HRD 3700 Quizzes
Business Intelligence (BI) applications include
-forecasting -query and reporting -the activities of decision support systems
As a policy, organizations are encouraged to place heavy restrictions and bans on the employees use of social media.
False
Assessing and reporting HR metrics will result in better organizational performance.
False
Content information can be defined as the overall ease with which a user can browse through multiple webpages to locate topics of interest.
False
Corporate culture is based on the KSA requirements of all jobs in the company.
False
Data mining involves visually analyzing large data sets to identify recurring relationships.
False
Different levels of management should not participate in the development of an organization-wide social media policy.
False
If managers do not use HR metrics and analytics to make different and better decision, the first question is the cost.
False
Navigability refers to the degree to which the website hosts relevant information that the user deems valuable and informative in nature.
False
Offshoring is an organizations use of an outside group to provide from a few (e.g., recruiting, compensation processing) to a broad set of services (e.g., all HR functions) to achieve strategic organizational goals.
False
Shoulder surfing, which refers to organizations making an employee access his or her personal account while management watches and reviews the material on the individuals social media page, is widely accepted and encouraged.
False
The advent of the Internet and a standardized communication protocol have contributed to easier database programming
False
The continual interaction between HRIS and the HR program evaluation results is the main factor in the use of the HR workforce scorecard.
False
The employees age is a major factor associated with expatriate failure.
False
The employees name is an example of an object.
False
______ allows users to maintain a current snapshot of key HR metrics.
A Dashboard
Trying to identifying what metrics should be reported without considering an organizations problems and opportunities misses the reasons for the metrics.
True
In human resources planning, the forecast for labor demand is based on ______.
annual employee turnover and expected strategic directions
The alignment of the HRM function with organizational goals is referred to as ______.
Strategic Human Resource Management (Strategic HRM).
Careful planning, a dedicated team, top-management support, and an awareness of potential pitfalls will all help ensure ______.
System Implemention Success
Aesthetic features represent the overall stylistic or innovative features of a website, such as contrasting colors, pictures, animation, and playfulness that keep the user engaged while navigating through multiple webpages.
True
A learning activity can be considered successful if it leads to transfer of learning, as well as a noticeable and permanent change in behavior in the trainees.
True
A perquisite is a reward based on job status (e.g. preferential parking).
True
Although there are no significant differences by racial or ethnic groups or by gender among social media usage, there are socioeconomic differences.
True
An HRIS CBA that includes an extensive analysis of costs matched with a single source of benefits (e.g., an estimate of direct cost reductions) is a common problem in justifying the purchase of a new HRIS.
True
An important test of the appropriateness of outcome metrics is the why test.
True
College students tend to prefer online recruitment over other recruitment sources.
True
Companies should be proactive in establishing social media policies and stay current on fair information policies regarding the use of SMW data.
True
Dashboards are an enriched component of reporting.
True
If used appropriately, social media can be a productive platform to improve employee engagement.
True
Investing in human capital is one of the most significant expenditures for corporations.
True
Many managers perceive the increased interest in metrics and analytics as simply a mandate to compute and report more metrics.
True
No information system generates any return on the investment unless managers change their decision behavior for the better.
True
Presently, ______ is among the most popular professional social networking sites used by organizations.
An HRIS that supports regular and ongoing decisions is called a(n) ______.
Management Information Systems (MIS).
Using workforce analytics to manage talent involves asking questions about employees by using a(n) ______.
query program against an employee data warehouse
The major contributing factor for expatriate failure is
the inability of the expatriates and their families to adjust to the foreign culture
The most important factor that has led to increased emphasis on HR metrics and analytics is
the increased use and implementation of integrated HRIS
Maintaining an HRIS that includes a repository of information about the cultural aspects of the countries in an MNE can be very useful in helping to ease culture shock.
true
A common concern among individuals who construct metrics and analytics reports is
whether anyone pays any attention to their reports
A CBA is a comparison of the projected costs and benefits associated with an HRIS investment.
True
The metrics that focus on how well the HR department accomplishes its critical processes to support organizational effectiveness are ______.
Administrative Process Efficiency
When expatriates fail in their assignments, a frequent outcome is increased difficulties with the host-country government. In terms of expatriate failure, this is referred to as ______.
An indirect cost
A method of creating useful comparisons is called ______.
Benchmarking
Which country is exhibiting the fastest growth in social media usage?
Brazil
What country has the worlds largest social network market, including government censorship?
China
One of the most important tasks of the international HR department is to gather information about the culture of countries where the MNE does business to try to estimate the cultural differences between the home countries of employees and the countries where they may be assigned) This can help to prevent ______.
Culture Shock
The technique used to identify a causal mechanism within data and identify patterns of relationships is called ______.
Data Mining
Organizations are using social media to more readily ______.
Distribute information about the organization
Organizations can utilize SMW tools to support ______, which offers delivery advantages and more flexibility to learners.
E-Learning
An example of a push communications channel is
E-mails to managers on metrics and analytics
Globally, since 2015, the use of social media sites ______.
Increased
The primary purpose for the use of HR metrics and workforce analytics is to
Help managers make different and better decisions
Strategic realignment involves the set of activities most commonly known as ______.
Human Resource Planning
The unsanctioned and/or inappropriate use of SMWs at work presents new problems for organizations, which are concerned about the amount of time spent on social media, as well as negative postings that may impair brand management and ______.
Hurt company morale
When it comes to corporate social media policies, it is recommended that organizations use ______ to assist them with determining their organizational polices and ensuring that they do not violate federal laws.
Legal Counsel
The Saratoga Institute/SHRM human resources metrics are
Metrics that began to be used to measure HR effectiveness A highly valued overview of many HR metrics and the formulas used to calculate them Used to measure or audit HR programs and activities (ALL OF THESE)
A ______ produces and distributes identical products and services worldwide while ______ emphasize flexibility and customization to meet the needs of differing customer groups worldwide.
Multinational Corporations; Global Corporations
Although the ______ architecture is more complicated, the complexity is hidden from the user.
N-Tier
What has the research consistently found regarding the cost of online recruitment?
Online recruiting methods are considerably less costly than traditional recruiting methods.
A country that serves as the home for a corporations headquarters is referred to as the ______.
Parent Country
Organizations are more readily using SMWs to search for ______ applicants, who might not otherwise apply to or be contacted by an organization.
Passive
OSHA is primarily concerned with which of the following?
Providing individuals with a safe workplace
______ are best described as job-related decision making tools that provide information about candidates that organizations use to make choices about their people.
Tests and assessments
Which of the following is true about the EEO-1 report?
The EEOC is strongly encouraging online reporting of the EEO-1.
Which of the following is true?
The balance sheet approach to international employee compensation is more complex to administer than the going rate approach.
Some organizations have experienced problems with social media, which includes ______.
The dissemination of inappropriate posts
The activities during the pre-World War II era included all the following EXCEPT for this:
The growth of trade unions.
The results of human resources planning (HRP) are estimates of
The number of employees needed for growth or decline
Relational database data is stored in tables where each table represents one "entity" in the real world, and the information associated with that "entity" is stored in that table. Tables are related to each other through a common attribute or key.
True
Social media offers organizations the ability to share practices; promote information and educational material; and share opinions, views, and comments, embodying them in training programs and individual courses.
True
Successful implementation is the central goal of every HRIS project, and it begins with a comprehensive design for the system.
True
The laws and regulations of the host country are determined, in part, by the societal norms of that country.
True
The use of social media allows individuals to develop weak network ties and create a more robust organizational network.
True
Which one of the following attributes is not among common attributes of talented individuals?
ability to exercise leadership
Lack of ______ at work can lead to higher absenteeism, higher turnover, and lower firm performance.
employee engagement
According to Cascio (1991), which of the following is NOT a way of defining the quality of a job candidate?
the degree of how positive a job evaluation is written by an immediate supervisor
The part of the supply estimate in HRP that is internal is based on
the historic movement of employees within the company by job
Queries are important because
they allow you to present questions to the DBMS in a language it understands.
The availability of particular information (i.e., advancement opportunities and salary) will not likely impact applicants attraction to organizations.
False
The planning for HR programs phase in HRP is based on the estimated need for new employees.
False
The system used to acquire, store, manipulate, analyze, retrieve, and distribute information regarding an organization's human resources is call the enterprise resource planning system (ERPS).
False
Data processing systems that performed record-keeping functions that mimicked existing manual procedures were called
File-Oriented Data Structures
A data warehouse is a special type of database that is optimized for reporting and analysis and is the raw material for managements decision support system.
True
A foreign key represents the primary key from another table that is stored as an attribute in another table.
True
A learning content management system (LCMS) can be used to store and develop T&D content, such as multimedia files, templates for training courses, or assignments.
True
An HRIS can be of considerable assistance in maintaining equity in IHRM compensation programs and practices in a MNE.
True
An attribute is a characteristic of the entity in a relational database.
True
Applicant perceptions of website content and style have been found to be positively related to organizational attraction.
True
Entering employee payroll information is an example of an HR transactional activity.
True
Flex plan is a benefits plan in which an employee can then purchase additional coverage or benefits at cost.
True
Forecasting in HRP is concerned with the identification of strategic options and estimates of the need for human capital demand and supply.
True
HRIS experts ensure that appropriate HR staff have all the access, information, and tools necessary to do their jobs.
True
In HRP, it is crucial that the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) required in the forecasted jobs be known.
True
In order for HR departments to take on a value creation role to support corporate and business unit strategy, they must change and develop into a high-performance system for TM.
True
In spite of the multiple definitions of talent management, they all have in common that to gain competitive advantage in the marketplace an organizations talent in its employees must be managed effectively.
True
One of the benefits of a relational database system is that end users who generally had limited programming experience can still utilize the query functionality
True
Online recruitment can decrease cycle time and increase the efficiency of the process by allowing organizations to spend less time gathering and sorting data.
True
Online recruitment may have a negative impact on the extent to which organizations are able to attract women, older workers, and some minorities.
True
SOA is a collection of internal and external services that can communicate with each other by point-to-point data exchange or through coordination among different services to achieve a business purpose.
True
The Civil Rights Act, Title VII, is the 1964 federal legislation prohibiting illegal discrimination in employment based on individuals race, sex, religion, or national origin.
True
The HRP program is closely related to strategic HRM.
True
The Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) is a law that authorizes the federal government to establish and enforce occupational safety and health standards for all places of employment affecting interstate commerce.
True
The extent to which the website is usable or not has been referred to as website usability.
True
The recruitment and training functions of an HR department are traditional activities.
True
The advent of the internet and a standardized communication protocol have contributed to
data sharing across geographically dispersed locations
The most important standardized reports produced by the HRIS are ______.
performance contracts for each employee and annual summary appraisals for each employee
The most important aspect of a job description is that it is ______.
Accurate and up to date
To facilitate decision making on complex issues, the manager usually relies on the ______ to complete some type of analysis before making a decision.
Analyst or power user
______ is a broad category of business applications and technologies for creating data warehouses and for analyzing and providing access to these specialized data to help enterprise users make better business decisions.
Business Intelligence
An HRIS can provide the primary infrastructure used to ______.
Deliver HR Programs Ensure HR regulatory compliance Produce the metrics that are used to evaluate HR programs
A companys employment brand can do little to aid in the attraction of applicants to your website.
False
A focus on data, storage, processing, and flows at the operational level and efficient transaction processing is referred to as a management information system (MIS).
False
For employers with government contracts totaling $1,000,000 or more, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Procedures (OFCCP) requires that an AAP be completed.
False
Males generally have more computer anxiety and lower computer self-efficacy than females.
False
Packaging your CBA for decision makers should be done on a single page.
False
Recruiting new employees from the external labor market is an example of an HR transactional activity.
False
Retention awards are continuous annual awards for staying with the organization.
False
Social networks (e.g., Facebook and LinkedIn) are excellent and have no drawbacks for use in a talent management program.
False
Tables are used to store information about entities. Multiple tables are created for each entity.
False
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was developed the same year as the ADEA and prohibits illegal discrimination in employment against individuals with disabilities.
False
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is the federal legislation that requires organizations with 50 or more employees to provide up to 12 weeks of paid leave after childbirth or adoption, to care for a seriously ill family member, or for an employees own serious illness.
False
The costs involved in training are difficult to establish.
False
Which of the following guidelines should not be a guideline for a successful HRIS CBA?
The objective is improving effectiveness of the HR department
According to the systems model of T&D, organizations ought to formulate an implementation plan that should specify which of the following?
The resources required Who should facilitate the training How the training should be carried out
Investment analyses for an HRIS are based on the following information:
The time when the organization will incur each cost, sources of costs and benefits, and an estimated dollar value for each cost and benefit
Indirect costs for implementing a new HRIS application in training would include lost productivity during conversion to new system.
True
Older individuals (55 or above) tend to have higher computer self-efficacy than younger adults.
True
One problem with online recruitment is that it may attract job hoppers.
True
The analyst is referred to as a power user because this person accesses more areas of the HRIS than almost any other user.
True
Which of the following is NOT a shortcoming of early file-oriented database structures?
inability to resemble manual recordkeeping
Talent management is focused on _____.
retaining talented employees recruiting and hiring employees training and promoting employees
According to the research, which population(s) tend to prefer online recruiting?
College Students
Which of the following statements is most accurate?
In the U.S., over 90% of large companies use the Internet to recruit applicants.
A(n) ______ allows you to ask a question based on one or more tables in a database.
Select Query
The set of performance measures, with ______ and ______, becomes the performance contract for the period.
Standards; goals
A user-friendly and easy to navigate website that clearly communicates the benefits of being a member of the organization will be particularly useful for ______.
Job Seeker
______ essentially consists of five separate activities, which are the acquisition, documentation, transfer, creation, and application of knowledge.
Knowledge management
The practice of contracting with vendors to perform HR services and activities best describes which of the following?
Outsourcing
To compete in the marketplace, firms need to what resources to achieve, profit, and survive?
Physical, organizational, and human
When a(n) _________ from one table is stored as an attribute of another table, that attribute is called a(n) _________
Primary Key, Foreign Key
The ______ is best described as the employees beliefs about the reciprocal obligations and promises between them and their organizations.
Psychological contract
The goal of the ______ function is to identify, attract, and hire the most qualified people.
Recruitment
The KSAs for a specific job would be used for the ______.
Recruitment of new employees
