HRM 360 Exam #1 Questions with Correct Answers
HR Business Partner - ✔✔Works closely with the hiring manager, specific units and upper
management to determine and forecast HR needs and communicate new laws and training.
Employee Branding - ✔✔The firm's corporate image or culture created to attract and retain the
type of employees the firm is seeking.
HRIS (Human Resource Information System) - ✔✔Systematic tool for gathering, storing,
maintaining, retrieving and revising HR data.
HR Management - ✔✔The design of formal systems in an organization to ensure the effective
and efficient use of human talent to accomplish the organization's goals..
HR Manager - ✔✔An individual who normally acted in an advisory or staff capacity, working
with other managers to help them deal with human resource matters.
Dodd Frank Act - ✔✔This was enacted on July 21, 2010, includes three sections that add
whistle-blower protections, and it also amended the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and False Claims
Act to expand their whistle-blower protections.
Ethics - ✔✔A system of moral principles and values that establish appropriate conduct.
Diversity - ✔✔Ensuring that factors are in place to provide for and encourage the continued
development of a diverse workforce by melding these actual and perceived differences among
workers to achieve maximum productivity.
Ethical Dilemmas - ✔✔Follow directions from the boss (49%).
Meet overly aggressive objectives (48%)
, Help the organization survive (40%)
These are_______________.
Corporate Social Responsibility - ✔✔The implied, enforced, or felt obligation of managers,
acting in their official capacity, to serve or protect the interests of groups other than
themselves.
Job Specifications - ✔✔Spells out the necessary qualifications to perform the job.
Title VII - ✔✔Prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national
origin.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities (KSAs) - ✔✔Three key elements in a job analysis and job description.
Job Description - ✔✔Summarizes the most important features of a job.
Skillbanks Assessment - ✔✔Computerized talent or skill inventories that can furnish a list of
qualified people.
Smith v Jackson, Mississippi - ✔✔In revising its employee pay plan, respondent City granted
raises to all police officers and police dispatchers in an attempt to bring their starting salaries
up to the regional average. Officers with less than five years' service received proportionately
greater raises than those with more seniority, and most officers over 40 had more than five
years of service. Petitioners, a group of older officers, filed suit under the Age Discrimination in
Employment Act of 1967. Based on what case?
Lily Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire - ✔✔Act that creates a rolling time frame for filing wage
discrimination claims and expands plaintiff field beyond employee who was discriminated
against. First thing Obama signed in his administration.
HR Business Partner - ✔✔Works closely with the hiring manager, specific units and upper
management to determine and forecast HR needs and communicate new laws and training.
Employee Branding - ✔✔The firm's corporate image or culture created to attract and retain the
type of employees the firm is seeking.
HRIS (Human Resource Information System) - ✔✔Systematic tool for gathering, storing,
maintaining, retrieving and revising HR data.
HR Management - ✔✔The design of formal systems in an organization to ensure the effective
and efficient use of human talent to accomplish the organization's goals..
HR Manager - ✔✔An individual who normally acted in an advisory or staff capacity, working
with other managers to help them deal with human resource matters.
Dodd Frank Act - ✔✔This was enacted on July 21, 2010, includes three sections that add
whistle-blower protections, and it also amended the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and False Claims
Act to expand their whistle-blower protections.
Ethics - ✔✔A system of moral principles and values that establish appropriate conduct.
Diversity - ✔✔Ensuring that factors are in place to provide for and encourage the continued
development of a diverse workforce by melding these actual and perceived differences among
workers to achieve maximum productivity.
Ethical Dilemmas - ✔✔Follow directions from the boss (49%).
Meet overly aggressive objectives (48%)
, Help the organization survive (40%)
These are_______________.
Corporate Social Responsibility - ✔✔The implied, enforced, or felt obligation of managers,
acting in their official capacity, to serve or protect the interests of groups other than
themselves.
Job Specifications - ✔✔Spells out the necessary qualifications to perform the job.
Title VII - ✔✔Prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national
origin.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities (KSAs) - ✔✔Three key elements in a job analysis and job description.
Job Description - ✔✔Summarizes the most important features of a job.
Skillbanks Assessment - ✔✔Computerized talent or skill inventories that can furnish a list of
qualified people.
Smith v Jackson, Mississippi - ✔✔In revising its employee pay plan, respondent City granted
raises to all police officers and police dispatchers in an attempt to bring their starting salaries
up to the regional average. Officers with less than five years' service received proportionately
greater raises than those with more seniority, and most officers over 40 had more than five
years of service. Petitioners, a group of older officers, filed suit under the Age Discrimination in
Employment Act of 1967. Based on what case?
Lily Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire - ✔✔Act that creates a rolling time frame for filing wage
discrimination claims and expands plaintiff field beyond employee who was discriminated
against. First thing Obama signed in his administration.
