Person analysis can be used to assess trainability.
Permanent part-time work is an innovative work arrangement that allows employees to
work fewer days during the week, with longer hours per day.
An employee who is upset because the bonus he thought he earned was awarded to
someone who he believes has lower performance would have an issue with procedural
justice.
One of the six steps for creating a workforce scorecard is to develop supporting HR
management and measurement systems.
If the organization is very small, it may be more efficient to rely primarily upon
individualized socialization.
A needs assessment involves the analysis of organization, job, and person.
Taking on challenging assignments is linked to likelihood of promotion above measures
of current performance on the job.
Individuals from societies with high levels of uncertainty avoidance tend to have a
strong task orientation, prefer flexible work hours, and feel a strong loyalty to their
employer.
It is important for recruiters to consider how changes to overall compensation would
impact the company’s ability to attract applicants to a job.
Strategic capability represents the business’s ability to manage organizational systems
and people in order to match customer and strategic needs.
As a mid-level manager working at a company that rewards high performance work
practices, you should emphasize external recruitment over internal recruitment.
The flaw with a bonus incentive system is that due to the repetition of payments, it can
be difficult to manage from a budgetary perspective.
Lower correlations indicate stronger validity.
When formulating a pay for performance system it is important to strike a balance
between individual, team and business based incentives.
The __________ challenge ascertains whether management fully understands how
workforce behaviors affect strategy execution.
A) metrics
B) perspective
C) execution
D) validation
E) globalization
As the manager of a sales team, you want to establish a pay for performance system.
Currently they receive 100% commission in the form or cash. You want to diversify the
pay and control the budget while offering value to your staff. Which of the following
would you not consider?
A) Grant stock options for increases in repeat customer business.
B) Offer gift certificates to the gym, owned by the company, for sales above quota.
C) Increase their commission dollars per sale when they sell as a team.
D) Present a trip to the Bahamas, on the company yacht, to the team with the highest
sales.
E) Award tickets for the company’s box seats at the local music amphitheatre.
A(n) __________ allows an organization to make direct investment very gradually
while sharing its risk with a knowledgeable, experienced other party while maintaining
independence.
A) Joint venture
B) Alliance/partnership
C) Management contract
D) Contract manufacturing
E) Foreign direct investment
__________ is an arrangement by which the employee has latitude over the preferred
hours he/she wants to work, as long as he/she is present during the core hours of the
work day.
A) Flextime
B) Compressed workweek
C) Job sharing
D) Flexplace
E) WFH
The UNCTAD index is based on a composite of ratios including:
A) Foreign assets, sales, and debt.
B) Domestic sales, employment and profit.
C) Foreign assets, employment, and profit.
D) Foreign assets, sales, and employment.
E) Domestic assets, employment and sales.
The 1988 Supreme Court case of Watson v. Fort Worth Bank & Trust established that:
A) employment testing must be job related.
B) a “hostile environment” is necessary for sexual harassment to have occurred.
C) psychological harm is necessary for sexual harassment to have occurred
D) the “disparate impact” theory may be applied to subjective employment practices.
E) bone fide occupational qualifications (BFOQs) are not a legal argument for
discrimination.
An arbitrator must take into account all of the following when forming a decision
EXCEPT:
A) Precedents that have been established in previous cases.
B) Whether the employee was accorded due process.
C) Recent laws.
D) The facts of the current case.
E) Whether the employer had just cause for any actions taken against the complainant.
A manager is suggesting that the company use the results of genetic testing as criteria
for promotion to senior technical positions. The company will pay for the testing.
Employees who do not agree to the testing will not be offered promotional
opportunities. Which of the following is correct?
A) This is legal because the company is paying for the costs associated with the testing,
and they will apply the criteria consistently across all employees being considered
B) It cannot be determined if this is legal or illegal because we do not have information
that tell us if the criteria is job related or not.
C) This is illegal under ADA because the testing is being imposed on current
employees. If it were for outside applicants, it would be illegal
D) This is legal under GINA, because employers are allowed to test current employees,
however results of genetic testing cannot be used in decisions regarding applicants.
E) This is illegal under GINA, which prohibits the use of genetic test results being used
for firing, or promotional decisions.
Which group of employees will be more trainable and why?
A) Employees of “Company “A”, where managers present their employees with a list of
mandatory training because it takes the worry out of selecting the right training
B) Employees of “Company “B”, because training programs are developed with a
pass/fail criteria and only 5% of the employees “pass” the training, creating motivation
to be one of the 5%
C) Employees of “Company C” because training programs are built around lecture
formats with one-way communication, taking the activity out of the training
D) Employees of “Company D” where employees develop an individualized training
program based on their career goals
E) Employees of “Company E”, because managers randomly assign employees to
training programs regardless of current skill level, creating a sense of excitement from
not knowing what training you will be able to attend.
A consultant has been contracted by an organization to develop a training program.
What
is the first step the consultant should take?
A) Determine whether a need for training actually exists.
B) Determine whether trainees are trainable.
C) Gain the support of trainees.
D) Derive objectives for the training program.
E) Meet with the president to determine a budget for the training program.
List and explain three services that are offered by the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration for assistance with the education and enforcement of health and safety
standards.
Describe at least three problems that repatriates face in their companies and suggest
how the company might solve the problem.
List a 3 to 5 major Human Resources Management (HRM) responsibilities.
Define qualified individual with a disability.
List the predictors of voluntary turnover.
What is comparable worth? How is it different from equal pay as defined by the Equal
Pay Act?
What is the criterion for recommending MBO as a method for comparing people or
units?
Explain three products of job analysis information.
What is the purpose of the Equal Pay Act of 1963?
What are Employee Assistance Programs?