Chapter 03
Providing Equal Employment Opportunity and a Safe Workplace
True / False Questions
1. The legislative branch of the U.S. government is responsible for enforcing the laws passed by Congress.
True False
2. The Civil Rights Act of 1991 was partly designed to overturn ...
1. Managers and economists traditionally have seen human resource management as a
source of value to their organizations.
True False
2. The concept of "human resource management" implies that employees in an
organization cannot be considered as a resource and hence are interchangeable.
True False
3. Human resources cannot be imitated.
True False
4. High-performance work systems have been essential in making organizations strong
enough to weather the storm of a recession and remain profitable when the economy
begins to expand after the recession.
True False
5. No two human resource departments have precisely the same roles and
responsibilities.
True False
6. Greater concern for innovation and quality has shifted the job trend to using more
broadly defined jobs.
True False
7. An organization makes selection decisions in order to add employees to its
workforce, as well as to transfer existing employees to new positions.
True False
8. Establishing and administering personnel policies allows a company to handle
problematic situations more fairly and objectively than if it addressed such incidents
on a case-by-case basis.
True False
,9. When a person evaluating performance is not familiar with the details of a job,
outcomes tend to be easier to evaluate than specific behaviors.
True False
10. Human resource management requires the ability to communicate through a variety
of channels.
True False
11. Greater use of electronic databases has increased concerns about how employers
protect employees' privacy.
True False
12. Human resource management is increasingly becoming a purely administrative
function.
True False
13. Evidence-based HR refers to the practice of initiating disciplinary action against
employees only in the presence of clear and demonstrable proof of undesirable
behavior.
True False
14. In organizations with sustainable strategies, the HR departments focus on employee
development and empowerment rather than short-term costs.
True False
15. HR competencies are the sets of knowledge and skills associated with successful
human resource management.
True False
16. The clusters of competencies needed by human resource professionals include
technical, interpersonal, business, and leadership competencies.
True False
17. HR activities are exclusively carried out by an HR specialist in small organizations.
True False
18. The supervisors in an organization play a key role in employee relations because they
are most often the voice of management for the employees.
True False
19. The right of free consent states that employers can conceal the nature of a job while
hiring an employee for a particular position.
True False
, 20. Kira feels that being denied a promotion has more to do with being a woman than
with her overall performance. However, her supervisors and the HR department are
refusing to hear her case. This suggests that Kira has been denied her right to due
process.
True False
21. In companies that are ethical and successful, senior executives are the only
stakeholders who are responsible for the actions of the company.
True False
22. For human resource practices to be considered ethical, they must result in the
greatest good for the largest number of people.
True False
23. The role of an HR generalist is essentially limited to recruitment and selection.
True False
24. The vast majority of HRM professionals have a college degree.
True False
25. The Society for Human Resource Management is the primary professional
organization for HRM and the world's largest human resource management
association.
True False
Multiple Choice Questions
26. The concept of "human resource management" implies that employees are
A. a secondary component of a
business.
B. troublesome and need to be
monitored.
C. resources of the
employer.
D. an unnecessary cost to an
employer.
E. a rare component of the business
world.
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