MIE 330 TEST PAPER 2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Reshoring - ✔✔- moving jobs from overseas to the U.S.
- reasons for this include higher product shipping costs, fear of supply chain disruptions
due to natural disasters and political instability, quality concerns, and customer
preference for U.S.-made products
✔✔Technology - ✔✔- Advances in sophisticated technology along with reduced costs
for the technology are changing many aspects of human resource management.
✔✔Social Networking - ✔✔ISSUES:
- Loss of expert knowledge due to retirement
- Employee engagement
- Identify and promote employee expertise
- Promote innovation and creativity
- Reinforce learning
- Employees need coaching and mentoring
- Need to identify and connect with promising job candidates
USE:
- Knowledge sharing, capturing, and storing
- Collect employees' opinions, chat with employees
- Create online expert communities
- Encourage participation in online discussions
- Share best practices, applications, learning, points, links to articles and webinars
- Interact with mentors and coaching peers
- Share job openings, respond to candidates' questions, cultivate a pool of potential
employees
✔✔Human Resource Information System (HRIS) - ✔✔- A system used to acquire, store,
manipulate, analyze, retrieve, and distribute information related to human resources
, - can support strategic decision making, help the company avoid lawsuits, provide data
for evaluating policies and programs, and support day-to-day HR decisions
✔✔Cloud Computing - ✔✔- a computing system that provides information technology
infrastructure over a network in a self-service, modifiable, and on-demand model
- allows companies to lease software and hardware and employees don't even know the
location of computers, databases, and applications they are using (they are in the
"cloud")
- allows groups to work together in new ways, can make employees more productive by
allowing them to more easily share documents and information, and provides greater
access to large company databases
✔✔HR Dashboard - ✔✔- HR metrics such as productivity and absenteeism that are
accessible by employees and managers through the company intranet or human
resource information system
- important for determining the value of HR practices and how they contribute to
business goals
✔✔Virtual Teams - ✔✔- teams that are separated by time, geographic distance, culture
and/or organizational boundaries and rely exclusively on technology for interaction
between team members
- Virtual teams can be formed within one company whose facilities are scattered
throughout the country or the world
- A company may also use virtual teams in partnerships with suppliers or competitors to
pull together the necessary talent to complete a project or speed the delivery of a
product to the marketplace
✔✔Advances in technology have changed how and where we work, including by: - ✔✔-
Requiring new skills of employees;
- Increasing the frequency and type of communication, collaboration, and teamwork
(e.g., virtual teams); and
- Replacing forms of human work with robotics.
✔✔Constitution - ✔✔- establishes fundamental rights for U.S. citizens and establishes
three governing branches on the federal (national) level
Affects HRM in Two Ways:
1. it delineates a citizen's constitutional rights, on which the government cannot impinge
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Reshoring - ✔✔- moving jobs from overseas to the U.S.
- reasons for this include higher product shipping costs, fear of supply chain disruptions
due to natural disasters and political instability, quality concerns, and customer
preference for U.S.-made products
✔✔Technology - ✔✔- Advances in sophisticated technology along with reduced costs
for the technology are changing many aspects of human resource management.
✔✔Social Networking - ✔✔ISSUES:
- Loss of expert knowledge due to retirement
- Employee engagement
- Identify and promote employee expertise
- Promote innovation and creativity
- Reinforce learning
- Employees need coaching and mentoring
- Need to identify and connect with promising job candidates
USE:
- Knowledge sharing, capturing, and storing
- Collect employees' opinions, chat with employees
- Create online expert communities
- Encourage participation in online discussions
- Share best practices, applications, learning, points, links to articles and webinars
- Interact with mentors and coaching peers
- Share job openings, respond to candidates' questions, cultivate a pool of potential
employees
✔✔Human Resource Information System (HRIS) - ✔✔- A system used to acquire, store,
manipulate, analyze, retrieve, and distribute information related to human resources
, - can support strategic decision making, help the company avoid lawsuits, provide data
for evaluating policies and programs, and support day-to-day HR decisions
✔✔Cloud Computing - ✔✔- a computing system that provides information technology
infrastructure over a network in a self-service, modifiable, and on-demand model
- allows companies to lease software and hardware and employees don't even know the
location of computers, databases, and applications they are using (they are in the
"cloud")
- allows groups to work together in new ways, can make employees more productive by
allowing them to more easily share documents and information, and provides greater
access to large company databases
✔✔HR Dashboard - ✔✔- HR metrics such as productivity and absenteeism that are
accessible by employees and managers through the company intranet or human
resource information system
- important for determining the value of HR practices and how they contribute to
business goals
✔✔Virtual Teams - ✔✔- teams that are separated by time, geographic distance, culture
and/or organizational boundaries and rely exclusively on technology for interaction
between team members
- Virtual teams can be formed within one company whose facilities are scattered
throughout the country or the world
- A company may also use virtual teams in partnerships with suppliers or competitors to
pull together the necessary talent to complete a project or speed the delivery of a
product to the marketplace
✔✔Advances in technology have changed how and where we work, including by: - ✔✔-
Requiring new skills of employees;
- Increasing the frequency and type of communication, collaboration, and teamwork
(e.g., virtual teams); and
- Replacing forms of human work with robotics.
✔✔Constitution - ✔✔- establishes fundamental rights for U.S. citizens and establishes
three governing branches on the federal (national) level
Affects HRM in Two Ways:
1. it delineates a citizen's constitutional rights, on which the government cannot impinge
