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J's IPMA - HR - Comprehensive Modules 1 – 8 Practice Questions and Answers Human Resource Management is: a. Supervising, monitoring, controlling, and discipling employees in order to achieve organizational goals b. Designing of organizational systems to ensure that human talent is used effect...

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J's IPMA - HR - Comprehensive Modules 1

– 8 Practice Questions and Answers


Human Resource Management is:


a. Supervising, monitoring, controlling, and discipling employees in order to achieve organizational goals


b. Designing of organizational systems to ensure that human talent is used effectively to accomplish

organizational goals


c. Using and coordinating human capital to ensure the profitability and survival of the organization


d. Using and coordinating human capital to ensure the profitability and survival of the organization -

ANSWER✔✔-b. Designing of organizational systems to ensure that human talent is used effectively to

accomplish organizational goals.


There are similarities and differences in HR functions and roles in public and private organizations. Which

of the following is a difference between HR functions and roles in public and private organizations?


a. Recruiting the best and brightest employees


b. Complying with federal anti-discrimination laws


c. Complying with merit system requirements


d. Dealing with labor unions - ANSWER✔✔-c. Complying with merit system requirments


A line manager believes that the HR staff is intruding into his territory and that HR initiatives results in

unnecessary trouble and complications. Which of the following statements is true?


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a. The line manager is correct, because the HR function is a support and staff function and should not

intrude on day-to-day management functions


b. HR managers have the sole responsibility for the proper implementation of organizational policy

regarding


c. The line manager is trying to keep violations of organizational policy secret from HR


d. Every manager within the organization is an HR manager - ANSWER✔✔-d. Every manager within the

organization is an HR manager


To become a strategic HR professional requires:


a. Focusing on how HR can assist the organization achieve its goals and objectives


b. Ensuring that HR activities are performed in a timely and cost efficient manner


c. Providing HR services to managers within the organization


d. Giving reports to top management on how many people were hired, the number of performance

appraisals that have been completed, and the turnover rate - ANSWER✔✔-a. Focusing on how HR can

assist the organization achieve its goals and objectives


Which of the four 'tides of reform' identified by Paul Light can be characterized as putting a premium on

performance by letting managers manage?


a. Scientific management


b. War on waste


c. Watchful eye


d. Liberation management - ANSWER✔✔-d. Liberation management


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Creative and unusual methods of recruiting are most appropriate:


a. When recruiting for individuals with creative skills who can "think outside the box"


b. When the unemployment level is high


c. In global markets


d. When labor markets are tight - ANSWER✔✔-d. When labor markets are tight.


If an organization is in need of highly-qualified employees, it will be most able to find these employees

when:


a. There is a high level of unemployment


b. The economy is strong


c. The labor market is tight


d. The demand for labor exceeds the supply of the labor - ANSWER✔✔-d. The demand for labor exceeds

the supply of the labor


If an organization is recruiting for a job that pays just above minimum wage, which labor market is the

most logical one to use?


a. Global


b. State-wide


c. Regional


d. Local - ANSWER✔✔-d. Local




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