Exam 7: Human Resource Management

What is the name of Carly's first alternative method?

________ is a process of setting standards and measuring employee performance to arrive at performance standards.

Human resource management is about hiring and firing only.

According to your textbook,there are three types of orientation: work unit orientation,organization orientation,and procedural orientation.

Which one of these items would NOT be used for performance appraisals?

A written statement of what a jobholder does,how it is done,and why it is done is known as a ________.

The majority of studies show that the best source of superior job candidates is ________.

A selection device is valid if it measures the same thing consistently.

Refer to the Scenario below to answer the questions that follow. Human Resource Planning (Scenario) Steven is hired to manage the human resources department of a local manufacturing company.Unfortunately,the company has a reputation among workers of being the firm "where you work until you find your next job." Employee turnover is high and morale is low.Steven is determined to change the situation by turning the organization's human resources into a competitive advantage and a source of pride for the firm. -Steven believes that part of the reason for the high turnover is that individual jobs are very poorly defined.Employees are not sure of what is expected of them,and performance standards are unequal between regions and functions.Steven conducts a job ________ for each position,defining all the activities and behaviours necessary to perform them.

Refer to the Scenario below to answer the questions that follow. Human Resource Planning (Scenario) Steven is hired to manage the human resources department of a local manufacturing company.Unfortunately,the company has a reputation among workers of being the firm "where you work until you find your next job." Employee turnover is high and morale is low.Steven is determined to change the situation by turning the organization's human resources into a competitive advantage and a source of pride for the firm. -The nature of the manufacturing process and the need to have regular employee attendance at the facility makes some employee engagement initiatives impractical for Steven's company.Steven decides that improving engagement is important nonetheless.Which of the following initiatives would be most appropriate for Steven's company to improve employee engagement?

About 51 percent of Canadian workers are unionized,which is nearly twice the proportion in the United States.

Within the next 10 years,technology-based training methods are expected to completely replace traditional methods.

Canadian labour force participation statistics exclude unemployed Canadians.

After the new year,Wade schedules a day to travel with each of his sales reps.He presents them with their bonus cheques from the preceding year.He confidentially shares with each of them a report that he recently received from top management.This report provides a comparison of regional performance,based upon percentage of quota met,for each quarter and the entire year.Additionally,individual salespeople are compared on a bar graph with their peers,within the region and company-wide,for each quarter and the year.Finally,each employee is ranked on a percentile scale,indicating their relative performance for the year.Wade must provide management with a report offering reasons for poor performance and suggesting corrective actions.This is most representative of which performance appraisal technique?

Identify the nine factors that influence compensation and benefits.Using an example organization from your text,class discussion,or your own experience,demonstrate how these factors influenced the organization's compensation and benefits program.

The first activity in the human resource management process is recruitment.

Explain what is meant by skill-based pay and compare and contrast this approach to variable pay.

________ familiarizes the employee with the goals of the work unit and includes an introduction to his or her new co-workers.

Which of the following would be difficult to resolve with a wellness initiative?

As one of his first tasks in a new job,Steve's boss asks him to develop a database that lists the educational level,special capabilities,and specialized skills of all the employees in his firm.This is known as a ________.