Exam 9: Human Resource Management: Getting the Right People for Managerial Success

Which of the following helps guarantee nonhazardous working conditions for employees?

______ means that anyone can be dismissed at any time for any reason at all,or for no reason.

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a successful incentive pay plan?

Changing the name from personnel department to the human resource department is intended to suggest the importance of staffing to a company's success.

Google's treatment of its employees is indicative of its belief that its biggest competitive advantage lies in its personnel department.

An example of a behavioral-description interview question is "What was the best idea you ever sold to a supervisor,teacher,peer,or subordinate?"

As a sales manager,Danyce is conducting performance appraisals for her team members.To do so,she tracks each person's sales calls,amount of sales,and revenues on a quarterly basis.Danyce is using a(n)______ system of appraisal.

To protect their own reputations,employees are fairly careful about whom they recommend and provide a good source of employee referrals.

________ entails job posting,placing information about job vacancies and qualifications in places where employees can see them such as on bulletin boards or the company's intranet.

Subjective appraisals are harder to challenge legally than objective appraisals.

Understanding the organization's mission and operations,the job routine and the organization's work rules and benefits should be considered an integral part of employee orientation.

Define performance management and list the steps and behaviors that it involves.

A behaviorally anchored rating scale (BARS)rates employee gradations in performance according to scales of specific behaviors.

Structured interviews are more accurate than unstructured interviews in assessing an applicant's job-related personality traits.

There are fewer risks with internal recruiting because internal candidates are already known and are familiar with the organization.

Performance tests are a more direct measure of how well the employee will perform in the job on actual job tasks than personality tests.

Ricco,a HR manager,used reports from the U.S.Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S.Census Bureau for information about his industry's labor pool in his geographic area to __________.

Understanding current employee needs is the sole purpose of strategic human resource planning.

A report that lists an organization's employees by name,education,training,languages,and other important information is called a human resource inventory.

When doing a performance appraisal,the manager will assess the employee's performance and provide feedback.