Exam 17: Human Resource Policies and Practices

Sirius Corp, an automobile manufacturer from Texas, has a number of vacancies at lower management levels and wants to fill the positions from within the company itself rather than recruit externally. The company plans to e-mail the job specifications to all employees and post the jobs on the company Web site. -Which of the following terms refers to the actions that actively damage the organization, including stealing, behaving aggressively toward co-workers, or being late or absent?

Define initial selection and identify the devices used during the initial selection stage.

What are the three major types of behavior that constitute performance at work?

Letters of recommendation are a form of background check.

Which of the following is a common contingent selection method?

The concept of ________ can be applied to appraisals to increase the perception that employees are treated fairly.

Provide a workplace example of informal training for technical skills and another for problem-solving skills.

Which performance evaluation method requires no complex forms or extensive training to complete?

Biozone provides its employees career counseling, skills workshops, and networking sessions. This work-life initiative used by Biozone falls under the category of ________.

The government passes a new law requiring all companies to offer employees unpaid time off to care for their children. This would harm the economic competitiveness of the nation's businesses as companies must be free to set their own employment policies without mandated parental-leave regulations. Which of the following, if true, would weaken the argument?

You have just been appointed as director of your company's corporate training division. The CEO of your company has been displeased with your company's prior training programs, so you are tasked with rehauling the entire training division. You convene a meeting of all training division managers to decide on the types of training that the division will implement. One of your managers is a firm supporter of e-training programs for employees in your company's international offices. He touts the benefits of e-programs by stressing that ________.

Which of the following is the least predictive set of criteria used to evaluate employees?

The approach to evaluation that uses feedback from those who have daily contact with an employee (everyone from mailroom personnel to customers to bosses to peers) is termed ________.

Due process systems provide individuals with adequate notice of what is expected of them.

Marcel hates the annual review process he has to do for the employees in his department. Although he is fully aware of some of his employees' faults, he is reluctant to discuss them in person, and is only comfortable writing them in an unsigned report that his supervisor will review. Marcel's behavior demonstrates ________.

________ ranking requires the evaluator to place employees into a particular classification, such as top one-fifth or second one-fifth.

Substantive selection methods are the heart of the selection process and include written tests, performance tests, and interviews.

Performance evaluations identify training and development needs.

Which of the following is one of the techniques used by organizations to make their workplace more family-friendly?

Formal performance appraisals are used more frequently in countries that ________.