HR Analytics Exam Bank
Course Introduction
HR Analytics explores the strategic use of data and analytical techniques to improve human resource management decisions and practices. This course introduces students to the fundamentals of gathering, analyzing, and interpreting HR-related data, with the aim of optimizing processes such as recruitment, performance management, employee engagement, and retention. Through real-world case studies and hands-on exercises, students learn how to use data-driven insights to align human capital initiatives with organizational goals, measure HR effectiveness, and support evidence-based decision making in the workplace.
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Staffing Organizations 8th Edition by Herbert Heneman III
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Chapter 1: Staffing Models and Strategy
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Q1) Staffing systems exist primarily to fill specific vacancies,and are not closely linked to overall organizational profitability and growth.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Which of the following statements is true regarding staffing?
A) The organization is the only active player in the staffing process.
B) The staffing process is composed of a series of interrelated parts including recruitment,selection,decision making and job offers.
C) The staffing process should only be viewed from the perspective of the individual (line)manager.
D) None of these
Answer: B
Q3) The person/job match model says that individuals are characterized by their level of qualifications and motivation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Legal Compliance
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Q1) Employment laws and regulations exist,in part,to reduce or limit the employer's power in the employment relationship.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Noncompliance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986)could result in
A) imprisonment for up to six months
B) fines equal to $50,000 for each unauthorized alien employed
C) summary closing of a business
D) imprisonment of the alien for up to five years
Answer: A
Q3) Applicants for jobs covered by civil service laws and regulations often have rights to appeal hiring decisions,testing processes,or test contents and methods.
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A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Planning
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Q1) Organizations need to take diversity into account because the workforce has become more diverse.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The major legal issue for HR strategy and planning is ________.
A) affirmative action plans
B) disparate treatment
C) disparate impact
D) sexual harassment
Answer: A
Q3) Counting the number of employees on payroll may be a misleading indicator of the workforce because it ignores the amount of scheduled time worked by each employee relative to a full workweek.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Job Analysis and Rewards
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT shown by an ideal task statement?
A) what the employee does
B) to whom or what the employee does what he or she does
C) what is produced
D) how each behavior is rewarded
Q2) Interviews and surveys of current employees on job rewards,no matter how comprehensive,miss several relevant groups of individuals.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is a good definition of a job?
A) A grouping of elements to form an identifiable work activity that is a logical and necessary step in the performance of a job
B) A grouping of jobs,usually according to function
C) A grouping of jobs according to generic job title or occupation
D) A grouping of positions that are similar in their tasks and task dimensions
Q4) Pay,benefits,and promotions are typical intrinsic job rewards.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: External Recruitment
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Q1) A centralized approach to recruiting can ensure that policy is being interpreted consistently across business units.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Only those who fill out paperwork for employment need be considered applicants,for legal purposes.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Applicants tend not to pay much attention to organizational culture when considering which job to pursue.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Sending mass e-mails advertising positions may be an ineffective strategy because many applicants will regard these messages as junk mail or spam.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Executive search firms are usually extremely expensive.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Internal Recruitment
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Q1) A targeted message for internal recruits points out how the job matches the needs of the applicant.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is true regarding an open internal recruitment system?
A) employees are made aware of all job openings.
B) they use a job posting and job bidding system.
C) they often lead to uncovering "hidden talent."
D) all of these are correct.
Q3) The Affirmative Action Programs Regulations specifically address internal recruitment as part of the federal contractor's AAP.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is true regarding closed internal recruitment systems?
A) employees are made aware of all job openings.
B) they are very inefficient.
C) they are not costly to implement.
D) they are very time-consuming to implement.
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Chapter 7: Measurement
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Q1) Reliability of a measure places _________.
A) no limit on the validity of a measure
B) a lower limit on the validity of a measure
C) an average limit on the validity of a measure
D) an upper limit on the validity of a measure
Q2) Even if methodological and statistical differences across criterion-related validation studies are not controlled for statistically,it is still probable that validity can be generalized from one specific situation to another.
A)True
B)False
Q3) With very large samples,it is possible for a fairly weak relationship to still be statistically significant.
A)True
B)False
Q4) While correlation is valuable as an indicator of the degree of association between variables,it is generally not used as a tool for prediction.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: External Selection I
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Q1) Asking applicants to complete a supplemental application in which they describe their most significant accomplishments relative to a list of job behaviors is known as the
A) behavioral consistency method
B) experiential summary method
C) biodata approach
D) none of these
Q2) The issue of consistency of measurement with assessment methods is called _______.
A) validity
B) reliability
C) variability
D) central tendency
Q3) Research shows that applicants have a favorable attitude toward biodata inventories.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Surveys suggest that only 3 out of 10 organizations conduct reference checks.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: External Selection II
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Q1) Most experts agree that cognitive ability cannot be measured accurately by standardized tests.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Validities for cognitive ability tests appear to be culturally specific,with far lower validities in the European Union relative to the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Evidence suggests that most applicants have relatively positive reactions towards personality testing.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The two major types of ability tests are aptitude and achievement. 17.80% of organizations use some sort of ability test in selection decisions.
A)True B)False
Q5) A typical unstructured interview often contains highly speculative questions. A)True B)False
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Chapter 10: Internal Selection
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Q1) One advance over the simple use of performance ratings is to review past performance records more thoroughly,including an evaluation of various dimensions of performance that are particularly relevant to job performance.
A)True
B)False
Q2) If,during an interview simulation,a job candidate is required to solicit information from the interviewer in order to solve a problem,this is most likely a "role play" type interview simulation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Job knowledge tests hold great promise as a predictor of job performance.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A job candidate responding to an "in-basket exercise" would most likely be asked to __________.
A) make a simulated visit to a customer location
B) participate in an interview simulation
C) complete a written test to assess KSAOs
D) draft memos to respond to letters received
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Q1) When using ____________,finalists are ordered from the most desirable to the least desirable based on results of discretionary assessments.
A) ranking
B) random selection
C) clinical prediction
D) grouping
Q2) In assessing cutoff scores,a "false positive" is an applicant who is assessed as not likely to succeed,but who would have been successful if hired.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The base rate is the number of hires divided by the number of employees.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A significance level of p < 0.05 means that there are fewer than 5 chance in 100 of concluding there is a relationship in the population of job applicants,when in fact,there is not.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Final Match
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Q1) A temporary pay premium added to the regular base pay of an employee to account for a temporary market escalation in pay for certain skills in extreme shortage is called a(n)_____________.
A) hot skill premium
B) tight labor market adjustment
C) key skill premium
D) none of these
Q2) Long-term variable pay plans provide employees ownership opportunities as the value of the organization increases are applicable only in the _____.
A) public sector
B) private sector
C) technology sector
D) none of these
Q3) Research has shown that ____ facilitates employee socialization to a new job.
A) clarifying job requirements and knowledge and skills to be acquired
B) minimizing biasing contact from current co-workers
C) providing a highly positive recruitment message regarding job requirements at rewards
D) all of these
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Chapter 13: Staffing System Management
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Q1) As organization size increases,the likelihood that there will be a highly centralized HR department __________.
A) increases
B) decreases
C) stays about the same
D) none of these
Q2) Lack of staffing policies and procedures may lead to practices that may foster negative applicant reactions and problems with legal compliance.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Most organizations with a sufficient number of employees to warrant a dedicated HR department have integrated the function with human resources information systems (HRISs).
A)True
B)False
Q4) Two of the key customers of the staffing system are managers and job applicants. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Retention Management
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Q1) Turnover due to organizational downsizing is classified as _______.
A) voluntary
B) involuntary
C) supplemental
D) it depends on the circumstances of the downsizing
Q2) Research has shown that the best performers are least likely to quit when an organization either rewards performance with higher compensation or widely communicates its compensation practices;doing both adds little to these independent effects.
A)True
B)False
Q3) An employee's overall intention to quit depends on the desirability of leaving,ease of leaving,and alternatives available to the employee.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Employees may not like a supervisor who speaks in a derogatory way towards them,but evidence suggests they seldom actually turnover as a result of these feelings.
A)True
B)False
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