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