HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT EXAM
2 ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS AND
ACCURATE ANSWERS COMPLETE REVIEW
SHEET
●● Talent Acquisition
Answer: Process of finding and hiring high-quality talent needed to meet
the organization's workforce needs
●● Recruiting and Selection
Answer: two primary stages of acquiring talent
●● understanding how the business strategies impact how and where to
successfully recruit qualified employees
identify keys to success in the labor market, including competitors'
recruiting efforts
determine the appropriate balance between quality and quantity of
workers needed
recognizing the resource limits to time and money related to fulfilling
recruiting activities
measuring the effectiveness or recruiting efforts
Answer: strategic recruiting involves:
,●● organization size
employment conditions
working conditions (salary & benefits)
organizational growth and decline
Answer: factors affecting recruiting efforts
●● attractiveness of the job
internal organizational policies
government regulations
recruiting costs
Answer: constraint's that might limit a manager's actions
●● Parent-country national (PCN)
Answer: Employee who is a citizen of the nation in which the parent
company is headquartered; also called home-country national, sent
abroad to break into new markets, sent abroad to maintain
communications
●● Host-country national (HCN)
Answer: Employee who is a citizen of the nation in which the subsidiary
is operating, which is different from the parent company's home nation,
used for entry level labor positions
,●● false
Answer: TRUE/FALSE
with the ranking method, the rankings of employees' performance are
distributed along a bell-shaped curve
●● false
Answer: TRUE/FALSE
the major purpose of the 360-degree feedback is to increase uniformity
by soliciting like-minded views
●● employee referrals/recommendations
Answer: neither internal or external
focuses on employees and their connections with others outside of the
organization
●● better information to applicant and better success rate of new hires
Answer: advantages of employee referral/recommendations
●● difficulty separating work from friendship
potential for nepotism
potential for adverse impact
Answer: disadvantages of employee referral/recommendations
, ●● false
Answer: the recency effect occurs when a rater gives greater weight to
information received first when appraising an individual's performance
●● true
Answer: the leniency error occurs when ratings of all employees fall at
the high end of the scale
●● false
Answer: performance appraisal is the entire series of activities designed
to ensure that the organization gets the performance it needs from its
employees
●● performance appraisal
Answer: Formal process of determining how well employees do their
jobs relative to a standard and communicating that information to them.
should be based on job analysis.
●● false
Answer: the number of cars sold by a car salesman is classified as a
subjective measure of performance
●● performance standards
2 ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS AND
ACCURATE ANSWERS COMPLETE REVIEW
SHEET
●● Talent Acquisition
Answer: Process of finding and hiring high-quality talent needed to meet
the organization's workforce needs
●● Recruiting and Selection
Answer: two primary stages of acquiring talent
●● understanding how the business strategies impact how and where to
successfully recruit qualified employees
identify keys to success in the labor market, including competitors'
recruiting efforts
determine the appropriate balance between quality and quantity of
workers needed
recognizing the resource limits to time and money related to fulfilling
recruiting activities
measuring the effectiveness or recruiting efforts
Answer: strategic recruiting involves:
,●● organization size
employment conditions
working conditions (salary & benefits)
organizational growth and decline
Answer: factors affecting recruiting efforts
●● attractiveness of the job
internal organizational policies
government regulations
recruiting costs
Answer: constraint's that might limit a manager's actions
●● Parent-country national (PCN)
Answer: Employee who is a citizen of the nation in which the parent
company is headquartered; also called home-country national, sent
abroad to break into new markets, sent abroad to maintain
communications
●● Host-country national (HCN)
Answer: Employee who is a citizen of the nation in which the subsidiary
is operating, which is different from the parent company's home nation,
used for entry level labor positions
,●● false
Answer: TRUE/FALSE
with the ranking method, the rankings of employees' performance are
distributed along a bell-shaped curve
●● false
Answer: TRUE/FALSE
the major purpose of the 360-degree feedback is to increase uniformity
by soliciting like-minded views
●● employee referrals/recommendations
Answer: neither internal or external
focuses on employees and their connections with others outside of the
organization
●● better information to applicant and better success rate of new hires
Answer: advantages of employee referral/recommendations
●● difficulty separating work from friendship
potential for nepotism
potential for adverse impact
Answer: disadvantages of employee referral/recommendations
, ●● false
Answer: the recency effect occurs when a rater gives greater weight to
information received first when appraising an individual's performance
●● true
Answer: the leniency error occurs when ratings of all employees fall at
the high end of the scale
●● false
Answer: performance appraisal is the entire series of activities designed
to ensure that the organization gets the performance it needs from its
employees
●● performance appraisal
Answer: Formal process of determining how well employees do their
jobs relative to a standard and communicating that information to them.
should be based on job analysis.
●● false
Answer: the number of cars sold by a car salesman is classified as a
subjective measure of performance
●● performance standards
