WGU C202 MANAGING HUMAN CAPITAL OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT ACTUAL EXAM 2025/2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS BRAND NEW VERSION

WGU C202 MANAGING HUMAN CAPITAL OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT ACTUAL EXAM 2025/2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS BRAND NEW VERSION 1. Human Resource Strategy - ANSWER Links the entire human resource function with the firm's business strategy. 2. Business Strategy - ANSWER Defines how the firm will compete in its marketplace. 3. Total Rewards - ANSWER The sum of all rewards employees receives in exchange for their time, efforts, and performance. 4. The combined intrinsic and extrinsic rewards of a job. 5. Orientation - ANSWER Training activities to help new hires fit in as organizational members. 6. Motivation to transfer - ANSWER Intention and willingness to transfer any knowledge acquired in a training or development activity back to the work context. 7. Training - ANSWER Formal and informal activities to improve competencies relevant to an employee's or workgroup's current job. 8. Development - ANSWER Focuses on developing competencies that an employee or workgroup is expected to need in the future. 9. Learning Objectives - ANSWER Identify desired learning outcomes. 10. Person needs analysis - ANSWER Evaluates how individual employees are doing in the training area and determines who needs what type of training. 11. Self-management Strategies - ANSWER Efforts to control one's motivation, emotions, and decision making to enhance the application of learned capabilities to the job. 12. FMLA stands for .... - ANSWER Family Medical Leave Act 13. Which Act prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin? - ANSWER Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 14. -Been in effect for over 40 years. 15. Which act guarantee equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities or perceived as having disabilities? - ANSWER National Labor Relations Act of 1935 16. Under FMLA, a qualified employee is entitled to _____ of leave after the birth of a child and to care for the newborn child within one year of birth. - ANSWER 12 work weeks 17. Under FMLA, a qualified employee is entitled to ____ in order to care for a military service member with a serious injury or illness who is the spouse, son, daughter, or parent of the employee. - ANSWER 26 work weeks 18. An employer who demoted or fired an employee due to the employee's military service is in violation of _____. - ANSWER USERRA: Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (10/13/1994). 19. Which act gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to continue group health plan benefits? - ANSWER COBRA: Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985. 20. Which act requires employers to use an I-9 verification form to verify the employability status of every new employee within three days of hiring? - ANSWER Immigration Reform and Control Act. 21. FLSA - ANSWER Fair Labor Standards Act 22. Immigration and customs enforcement officials are shifting their focus and are increasingly making worksite criminal arrests of _______. - ANSWER Undocumented Workers 23. In order to be a victim of employment discrimination, a person ______. - ANSWER Must suffer a concrete harm. 24. Which is considered job-related interview question? - ANSWER What is your current address, and how long have you lived there? 25. Which of the following is considered a job-related interview question? - ANSWER What school did you attend? 26. Have you served in the armed forces? In what year was Executive Order 11246 put in to place requiring employers receiving federal contracts to take proactive steps--- affirmative action ---- to intergrate their workforces? - ANSWER 1965 27. A group underrepresented in employment is referred to as a(n) ______ class. - ANSWER Protected Class 28. A(n) ______ must make his or her own Social Security contributions, pay various employment taxes, and report income to the state and federal authorities. - ANSWER Independent contractor 29. A victim of ______ harassment who may or may not be the target of harassment, may feel fearful, demeaned, or belittled. - ANSWER Hostile Environment 30. Socialization - ANSWER a long-term process of planned and unplanned, formal and informal activities and experiences through which an individual acquires the attitudes, behaviors and knowledge needed to successfully participate as an organizational member 31. Anticipatory, Encounter, Settling In - ANSWER Three phases of Socialization 32. Collective socialization - ANSWER newcomers go through a common set of experiences as a group 33. Individual socialization - ANSWER newcomers are socialized individually as in an apprenticeship 34. Formal socialization - ANSWER structured socialization using specifically designed activities and materials awayfrom the work setting 35. Informal socialization - ANSWER unstructured, on-the-job socialization done by coworkers 36. Sequential socialization - ANSWER the degree to which socialization follows a specific sequence of steps 37. Fixed socialization - ANSWER new hires are informed in advance when their probationary status will end 38. Variable socialization - ANSWER employees do not know when to expect to pass to a different status level and the timeline may be different across employees 39. Tournament socialization - ANSWER each stage of socialization is an elimination round and a new hire is out of the organization if he or she fails to pass 40. Contest socialization - ANSWER each socialization stage is a contest in which one builds a performance record 41. Serial socialization - ANSWER accessible and supportive organizational members serve as role models and mentors 42. Disjunctive socialization - ANSWER newcomers are left alone to develop their own interpretations of the organization and situations they observe 43. Investiture socialization - ANSWER builds newcomers' self-confidence and reflects senior employees' valuing of newcomers' knowledge and personal characteristics 44. Divestiture socialization - ANSWER tries to deny and strip away certain personal characteristics 45. Implementation - ANSWER Sessions are scheduled, participants are invited, instructors are scheduled, materials are prepared and delivered, and the training is conducted. 46. Evaluate - ANSWER Training assessment and evaluation determine whether the learning objectives have been met. 47. Reaction - ANSWER refers to whether learners liked the training. 48. Learning - ANSWER refers to changes in learner knowledge, skills, behavior, or attitudes as a result of the training. 49. Behavior - ANSWER reflects whether what was learned in training is used on the job, which is also called training transfer. 50. Results - ANSWER indicate the business impact of the training outcomes. 51. Behaviorally anchored rating scales (BARS) - ANSWER use a set of behavioral statements describing good or bad performance with respect to important work qualities, including organizing abilities, adaptability, and relationship building. 52. Behavioral observation scales (BOS) - ANSWER measure the frequency of desired behaviors. 53. Personal standards bias - ANSWER Categories such as below average, fair, good, and superior can mean different things to different people. 54. Contrast Effect Bias - ANSWER occurs when a rating determination is made by comparing the target employee with someone else rather than with the performance standards. 55. First impression bias - ANSWER occurs when initial judgments influence later assessments. 56. Recency effect - ANSWER occurs when recent events and performance are given a disproportionately large influence on the rating. 57. High potential error - ANSWER occurs when potential is confused with performance. 58. Halo effect - ANSWER occurs when one positive factor influences assessments of other areas of behavior or performance, resulting in an inappropriately high overall performance rating. 59. Horns effect - ANSWER happens when one negative factor influences assessments of other areas of behavior or performance, resulting in an inappropriately low overall performance rating. 60. Similar-to-me bias - ANSWER occurs when high ratings are given to someone because they are perceived as being similar to the rater. 61. Leniency error bias - ANSWER occurs when high ratings are given to all employees regardless of their performance. 62. Central tendency bias - ANSWER is rating all employees in the middle of the scale regardless of their performance. 63. Stereotyping Bias - ANSWER is a belief that everyone in a group shares certain characteristics or will behave in the same way. 64. Opportunity bias - ANSWER reflects the ignoring of factors beyond the employee's control that influence his or her performance (either positively or negatively). 65. Indirect financial compensation - ANSWER consists of all the tangible and financially valued rewards that are not included in direct compensation, including free meals, vacation time, and health insurance. 66. Nonfinancial compensation - ANSWER includes employee rewards and incentives that are not financial in nature. 67. Extrinsic motivation - ANSWER Motivation that comes from outside the individual, including performance bonuses. 68. Customary benefits - ANSWER · Life insurance · Disability insurance · Health insurance · Retirement plans 69. Optional benefits - ANSWER · Work-life benefits · Domestic partner benefits · Flexible spending accounts · Nonfinancial benefits 70. National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (Wagner Act) - ANSWER Guarantees the right of nonmanagerial employees of firms engaged in interstate commerce to join unions and bargain collectively. 71. National Labor Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act) - ANSWER amended the previous Act to clarify what are considered unfair labor practices by unions and employees to extend the previous Act's protections. 72. Closed shop - ANSWER Exclusively employs people who are already union members. 73. Agency shop - ANSWER Requires nonunion workers to pay a fee to the union for its services in negotiating their contracts. 74. Continuance commitment - ANSWER Staying with an organization because of perceived high economic and/or social costs involved with leaving. 75. Normative commitment - ANSWER Feeling obliged to stay with an organization for moral or ethical reasons. 76. Affective commitment - ANSWER A positive emotional attachment to the organization and strong identification with its values and goals. 77. Voluntary turnover - ANSWER The separation is due to the employee's choice. 78. Involuntary turnover - ANSWER The separation is due to the organization asking the employee to leave. 79. Dysfunctional turnover - ANSWER The departure of effective performers. 80. Succession management - ANSWER An ongoing process of systematically identifying, assessing, and developing organizational leadership to enhance performance. 81. Replacement planning - ANSWER Identifying specific back-up candidates for specific senior management positions. 82. What is a critical factor in creating a culture of safety? - ANSWER A commitment of an organization to the protection and well-being of its employees 83. What is a function related to the primary goal of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)? - ANSWER To correct hazards 84. How do employee wellness programs benefit employers? - ANSWER By reducing workers' compensation and disability-related costs