Exam 10: Managing Human Resources

Labor unions use________ to protect the rights of their members.

The New Hire (Scenario) Fadia begins her career working in the human resources department of a major corporation in UAE. She is asked to help ensure that the organization is following the legal guidelines for employment. -The company is using________ _ selection instruments because once on the job, the employees with high scores on the instrument outperform employees with low scores on the instrument.

Human resource planning can be condensed into two steps: assessing current human resources and assessing and meeting future resource needs.

________is the term used to define planned elimination of jobs in an organization.

The Internal Hire (Scenario) Wael is a new sales manager for The Nile Group, a healthcare finance consulting firm. Wael was hired from within the firm and he is now supervising many of the people he had formerly worked with, including two friends with whom he competed for his new job. Thus, Wael is especially aware of potential problems stemming from the performance evaluation process and is conducting lengthy research on the advantages and disadvantages of the various methods. -Six months into Wael's tenure as regional sales manager, he hosts his first regional sales meeting. During the course of the meeting, Wael meets individually with his employees and shows them a chart of their sales numbers for each month compared to their budgeted quota for the year to date. Additionally, Wael and each employee set mutually agreed- upon, off- budget goals for the remaining six months of the fiscal year. This is most representative of what performance evaluation method?

The Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) shows that the Arab region, compared to other world regions,________ .

The National Human Resource Development and Employment Authority (TANMIA) _________ _.

The beginning point for any human resource planning process is the examination of the current human resource status by making a________ .

As a source of potential job candidates,________ generate(s) the best referrals, because a good referral reflects on the source of the recommendation.

"Saudization", "Emiratization", and "Omanization" refer to government initiatives towards increasing exports.

If human resource planning shows a surplus of employees, management may want to reduce the organization's workforce through ________.

________is a process of setting standards and measuring employee performance to arrive at performance standards.

A Sign of the Times (Scenario) After hearing of the threat for a long time, Lina's company had finally decided that it must "right- size," and this meant coming up with a plan for reducing the current size of the workforce at her manufacturing plant. The job was left to her, and as much as she hated doing this part of her job, it was necessary for the survival of the company and not just an effort to inflate their stock price. She also appreciated that her company was willing to try many different routes to decrease their labor costs, which was consistent with the positive way the company had treated their employees in the past. -Lina tells management that another option at their disposal for easing the labor- cost crunch would be ________ , which is a temporary involuntary termination that could last a few days or extend to years.

A written statement that describes a job and includes job content, environment, and conditions of employment is called a________ .

Female literacy rates in the Arab world ________.

Studies find that downsizing is as stressful for the survivors as it is for the victims.

The minimum age for employment in Kuwait in industrial or dangerous jobs is ________