WGU D351 Version 3 PA questions with verified
answers
A company is concerned about potential unionization and discusses
options with its legal team to try to deter union organizing efforts.Which
option is the company allowed to use?
Collective bargaining agreement
Decertification
Employee representation
Promises Ans✓✓✓ Employee representation
A company is experiencing declining rates of productivity. The
company has determined that the problem is due to employees' lacking
specific skills.Which action should the human resources manager take?
Offering higher pay
Conducting training
Executing a competitive analysis
Performing a benchmarking analysis Ans✓✓✓ Conducting training
A company's chief human resource officer (CHRO) wants to improve
the performance appraisal process to encourage managers and
employees to set goals jointly and allow for periodic meetings that will
determine employees' performance ratings.Which appraisal method
should be used?
Ranking
Narrative form
,Graphic rating scale
Management by objectives Ans✓✓✓ Management by objectives
A fast-growing U.S. company is seeking a human resources generalist.
This job entails recruiting and hiring a large number of employees,
monitoring performance measures, determining training needs, and
ensuring compliance with federal laws as the company continues to
grow.Which criterion aligns with the job as outlined above?
Demonstrated customer service experience
Ability to work with technology in the legal field
Knowledge of legal regulations in employment
A high level of familiarity with past lawsuit outcomes Ans✓✓✓
Knowledge of legal regulations in employment
A firm is hiring new employees who are inexperienced and unfamiliar
with the company. The firm plans to have an orientation for new hires
and hopes the orientation will cut costs associated with the employees in
the future.How will this orientation benefit the firm?
It will help reduce the time spent on training new employees
.It will allow the firm to create a new training program at a lower cost.
It will decrease the out-of-pocket costs of benefits for the employees.
It will decrease the cost to get new employees socializing with
coworkers. Ans✓✓✓ It will help reduce the time spent on training new
employees.
, A firm is hiring several new employees. The new employees are largely
inexperienced and unfamiliar with the company and its methods of
conducting business. Given this, the firm plans to have an orientation
period for all new hires and hopes the orientation will reduce the stress
associated with the new job for the new employees.
How will the orientation reduce employee stress?
It will increase the productivity of the new employees.
It will help the new employees understand what is expected of them.
It will better enable the new employees to change the corporate culture.
It will decrease the amount of time the new employees spend in training.
Ans✓✓✓ It will help the new employees understand what is expected
of them.
A firm needs to engage in redundancy planning to align with its
competitors and the realities of the market
.Which change is consistent with the company's plan?
An increase in job-skills retraining
An increase in employee self-control
A decrease in top-down communications
A decrease in buyout offers to employees Ans✓✓✓ An increase in job-
skills retraining
A firm offers an individual a job paying $40,000 per year plus health
insurance for selling widgets. The employee counter-offers that she be
answers
A company is concerned about potential unionization and discusses
options with its legal team to try to deter union organizing efforts.Which
option is the company allowed to use?
Collective bargaining agreement
Decertification
Employee representation
Promises Ans✓✓✓ Employee representation
A company is experiencing declining rates of productivity. The
company has determined that the problem is due to employees' lacking
specific skills.Which action should the human resources manager take?
Offering higher pay
Conducting training
Executing a competitive analysis
Performing a benchmarking analysis Ans✓✓✓ Conducting training
A company's chief human resource officer (CHRO) wants to improve
the performance appraisal process to encourage managers and
employees to set goals jointly and allow for periodic meetings that will
determine employees' performance ratings.Which appraisal method
should be used?
Ranking
Narrative form
,Graphic rating scale
Management by objectives Ans✓✓✓ Management by objectives
A fast-growing U.S. company is seeking a human resources generalist.
This job entails recruiting and hiring a large number of employees,
monitoring performance measures, determining training needs, and
ensuring compliance with federal laws as the company continues to
grow.Which criterion aligns with the job as outlined above?
Demonstrated customer service experience
Ability to work with technology in the legal field
Knowledge of legal regulations in employment
A high level of familiarity with past lawsuit outcomes Ans✓✓✓
Knowledge of legal regulations in employment
A firm is hiring new employees who are inexperienced and unfamiliar
with the company. The firm plans to have an orientation for new hires
and hopes the orientation will cut costs associated with the employees in
the future.How will this orientation benefit the firm?
It will help reduce the time spent on training new employees
.It will allow the firm to create a new training program at a lower cost.
It will decrease the out-of-pocket costs of benefits for the employees.
It will decrease the cost to get new employees socializing with
coworkers. Ans✓✓✓ It will help reduce the time spent on training new
employees.
, A firm is hiring several new employees. The new employees are largely
inexperienced and unfamiliar with the company and its methods of
conducting business. Given this, the firm plans to have an orientation
period for all new hires and hopes the orientation will reduce the stress
associated with the new job for the new employees.
How will the orientation reduce employee stress?
It will increase the productivity of the new employees.
It will help the new employees understand what is expected of them.
It will better enable the new employees to change the corporate culture.
It will decrease the amount of time the new employees spend in training.
Ans✓✓✓ It will help the new employees understand what is expected
of them.
A firm needs to engage in redundancy planning to align with its
competitors and the realities of the market
.Which change is consistent with the company's plan?
An increase in job-skills retraining
An increase in employee self-control
A decrease in top-down communications
A decrease in buyout offers to employees Ans✓✓✓ An increase in job-
skills retraining
A firm offers an individual a job paying $40,000 per year plus health
insurance for selling widgets. The employee counter-offers that she be
