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