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Orientation training is designed to prepare employees to perform their job effectively, learn
about the organization, and establish work relationships.
Answer:[membership level="2,3,4,5"]
TRUE
Many employees receive their first training during their first days on the job. This training
is the organization’s orientation program—its training designed to prepare employees
to perform their job effectively, learn about the organization, and establish work
relationships.[/membership]
Research has found successful completion of overseas assignments to be most likely
among employees who are extroverted, agreeable, and conscientious.
Answer:[membership level="2,3,4,5"]
TRUE
Research has found successful completion of overseas assignments to be most likely
among employees who are extroverted (outgoing), agreeable (cooperative and tolerant),
and conscientious (dependable and achievement oriented).[/membership]
Profit sharing costs more when the organization experiences financial difficulties.
Answer:[membership level="2,3,4,5"]
FALSE
Profit sharing has the practical advantage of costing less when the organization is
experiencing financial difficulties.[/membership]
Statistical models are used for forecasting labor demands because they are good at
capturing “once-in-a-lifetime†changes.
Answer:[membership level="2,3,4,5"]
FALSE
Statistical models almost always have to be complemented with subjective judgments of
experts. There are simply too many “once-in-a-lifetime†changes to consider, and
statistical models cannot capture them.[/membership]
A large gap exists between the social system and the technical system in high-performance
work systems.
Answer:[membership level="2,3,4,5"]
FALSE
High-performance work systems refer to organizations that have the best possible fit
between their social system and technical system.[/membership]
Companies usually prefer hiring parent-country nationals for filling positions in
host-countries.
Answer:[membership level="2,3,4,5"]
FALSE
To be effective, employees in a foreign location must understand that region's business and
social culture. Organizations often meet this need by hiring host-country nationals to fill
most of their foreign positions. One of the reasons for this is that training for and
transporting families to foreign assignments is more expensive than hiring people in the
foreign country.
[/membership]
Incumbents are the best source of information for a job analysis.
Answer:[membership level="2,3,4,5"]
FALSE
A drawback of relying solely on incumbents’ information is that they may have an
incentive to exaggerate what they do in order to appear more valuable to the organization.
Information from incumbents should therefore be supplemented with information from
observers, such as supervisors, who look for a match between what incumbents are doing
and what they are supposed to do.[/membership]
Which of the following is a characteristic of task analysis?
A. It does not require knowledge of the work environment.
B. It is independent of time constraints or deadlines.
C. It results in an assessment of employees’ readiness for training.
D. It is usually conducted along with person analysis.
E. It helps in determining individuals’ needs for training.
Answer:[membership level="2,3,4,5"]
D.
Task analysis is the process of identifying the tasks, knowledge, skills, and behaviors that
