HRM Final Exam questions & answers
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What is a human resource? - correct answer ✔✔A human resource is all people
who perform the organizations activities
What is Human Resource Management? - correct answer ✔✔Concerns the
personnel policies and managerial practices in systems that influence the work
force
What are the products and services offered by HR. - correct answer
✔✔Organizational design, staffing, training, performance evaluation and
compensation
Explain organizational design - correct answer ✔✔involves the arrangement of
work task based on the interaction of people, technology, and the tasks to be
performed in the context of the mission, goals, objectives and strategic plan of the
organization.
What are examples of organizational design? - correct answer ✔✔Human
resource planning, job analysis, job design and information systems and
restructuring
What are examples of Staffing? - correct answer ✔✔Recruiting, selection,
orientation, promotion, transfer, separation and affirmative action
,Define Training? - correct answer ✔✔Programs involve organization investments
in establishing fostering and maintaining employee skills based on organizational
and employee needs
What are examples of training? - correct answer ✔✔Management/supervisory
development, career planing and development, employee assistance or
counseling programs, attitude surveys, training delivery options in diversity
programs
Define performance evaluation? - correct answer ✔✔A domain includes
assessment on individual unit or other aggregated levels of performance to
measure and improve work performance.
What are examples of Performance Evaluation? - correct answer ✔✔Management
appraisal, management by objectives, productivity enhancement programs multi
source rating systems.
Define compensation? - correct answer ✔✔It concerns with managing
employment relations, labor relation law and compliance, and procedures
designed to maintain a good working relationship between employees and
employers
What are a few examples of compensations? - correct answer ✔✔Safety
programs, health medical services, wage salary administration, collective
bargaining, and insurance benefits.
Describe the research-practice gap? - correct answer ✔✔The valid HRM
procedures influence organizations performance but many organizations do not
take advantage.
, What is employment discrimination? - correct answer ✔✔Employment dec son
making or working conditions that are either advantageous of disadvantageous to
one group compared to members of another group
Explain Title VII of the US Civil Rights Act? - correct answer ✔✔Amended in 1991
to prohibit discrimination against race, color, sex, religion or national origin.
What are the Title VII major provisions? - correct answer ✔✔Employment
decisions based on protective class illegal.
Retaliation is illegal
Bonafide Occupational Qualification
Shall not be interpreted to require preferential
Does not prohibit discrimination
Describe the sequence of events of the Title 7 act? - correct answer ✔✔Plaintiff to
show that a prima facie ("presumed to be true until proven otherwise") case of
discrimination exists.
Employer to provide legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason for employment
decision
Plaintiff to show that discrimination was the true intent or that a less
discriminatory but equally effective practice exists.
Describe ADA? - correct answer ✔✔Provides that qualified individuals with
disabilities
graded A+
What is a human resource? - correct answer ✔✔A human resource is all people
who perform the organizations activities
What is Human Resource Management? - correct answer ✔✔Concerns the
personnel policies and managerial practices in systems that influence the work
force
What are the products and services offered by HR. - correct answer
✔✔Organizational design, staffing, training, performance evaluation and
compensation
Explain organizational design - correct answer ✔✔involves the arrangement of
work task based on the interaction of people, technology, and the tasks to be
performed in the context of the mission, goals, objectives and strategic plan of the
organization.
What are examples of organizational design? - correct answer ✔✔Human
resource planning, job analysis, job design and information systems and
restructuring
What are examples of Staffing? - correct answer ✔✔Recruiting, selection,
orientation, promotion, transfer, separation and affirmative action
,Define Training? - correct answer ✔✔Programs involve organization investments
in establishing fostering and maintaining employee skills based on organizational
and employee needs
What are examples of training? - correct answer ✔✔Management/supervisory
development, career planing and development, employee assistance or
counseling programs, attitude surveys, training delivery options in diversity
programs
Define performance evaluation? - correct answer ✔✔A domain includes
assessment on individual unit or other aggregated levels of performance to
measure and improve work performance.
What are examples of Performance Evaluation? - correct answer ✔✔Management
appraisal, management by objectives, productivity enhancement programs multi
source rating systems.
Define compensation? - correct answer ✔✔It concerns with managing
employment relations, labor relation law and compliance, and procedures
designed to maintain a good working relationship between employees and
employers
What are a few examples of compensations? - correct answer ✔✔Safety
programs, health medical services, wage salary administration, collective
bargaining, and insurance benefits.
Describe the research-practice gap? - correct answer ✔✔The valid HRM
procedures influence organizations performance but many organizations do not
take advantage.
, What is employment discrimination? - correct answer ✔✔Employment dec son
making or working conditions that are either advantageous of disadvantageous to
one group compared to members of another group
Explain Title VII of the US Civil Rights Act? - correct answer ✔✔Amended in 1991
to prohibit discrimination against race, color, sex, religion or national origin.
What are the Title VII major provisions? - correct answer ✔✔Employment
decisions based on protective class illegal.
Retaliation is illegal
Bonafide Occupational Qualification
Shall not be interpreted to require preferential
Does not prohibit discrimination
Describe the sequence of events of the Title 7 act? - correct answer ✔✔Plaintiff to
show that a prima facie ("presumed to be true until proven otherwise") case of
discrimination exists.
Employer to provide legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason for employment
decision
Plaintiff to show that discrimination was the true intent or that a less
discriminatory but equally effective practice exists.
Describe ADA? - correct answer ✔✔Provides that qualified individuals with
disabilities
