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Course Introduction
Human Capital Management is a comprehensive course designed to introduce students to the principles and practices involved in effectively managing an organizations workforce. The course explores key topics such as talent acquisition, employee development, performance management, compensation and benefits, workforce planning, and the strategic role of human resources in achieving organizational goals. Through case studies, real-world scenarios, and analytical tools, students will learn how to align human capital strategies with business objectives, foster a positive workplace culture, and address contemporary challenges related to diversity, technology, and global workforce trends.
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Strategic Human Resources Planning 5th edition by Belcourt
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Chapter 2: Aligning HR With Strategy
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Q1) Michael Porter estimates that it takes approximately 5 years to duplicate a competitive edge in human resources.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Human resources management used to be called the personnel department.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Recently HR departments have been required to move from demonstrating real value to articulating perceived value.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q4) Traditionally the HRM program influenced the creation of the corporate strategy.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Environmental Influences on HRM
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Q1) The ease of transferring information electronically has made concerns about safeguarding company secrets and intellectual property relatively worry-free.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) What are the key issues that unions hope to achieve on behalf of their members?
A) telecommuting, flex-time, job sharing, and workplace privacy
B) asset-backed pensions, job satisfaction, career planning, and diversity
C) wages, work-life balance, quality of life, and environmental friendliness
D) job security, income security, working hours, and inflation protection
Answer: D
Q3) What is another name for stakeholders?
A) company shareholders
B) business owners
C) constituent groups
D) lobby groups
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Job Analysis
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Q1) What is the primary purpose of the Canadian federal government's National Occupational Classification (NOC)?
A) To provide Canadians with usable information about where to find local jobs.
B) To provide Canadians with necessary information requirements for degree programs.
C) To provide Canadians with relevant information for the highest paying occupations.
D) To provide Canadians with definitive information on occupations and their requirements.
Q2) What is the next step in job analysis, once you have selected the most appropriate methods to analyze a job and its knowledge, skills, abilities, and other attributes?
A) To examine data from a variety of perspectives.
B) To determine which of the tasks are redundant.
C) To suggest methods to improve job satisfaction.
D) To predict the job openings that will be required.
Q3) Videotaping someone performing a job during a job analysis is an example of direct observation.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: The HR Forecasting Process
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Q1) Why are some individuals categorized into designated groups?
A) because they are exceptionally skilled and need challenges
B) because of their fragile emotional states
C) because they require special attention
D) because they need to be protected from discrimination
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a reason that an organization will use external labour?
A) External candidates can introduce competitive insights and new operational techniques.
B) The organization wants to expand its operations through increased labour efficiency.
C) External candidates may be less expensive to hire relative to collective agreements.
D) The organization wants to shake up the organization with external candidates.
Q3) What is the first element an organization needs to consider in deriving its external supply calculation for HR forecasting?
A) To meet its replacement needs.
B) To consider the change component.
C) To predict attrition and retirements.
D) To forecast HR demand accurately.
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Chapter 6: Determining HR Demand
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Q1) Another name for the scenario forecast method is the projection forecast method.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the Delphi method experts do not meet, but they do in the nominal group technique.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to the article entitled "Projecting Labour Demand in Canada," management occupations will feel the most intense pressure from immigration.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In a simple regression Y is the independent variable.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is the value for the sum of XY?
A) 3794
B) 4903
C) 5245
D) 6182
Q6) What is envelope/scenario forecasting? Describe some of its features.
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Chapter 7: Ascertaining HR Supply
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT typically a column found in a vacancy model chart?
A) annual losses
B) promotions to level
C) level inflows
D) internal hiring
Q2) The IBM Global Human Capital Study determined that leadership talent needed to be built due to a lack of leadership capability in 400 organizations. Which of the following would NOT result in the development of successful future leaders?
A) Apply stretch assignments and formal education.
B) Determine if an employee has early leadership potential.
C) Analyze leadership talent pools and talent gaps.
D) Use internal talent review process and assessments.
Q3) Another name for the vacancy model is the renewal model.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is another term for succession analysis?
A) chain effect analysis
B) replacement analysis
C) HR supply analysis
D) movement analysis
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Chapter 8: Succession Management
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Q1) According to the textbook, what are two emerging career management concepts?
A) organizational identity; inward and political mindset
B) self-directed career responsibility; horizontal career progression
C) role of manager as coach; benefit of focusing on job security
D) loyalty to profession and family; implicit employment contract
Q2) There are two approaches to identifying the characteristics of a successful manager: experience-based and competency-based.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a typical lag measure used in succession management?
A) Decreased number of bosses as talent developers.
B) Increased ratio of internal to external hires in key positions.
C) Increased average number of candidates for key positions.
D) Decreased average number of positions with no successors.
Q4) Replacement planning is the process of finding replacement employees for key managerial positions.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is the difference between succession management and replacement planning?
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Chapter 9: Information Technology
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Q1) An enterprise resource planning (ERP) program often incorporates finance, logistics, production, accounting, and HRM.
A)True
B)False
Q2) E-Learning is the process of learning contents distributed in digital format.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In a self-service HR system, employers are not obligated to protect employees' personal records.
A)True
B)False
Q4) One example of time and attendance software that tracks days, hours, overtime, and vacation balances is offered by SIPC.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Workforce analytics applications address the challenge of getting business intelligence for operational decision making.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Downsizing and Restructuring
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Q1) In the research by Classen and Dunn, what is one of their major findings?
A) The risk for suicide increases with long periods of unemployment.
B) Losing a job can have positive benefits.
C) Employees are more likely to quit following a downsizing.
D) Cost cutting is unlikely to disappear in the future.
Q2) Interactional justice refers to the interpersonal treatment employees receive during the implementation of the downsizing decision.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Downsizing may be considered a breach of the unwritten employment contract between employers and their employees.
A)True
B)False
Q4) If an organization wants to achieve an effective restructuring, what is one strategy that it might implement?
A) outsourcing
B) rightsizing
C) designing
D) rationalizing
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Chapter 11: Strategic International HRM
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Q1) According to a 2011 Canadian survey, what is the greatest major challenge that management faces with international relocation?
A) family and tax issues
B) dual-income spouses
C) terrorism and security
D) hardship allowances
Q2) Trainability refers to an individual's ability to acquire certain skills to a desired level of performance.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Define strategic international HR planning and strategic international human resources management.
Q4) Which of the following is NOT typically found in an organization's approach to international compensation?
A) region-based policy
B) global-based policy
C) host-based policy
D) home-based policy
Q5) What is repatriation? What are some of the issues facing repatriates?
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Chapter 12: Mergers and Acquisitions
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Q1) Assimilation is when two organizational cultures are fused together to create a new culture.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Identify and describe TWO of the three major benefits of mergers.
Q3) A horizontal merger occurs between a buyer and a supplier.
A)True
B)False
Q4) One of the disadvantages of mergers is that employees might have to re-apply for their old jobs.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The success of the valuation-driven acquisition depends on predicting economic cycles.
A)True
B)False
Q6) According to researcher David (2009, 169) what are FIVE of the main reasons for the failure of mergers and acquisitions?
Q7) What is a merger? Identify and describe THREE different types of mergers.
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Chapter 13: Outsourcing
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Q1) Why have many western nations outsourced activities to India?
A) increasing pool of outsourcing companies
B) large English-speaking population
C) relatively stable legal system
D) committed and loyal workforce
Q2) Quality improvement is typically cited as a benefit of outsourcing, and so it is written into the outsourcing contract.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The most important deliverables to SaskCentral when it was searching for an outsourcing solution included accuracy, knowledge of legislation, and cost-effectiveness.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the first step in managing outsourcing?
A) cost-benefit analysis
B) selecting the vendor
C) negotiating the contract
D) monitoring the arrangement
Q5) Define outsourcing.
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Chapter 14: Evaluation of HR
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Q1) What type of costs can be estimated but not measured easily by financial expenditures?
A) direct
B) indirect
C) tangible
D) intangible
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a hurdle to the development of HR metrics?
A) applying measures consistently and over time
B) gaining acceptance of these measures by stakeholders
C) training managers to believe in the usefulness of measures
D) identifying measures that are grounded in research and theory and are practical
Q3) Why do some managers resist the need to measure the effectiveness of their performance?
A) Because it is impossible to calibrate meaningful measures.
B) Because they know that they are underperforming in their jobs.
C) Because they do not control the information that is produced.
D) Because the time to gather information exceeds the benefits.
Q4) Briefly describe THREE methods used to measure client satisfaction.
Q5) Identify and briefly describe the 5C Model of HRM Impact.
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