Talent Acquisition and Development Test Bank
Course Introduction
This course explores the strategies and best practices for attracting, selecting, and nurturing talent within organizations. Students will learn about workforce planning, recruitment methods, employer branding, and selection processes, along with tools for assessing candidate fit. The course also covers employee onboarding, training and development, performance management, and career progression, emphasizing the importance of aligning talent strategies with organizational goals. Practical case studies and real-world applications enable students to develop effective talent management skills essential for building engaged, high-performing teams.
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Human Resource Management 6th Edition by H. John Bernardin
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Chapter 1: Strategic Human Resource Management in a Changing Environment
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Q1) One of the six steps for creating a workforce scorecard is to develop supporting HR management and measurement systems.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Outplacement and promotional decisions are common activities under the HRM domain of Organization Design.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) What are examples of high-performance work practices (HPWP)?
Answer: HPWP comprises HR practices or characteristics designed to enhance employees' competencies and productivity so that employees can be a reliable source of competitive advantage.
Q4) Organizational design is concerned with establishing,fostering,and maintaining employee skills based on organizational and employee needs.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: The Role of Globalization in HR Policy and Practice
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Q1) An agreement that allows an independent organization or individual to run a business using the name of an established business for a fee is known as.
A)franchising
B)exporting
C)licensing
D)contract manufacturing
E)management contract
Answer: A
Q2) List few reasons why a company would choose exports as an option for international commerce.
Answer: Most companies export in order to increase sales and revenues.Companies with high research and development costs resort to exporting to spread costs over large sales volume.Companies may also export in order to relieve excess capacity.Some companies export as a form of diversification to sustain their maturing domestic markets.Finally,some companies export as they lack the necessary knowledge to directly do business effectively on foreign shores.
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Chapter 3: The Legal Environment of Hrm: Equal Employment Opportunity
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Q1) The 1988 Supreme Court case of Watson v.Fort Worth Bank & Trust established that:
A)employment testing must be job related.
B)a "hostile environment" is necessary for sexual harassment to have occurred.
C)psychological harm is necessary for sexual harassment to have occurred
D)the "disparate impact" theory may be applied to subjective employment practices.
E)bone fide occupational qualifications (BFOQs)are not a legal argument for discrimination.
Answer: D
Q2) When does harassment become unlawful?
Answer: The harassment becomes unlawful where 1)enduring the offensive conduct becomes a condition of continued employment,or 2)the conduct is severe or pervasive enough to create a work environment that a reasonable person would consider intimidating,hostile,or abusive.
Q3) Retaliation is a special form of disparate impact.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Work Analysis and Design
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Q1) Standardization of analysis is one of the dimensions on which work analysis may vary.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Explain why work analysis is important to an organization and especially to the HR manager.Use examples to illustrate.
Q3) The mental processes category under PAQ contains information on the reasoning,planning,decision-making,or information-processing activities are necessary to perform the activities?
A)True
B)False
Q4) Job analysis work can be used to justify the use of particular selection tests and related cut off scores.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How might work analysis data vary?
Q6) The critical incident technique (CIT)is an example of a quantitative method.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Human Resource Planning and Recruitment
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Q1) The Immigration Reform & Control Act is a means for the U.S.to control the supply of labor.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The __________ technique helps minimize interpersonal and jurisdictional conflicts.
A) trend analysis.
B) decentralized
C) markov
D) delphi
E) trend analysis
Q3) One of the advantages of using employment process outsourcing (EPO)and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO)is that you are leveraging a specialized firm focused on specific occupations.
A)True
B)False
Q4) List a few steps recommended by Dr.Cascio for enhancing the effectiveness of restructuring and downsizing.
Q5) List the actions organizations can take to manage diversity effectively.
Q6) What techniques can managers use for forecasting labor demands?
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Chapter 6: Personnel Selection
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Q1) Assessment Centers use a very narrow range of testing methods to determine a candidate's likelihood of success in entry-level positions.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A company that provides a three-week management-training program for it's new hires would benefit from administering the Wonderlic Personnel Test.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Honesty has been correlated with increased job performance and a decrease in theft.In order to test for this trait you recommend using A) a polygraph test
B) Achievement tests
C) Cognitive ability test
D) an integrity test
E) Minnesota Clerical test
Q4) The level of reliability can be represented by a consistency of measurement. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Performance Management and Appraisal
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Q1) Joy and her manager agreed in January that in order to be ready to take on a new group project in June,Joy should complete a class that would certify her in project planning.Both Joy and her manager agreed that 6 months was a reasonable time frame for completing this course,and earning the certification.How Joy is rated at the end of the review period,if she is not able to attend the training by June will depend on if her manager believes that there ______ that did not allow Joy to complete the objective. A)was a lack of utility
B) should have been BOS
C)were situational constraints
D)was a central tendency effect
E)were anchoring effects
Q2) All of the following are attempts to control intentional rating errors EXCEPT:
A)using forced distribution or other forms of ratee comparison systems
B) using multirater systems.
C)requiring cross-checks or reviews of ratings by other people
D)training raters how to provide negative evaluation.
E)providing frame-of-reference training.
Q3) Define the six different types of outcomes that may be measured in a work performance system.Provide brief examples for each.
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Chapter 8: Training and Development
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Q1) Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding well-written learning objectives?
A)They specify what the supervisor has requested that employees be trained in.
B)They should contain observable actions, measurable criteria, and the conditions of performance.
C)They should be general in nature so that they can apply to all employees being trained.
D)They describe the performance you want trainees to be able to exhibit before you consider them for training.
E)They are based on qualitative data analysis and prepared before the needs assessment.
Q2) The transfer of learning back to the job is critical for successful training,and activities conducted before,during and after the training can facilitate the transfer.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What are the different ways of making content meaningful so as to increase retention?
Q4) What can be done to maximize transfer of training back to one's job?
Q5) What are the four mechanisms that help goal setting improve performance?
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Chapter 9: Career Development
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Q1) Gen Y employees are looking for stability and finding jobs that will pay them the highest level of compensation regardless of the content of the job.
A)True
B)False
Q2) List a few guidelines for effective jobposting systems.
Q3) Which of the following is an organizational assessment program?
A)Succession planning
B)Realistic recruitment
C)Career workbooks
D)Skills inventory
E)Career center
Q4) Describe several career development programs that are methods for evaluating employees' potential for growth and development within an organization.
Q5) Counseling sessions are less time consuming and more cost-effective compared to other career development methods.
A)True
B)False
Q6) List a few advantages and problems of E-mentoring.
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Chapter 10: Compensation: Base Pay and Fringe Benefits
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Q1) Describe how you would use job evaluation to create internal equity.What are the pros and cons of using different job evaluation systems?
Q2) Which of the following are three major factors of the Hay plan?
A)Know-how, problem solving, accountability.
B)Problem solving, job rank, accountability.
C)Know-how, interpersonal skills, problem solving.
D)Physical demands, interpersonal skills, working conditions.
E)Education, experience, interpersonal skills.
Q3) All of the following are forms of direct compensation except?
A)Base salary
B)Dental benefits
C)Vacation
D)401K
E)Defined contribution pension
Q4) List a few criteria's that will help an organization choose the type and the depth of the compensation analysis.
Q5) List all the criteria that must be met to qualify for the executive employee exemption.
Q6) What are the objectives of an effective compensation system?
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Chapter 11: Rewarding Performance
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Q1) Which of the following plans calls for a distribution of pay based on an appraisal of a worker's performance?
A)Merit pay plan
B)Incentive plan
C)Halsey plan
D)Commission plan
E)Profit sharing plan
Q2) What are the three major questions to be answered for designing a PFP system?
Q3) Merit pay plans are also known as piece-rate systems.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is not a factor to be considered in designing a gain sharing program?
A)Potential for employee efforts
B)Organized employee suggestion system
C)Workforce interdependence.
D)Workforce composition.
E)Key organizational factors that affect the pay system
Q5) What are the advantages of Scanlon and Rucker plans over IMPROSHARE?
Q6) Compare and contrast the Scanlon and IMPROSHARE group incentive plans.
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Chapter 12: Managing the Employment Relationship
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Q1) __________ requires organizations to give affected employees 60 days written notice of when a plant will close or when mass layoff are expected.
A)Covenant of good faith and fair dealing
B)Collective bargaining agreement
C)Fair Ethics Act
D)Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act
E)Covenant of disclosure
Q2) If the organization is very small,it may be more efficient to rely primarily upon individualized socialization.
A)True
B)False
Q3) _____ requires organizations to give affected employees 60 days notice of a plant closing or when mass layoffs are expected:
A)Covenant of good faith and fair dealing
B)An early retirement package
C)The Fair Ethics Act
D)The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act
E)The collective bargaining agreement
Q4) Which is more important,procedural or distributive justice? Why?
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Chapter 13: Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining
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Q1) In general public sector employees have more bargaining power than private sector employees.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The National Railworkers Union (NRU)and Norfolk-Southern Railway (NSR)have been bargaining over a new labor contract for several weeks.However,the negotiations have reached a deadlock and the NRU is threatening to strike.At this point both parties should do which of the following?
A)Bring in an arbitrator to settle the differences and recommend a course of action.
B)Bring court action against the other party.
C)Call in a mediator to review the dispute and suggest compromises.
D)Agree to the strike.
E)Use miniarbitration.
Q3) The Taft-Hartley Act was designed to protect workers' rights to organize and join unions.
A)True
B)False
Q4) List the major issues in collective bargaining.
Q5) Differentiate between picketing,striking,and boycotting an employer.
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Chapter 14: Employee Health and Safety
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Q1) Voluntary Protection Program participants are subject to routine OSHA inspections.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to OSHA,which of the following needs to be recorded?
A)A disabled employee working in a potentially hazardous job.
B)An employee who trips and falls in the parking lot and requires the use of the first aid kit before going back to work.
C)When an employee suffers and injury at work that requires the employee to transfer to another job.
D)If an employee is new to a job and is at greater risk to injury than an employee with longer tenure.
E)Due to an employee's overwhelming number of allergies they are sensitive to nonhazardous smells in the workplace.
Q3) Discuss the four areas that organizations can use to reduce or eliminate unsafe behaviors at work.
Q4) What is the purpose of OSHA?
Q5) Highlight the types of violations that may be cited and the penalties that may be proposed.
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