GPHR Certification Exam (12/31/23)
Principle 1: Needs Analysis - CORRECT ANSWER-Step back, slow down, and study
the situation prior to committing company resources when a change is mandated.
Principle 2: Top Management Commitment - CORRECT ANSWER-Always seek and
obtain top management support prior to launching any new proposal.
Principle 3: HR Alignment - CORRECT ANSWER-Organizational effectiveness
begins with the alignment of an organization's workforce and human resource
capabilities with the business objectives. This includes coordinating all aspects
related to employee talent and performance to the accomplishment of the strategic
business plan.
Principle 4: The Bottom Line - CORRECT ANSWER-The goal or driving purpose of
every action that HR takes should be to advance the business objectives and
ensuring the profitability of the company.
Principle 5: Most Valuable Assets - CORRECT ANSWER-Human capital
(employee's collective talents, expertise and qualifications) is an organization's most
valuable commodity, and should be extended every courtesy and empathy when
transgressions arise. Human beings are a strategic advantage for organizations and
significant investments of time, training, and money made in them.
Principle 6: Communication - CORRECT ANSWER-A great communications
program drives business results; keeping people engaged and empowered starts
with keeping them informed.
Principle 7: Employee Participation - CORRECT ANSWER-The path to ingenuity,
efficiency, productivity, motivation and commitment starts and ends with employee
involvement.
KSA - CORRECT ANSWER-Knowledge, Skill, and Abilities
ADDIE Model - CORRECT ANSWER-Instructional systems design (ISD) framework
consisting of five steps that guide the design and development of learning programs.
Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, Evaluate
3 P's - CORRECT ANSWER-Performance, Productivity, and Profits
ADR - CORRECT ANSWER-Alternative Dispute Resolution
,Accompanying Spouse/Partner - CORRECT ANSWER-As determined by the
assignee's home country organization's policies, a companion to the assignee who is
included in the definition of family for purposes of international assignment benefts.
acculturation - CORRECT ANSWER-The exchange of cultural features that results
when groups come into continuous firsthand contact; the original cultural patterns of
either or both groups may be altered, but the groups remain distinct.
Acquired Rights Directive - CORRECT ANSWER-Safeguards the rights of European
workers by ensuring that workers are entitled to continue working for the transferee
employer on the same terms and conditions as those agreed with the transferor
employer. Whenever a transfer is with the Directive, contracts of employment run
with the undertaking; the transferee cannot take or acquire the business without the
employees and must take those employees subject to existing employment rights
and obligations. Further a transfer cannot constitute grounds for dismissal, whether
carried out by the transferor or transferee, unless there is an economic, technical, or
organizational reason entailing changes in the workforce.
Aquisition - CORRECT ANSWER-When one organization purchases another with
the surviving organization being the purchaser. Acquisitions may be of two types -
purchase of assets or purchase of stock. The later includes purchase of all liabilities,
including retirement and welfare plans. The former often does not include these
liabilities.
Alien Corporation - CORRECT ANSWER-A company that is incorporated under the
laws of another country.
Area Differential - CORRECT ANSWER-Several definitions: 1) Allowance paid to
compensate expatriate employees for medium-term cultural and hardship factors
present in his or her country of assignment as compared to the base country (this is
also known as a hardship allowance). 2) Allowance paid to domestic employees in
some geographic areas, which is based on different average pay levels and or cost
of living.
Ascription - CORRECT ANSWER-Status is attributed to you by things like birth,
kinship, gender, age, interpersonal connections, or educational record.
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) - CORRECT ANSWER-This is regional
association that promotes open economic cooperation and open trade.
Assessment Center - CORRECT ANSWER-Used to determine managerial potential
of employees; evaluates individuals as they take part in a large number.
, Assignee - CORRECT ANSWER-An employee of the organization who leaves his or
her original country of employment to work in another country for a temporary period
of time, normally longer than 90 days.
Assignee-Requested Assignment - CORRECT ANSWER-Employment provided by
the organization in another country at the request of the employee for a limited
period of time that is solicited/initiated by the employee. This type of policy normally
offers minimal benefits and is often used when the employee's spouse/partner is
offered an assignment by his or her employer. Also known as an "accommodation
assignment."
Assignment Letter - CORRECT ANSWER-Describes the terms and conditions of an
international assignment. An assignment letter usually stipulates the length of the
assignment, components of the compensation package, vacation and home leave
policies, reassignment, repatriation, and various other employment conditions.
Assignment Location - CORRECT ANSWER-The country in which an expatriate
lives and works during an assignment.
Assignment-Related Benefits - CORRECT ANSWER-A general term covering all
elements of remuneration provided in connection with a temporary transfer across
national borders.
Australasia - CORRECT ANSWER-The countries included in this region are
Australia and New Zealand
Balance Sheet Approach - CORRECT ANSWER-This is an approach that retains the
expatriate in the home-country salary structure and provides allowances to enable
the expatriate to maintain a standard of living broadly similar to that enjoyed at
home. Base salary is analyzed into four main expenditure categories - income taxes,
housing, goods and services, and reserve (pension contributions, savings and
investments).
Balance Sheet/ Build Up - CORRECT ANSWER-Two approaches of ensuring the
expatriate can live to broadly the same standard in the host country as enjoyed at
home. These approaches apply a cost of living index to the home disposable income
to arrive at the cost of living allowance. There are minor differences between these
two approaches.
Base Country (or Home Country) - CORRECT ANSWER-In international
compensation, this is the country upon which an expatriate's compensation is based.
It is usually the expatriate's home country or the country in which the employee's
headquarters is located.
