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What are the four broad types of organizational culture? - correct answer ✔✔ENTREPRENEURIAL,
BUREAUCRATIC, CONSENSUAL, COMPETITIVE.
Data consistently shows that people are one of the highest costs of running an organization, and
strategic HRM positively affects what? - correct answer ✔✔BUSINESS OUTCOMES.
How could an organization's culture be defined? - correct answer ✔✔BY ITS NORMS, VALUES, AND
ASSUMPTIONS.
Given that the HRM system strongly influences employees' perceptions of the organization's culture,
how should employees perceive this culture? - correct answer ✔✔SIMILARLY.
HR might assist and support managers across the organization with which task? - correct answer
✔✔GATHERING INFORMATION ABOUT INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM TRAINING NEEDS.
The standards of moral behavior that define socially acceptable behaviors as right or wrong are known as
what? - correct answer ✔✔ETHICS.
Which ethical action shows respect and compassion for all others, especially the most vulnerable? -
correct answer ✔✔COMMON GOOD STANDARD.
Which ethical action is consistent with certain virtues including civility, compassion, benevolence, etc.? -
correct answer ✔✔VIRTUE STANDARD.
Rolling out a new benefits program is one of the most common WHAT managed by HRM? - correct
answer ✔✔CHANGES.
,WHAT is the glue that keeps employees committed to the organization and focused on making the
efforts to change successful? - correct answer ✔✔TRUST.
During a merger or acquisition, HR should be focusing on WHAT efforts? - correct answer ✔✔TALENT
PLANNING AND RETENTION.
Involving employees in a WHAT management effort can improve their commitment to that change. -
correct answer ✔✔CHANGE
Business strategies can be reinforced or undermined by their fit with the firm's WHAT? - correct answer
✔✔CULTURE.
To be most effective, WHAT should be tied to business goals and drive employee behaviors? - correct
answer ✔✔METRICS.
HR managers assure that cultural issues are recognized and addressed before, during, and after the
what? - correct answer ✔✔MERGER.
Which type of culture emphasizes formal structures and the correct implementation of organizational
procedures, norms, and rules? - correct answer ✔✔BUREAUCRATIC CULTURE.
Effective what planning is essential to the success of a merger or acquisition? - correct answer
✔✔TALENT.
What is the ethical action that best balances good over harm by doing the most good or doing the least
harm? - correct answer ✔✔UTILITARIAN STANDARD.
In some cases, companies are acquired because the acquiring company needs the what of the other
company? - correct answer ✔✔TALENT AND SKILLS.
Employees need to change their what for an organizational change effort to succeed? - correct answer
✔✔BEHAVIORS AND GOALS.
, Employment laws and regulations exist because organizations typically have more what than employees
do? - correct answer ✔✔POWER.
Employment decisions that are objective, merit-based, and use job-related characteristics to determine
employment are considered WHAT discrimination? - correct answer ✔✔FAIR.
Organizations that focus on inclusion and are mindful of the dimensions of gender, nationality, sexual
orientation, and disability - while remaining sensitive to cultural variations - are practicing WHAT
awareness? - correct answer ✔✔DIVERSITY.
The WHAT prohibits retaliation against employees seeking to unionize? - correct answer ✔✔WAGNER
act (NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS act of 1935).
The WHAT established both minimum-wage and overtime rules? - correct answer ✔✔FAIR LABOR
STANDARDS act of 1938.
Which law prohibits wage discrimination on the basis of sex? - correct answer ✔✔EQUAL PAY act of
1963.
What does the acronym FMLA stand for? - correct answer ✔✔FAMILY MEDICAL LEAVE act.
Surfing social media sites that might accidentally reveal protected information could jeopardize hiring
decisions based on which law? - correct answer ✔✔GENETIC INFORMATION NONDISCRIMINATION act of
2008.
Which law guarantees equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities or those who are perceived as
having disabilities? - correct answer ✔✔AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES act of 1990.
Which are protected characteristics according to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? - correct answer
✔✔RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, NATIONALITY, AND SEX.
The goal of affirmative action is to provide employment opportunities to a WHAT class? - correct answer
✔✔PROTECTED.
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