Deck 8: Human Resource Management in Corporate Innovation

Question 1

Corporate innovation occurs when the organization strives to exploit product-market opportunities through innovative and proactive behavior.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Human resource practices that impact creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship are categorized as part of a high performance work system.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

According to Lumpkin and Dess and entrepreneurial innovation can be defined as the willingness to support creativity and experimentation in introducing new products/services.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The Ireland, Covin, and Kuratko believe that human resource practices do not play a major role in the execution of an innovative strategy.

Question 5

At the middle level, managers act in concert with others throughout the firm to identify effective means through which new businesses can be created or existing ones reconfigured.

Question 6

First-line managers are likely to be more cautious in how they choose to use top management support for their innovative activities.

Question 7

Senior managers are more likely to use work discretion to generate innovative outcomes.

Question 8

Organizations who focus on policies that create freedom will limit innovative and entrepreneurial behavior.

Question 9

Senior managers are better able to use time as a resource to generate innovative activities than are first-line managers.

Question 10

Innovative actions are less likely to arise from scanning the external and internal environments than focusing attention more narrowly on efficiency.

Question 11

_______________ leads to an organizational entrepreneurial orientation causing increased proactiveness, risk taking, and innovative behaviors.

A) Succession Planning
B) Workforce Management
C) High Performance Work Systems
D) Human Resource Management

Question 12

_________________focuses on smaller process improvements and changes and radical innovation include major product or process changes or new product development

A) Collective Transformation
B) Increased Modernization
C) Cumulative Entrepreneurship
D) Incremental Innovation

Question 13

The result of effective organizational practices related to attending to the antecedents necessary to implement a CE strategy and practicing relevant HRM for innovation.

A) Inventive Adaptation
B) Entrepreneurial Orientation
C) Traditional Acclamation
D) Innovative Coordination

Question 14

Which level of managers endorse, refine, and shepherd entrepreneurial opportunities and identify, acquire, and deploy resources needed to pursue those opportunities?

A) Senior Level Managers
B) Executives
C) First Level Managers
D) Middle Level Managers

Question 15

_____________refers to the extent to which one perceives that the organization tolerates failure, provides decision-making latitude and freedom from excessive oversight, and delegates authority and responsibility to lower level managers and workers.

A) Work Discretion
B) Organized Guidelines
C) Job Direction
D) Operational Instructions

Question 16

_______________ are useful in promoting innovative activity because they enhance the flow of information between the external environment and the organization and between departments/divisions within the organization.

A) Adjustable Departmental Procedures
B) Flexible Organizational Boundaries
C) Adaptable Management Polices
D) Innovative Structural Boundaries

Question 17

The willingness of senior-level managers to facilitate and promote innovative behavior, including the championing of innovative ideas and providing the resources people require to take innovative actions.

A) Senior Management Guidance
B) Resource availability
C) Executive-Level Support
D) Top Management Support

Question 18

_______________ require more substantial forms of incentives that are often more difficult to administer and tend to foster apprehension from top management

A) Incremental Innovations
B) Moderate Innovations
C) Radical Innovations
D) Leading-Edge Innovations

Question 19

Four of the key human resource practices that create a HPWS are performance management, __________________, compensation and incentives management, and policies and procedures administration.

A) Knowledge Management
B) Employee Empowerment
C) Comprehension Management
D) Training and Development

Question 20

Who concluded that "without innovation there is no corporate entrepreneurship regardless of the presence of these other dimensions?

A) Lumpkin and Dess
B) Busenitz
C) Covin and Miles
D) Covin and Kuratko

Question 21

Explain the four of the key human resource practices that create a HPWS.

Question 22

According to Floyd and Lane, senior, middle, and first-level managers have distinct responsibilities with respect to each sub-process. Describe these responsibilities.

Question 23

Hayton suggests that human resource management practices (HRM) fall into two categories, traditional HR practices and discretionary HRM. Explain each.