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