Deck 2: Strategic Management Approach to Technology-Enabled HRM

Question 1

______________ strategy generally refers to how an organization as a whole creates value across its different businesses.

A) Business Unit
B) Human Resource
C) Corporate
D) Marketing

Answer 1

C

Question 2

HR philosophy

A) provides the overarching guidelines for how human resources will be managed within the organization.
B) are the set of formal HR activities used in the organization.
C) are defined as the implementation and experience of an organization's HR programs by lower-level managers and employees.
D) refer to organizational goals or objectives for managing human resources.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

HR climate

A) is defined as the implementation and experience of an organization's HR programs by lower-level managers and employees.
B) provides the overarching guidelines for how human resources will be managed within the organization.
C) refer to organizational goals or objectives for managing human resources.
D) is defined as the shared employee perceptions and interpretations of the meaning of the HR principles, policies, programs, and practices in the firm.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The fit or alignment among the various human resource practices in a particular organization refers to:

A) internal fit
B) external fit
C) flexibility
D) vertical fit

Question 5

In Lepak and Snell's (1999) four labor pools, 'collaborative' yields

A) low value, low uniqueness
B) low value, high uniqueness
C) high value, high uniqueness
D) high value, low uniqueness

Question 6

Artificial intelligence …

A) reflects information and communication environments in which computer sensors and other equipment are unified with various objects, people, information, and computers as well as the physical environment.
B) focuses on the general skills vs. firm-specific skills distinction.
C) is a strategic management theory that has been used to explain how human resources can be a source of competitive advantage.
D) focus is solving tasks that are easy for humans to do but hard for computers, such as planning, moving around in physical space, recognizing objects and sounds, speaking, translating, performing business or social transactions, and even doing creative work.

Question 7

Ubiquitous Computing…

A) focus is solving tasks that are easy for humans to do but hard for computers, such as planning, moving around in physical space, recognizing objects and sounds, speaking, translating, performing business or social transactions, and even doing creative work.
B) is a strategic management theory that has been used to explain how human resources can be a source of competitive advantage.
C) reflects information and communication environments in which computer sensors and other equipment are unified with various objects, people, information, and computers as well as the physical environment.
D) focuses on the general skills vs. firm-specific skills distinction.

Question 8

In a four-part digital workplace framework, 'control' refers to:

A) measurable business value
B) governance, risk, and compliance
C) the digital toolbox
D) collaborate, communicate, and connect

Question 9

In Lepak and Snell's (1999) four labor pools, 'strategic' yields

A) high value, high uniqueness
B) low value, low uniqueness
C) low value, high uniqueness
D) high value, low uniqueness

Question 10

Define strategic human resource management and the impact it has on an organization.

Question 11

Discuss the three major theories which dominate the field of strategic human resource management.

Question 12

What environmental trends are changing the landscape for managing human resources?

Question 13

Discuss Artificial Intelligence and the impact it has on human resource management.

Question 14

Discuss the relationship of e-HRM and SHRM