MGMT 2103 EXAM TEST PAPER ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔_________ is the combination of stable physical, behavioral, and mental
characteristics that gives individuals their unique identity. - ✔✔Personality
✔✔The hiring rate for management trainees at the RPB Corporation for white applicants
is 50 percent, while the hiring rate for Hispanics is 20 percent and 15 percent for Native
Americans. This is an example of disparate impact based on the _________ rule. -
✔✔Four-fifths
✔✔True or false: For a core capability to become a source of sustained competitive
advantage it must be valuable, rare and difficult to imitate by competitors. - ✔✔True
✔✔When an HR professional is evaluated on how well she embraces inclusion and how
effectively she works with diverse populations, she is being evaluated on her
competency in - ✔✔Global and cultural effectiveness
✔✔The employees of ABC shoes, Inc. have very little influence over management
decisions and job functions are strictly defined parts of a production process. The
company shares mineral information about overall strategy and objectives with
employees. This approach is which type of generic Human Resource Strategy? -
✔✔Control Oriented Work-System
✔✔Which of the following statements about self-efficacy is true?
A. Self-efficacy is the same as self-esteem
B. A person with high self-efficacy is likely to work less hard than a person with low self-
efficacy because he or she is already confident of good results
C. Self-efficacy can be developed
D. The biggest predictor of person's self-efficacy is his or her emotional state
E. Self-efficacy is not related to prior experience - ✔✔Self-efficacy can be developed
✔✔Which of the following is the most accurate definition of concurrent validity?
, A. It is an estimate of weather a validity test appears to measure a certain criterion
B. It is performed by demonstrating that the questions or problems in a validity test are
representative of situations at work
C. It assesses the validity of a test by administering it to people already on the job and
then correlating test scores with existing measures of each person's performance - ✔✔It
assesses the validity of a test by administering it to people already on the job and then
correlating test scores with existing measures of each person's performance
✔✔Which of the following is not a key workplace attitude that managers should track?
A. Job-satisfaction
B. Employee engagement
C. Perceived organizational support
D. Organizational commitment
E. Turnover - ✔✔Turnover
✔✔A national retail clothing company has been hiring only Caucasian, male, sales
associates between the ages of 18 and 26, because its executives believe doing so is
consistent with its brand image. In what form of discrimination is this company
engaging? - ✔✔Disparate treatment
✔✔_________ assess main facets such as verbal comprehension, qualitative ability,
and reasoning ability - ✔✔Cognitive ability tests
✔✔_________ are the key links between _________ in Ajmer's Theory of Planned
Behavior. - ✔✔Intentions; attitudes and planned behavior
✔✔According to the Human Capital Architecture, individuals with unique skills that are
not directly related to the company's core business strategy are known as
_____________. - ✔✔Complementary/alliance partners
✔✔The three fundamental layers of organizational culture are: - ✔✔Observable
artifacts, espoused values, and underlying assumptions
✔✔Jason is responsible for conducting the annual performance evaluations for his
subordinates. Even though he has observed that some of his subordinates performed
poorly throughout the year, he decided to give everyone high performance ratings
regardless of their performance. This is an illustration of __________ - ✔✔Leniency
✔✔According to expectancy theory, which of the following is the main motivational
influence of compensation.
A. Expectancy
B. Instrumentality
C. Reinforcement
D. Valence
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔_________ is the combination of stable physical, behavioral, and mental
characteristics that gives individuals their unique identity. - ✔✔Personality
✔✔The hiring rate for management trainees at the RPB Corporation for white applicants
is 50 percent, while the hiring rate for Hispanics is 20 percent and 15 percent for Native
Americans. This is an example of disparate impact based on the _________ rule. -
✔✔Four-fifths
✔✔True or false: For a core capability to become a source of sustained competitive
advantage it must be valuable, rare and difficult to imitate by competitors. - ✔✔True
✔✔When an HR professional is evaluated on how well she embraces inclusion and how
effectively she works with diverse populations, she is being evaluated on her
competency in - ✔✔Global and cultural effectiveness
✔✔The employees of ABC shoes, Inc. have very little influence over management
decisions and job functions are strictly defined parts of a production process. The
company shares mineral information about overall strategy and objectives with
employees. This approach is which type of generic Human Resource Strategy? -
✔✔Control Oriented Work-System
✔✔Which of the following statements about self-efficacy is true?
A. Self-efficacy is the same as self-esteem
B. A person with high self-efficacy is likely to work less hard than a person with low self-
efficacy because he or she is already confident of good results
C. Self-efficacy can be developed
D. The biggest predictor of person's self-efficacy is his or her emotional state
E. Self-efficacy is not related to prior experience - ✔✔Self-efficacy can be developed
✔✔Which of the following is the most accurate definition of concurrent validity?
, A. It is an estimate of weather a validity test appears to measure a certain criterion
B. It is performed by demonstrating that the questions or problems in a validity test are
representative of situations at work
C. It assesses the validity of a test by administering it to people already on the job and
then correlating test scores with existing measures of each person's performance - ✔✔It
assesses the validity of a test by administering it to people already on the job and then
correlating test scores with existing measures of each person's performance
✔✔Which of the following is not a key workplace attitude that managers should track?
A. Job-satisfaction
B. Employee engagement
C. Perceived organizational support
D. Organizational commitment
E. Turnover - ✔✔Turnover
✔✔A national retail clothing company has been hiring only Caucasian, male, sales
associates between the ages of 18 and 26, because its executives believe doing so is
consistent with its brand image. In what form of discrimination is this company
engaging? - ✔✔Disparate treatment
✔✔_________ assess main facets such as verbal comprehension, qualitative ability,
and reasoning ability - ✔✔Cognitive ability tests
✔✔_________ are the key links between _________ in Ajmer's Theory of Planned
Behavior. - ✔✔Intentions; attitudes and planned behavior
✔✔According to the Human Capital Architecture, individuals with unique skills that are
not directly related to the company's core business strategy are known as
_____________. - ✔✔Complementary/alliance partners
✔✔The three fundamental layers of organizational culture are: - ✔✔Observable
artifacts, espoused values, and underlying assumptions
✔✔Jason is responsible for conducting the annual performance evaluations for his
subordinates. Even though he has observed that some of his subordinates performed
poorly throughout the year, he decided to give everyone high performance ratings
regardless of their performance. This is an illustration of __________ - ✔✔Leniency
✔✔According to expectancy theory, which of the following is the main motivational
influence of compensation.
A. Expectancy
B. Instrumentality
C. Reinforcement
D. Valence
