, WGU C202 - Managing Human Capital
Exam (2024) || Questions & Answers
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Describe the primary Functions of HR - ANSWER - 1. Staffing
2. Health and Safety
3. Performance Management
4. Rewards and Benefits
5. Training and Development
6. Employee and Management Relations
How HRM can create the foundation for success of a merger or acquisition -
ANSWER - 1. Participating in conducting due diligence
2. Developing practices that support knowledge transfer and rapid learning
3. Developing strategies to retain top talent and release poor performers
4. Monitoring the new culture to identify ways to strengthen it
5. Planning for continuous adjustment and learning through the process
Describe how Human Resource Managers may serve as internal consultants for
managment - ANSWER - -Promotes employee participation, commitment and
identification with the organization
-Helps hire the right talent and helps decide who to let go during layoffs
Explain how HRM practices reinforce organizational culture - ANSWER - -
Formalized Expectations and guides employees when policies don't exist
- Determines who is hired and fired
- Determines trainings, goals accountability and who is rewarded
- Plays a large role in HPWS
Explain how Diversity and inclusion benefit organizational performance - ANSWER -
- Good PR avoiding negative publicity
- Avoid legal expenses and staying compliant
- New ideas come from diverse ways of seeing things
- Better you are able to work with all types of people, the better you will be at your
job
- Diversity fosters creativity and innovation
Define affirmative action - ANSWER - - proactive efforts to eliminate discrimination
and its past effects
- Provides employment opportunities to protected classes
Describe the differences between adverse impact and disparate treatment -
ANSWER - - Disparate treatment is intentional discrimination based on a person's
protected characteristics
- Adverse impact occurs when an employment practice has a disproportionate effect
on a protected group, regardless of its intent
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