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Sustainable competitive advantage - Accurate Answers✔✔When an organization is
able to perform an activity to a greater degree than its competitors for an extended
period of time
Performance Management duties - Accurate Answers✔✔Preparation and
administration of appraisals
Discipline
Development of performance measures
The most common reason for failed overseas assignments is: - Accurate
Answers✔✔Choosing people who have the technical skills needed to perform the
job, but who lack the necessary personality characteristics and family support
,A function of employee relations is: - Accurate Answers✔✔Relocation and
outplacement services
An organization has one HR staff person for every ____ employees - Accurate
Answers✔✔100
Definition of Development - Accurate Answers✔✔Is more long term in nature.
Often includes education in philosophical and theoretical concepts
Aimed at developing relationships, often for the purposes of improving leadership
skills
More general and non-tangible than specific
Definition of Training - Accurate Answers✔✔Training is usually a short term
process.
Training usually requires guidance (or instruction) in a series of steps to gain a
skill, or set of predictable knowledge.
Often for non-leadership related activities.
Aimed at a specific task or job role.
,Projections of the U.S. labor force - Accurate Answers✔✔The growth in the labor
market of female and minority populations will exceed the growth of white non-
Hispanic persons
More women will be in the paid labor force than in the past and most will be
working full-time
The U.S. labor force will be more diverse in racial and ethnic terms than in the past
The largest number of openings due to growth and replacement needs according to
the Bureau of Labor Statistics is: - Accurate Answers✔✔Service
The use of employee empowerment has had what effect upon recruiting? -
Accurate Answers✔✔It has shifted the focus away from technical skills to general
cognitive and interpersonal skills
Increasingly, HR professionals are being viewed as: - Accurate
Answers✔✔Strategic partners
The largest number of immigrants to the U.S. workforce will come from: -
Accurate Answers✔✔North America (Mexico, Canada, Central America, the
Caribbean)
Dot-com companies offer a dynamic, exciting HR work environment for what
reasons? - Accurate Answers✔✔Their small size give HR professionals the ability
to speak frequently and directly to the CEO
, Because of their size and numerous HR needs, HR sees its decisions implemented,
quickly sees the impact on the business, and receives personal recognition for
successful actions
Because of the importance many HR practices play in a growing company, HR
professionals are actively involved in the strategic planning and decision-making
process
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employers from discriminating
against individuals based on: - Accurate Answers✔✔sex, race, color, national
origin, and religion
Who does Title VII apply to? - Accurate Answers✔✔Companies with at least 15 or
more employees including federal, state, and local governments
The Americans with Disability Act covers individuals who: - Accurate
Answers✔✔Have serious disabilities, such as epilepsy, blindness, or paralysis, that
affect their ability to perform major life activities such as walking, learning and
working
Have a history of disability, such as someone who has had cancer but is currently
in remission
Are regarded as having a disability, such as an individual who is severely
disfigured and is denied employment because an employer fears negative reactions
from others
The Civil Rights Act of 1991: - Accurate Answers✔✔The amount of punitive
damages depends on the size of the organization charged with the discrimination