its goals. An organization makes these decisions in order to add employees to its workforce, as well as to transfer existing employees to new positions.

False

One of the advantages of the Position analysis questionnaire (PAQ) is that it only takes a few minutes to complete

False

One way to simplify a job's mental demands is to provide dim lighting and complex instructions.

False

Organizations that use only externall sources of recruitment can wind up with a workforce whose members all think alike, which may be poorly suited to innovation.

False

Personality tests are more reliable than intelligence tests.

False

State laws that require employers to provide employees with information about the health risks associated with exposure to substances considered hazardous are known as employment-at-will laws

False

The OSH Act does not require that a workplace identify/label their chemicals, as long as they have more than 20 people working at the company

False

The Polygraph Act legalized the use of polygraph tests for employment screening in most organizations.

False

The lack of evidence of validity, coupled with a relatively high cost, makes cognitive ability tests less appealing than other employment tests.

False

The role of an HR generalist is usually just one or two activities (such as payroll).

False

Which statement reflects a violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act?

When a company is downsizing, they only fire people over the age of 40 since they're "going to retire soon anyway"

Advertisements for open positions at Taco-Time Restaurants ask candidates to supply references. What is the company most likely expecting to receive from candidates?

the names and contact information of former employers or others who can describe the candidate's experience and skills

Ralph works at Delta Corporation. He is responsible for identifying individuals with skills required for the various roles in the organization. Which human resource management practice is being performed by Ralph?

selection

The industrial engineering approach is most likely to emphasize

streamlining jobs to make them simpler and more efficient.

What term refers to a systematic, planned effort to attract, retain, develop, and motivate highly skilled employees and managers?

talent management

What is the most comprehensive U.S. law regarding worker safety?

the Occupational Safety and Health Act

Titan Info Group is a software consulting firm based in Redmond. The firm uses a standardized job analysis questionnaire containing 194 questions about work behaviors, work conditions, and job characteristics that apply to a wide variety of jobs. In this scenario, Titan Info Group is using

the Position Analysis Questionnaire.

__________ formally lay out the steps an employee may take to appeal an employer's decision to terminate that employee

Due-process policies

Identify the statement that characterizes the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.

It outlaws making employment decisions based on a person's age being over 40.

Which statement best describes outsourcing?

It refers to contracting with another organization to perform a broad set of services.

The role of an HR generalist is usually a variety of activities, often performing the full range of HRM activities (recruiting, compensation, training, employee relations, etc.)

True

Which scenario reflects a job lacking the characteristic of task significance?

a job that has minimal impact on the lives of other people

In terms of the Job Characteristics Model, feedback refers to the extent to which

a person receives clear information about performance effectiveness from the work itself.

In the context of human resource planning, the primary goal of forecasting is to

predict labor shortages or surpluses in specific areas of an organization.

Justine, a marketing executive in her late thirties, had worked at a reputable marketing firm for the last three years. However, she was fired from the company without any prior notice when she collapsed at work after experiencing an epileptic seizure. Following this, Justine sued the company under

Americans with Disabilities Act.

According to your text, an organization's structure that has the authority concentrated in a few people at the top of the organization is considered

Centralized

Differing conduct toward individuals, where the differences are clearly based on the individuals' race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability status is termed as __________

Disparate Treatment

Which of the following is an internal source of recruitment?

Job postings on the company's intranet that only current employees can see

A bona fide occupational qualification...

Is a necessary qualification of the job

Which statement best describes job sharing?

It is a work option in which two part-time employees carry out the tasks associated with a single job.

Which of the following best describes a phased-retirement program?

It refers to reducing both the number of hours older employees work as well as the cost of these employees.

Which statement is true of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission?

It requires all employers to conduct the same type of background check for all and apply the same standards for acting on the information.

What is a basic difference between job specifications and job descriptions?

Job descriptions look at a job's activities, and job specifications look at the qualities needed to do the job.

Milo has worked for a small chemical manufacturing company for the past 10 years. Recently, he and the other workers have developed minor respiratory problems. They confronted management demanding proper ventilation at the factory because inhaling chemical fumes continuously could prove fatal. If management does not respond to their demands, they could sue the company under the

Occupational Safety and Health Act.

Edward leaves an organization for three years to fulfill military duties. Which observation is true of his employer's obligation to reemploy Edward under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act?

The employer must reemploy Edward with the same seniority and status he would have earned if his employment had not been interrupted.

__________ requires constructing and applying statistical models that predict labor demand for the next year, given relatively objective statistics from the previous year.

Trend analysis

An important principle of selection is to combine several sources of information about candidates, rather than relying solely on interviews or a single type of testing.

True

Contracting with another organization to perform a broad set of services is called outsourcing.

True

Executive orders are issued only by the President

True

Extroversion is an example of a Big Five personality trait

True

In the Job Characteristics Model, feedback defines the extent to which a person receives clear information about performance effectiveness from the work itself.

True

Job analysis and job design determine the kinds of employees an organization needs.

True

Medical exams must be limited to conditions related to job requirements.

True

One of the disadvantages of the Position Analysis questionnaire (PAQ) is that it can result in abstract reports that might not be useful for writing job descriptions

True

Organizations with jobs that have a narrow range of simple tasks incur relatively low labor costs.

True

Selection refers to the process by which the organization attempts to identify applicants with the necessary knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics that will help the organization achieve its goals. An organization makes these decisions in order to add employees to its workforce, as well as to transfer existing employees to new positions.

True

Self-selection is the process that occurs when a job applicant does research on an organization and concludes there is enough of a fit between themselves and a job opening to warrant submitting their application.

True

State laws that require employers to provide employees with information about the health risks associated with exposure to substances considered hazardous are known as right-to-know laws.

True

The Occupational Information Network uses a common language that generalizes across jobs to describe the abilities, work styles, work activities, and work context required for 1,000 broadly defined occupations.

True

The Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) is meant to be completed by job analysts trained in the method

True

The extent to which something provides economic value greater than its cost is called its utility

True

The process of selecting employees varies considerably from organization to organization and from job to job.

True

Under the Equal Pay Act of 1963, pay differences are permitted between men and women performing the same job if the difference arises from any factor other than sex.

True

__________ refers to the use of quantitative tools and scientific methods to analyze data from human resource databases and other sources to make evidence-based decisions that support business goals.

Workforce analytics

Some of the employees of MYV Services are unhappy with their supervisor's comments and remarks. They feel they are being unduly discriminated against by the supervisor, and so they turn to the HR department for help. Addressing such problems is a part of the HR function of

employee relations

In the Job Characteristics Model, task significance is defined as the

extent to which a job has an important impact on the lives of other people.

Julia is a line manager at Maddox Inc. She is assigned the task of understanding and gathering detailed information about the requirements of carrying out a certain job. Information gathered by Julia will be used to provide essential knowledge for staffing, training, performance appraisal, and other HR activities. What most likely corresponds to the task undertaken by Julia?

job analysis

Joe's Plumbing, has announced the opening of a new unit for the manufacturing division. Ashley, the HR manager, has been asked to help plan for the creation of the new unit. What relates to the task undertaken by Ashley, if she is involved in the process of explaining how an employee will execute his or her tasks?

job design

When an individual is promised a positive outcome for submission to sex, or threatened with a negative outcome for failure to submit to sex, this is referred to as

quid pro quo harassment

In the context of human resource management, __________ happens between planning and the actual selection of new employees.

recruiting

Identify the process through which an organization seeks applicants for potential employment

recruitment

While applying for the position of administrative assistant, Monica was asked to provide the name and phone number of her previous supervisor. She was also provided the alternative of presenting a letter from her previous supervisor vouching for her performance on the job. Which tool used in the initial selection process is illustrated in this case?

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