Organizations fulfill the human resource management goal of complying with legal and social obligations by designing jobs that are challenging and provide personal satisfaction to employees.
A. True
B. False - ANSWERSFalse (doesn't comply with legal and social obligations)
_____ refers to trea...
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Organizations fulfill the human resource management goal of complying with legal and
social obligations by designing jobs that are challenging and provide personal
satisfaction to employees.
A. True
B. False - ANSWERSFalse (doesn't comply with legal and social obligations)
_____ refers to treating social outcomes and financial outcomes as complementary,
rather than competing outcomes.
A. Shareholder primacy
B. Personnel management
C. Corporate governance
D. Conscious capitalism - ANSWERSD
Which of the following is a benefit of outsourcing?
A. It eliminates jobs that tend to be repetitious.
B. It makes employees self-reliant.
C. It helps a firm meet its expansion needs.
D. It reduces a firm's risk of facing intellectual property theft. - ANSWERSA
TechUp Inc., a computer manufacturing firm, hires an external specialist agency to
perform background checks on its new employees. By doing this, TechUp Inc. ensures
quality service and saves both time and labor costs. In the given scenario, TechUp Inc.
is using _____.
A. crowdsourcing
B. importing
C. outsourcing
D. foreign direct investment - ANSWERSC
Which of the following statements is true of the human resource (HR) department of
large organizations?
A. HR functions are likely to have specialized subunits in large organizations.
B. Relatively little HR training is provided in large organizations.
C. Line managers are required to handle basic HR functions in large organizations.
D. The general manager handles the HR duties in large organizations. - ANSWERSA
The human resource department (HR) of Asterix, a large organization, recommends
setting up fitness centers and conducting career planning sessions to enhance the
overall progress of its employees. The management of the company believes that the
employees should be happy and personally fulfilled on the job. In the given scenario,
,the recommendation of the HR department, if executed, will most likely help Asterix
achieve the human resource management goal of _____.
A. complying with social obligations
B. promoting individual growth and development
C. promoting ethnocentric practices in the workplace
D. adhering to legal business guidelines - ANSWERSB
Scientific management helped augment the concept of assembly-line production.
A. True
B. False - ANSWERSA. True
Which of the following was true of human resource (HR) managers in the 1980s and
1990s when firms sought mergers and acquisitions in order to compete effectively in the
global marketplace?
A. They helped create strategies that promoted ethnocentrism in the workplace.
B. They developed strategies that ensured that any knowledge acquired was kept
confidential among top executives.
C. They helped identify the critical human resources that firms would need in the future.
D. They were involved solely in scheduling working hours and disciplining problem
employees. - ANSWERSC
Which of the following statements is true of traditional line managers?
A. They include human resource managers.
B. They are responsible for a support functions.
C. They make indirect bottom-line contributions to the organization.
D. They are directly responsible for creating goods and services. - ANSWERSD
Employees who contribute to the organization by the nature of what they know and how
well they can apply what they know are known as _____.
A. ancillary workers
B. blue-collar workers
C. free riders
D. knowledge workers - ANSWERSD
_____ prohibits discrimination on the basis of an individual's race, color, religious
beliefs, sex, or national origin.
A. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
B. Section 5 of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988
C. The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947
D. The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 - ANSWERSA
Which of the following is most likely to happen as a small firm grows into a large
business?
A. The owner or general manager of the firm starts handing human resource duties.
B. The firm becomes exempt from many legal regulations.
C. A separate human resource unit becomes a necessity.
, D. A standard approach to deal with most human resource problems is designed. -
ANSWERSC
Which of the following statements is true of traditional line managers?
A. They make indirect bottom-line contributions to the organization.
B. They are responsible for a support functions.
C. They include human resource managers.
D. They are directly responsible for creating goods and services. - ANSWERSD
Which of the following is a benefit of outsourcing?
A. It helps a firm meet its expansion needs.
B. It makes employees self-reliant.
C. It reduces a firm's risk of facing intellectual property theft.
D. It eliminates jobs that tend to be repetitious. - ANSWERSD
Which of the following companies engages in reverse discrimination?
A. An investment firm that discontinues its paternity leave policy and increases the
number of maternity leaves
B. A construction company that employs only male civil engineers because of the
hazardous nature of the job
C. A parcel service company that hires more white males than African Americans
D. A music production company that does not promote employees who are overweight -
ANSWERSA
Customer preference can never be the basis of a bona fide occupational qualification
(BFOQ).
A. True
B. False - ANSWERSTrue
The _____ was passed in 1935 in an effort to control and legislate collective bargaining
between organizations and labor unions.
A. Fair Labor Standards Act
B. Wagner Act
C. Employee Free Choice Act
D. Taft-Hartley Act - ANSWERSB
The second step in the regulation process of human resource management in the
United States is the:
A. modification of national regulations
B. enforcement of regulations
C. implementation of regulations
D. creation of new regulations - ANSWERSB
The first step is the actual creation of new regulation. The second step is the
enforcement of regulations. The third step is the actual practice and implementation of
those regulations in organizations.
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