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Management 101: HRM
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business-skills
Instructions:
Answer 28 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Benefits that accommodate employees' needs for work-life balance
Family-friendly benefits
Job specification
Job description
Decruitment options
2. The planned elimination of jobs in an organization
Downsizing
Decruitment
Performance appraisal methods
Recruitment
3. Organizational programs that enhance the status of members of protected groups
Board representatives
Affirmative action
Selection tools
Orientation
4. CD-ROM/DVD/videotapes/audiotapes/podcasts; Videoconferencing/teleconferencing/satellite TV; E-learning
Technology-based training methods
Selection tools
Recruitment
Sexual harassment
5. Locating - identifying - and attracting capable applicants
Traditional training methods
Recruiting sources
Job specification
Recruitment
6. Establishes performance standards that are used to evaluate employee performance
High-performance work practices
Board representatives
Selection tools
Performance management system
7. Any unwanted action or activity of a sexual nature that explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment - performance - or work environment
Variable pay
Downsizing
Job description
Sexual harassment
8. General; Specific
Decruitment options
Types of training
Recruitment
Job specification
9. Employees who sit on a company's board of directors and represent the interests of the firm's employees
Skill-based pay
Board representatives
Downsizing
High-performance work practices
10. Groups of nominated or elected employees who must be consulted when management makes decisions involving personnel
Types of training
Job description
Technology-based training methods
Work councils
11. Introducing a new employee to his or her job and the organization
Recruitment
Traditional training methods
HRM process
Orientation
12. Reducing an organization's workforce
Human resource planning
Variable pay
Job description
Decruitment
13. On-the-job; Job rotation; Mentoring and coaching; Experiential exercises; Workbooks/manuals; Classroom lectures
High-performance work practices
Traditional training methods
Family-friendly benefits
Board representatives
14. A pay system that rewards employees for the job skills they can demonstrate
Performance management system
HRM process
Skill-based pay
Recruitment
15. An assessment that defines jobs and the behaviors necessary to perform them
Job analysis
Work councils
Variable pay
Human resource planning
16. A method of planning to ensure that the organization has the right number and kinds of capable people in the right places and at the right times
Selection tools
Human resource planning
Selection
Recruitment
17. Internet; Employee referrals; Company web site; College recruiting; Professional recruiting organizations
Affirmative action
Family-friendly benefits
Recruiting sources
Job specification
18. An organization that represents workers and seeks to protect their interests through collective bargaining
Performance management system
Affirmative action
Job specification
Labor union
19. A pay system in which an individual's compensation is contingent on performance
Types of training
Job description
Technology-based training methods
Variable pay
20. A written statement of the minimum qualifications that a person must possess to perform a given job successfully
Recruiting sources
Job description
Job specification
Human resource planning
21. Screening job applicants to ensure that the most appropriate candidates are hired
Job specification
Human resource planning
Selection
Work councils
22. A preview of a job that provides both positive and negative information about the job and the company
Recruitment
Family-friendly benefits
Realistic job preview (RJP)
Labor union
23. 1. Human resource planning; 2. Recruitment/Decruitment; 3. Selection; 4. Orientation; 5. Training; 6. Performance management; 7. Compensation and benefits; 8. Career management
Realistic job preview (RJP)
Technology-based training methods
HRM process
Traditional training methods
24. Application form; Written tests; Performance-simulation tests; Interviews; Background investigations; Physical examinations
Selection tools
Traditional training methods
Affirmative action
Work councils
25. A written statement that describes a job
Selection
Performance management system
Job description
Human resource planning
26. Written essay; Critical incident; Graphic rating scale; BARS (Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale); Multiperson comparison; MBO; 360-degree appraisal
Performance appraisal methods
Realistic job preview (RJP)
Selection tools
Recruiting sources
27. Firing; Layoffs; Attrition; Transfers; Reduced workweeks; Early retirements; Job sharing
Traditional training methods
Family-friendly benefits
Types of training
Decruitment options
28. Work practices that lead to both high individual and high organizational performance
High-performance work practices
Downsizing
Job specification
Board representatives