Question 1

Section II of the practitioner's model of human resource management includes the items that will allow the organization to get its work done successfully over long periods of time and is concerned with ______.

Accepted Answer

Section II of the practitioner's model of human resource management focuses on staffing, which involves recruiting, selecting, and placing the right people in the right positions to ensure the organization can achieve its goals over the long term.

Question 2

______ is the largest and most recognized of the HRM advocacy organizations in the United States.

Accepted Answer

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is the largest and most recognized HRM advocacy organization in the United States. It has over 300,000 members and offers a variety of resources and services to HR professionals. The other options, Human Resource Certification Institute, WorldatWork, and Association of Human Resource Professionals, also provide resources and services to HR professionals, but they are not as large or well-known as SHRM.

Question 3

Brooklyn's job involves working on codes of ethics and making sure employees can report any violations of the code.Brooklyn's human resource management specialty is ______.

Accepted Answer

Brooklyn's job involves working on codes of ethics and making sure employees can report any violations of the code. This falls under the specialization of ethics and sustainability in human resource management.

Question 4

The ______ section of the practitioner's model of human resource management describes base pay,incentives,and worker benefits as ways to reward and maintain a workforce.

Accepted Answer

The compensating section of the practitioner's model of human resource management specifically focuses on describing base pay, incentives, and worker benefits as ways to reward and maintain a workforce. Options A, B, and C relate to other components of the model, such as strategic planning and staffing.

Question 5

Section I of the practitioner's model of human resource management focuses on the things that are most critical to the organization's basic stability and success and contains ______.

Accepted Answer

Section I of the practitioner's model of human resource management emphasizes the foundational aspects critical to an organization's stability and success, which include 21st-Century HRM, strategic planning, and understanding HR laws.

Question 6

The ______ discipline of human resource management encompasses all of the things that need to happen to get people interested in working for a company,including the recruiting process,selecting the best candidates who apply,and getting them settled into their new jobs.

Accepted Answer

Staffing is the discipline of human resource management that encompasses the process of recruiting and selecting the best candidates for a job and settling them into their roles. Interpersonal, training, and revenue are all related to human resource management, but do not specifically address the process of staffing.

Question 7

Human resource ______ jobs are ones in which the human resource employee works in many different areas.

Accepted Answer

Generalist HR jobs involve working in multiple areas of HR such as recruitment, payroll, benefits administration, employee relations, etc. This is in contrast to specialist HR jobs where the focus is on a specific area such as compensation and benefits, training and development, or HR information systems. Knowledge and technical are not accurate descriptors for HR jobs.

Question 8

Isabel manages teaching employees everything from basic job skills to what they need to know to move up in the organization.Isabel's human resource management specialty is ______.

Accepted Answer

Isabel's role in teaching employees basic job skills and providing them with opportunities for career development points towards her specialty in training and development in human resource management.

Question 9

Miguel's job involves how the organization rewards the people who work for it.He works with salary surveys,benefits management,and incentive programs.Miguel's human resource management specialty is ______.

Accepted Answer

Miguel's job involves managing the rewards that the organization offers to its employees, including salary surveys, benefits management, and incentive programs. This falls under the human resource management specialty of compensation and benefits. Therefore, choice B is the correct answer. The other choices - legal environment, safety and security, and ethics and sustainability - do not align with the specific focus of Miguel's job responsibilities.

Question 10

The ______ discipline of human resource management includes coaching,conflict resolution,counseling,and disciplining the workforce.It also involves leadership and team-building efforts within the organization.

Accepted Answer

The discipline described includes efforts to establish positive relationships between employees and management, which falls under employee relations. The other choices do not accurately encompass the full range of activities described.

Question 11

As a human resource manager,Chloe seeks to make human resource technology a part of daily operations at Acme Global.She points out how it can be used in all areas of human resources.Chloe is helping Acme Global become agile by ______.

Accepted Answer

Chloe's efforts to integrate human resource technology into daily operations at Acme Global is aimed at creating a digital culture. By doing so, Acme Global becomes more agile as it adapts to the digital changes happening in the industry. Choice B is also relevant as Chloe's actions help Acme Global develop the ability to thrive on change. However, this is not the best answer as it is a broad concept and does not specifically address how Chloe is helping Acme Global become more agile. Choices C and D are not relevant to the scenario described.

Question 12

Alexandra's role in the organization involves measuring and evaluating job satisfaction and employee engagement.Alexandra's human resource management specialty is ______.

Accepted Answer

Alexandra's role in measuring and evaluating job satisfaction and employee engagement suggests that her human resource management specialty is employee relations, which involves maintaining positive relationships between employers and employees. The other options, staffing, labor and industrial relations, and ethics and sustainability, do not directly relate to measuring and evaluating job satisfaction and employee engagement.

Question 13

The ______ discipline of human resource management encompasses employee education in organizations.

Accepted Answer

The discipline of human resource management that involves employee education in organizations is training and development, which includes activities such as on-the-job training, workshops, coaching, and mentoring to improve employees' skills, knowledge, and abilities. Employee relations refers to managing the relationships between employees and the organization, staffing is the process of recruiting, selecting, and hiring employees, and revenue is the income generated by a business or organization.

Question 14

Once people have been selected into the organization,the ______ section of the practitioner's model of human resource management describes how managers might coach,counsel,and/or discipline employees.

Accepted Answer

The developing and managing section of the practitioner's model of human resource management focuses on coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees after they have been selected into the organization. The other three options do not specifically address this aspect of HR management.

Question 15

At Acme Global,full-time employees work seamlessly with consultants and temporary workers.It appears Acme Global has become agile by ______.

Accepted Answer

Acme Global's use of consultants and temporary workers indicates an adoption of "on-demand" labor, which allows for flexibility and agility in staffing and responding to business needs.

Question 16

Kaitlin manages the organization's employee-related actions to ensure compliance with equal opportunity laws and regulations as well as organizational affirmative action plans.Part of her job also involves managing diverse groups of people within the organization.Kaitlin's human resource management specialty is ______.

Accepted Answer

Kaitlin's responsibility for ensuring compliance with equal opportunity laws and regulations as well as managing affirmative action plans indicates her specialization in the legal environment of human resource management.

Question 17

A ______ specialist might find jobs in compensation planning,salary surveys,benefits management,and incentive programs.

Accepted Answer

The tasks mentioned - compensation planning, salary surveys, benefits management, and incentive programs - all point towards the specialization of compensation and benefits. Therefore, the best choice is B.

Question 18

Eli's work involves union votes,negotiations for union agreements,contract collective bargaining,and handling grievances.Eli's human resource management specialty is ______.

Accepted Answer

Eli's work involving union votes, negotiations for union agreements, contract collective bargaining, and handling grievances all relate to labor and industrial relations, which is a subfield within human resource management. Therefore, C is the best choice.

Question 19

Chase manages the recruiting process,selecting the best candidates who apply,and getting them settled into their jobs.Chase's human resource management specialty is ______.

Accepted Answer

Chase's specialty is in staffing, which involves managing the recruiting process and selecting the best candidates for the job. Training and development, compensation and benefits, and labor and industrial relations are other areas of human resource management that do not necessarily involve the initial selection and placement of employees.

Question 20

Glynn's work involves helping employees with stress management and designing the employee assistance program to help employees cope with job demands.Glynn's human resource management specialty is ______.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Glynn's work involves helping employees with stress...

Quiz 1: The New Human Resource Management Process