HRM Final Exam Questions & Answers 2024/2025
What is Human Resource Management? - ANSWERSDesigning formal systems in an organization to manage human talent for accomplishing organizational goals.
What is Human Capital? - ANSWERSThe collective value of the capabilities, knowledge, skills, li...
What is Human Resource Management? - ANSWERSDesigning formal systems in an organization to
manage human talent for accomplishing organizational goals.
What is Human Capital? - ANSWERSThe collective value of the capabilities, knowledge, skills, life
experiences, and motivation of an organization's workforce.
What is the definition of organizational culture? - ANSWERSThe shared values and beliefs that give
members of an organization meaning and provide them with rules for behavior.
The HR administrative functions performed in-house. - ANSWERS
What is an expatriate? - ANSWERSA citizen of one country who is working in a second country and
employed by an organization headquartered in the first country.
True/False: The percentage of working women has increased over the past several decades, with women
today making up about half the workforce today. (2014). - ANSWERSTrue
Nationally, women hold about half of managerial/professional positions but only ___% to ___% of
corporate officer positions. - ANSWERS10, 15
What is strategic planning? - ANSWERSThe process of defining organizational strategy, or direction, and
allocating resources toward its achievement.
What is offshoring? - ANSWERSA company's relocation of a business process or operation from one
country to another.
, What is forecasting? - ANSWERSUsing information from the past and present to predict future
conditions.
What is severance? - ANSWERSindividuals whose jobs are eliminated or who leave the company by
mutual agreement
What is outsourcing? - ANSWERSTransferring the management and performance of a business function
to an external service provider.
What are severence benefits? - ANSWERSTemporary payments made to laid-off employees to ease the
financial burden of unemployment.
What is benchmarking? - ANSWERSThe process of comparing an organization's business results to
industry standards or best practices.
What is disparate treatment? - ANSWERSOccurs when individuals with particular characteristics that are
not job related are treated differently from others.
What is disparate impact? - ANSWERSOccurs when an employment practice that does not appear to be
discriminatory adversely affects individuals with a particular characteristic so that they are substantially
underrepresented as a result of employment decisions that work to their disadvantage.
What is quid pro quo? - ANSWERSSexual harassment that links employment outcomes to the granting of
sexual favors.
What is the labor force population? - ANSWERSAll individuals who are available for selection if all
possible recruitment strategies are used.
What is job analysis? - ANSWERSSystematic way of gathering and analyzing information about the
content, context, and human requirements of jobs.
What is workflow analysis? - ANSWERSStudy of the way work (inputs, activities, and outputs) moves
through an organization.
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