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