Talent Management
differentiation
Firms operating globally often need to give some latitude to their local managers to tailor their strategies and practices to meet the needs of their locations. This highlights the ________ aspect of global sourcing
true
Recruiters influence job seekers, depending on the degree to which they are seen as reliable signals,giving a realistic preview of what it would be like to work for that company
False
Reducing the turnover rate of high performers is an example of a staffing process goal
Keeping existing employees satisfied and recruiting top talent
Skylark Corporation produces apparel for women. The firm experienced a boom in the introduction phase of its life cycle due to the high quality talent of its middle and top level executives. Which of the following would help skylark retain its competitive advantage in the present economic downturn?
True
Socialization is the process of assimilating or integrating newly hired or recently promoted employees with their job, work group, and organization
Employee value proposition
The balance between the intrinsic an extrinsic rewards an employee receives by working for particular employer in return for their job performance
Talent-oriented staffing
To hire technical skills a company expects to need in six months, it will engage in
Human process advantage
When a firm has a superior level of cooperation and innovation among its research team that allows it to design a new product two days faster than its competitors
Provide competitive pay
Which of the following does an employer have to do if hiring from the traditional labor pool?
True
Valuing the ideas and contributions of people with diverse ideas and perspectives is a possible component of a company's talent philosophy
True
Viewing employees as an asset to be managed generally leads to a low cost approach to staffing
web crawlers
Web sites that continually search the Web for information about people with desirable talents and sell access to their database of potential recruits are called
salting
When a union organizer tries to get a job with a company for the purpose of unionizing the company's workforce, this is known as
True
When labor markets are tight and good recruits are hard to find organizations must pursue talent oriented staffing
Deductive
When the main job duties have already been determined a_____job analysis would be required
Costs
When viewing employees as assets, the staffing focus is on managing
Speed and low cost
Which of the following are advantages of using structured questionnaires for job analysis?
Employee turnover is high
Which of the following cases with a company opt for a short term staffing strategy?
walk-ins
Which of the following external recruiting sources is fast, cheap, and useful for finding active job seekers?
internet data mining
Which of the following external recruiting sources is useful for finding semi-passive and passive job seekers?
Strategic staffing practices are difficult to imitate
Which of the following if true would uphold a company's sustainable competitive advantage in front of rival firms?
it increases diversity of talent available
Which of the following is a benefit of social networking as a sourcing method?
Inability to distinguish superior from average workers
Which of the following is a disadvantage of using the task inventory job analysis method?
Attracting diverse applicants
Which of the following is a hiring process goal?
The physical working conditions of the job
Which of the following is contained in a task statement?
offshoring
Which of the following recruitment strategies can help an organization reduce labor costs and improve customer service together with accessing top talent?
talent inventories
Which of the following recruitment strategies can reduce the possibility of overlooking qualified internal talent?
employee development
Which of the following refers to the training of employees to extend their capabilities and prepare them to assume other jobs and roles in the firm?
The recruiter needs to be able to relate to a recruit's value system and drive
Which of the following seems to be most important with regard to recruiter demographics?
surveying present employees
Which of the following would help the process of compiling information about the job or organization that candidates will find more and less attractive?
distributive fairness
Which type of fairness is perceived to be low by most job applicants who are not selected for a particular job?
Product innovation
With which of the following competitive advantages is cost less of a barrier in attracting top talent for companies?
Substitutability
A company is successful in recruiting engineers by handing out flyers during community events near University which is highly rated for his engineer in program. The companies competitor effectively reach is the same audience by hanging banners at a similar event. This is an example of
false
Evaluative assessment methods are used to narrow down a pool of job candidates to a smaller group of candidates.
false
According to marketing research, responses to influence sources similar to the recruit are likely to be unfavorable.
Enhance the differentiation of the firms products
According to the resource-based view of the firm, in order to create value, staffing practices must
a pull-up hire
An engineering firm is looking for a civil engineer to head their new project to build a highway. Unable to find the right candidate for the job, the firm resorts to scouting for potential candidates among the employees of rival firms. It offers the assistant chief engineer of its rival firm an extremely lucrative package and the chance to assume greater responsibilities. This practice is known as
False
Analyzing the requirements of a job as it exists today is a future-oriented job analysis
Competencies
Are more broadly defined components of a successful workers repertoire of behavior needed to do the job well
Deployment
Assigning a high-performing sales associate to work with the company's most important client is an example of
TRUE
Both true positive and true negative assessment outcomes are desirable.
False
Companies that use the same recruiting strategies are likely to experience similar results
True
Competency modeling is a job analysis method that identifies the worker competencies necessary for high performance
Employer branding
Creating a favorable image in desired applicants minds about the organization being a good place for them to work is
true
Distributive fairness is the perceived fairness of the hiring or promotion outcome
true
Effectively using technology can improve applicant reactions and promote positive spillover effects.
True
Employee profiling identifies the firms successful high performing employees and how similar candidates can be recruited
Hiring the best qualified employees
Greg's bakery chain is planning to diversify into producing and selling candy. It has open a new factory to support this plan and the factory is ready to be staffed. The top management at Greg's has decided to offer the best salaries in the industry to its latest employee additions. In this situation which of the following staffing goals should Greg follow?
Job rewards analysis
Helps a company tailor it's recruiting message to appeal to the needs, values and motivations of targeted potential applicants
Operational excellence
Hiring people who are efficient, trainable and willing to follow standardized procedures would support a ______ competitive advantage
Product leadership
Hiring people who are entrepreneurial, creative, and have a high tolerance for ambiguity would support a _____ competitive advantage
Customer intimacy
Hiring people who are learning oriented and who have good networking skills would support a ______competitive advantage
by reducing recruitment flaws through training
How can an organization with a positive employer branding image increase the quality of its applicant pools?
Created around a current or new employees unique skills
Idiosyncratic jobs are
Deploying
If a company's employees have talents that would be useful to the organization and the company is not taking a vantage of these talents it is not being efficient in the activity of
Planning
If a staffing specialist evaluates the organization's current employees and the external labor market to determine the availability of desired talent, which of the following is being done?
True
In a deductive job analysis, the job duties and sometimes even the work tasks have already been determined
Background job analysis information
In staffing, O*NET is used for
True
Innovative mobile recruiting strategies are necessary to meet future staffing needs and to attract the younger workforce
False
Internet data mining involve searching the Internet to locate active job seekers with the characteristics and qualifications needed for a position
Selecting
Interviewing job candidates to assess their fit with the job and organization is part of
Competencies
Knowledge skills and abilities along with personal characteristics that work together to produce outstanding performance in a given area of responsibility
False
Most companies can replicate a competitors capabilities by imitating the competitors staffing practices
true
Not hiring someone who would have been a poor performer is a true negative.
Expands from within by opening new factories or stores
Organic growth takes place when an organization
Keeping salaries as low as possible to control costs
Organizations relying on excellent organization performance would have what type of talent philosophy?
non-compensatory screening factor
Peter will not take a job that offers a salary below $45,000 per annum but is flexible on where the job is located. For Peter, pay is a
False
Proactive staffing is done in response to situations or issues
Growth
Promotions are likely to be fastest in organizations in the _____ stage of their life cycle
Acquiring
Putting together an attractive job offer and negotiating with the candidate the company wants to hire is part of
Hiring employees every two years on a contract basis
RST is a small software firm that operates using the very latest technology. As a result, the employee skill sets required change rapidly. The firm's resources are limited and it needs to spend as little as possible on the staffing function. Which of the following staffing goals would be most suited to the company's needs?
applicants intentions to pursue a job opportunity
Recruiter behaviors have the largest impact on
Helping to match people with jobs and organizations
Staffing professionals promote the goals of society by
false
Supplementary fit occurs when a person has characteristics which are very differentfrom those that already exist in the organization
True
The critical incidents technique of job analysis is a method that identifies extremely effective and ineffective behaviors by documenting critical incidents that have occurred on the job
Mix
The degree to which the composition of a reward package matches the needs and preferences of applicants or employees is the package's________
are seen as reliable signals of what it would be like to work for the company
The extent to which recruiters influence job seekers depends on the degree to which recruiters
Job elements method
The job analysis method that uses expert brainstorming sessions to identify the characteristics of successful workers
differentiation
The need to acknowledge and respect the diversity of local cultures when sourcing and managing a global workforce is called
true
The return on investment from a new assessment method is the sum of the economic value of improved performance and the savings from avoiding bad hires
False
The same job analysis techniques can be used effectively for staffing
It's targeted search capability
The use of social media for recruiting in sourcing will continue to increase due to
search firms who charge employers a fixed fee in advance of placement
retainer firms are...
False
Formal job descriptions are best for young organizations that need flexible employees
True
Geographic targeting can help an organization reduce turnover
signaling
Karen learns that her new job at the bookstore has no other female employees. Thinking that this could lead her employers and coworkers to treat her unfairly, she declines the offer. This is an example of
Decentralized
A company that lets each of its business units staff in whatever way they choose and house their own staffing function
False
A company using a low-cost strategy is least likely to embrace an asset based philosophy
Job
A formal group or cluster of tasks
Determines a jobs entry requirements
A job analysis
Are not easily learned on the job
A job analysis that produces a valid selection system identifies characteristics and candidates that
True
A job task is an observable unit of work with a beginning and an end
False
A persistent problem that prevents most firms from hiring people with disabilities is the lack of affordable technologies that could enable firms to accommodate them at a low cost
false
A recruit's perception of the recruiter's knowledge has little impact on how attractive a job is.
False
A reward's differential refers to the uniqueness of the reward
Time taken to fill a position should be tracked for each recruiting source and the fastest possible source should be utilized
A service-based organization has adopted an expansionist strategy. It has taken on a number of big contracts from clients and is on a tight schedule to supply services by the deadlines promised. Which of the following statements if true will result in the staffing goals being best aligned to the organizational strategy?
Person specification
A summary of the characteristics of someone able to perform the job well
Job analysis
A systematic process of identifying and describing the important aspects of the job and the characteristic a worker needs to perform the job well
A commitment to ethical behavior
Taking the time to explain the hiring process and making every effort to follow up with candidates and minimize delays is an example of
signaling
Tracy has an interview with a disorganized, unprepared recruiter and concludes that the company does not have a very professional culture. This is an example of