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Course Introduction
Talent Management explores the strategies and practices involved in attracting, developing, motivating, and retaining high-performing employees within organizations. This course examines key concepts such as workforce planning, recruitment, onboarding, learning and development, performance management, succession planning, and employee engagement. Students will analyze current trends, tools, and technologies in talent management and explore how effective talent strategies align with organizational goals to create a sustained competitive advantage. Through case studies and practical activities, students will develop critical skills for managing talent in diverse and dynamic business environments.
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Human Resource Management Functions 2nd Edition by Robert N. Lussier
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Chapter 1: The New Human Resource Management Process
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Q1) Who controls the processes within the organization-what the organization does?
A)Staff management
B)Line management
C)Clerical workers
D)Technicians
E)Scientists
Answer: B
Q2) Sean wants to improve his workers' performance and productivity.To learn the best ways to do so,Sean could work to improve his skills with the ________ responsibilities of line management.
A)safety and security
B)appraisal and promotion
C)leadership and motivation
D)labor cost controls.
Answer: C
Q3) Staff managers are like internal consultants for the company.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Strategy-Driven Human Resource Management
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Q1) Kristin is examining a measure of the financial return the human resources department received for its investment in a new performance appraisal system.The new system cost $3,500 and saved more than $5,000 in payroll expenses.Kristin is examining the ________.
A)economic value added
B)return on investment
C)gain from investment
D)balanced scorecard
Answer: B
Q2) Management of the firm recruits from what major external environmental factor?
A)Suppliers
B)Labor force
C)Shareholders
D)Competition
E)Customers
Answer: B
Q3) Vertical differentiation refers to breaking organizations up into departments.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Legal Environment and Diversity Management
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Q1) When James and Melissa started working together two years ago,they had both recently gotten divorced.Through their work,they became very good friends.After two years,James decided he would like to ask Melissa out on a date.When he did so,she declined his offer,saying she had recently met someone through an on-line dating service.James' behavior is _______.
A)quid pro quo sexual harassment
B)hostile environment sexual harassment
C)sexual conflict
D)not sexual harassment
Answer: D
Q2) Constanze told her co-worker Connor an obscene joke.They both laughed very hard and Connor told Constanze an equally dirty joke.Constanze and Connor enjoy their jokes and are always careful to make sure they are not overheard and do not disturb anyone else at work when they tell them.This behavior is ________.
A)quid pro quo sexual harassment
B)hostile environment sexual harassment
C)not sexual harassment
D)disparate impact
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Matching Employees With Jobs
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Q1) Willie found he did not have enough work to keep him busy throughout the work day.He did not want to work harder,but he also did not want to be idle.His boss found some more tasks for him so that he had plenty to do.This is an example of ________.
A)job enrichment
B)job rotation
C)job enlargement
D)work teams
Q2) One disadvantage to using questionnaires to complete job analysis activities is the expense and time it takes to train people to administer the questionnaires.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which one of the following approaches to job design is based on Frederick Taylor's concept of Scientific Management?
A) Motivational
B) Mechanistic
C) Biological
D) Perceptual/motor
E) Humanistic
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Chapter 5: Recruiting Job Candidates
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Q1) A(n) ________ is a review of all of the tasks and requirements of the job,both good and bad.
A)Realistic job preview
B)Job analysis
C)Job description
D)Evaluation of old job description
E)Shift analysis
Q2) What is organizational image?
A)The reputation of how difficult or easy an organization's interview process is
B)The same thing as the organizational culture
C)The reputation of the company in the markets that the company gets its recruits from D)A part of the realistic job preview process
E)The review and acceptance process of creating a vision and mission
Q3) Walk-ins usually have a good basic skill set.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the options for advertising of position openings in external recruiting.In what situations is each option likely to work best? Why?
Q5) Identify and discuss the primary goal of the recruiting process
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Chapter 6: Selecting New Employees
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Q1) _________ is the extent to which a test measures what it claims to measure.
A)Validity
B)Reliability
C)Accuracy
D)True value
E)Sincerity
Q2) Rather than give his delivery drivers a drug test before allowing them to drive each day,Eric has each driver undergo a medical exam that includes testing their individual reaction time.Eric is giving his drivers a(n) ________ test.
A)physical skills
B)fit for duty
C)genetic
D)interest
Q3) Identify the three main types of "fit" that we look for in the selection process and why they are important.
Q4) "Why do you want to work here?" is an open-ended type of interview question.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How can companies select people to be tested for drugs?
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Chapter 7: Training, learning, Talent Management and Development
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Q1) According to Kolb's Learning Style Methodology,who combines observing and feeling?
A)Assimilators
B)Convergers
C)Divergers
D)Observers
E)Accommodators
Q2) Which type of learner would most likely learn best in the historical classroom setting?
A)Visual
B)Tactile
C)Auditory
D)External
E)Internal
Q3) At what approximate ages does the maintenance career stage typically occur?
A)15 to 24
B)25 to mid-30s
C)25 to mid-40s
D)Mid-40s to early 60s
E)Early 60s and older
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Chapter 8: Performance Management and Appraisal
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Q1) _________ is mentally classifying a person into an affinity group and then identifying the person as having the same assumed characteristics as the group.
A)Stereotyping
B)Proximity
C)Contrast
D)Attribution
E)Recency
Q2) Marc's manager saw him come back late from lunch one day.Marc was late because he had been working out a problem with a client.However,Marc's manager assumed Marc just took a long lunch because Marc is a slacker.It is likely his manager made a(n) _______ error.
A)stereotyping
B)bias
C)attribution
D)proximity
Q3) Critical incidences are commonly used for developmental decisions and evaluative decisions.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Rights and Employee Development
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Q1) Termination is the ___________ option in the progressive discipline process.
A)first
B)second
C)third
D)fourth
E)final
Q2) Once the initial determination about termination is made we should subject the evidence to a review by another organizational manager.
A)True
B)False
Q3) All employer rights are limited except for employment-at-will.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A manager who uses the empowering style lets employees alone to do their own thing.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the difference between a right and a privilege in a work context.
Q6) What are the three limited rights and what are their limits?
Q7) Explain why an employer can limit an employee's speech in the workplace.
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Chapter 10: Employee and Labor Relations
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Q1) Under the NLRA,employers can freely choose to bargain collectively with legitimate representations of employees.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The LMRA outlawed wildcat strikes and limited the availability of union shops.
A)True
B)False
Q3) ________ is the process of restating a message back to the original sender in the receiver's own words.
A)Recasting
B)Observing
C)Recalling
D)Paraphrasing
E)Recycling
Q4) When states pass "right-to-work" laws,they specifically make ______ illegal.
A)Secondary boycotts
B)Featherbedding
C)Open shops
D)Augmented shops
E)Union shops
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Chapter 11: Compensation Management
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Q1) If minimum wage is $7.25,why can servers be paid $2.13?
Q2) The FLSA includes information on each of the following EXCEPT:
A)Minimum wage.
B)Exempt employees.
C)Overtime.
D)Benefits.
E)Child labor.
Q3) Getting rid of some of the vertical hierarchy (reporting levels) in an organization is called:
A)Broadbanding
B)Delayering
C)Downsizing
D)Reinforcing
E)Reengineering
Q4) Wage compression generally occurs all at once in an organization.
A)True
B)False
Q5) An internal approach to pay equity is to use a job evaluation.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Incentive Pay
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Q1) Now that his team is working toward a group incentive,Steven does not leave work early or take long lunches.He feels that doing so would let down his group members.He has started working harder and slacking off less to help make the group successful.Which advantage of group incentives does this illustrate?
A)promotes better teamwork
B)broadens individual outlook
C)requires less supervision
D)is easier to develop than individual incentive programs
Q2) "SMART" goals are specific,measurable,attainable,relative,and targeted.
A)True
B)False
Q3) There are twelve guidelines for creating a motivational incentive system.What are four of them?
Q4) Currently,government attempts to intercede in the market for compensation of executives has not been successful.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Briefly discuss the advantages and disadvantages of group incentive programs.
Q6) What are the main reasons that incentive pay systems fail?
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Chapter 13: Employee Benefits
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Q1) Social Security's disability program and Social Security's retirement program are the same benefit.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Michelle puts $17,500 into her 401(k) retirement plan each year.This type of retirement plan is a ________.
A)defined benefit
B)defined contribution
C)vesting
D)experience
Q3) All employers pay the same workers' compensation insurance premiums,regardless of the type of industry.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the reasoning behind the existence of unemployment insurance?
Q5) Unemployment insurance is considered a "no-fault" insurance.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What is the difference between defined benefits and defined contributions?
Q7) Why have benefits grown?
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Chapter 14: Workplace Safety, Health, and Security
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Q1) OSHA is the state agency responsible for inspecting worksites in America
A)True
B)False
Q2) EWPs lower ___________________.
A)absenteeism
B)healthcare costs
C)turnover
D)all of the above
Q3) Employees are free from retaliation,during and after,an OSHA investigation.
A)True
B)False
Q4) OSHA cited a manufacturing company for a ________ for the company's failure to report the death of a worker.
A)failure to abate
B)serious
C)other than serious
D)de minimis
Q5) Employers cannot refuse to be interviewed during an OSHA investigation.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Organizational Ethics, sustainability and Social Responsibility
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Q1) Poor performance may encourage some to pursue unethical behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Acme Global works closely with safety inspectors to make sure that the organization is following all important safety standards.It also asks the safety inspectors to make suggestions for other things Acme Global can do to make its workplace safe.It appears Acme Global is reaching the ________ level of corporate social responsibility.
A)legal
B)ethical
C)benevolent
D)social
Q3) Diversity training programs have been around since the ______.
A)1970s
B)1950s
C)1960s
D)1980s
Q4) Organizations have specific duties regarding not only the rights of their employees but also the rights of other stakeholder members of the society in which the organization operates.What are those duties?
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Chapter 16: Global Issues for Human Resource Managers
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Q1) Repatriation is a critical activity because there is strong evidence that there are high levels of voluntary turnover of repatriates once they complete their international assignments and return to the home office.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Most country cultures mesh well with individual incentive programs.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Big Four personality characteristics reflect on the ability to adapt to a different culture.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are different options for paying expatriates? Discuss the two main options the book mentioned including the three other options.
Q5) Discuss the concept of outsourcing.Address the alternatives of offshoring and onshoring.
Q6) In what areas does HRM need to adapt in relation to legal compliance as companies become multinational or transnational?
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