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Human Resource Management MGMT 373 Chapter 1 - 4
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Which of the following is not a component of job design?
employee skills
The competitive environment includes all the following except:
subordinates
According to the work of Herzberg, managers can enrich the jobs of employees by:
adding more responsibility to jobs.
The Americans with Disabilities Act requires that job duties and responsibilities:
be essential job functions for job success.
Organizations or managers who are autocratic and control-oriented seldom _____ their employees.
empower
Disparate treatment cases involve:
purposeful discrimination.
The four-fifths rule provides:
a quantifiable definition of discrimination.
"National origin group" is defined as a group of people sharing a common:
language, culture, ancestry, and/or similar social characteristics
A pictorial representation of all organizational jobs along with the numbers of employees currently occupying those jobs and future employment requirements is called:
a staffing table.
Studies have shown that the ADA has:
has a positive effect on business outcomes and disabled employees
Shared values:
act as guiding parameters for strategic planning.
Employee productivity be summarized as a function of all of the following except:
Compensation
Globalization has led to a new focus on________________.
corporate social responsibility
According to the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, it is not illegal to:
deny to all employees sick-leave benefits including those for pregnancy-related illnesses.
Title VII provisions for religion:
require employers to make reasonable accommodation for religious observance or practice
Legally, an affirmative action program is required when:
a firm has a federal contract exceeding $50,000.
Reasons for implementation of compressed workweek schedules include all of the following except:
avoid paying overtime
Compressed workweeks are a problem because the Fair Labor Standards Act requires the payment of overtime to regular employees who work more than:
40 hours in a week
Which of the following is not prohibited by Title VII?
promoting a white male over a black male on the basis of seniority
Which one of the following is not an HR cost that is typically incurred as a result of downsizing?
developmental expenses
Task significance refers to:
The degree to which the job has impact on the work of others
An enthusiastically adopted tool for mapping a firm's strategy in order to ensure strategic alignment is:
balanced scorecard
A firm with a ____ focuses on only a limited portion of the industry.
concentration strategy.
Settlements negotiated by the EEO usually include all of the following except:
punitive damages.
Which of the following are the two forms of sexual harassment recognized by the EEOC:
quid pro quo and hostile environment.
Basic steps in developing an effective affirmative action plan include all of the following except:
establish a quota system and timetable for hiring.
Forecasts of human resources needs:
estimate in advance the number and type of people that are needed to meet organizational objectives.
The first step in choosing an HRIS is for the HR personnel to:
evaluate the most time-consuming tasks.
Which of the following does not represent a cultural change emerging in organizations?
accommodating unemployed workers
A group of employees formed to design a new product or service is called a/an:
project team.
In Griggs v Duke Power, the Supreme Court established the principle that:
discrimination can occur even if it is covert or unintentional.
____ is a competency of the HR manager that entails knowing the business of their organization thoroughly. One must understand its economic and financial capabilities as well as develop external relations skills focused on their customers.
Business Mastery
The statements in a job description covering job duties or essential job functions are usually arranged in:
order of importance.
Analysis of external opportunities and threats is the ___________component of the strategic management process.
the second
Contract labor workers:
have skills available to all firms
Ergonomics contribute to increases in all of the following except:
repetitive motion injuries
To build human capital in organizations, managers should rely upon staffing programs that focus on:
identifying and hiring the best and brightest talent available.
To manage employees in a manner that allows human capital to develop as a source of competitive advantage, managers need to be sure to do all of the following except:
attach pay to productivity.
Which of the following is not an approach used by organizations to try to lower labor costs?
employee development
The Americans with Disabilities Act does not:
provide protection for compulsive gambling.
The process of identifying, developing, and tracking key individuals so that they may eventually assume top-level positions is:
succession planning.
Benchmarking refers to:
the process of identifying the best practice of a firm in a given area and comparing your practices to theirs
Employee rights include all of the following except:
company funded pension plan.
Human resources planning is:
the process of anticipating and making provision for movement of people into, within, and out of an organization.
Elements in an effective HR planning process must include all of the following except:
benchmarking best practices.
The first step in strategic planning is:
establish a mission, vision, and values for the organization.
Which of the following is not a disadvantage of flextime schedules:
flextime makes it difficult to recruit and retain personnel.
Over the last few decades, the educational attainment of the U.S. labor force has:
risen dramatically.
____ is a competency of the HR manager earned by developing personal relationships with internal customers, by demonstrating the values of the firm, by standing up for one's own beliefs, and by being fair-minded in dealing with others.
Personal Credibility
Job _____ and job characteristics are specific programs by which managers can formally change the jobs of employees.
enrichment
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