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Test Bank to Accompany Managing Performance
Through Training and Development, Sixth Edition By
Alan M. Saks and Robert Haccoun A+
Chapter 1: The Training and Development Process
TRUE/FALSE
1. Performance management is the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and abilities to improve
performance in one’s current job.
ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 5
2. Development is the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform
future job responsibilities.
ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 7
3. Human resource development is part of a larger system known as training and
development.
ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 7
4. Performance management is often based on a single event like a training program.
ANS: F
multiple events
PTS: 1 REF: 7
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5. TD Bank’s Robbery Prevention and Awareness initiative is an example of a training
program.
ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 2
6. One of the intrinsic benefits of training and development is the benefits realized by
society.
ANS: F
extrinsic
PTS: 1 REF: 10|11
7. Research seems to indicate a negative relationship between per employee expenditures on
training and development and voluntary and involuntary turnover rates.
ANS: F
positive
PTS: 1 REF: 10
8. One of the reasons for the underinvestment in training and development is the perception
that training, learning, and development expenditures represent a cost rather than an investment.
ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 14
9. Alberta and Quebec are the only provinces in Canada to have mandatory training laws for
companies with payrolls greater than $1 million.
ANS: F
Quebec only
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PTS: 1 REF: 14
10. Organizations are always successful in recovering training costs when employees sign
training bonds.
ANS: F
Some conditions need to be met
PTS: 1 REF: 16
11. The key environmental factors that drive human resources and training and development
within an organization include technology, global competition, the labour market, and
organizational strategy.
ANS: F
change not organizational strategy
PTS: 1 REF: 16
12. Strategic training and development (ST&D) is often described as the alignment between
T&D and short-term corporate goals.
ANS: F
strategy and objectives
PTS: 1 REF: 19
13. An example of strategic training would be an enterprise offering cultural training given
that its strategy calls for international expansion.
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ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 19
14. The trend toward flatter organizational structures is causing some element of blurriness
between what constitutes traditional roles associated with management functions.
ANS: T
Employees are being trained in areas that once were associated with management functions.
PTS: 1 REF: 20
15. An organization’s learning and training strategy will directly influence its training and
development programs.
ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 20
16. Restructuring, downsizing, and reengineering often lead to changes in employees’ tasks
and responsibilities and so necessitate the need for training.
ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 20
17. A high-performance work system is a rational and scientific model of the training and
development process that consists of a needs analysis, training design and delivery, and training
evaluation.
ANS: F
instructional systems, design model
PTS: 1 REF: 20
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Test Bank to Accompany Managing Performance
Through Training and Development, Sixth Edition By
Alan M. Saks and Robert Haccoun A+
Chapter 1: The Training and Development Process
TRUE/FALSE
1. Performance management is the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and abilities to improve
performance in one’s current job.
ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 5
2. Development is the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform
future job responsibilities.
ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 7
3. Human resource development is part of a larger system known as training and
development.
ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 7
4. Performance management is often based on a single event like a training program.
ANS: F
multiple events
PTS: 1 REF: 7
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5. TD Bank’s Robbery Prevention and Awareness initiative is an example of a training
program.
ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 2
6. One of the intrinsic benefits of training and development is the benefits realized by
society.
ANS: F
extrinsic
PTS: 1 REF: 10|11
7. Research seems to indicate a negative relationship between per employee expenditures on
training and development and voluntary and involuntary turnover rates.
ANS: F
positive
PTS: 1 REF: 10
8. One of the reasons for the underinvestment in training and development is the perception
that training, learning, and development expenditures represent a cost rather than an investment.
ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 14
9. Alberta and Quebec are the only provinces in Canada to have mandatory training laws for
companies with payrolls greater than $1 million.
ANS: F
Quebec only
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PTS: 1 REF: 14
10. Organizations are always successful in recovering training costs when employees sign
training bonds.
ANS: F
Some conditions need to be met
PTS: 1 REF: 16
11. The key environmental factors that drive human resources and training and development
within an organization include technology, global competition, the labour market, and
organizational strategy.
ANS: F
change not organizational strategy
PTS: 1 REF: 16
12. Strategic training and development (ST&D) is often described as the alignment between
T&D and short-term corporate goals.
ANS: F
strategy and objectives
PTS: 1 REF: 19
13. An example of strategic training would be an enterprise offering cultural training given
that its strategy calls for international expansion.
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ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 19
14. The trend toward flatter organizational structures is causing some element of blurriness
between what constitutes traditional roles associated with management functions.
ANS: T
Employees are being trained in areas that once were associated with management functions.
PTS: 1 REF: 20
15. An organization’s learning and training strategy will directly influence its training and
development programs.
ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 20
16. Restructuring, downsizing, and reengineering often lead to changes in employees’ tasks
and responsibilities and so necessitate the need for training.
ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 20
17. A high-performance work system is a rational and scientific model of the training and
development process that consists of a needs analysis, training design and delivery, and training
evaluation.
ANS: F
instructional systems, design model
PTS: 1 REF: 20
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