Exam 1: Human Resource Management

Organizational inefficiencies result in all of the following except:

The Hawthorne studies pointed out ______________________________.

The HRM department must communicate to numerous groups.Discuss these groups.

The history of HRM can be traced to England,where craftspeople organized themselves into _______________.

Evidence has shown that implementing high performance management practices results in all of the following except:

A sound quality of work life program assumes that a job and the work environment should be structured to meet as many of the _______________ needs as possible.

Nearly all new trends in telecommuting,outsourcing of HRM practices,family medical leave,child care,and relocation assistance can be traced to the emergence of new lifestyles and _______________.

Outsourcing of HRM functions is likely to be discontinued as decision makers search for ways to improve the financial and operating performance of firms.

Employees born between 1965 and 1979 make up _________.

In comparison to satisfied employees,unsatisfied employees tend to ___________ work outputs.

A decreased sense of empowerment is emphasized in firms using a learning framework.

The term operating managers would typically apply to which of the following?

The maximum well being of _______________ was the focus of industrial psychology.

If improperly managed,the effectiveness of human resources declines less quickly than other resources.

All of the following terms have been used to describe the HR function except:

A study found that a 1 standard deviation improvement in human resource practices was associated with a $41,000 increase in shareholder wealth per employee.

____________________ in his book,Psychology and Industrial Efficiency,initiated the field of industrial psychology.

The ______________ of an organization or department are the goals it seeks to achieve.

For employees to be productive,they do not necessarily need to feel that the job is right for their abilities but must feel that they are being treated equitably.

Satisfied employees are automatically more productive.