Human resource Management includes the following activities except for
production forecasts
Technological, deregulation, globalization trends are in turn producing changes in the nature of
jobs and work.
The specific HR courses of action the company plans to achieve its goals/objectives if referred to as an
human resource strategy
In the interview method of job analysis, the following questions are often asked of employees except
what are your career goals?
According to the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), job descriptions should indentify the following needed to perform the job’s essential functions except:
independent communication
Contingent staffing is an increasing trend in today’s business world due to the following except for
increase cost per hour for the temporary employees
The following are common interviewing mistakes made by interviewers except
following a structured guide
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires that executives cannot retain bonuses or profits from selling company stock if they mislead the public about the financial health of the company
True
The first step in a training program is to determine what training if any
needed.
The following are steps in the five-step training and development process except
summary and review.
The heart of performance analysis is distinguishing between:
can’t do and won’t do
Training is used to focus mostly on technical skills, but today’s employees need skills and training in all of the following areas except
commitment
Organizational change often starts with
strategic change
With reengineering, jobs generally change from
specialized task to multi-dimensional generalist work
Kurt Lewin believed that all behavior in organizations was a product of two factors:
those striving to maintain the status quo and those pushing for change
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 contains the following provisions except
minimum hours.
The concept that each employee should view his or her pay as equitable given other pay rates inside the organization is known as
internal equity
Job evaluation is a technique used to determine
relative worth of each job
The family and medical Leave Act requires the employer to pay an employee when he or she is out of work because of illness
False
The arrangement where groups of health care providers contract with employers, insurance companies, or third-party payers to provide medical care services at a reduced fee is a
Preferred provider organization (PPO)
Wages must compare favorably with rates in other organizations, a concept which is known as
external equity
The following are fringe benefits provided to employee at their employers discretion except
workers compensation
Performance appraisal is defined as evaluating an employee’s performance relative to
performance standards.
The simplest and most popular technique for apprising employees is the
graphic rating scale
The following are reason for failure of a performance appraisal except
clarifying standards against which the employee will be appraised
The agency created by the Wagner Act to investigate unfair labor practice charges and to provide secret ballot elections to determine if a firms employees want a union is
National Labor Relations Board
The following are deemed unfair labor practices by the Wagner Act except
investigation of references and other information for hiring
If an employer chooses not to contest the union’s right to an election the scope of the bargaining, or whether employees are eligible to vote in the election, no hearing is needed and the partied can proceed to an election…
…TRUE
OSHA regulations include the following except
recruiting and selection
Employers are responsible for meeting the requirement under OSHA to provide a workplace free from recognized
hazards
Approaches’ to preventing accidents boil down to such basic activities as reducing
unsafe conditions and unsafe acts
The Drug-free Workplace Act of 1988 requires employers with federal contracts to do the following except
establish on-site detoxification facility for serious incapacitated employee treatment
Consequences of job stress for the employer include all the following except
decreased health care cost
Smoking is a big political issue, but studies show smoking has little or no effect on company bottom line.
False
The appropriate time to begin “controlling” workers compensation claims is before the accident happens