Human Resource Management.d

Human Resource Management.d

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Вопрос 1

Contemporary management practices indicate that many leading companies have recognized the … of human resources

  1. Strategic importance
  2. Sustainable importance
  3. Profitable importance
  4. Revenue importance
Вопрос 2

To be competitive, organizations in many industries must have highly skilled, knowledgeable workers. This is according to

  1. Edward Lawler
  2. Sam Smith
  3. Rudger Johnson
  4. Father of Economics
Вопрос 3

Several factors will be considered in the discussion of strategic human resource investment decisions, except

  1. Economic Demand
  2. Management Values
  3. Risk and Return on Investment
  4. Economic Rationale for Investment in Training
Вопрос 4

… attempts to determine the economic value of human resource programs, activities, and procedures.

  1. Utility theory
  2. Unit Theory
  3. Total Theory
  4. HR Theory
Вопрос 5

Employers may structure jobs so that these skills may be learned from other employees. This means

  1. On-the-Job Training
  2. Investments in Employability
  3. Current Practices in Training Investments
  4. On-the-Job Training
Вопрос 6

…has noted that on-the-job training’s impact on workers’ productivity levels is frequently underrated.

  1. Gary Becker
  2. Edward Lawler
  3. Sam Smith
  4. Rudger Johnson
Вопрос 7

The continued development of managerial personnel is a critical strategic issue in most organizations and a particularly difficult challenge given the massive shifts in strategy is

  1. Investments in Management Development
  2. Management Values
  3. Risk and Return on Investment
  4. Economic Rationale for Investment in Training
Вопрос 8

Advantages of job rotation include all except

  1. Risk and Return on Investment
  2. Development of generalists
  3. Avoidance of overdependency on one supervisor
  4. The challenge of new assignments
Вопрос 9

Technological change is often a cause of …in engineering, science, and the professions.

  1. Skill obsolescence
  2. On-the-Job Training
  3. Investments in Employability
  4. Current Practices in Training Investments
Вопрос 10

Investments in training and development by implication refer to

  1. Recruitment all through the year
  2. Investments in Employability
  3. Current Practices in Training Investments
  4. On-the-Job Training
Вопрос 11

…is massive a part of HR environment

  1. Technology
  2. Perspective
  3. Perception
  4. Investments in Employability
Вопрос 12

Technology, particularly information technology, is having a major impact on the ….and on the nature of managerial work.

  1. Structure of organizations
  2. Sub-structure of organizations
  3. Perspective
  4. Perception
Вопрос 13

HRIS is an acronym for

  1. Human Resource Information Systems
  2. Human Information Resource Systems
  3. Human Informant Resource Systems
  4. Human Information Resource Society
Вопрос 14

Example of HRIS is all, except

  1. Excel
  2. Oracle
  3. SAP
  4. PeopleSoft
Вопрос 15

The implementation of systems such as PeopleSoft and SAP also have led to the restructuring of

  1. human resource departments, jobs, and processes
  2. Revenue expectation
  3. Salary scale
  4. Unit theory
Вопрос 16

….has provided an interesting account of an exchange between the top human resource executives at two large companies.

  1. Fred Foulkes
  2. Francis Foulkes
  3. Fred Faraah
  4. Rudger Johnson
Вопрос 17

HR’s four new structural forms of interest are all except

  1. Theory and Policy
  2. Network organizations
  3. Cellular organizations
  4. Respondent organizations
Вопрос 18

…employ a portfolio or conglomerate approach toward their peripheral business units.

  1. Unbundled corporations
  2. Network organizations
  3. Cellular organizations
  4. Respondent organizations
Вопрос 19

Charles Snow, Raymond Miles, and Henry Coleman have used the term …to describe organizations that are similar to unbundled corporations.

  1. Network organizations
  2. Unbundled corporations
  3. Non Network organizations
  4. Cellular organizations
Вопрос 20

Another structural form is called the…, which has some similarities with classical guilds.

  1. Cellular organizations
  2. Web organizations
  3. Unbundled corporations
  4. Network organizations
Вопрос 21

… pioneered by Edwards Deming, is a broad-based, systematic approach for achieving high levels of quality

  1. TQM
  2. QTM
  3. MTQ
  4. QYN
Вопрос 22

TQM was pioneered by …

  1. Edwards Deming
  2. Francis Foulkes
  3. Fred Faraah
  4. Rudger Johnson
Вопрос 23

TQM principles emphasizes all of the following except

  1. Respondent organizations
  2. Articulation of a strategic vision
  3. Objective and accurate measurements
  4. Benchmarking
Вопрос 24

Evaluation of the … function can also be accomplished by asking other mangers in the organization to evaluate the quality of services provided by the human resource management function.

  1. Human resource
  2. Non- human resource
  3. Anti- human resource
  4. Strategic resource
Вопрос 25

… are required for the organization to accomplish its mission while being guided by an investment perspective.

  1. Effective organizational strategies
  2. Unbundled corporations
  3. Network organizations
  4. Cellular organizations
Вопрос 26

Human resource management has become more important to general management, largely as a result of its role in providing

  1. Competitive advantage
  2. Revenue expectation
  3. Salary scale
  4. Unit theory
Вопрос 27

HRM provides competitive advantage through a

  1. Quality workforce
  2. Recruiting only
  3. Government policy
  4. Quality market
Вопрос 28

Strategic human resources management is largely about integration and adaptation. Its concern is to ensure all, except

  1. Government policy and procedure
  2. human resources (HR) management is fully integrated with the strategy and the strategic needs of the firm
  3. HR policies cohere both across policy areas and across hierarchies; and
  4. HR practices are adjusted, accepted, and used by line managers and employees as part of their everyday work
Вопрос 29

Which of this is not part of theoretical influences which provide explanations for practices resulting from strategy considerations?

  1. Unit theory
  2. resources-based view
  3. behavioural view
  4. cybernetics systems
Вопрос 30

… explains the adoption or abandonment of practices resulting from feedback on contributions to strategy.

  1. Cybernetics systems
  2. Unit theory
  3. resources-based view
  4. behavioural view
Вопрос 31

… identify competitive advantages of the organization’s human resources or it may be used to assess the feasibility of various strategic alternatives, in terms of human resource capabilities.

  1. human resource planning
  2. Purpose of Planning
  3. Organizational Characteristics
  4. Industry Characteristics
Вопрос 32

… examine factors that influence the selection of forecasting techniques, discuss specific supply-and-demand forecasting techniques, and provide examples of their application.

  1. human resource planning
  2. Personal Implications
  3. Changing Receptivity Toward Planning
  4. Implications of the European Experience
Вопрос 33

Human resource planning is linked in several ways with strategy formulation and implementation. One such linkage is

  1. Developmental Planning for Strategic Leadership
  2. Personal Implications
  3. Changing Receptivity Toward Planning
  4. Implications of the European Experience
Вопрос 34

A large study of 968 organizations by ….found human resource planning to be positively related to the intensity of the organizations’ research and development efforts.

  1. Mark Huselid
  2. Edwards Deming
  3. Francis Foulkes
  4. Fred Faraah
Вопрос 35

Human resource planning encompasses the following steps except

  1. Profitability guarantee
  2. Interfacing with strategic planning and scanning the environment
  3. Taking an inventory of the company’s current human resources
  4. Forecasting the demand for human resources
Вопрос 36

human resource forecasting includes all except,

  1. Seeking funding
  2. Planning in a Context of Change
  3. Responsibility for Human Resource Planning
  4. Failure to Plan for Human Resources
Вопрос 37

Other causes for failure to plan or failures in planning are related to…

  1. Inadequacies in broader strategic management processes
  2. Recruiting only
  3. Government policy
  4. Quality market
Вопрос 38

Several important managerial issues are critical to human resource planning. They include all except

  1. Inadequacies in broader strategic management processes
  2. Personal Implications
  3. Changing Receptivity Toward Planning
  4. Implications of the European Experience
Вопрос 39

…has provided a similar perspective on Dutch firms in an example of the Philips Company’s human resource planning efforts for a new plant.

  1. Guvenc Alpander
  2. Mark Huselid
  3. Edwards Deming
  4. Francis Foulkes
Вопрос 40

Which of this is a not a factor that influence the techniques used to forecast either the supply or demand for human resources?

  1. Operating on a Non-union Basis
  2. Purpose of Planning
  3. Organizational Characteristics
  4. Industry Characteristics
Вопрос 41

In order to accomplish their missions, organizations formulate requirements for returns on investment, scan the environment for opportunities and threats, formulate strategies, plan human resource requirements, and then implement their strategies. This is called

  1. Strategy implementation
  2. Human resource planning
  3. Quality management
  4. EFQM
Вопрос 42

Several managerial practices have the potential to provide for more flexibility in workforce utilization. It includes all except

  1. Personal Implications
  2. Cross-Training and Flexibility in Assigning Work
  3. Using Work Teams
  4. Operating on a Non-union Basis
Вопрос 43

Effective teams also have members whose skills are

  1. Complementary
  2. Expert
  3. Solo players
  4. Dual workers
Вопрос 44

MBTI is an acronym for

  1. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
  2. Major Buyers Type Indicator
  3. Myers-Briggs Type Index
  4. Maryland-Briggs Type Indicator
Вопрос 45

MBTI is a HR

  1. Personality test
  2. Property test
  3. Validity test
  4. Control test
Вопрос 46

In HR, the combination of demographic influences and a robust economy can produce … in many occupations.

  1. Labor shortages
  2. Scarcity
  3. Revenue
  4. Union Strike
Вопрос 47

Interestingly, the use of the Internet has added another venue to recruiting and is serving a tremendous need for matching employees with employment opportunities. This is addition is in the areas of

  1. Strategic Recruiting
  2. Personal Implications
  3. Changing Receptivity Toward Planning
  4. Implications of the European Experience
Вопрос 48

Companies that have created positive…, through their leadership in developing diverse workforces, have an advantage in attracting females and minorities.

  1. Public images
  2. Wealth
  3. Revenue
  4. Profit
Вопрос 49

In HR, high performing companies are very selective in their

  1. Staffing decisions
  2. Funding decision
  3. Holiday decision
  4. Revenue
Вопрос 50

During recruitment, if a test is used, an applicant’s score from one administration of the test should correlate well with his or her score on the next administration of the test. This form of reliability is called

  1. test–retest reliability
  2. test–retest validity
  3. test–retest validation
  4. test–retest re-assurance
Вопрос 51

In order to accomplish their missions, organizations formulate requirements for returns on investment includes all except

  1. Operating on a Non-union Basis
  2. scan the environment for opportunities and threats,
  3. formulate strategies,
  4. plan human resource requirements
Вопрос 52

Managerial practices have the potential to provide for more flexibility in workforce utilization includes all except

  1. plan human resource expenses
  2. Cross-Training and Flexibility in Assigning Work
  3. Using Work Teams
  4. Operating on a Non-union Basis
Вопрос 53

Several conditions must be present before teams are likely to be effective. It includes all except

  1. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
  2. Team members have to buy in to the objective
  3. Effective teams have members whose skills are complementary
  4. Effective teams share feedback
Вопрос 54

Dealing with employee shortages can be done via

  1. Employee referrals
  2. Plan human resource expenses
  3. Cross-Training and Flexibility in Assigning Work
  4. Using Work Teams
Вопрос 55

When minorities and women are underrepresented in a company’s workforce can balanced via

  1. Employee referrals
  2. Plan human resource expenses
  3. Cross-Training and Flexibility in Assigning Work
  4. Using Work Teams
Вопрос 56

Employee shortages may not even require recruiting. An alternative in HR practice is

  1. recruiting is provided by temporary help firms
  2. Reliability and Validity
  3. Job Analysis
  4. Interviews
Вопрос 57

Excellent selection procedures are essential for obtaining a workforce that can become a source of competitive advantage. Such procedure includes all except

  1. recruiting is provided by temporary help firms
  2. Reliability and Validity
  3. Job Analysis
  4. Interviews
Вопрос 58

…means that the procedure, be it a test or an interview, needs to produce approximately the same result when the procedure is repeated.

  1. Reliability
  2. Reliability and Validity
  3. Job Analysis
  4. Interviews
Вопрос 59

…provides the foundation for good selection by identifying the knowledge, skills, abilities, and other requirements (KSAs) necessary to perform the job.

  1. Job analysis
  2. Employee referrals
  3. Cross-Training and Flexibility in Assigning Work
  4. Using Work Teams
Вопрос 60

During recruitment, Interviews are reliable when there is agreement among the interviewers about an applicant, which means that their ratings are correlated. This form of reliability is called

  1. interrater reliability
  2. test–retest validity
  3. test–retest validation
  4. interrater validity
Вопрос 61

….provide the incentives and reinforcement for workforce behaviours that contribute to the implementation of strategies while development systems provide the workforce skills required for implementation

  1. Reward systems
  2. Training systems
  3. Development systems
  4. Training Protocol
Вопрос 62

The strategic importance of performance measurement systems is indicated in the following quotation by

  1. Clinton Longenecker
  2. Edwards Deming
  3. Francis Foulkes
  4. Fred Faraah
Вопрос 63

Measures of performance are necessary for the functioning of

  1. Reward systems
  2. Training systems
  3. Development systems
  4. Training Protocol
Вопрос 64

MBO is any acronym for

  1. Management by objectives
  2. Manager by objectives
  3. Management by overdraft
  4. Management of objectives
Вопрос 65

A number of evaluation approaches have been traditionally used for performance measurement. They include all except

  1. Management by overdraft
  2. Management by Objectives
  3. Graphic Rating Scales
  4. Narratives
Вопрос 66

Another traditional approach to performance evaluation is the narrative description of performance written by an employee’s supervisor. This is called the

  1. Narrative approach
  2. Management by overdraft
  3. Management by Objectives
  4. Graphic Rating Scales
Вопрос 67

…typically begins with an initial phase in which the subordinate generates goals or objectives to be accomplished over the next time period

  1. MBO
  2. BMO
  3. OBM
  4. MOB
Вопрос 68

A recent survey of Fortune 100 firms found that MBO was used by …of the respondents to evaluate executives and managers

  1. 80 percent
  2. 100 percent
  3. 10 percent
  4. 60 percent
Вопрос 69

BARS is an acronym for

  1. Behaviourally anchored rating
  2. Behaviourally anchored radio
  3. Blue anchored rating
  4. Bad anchored rating
Вопрос 70

BOS is an acronym for

  1. Behavioural observation scales
  2. Behavioural old scales
  3. Behavioural observation sales
  4. Buy observation scales
Вопрос 71

One of the most prominent of these advocates of HR management universal best practices is …of Stanford University.

  1. Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer
  2. Professor Jeffrey Fizer
  3. Professor Jeo Pfeffer
  4. Professor Jeffrey Nathaniel
Вопрос 72

Pfeffer’s research indicates that these seven management practices are nearly universal in their ability to enhance firm performance

  1. TQM
  2. Selective hiring of new personnel.
  3. Self-managed teams and decentralization of decision making as the basic principles of organizational design
  4. Selective hiring of professional personnel.
Вопрос 73

Individual high-performance practices includes all except

  1. Employment security
  2. Compensation
  3. High Compensation Linked to Organizational Performance
  4. Incentive-Based Compensation
Вопрос 74

ROA is an acronym for

  1. Return on assets
  2. Rise on assets
  3. Rise of investment
  4. Return on attributes
Вопрос 75

ROE is an acronym for

  1. Return on equity
  2. Rise on assets
  3. Rise of investment
  4. Equity rights
Вопрос 76

Cognitive tests, or tests of mental ability, have been used for various selection purposes since the

  1. early 1900s
  2. early 1800s
  3. early 1700s
  4. early 1600s
Вопрос 77

The use of Cognitive tests came under attack in the … because firms sometimes used them without establishing their validity or the relationship between applicant scores and job performance

  1. 1970s
  2. 1990s
  3. 1960s
  4. 1950s
Вопрос 78

…based on contingency theory, explains practices designed to control and influence attitudes and behaviours.

  1. Resources-based view
  2. Unit theory
  3. Behavioural view
  4. Cybernetics systems
Вопрос 79

Brian Becker and Mark Huselid’s study in a national retailing company provides another example of an application of.

  1. Utility theory
  2. Unit theory
  3. Practice theory
  4. Bilateral theory
Вопрос 80

The type of industry also affects technique utilization, as companies in regulated industries tend to use more sophisticated forecasting techniques is called

  1. Industry Characteristics
  2. Operating on a Non-union Basis
  3. Purpose of Planning
  4. Organizational Characteristics