Exam 11: Human Resource Management: Finding and Keeping the Best Employees

Career Builders.com has posted a variety of sales management positions. Some require the manager to have five to ten years of experience and preferably a Master's Degree in a field of science. These requirements are part of the job specification.

Today's workers place a lower priority on leisure time than they did in the past.

Underemployed workers present a challenge for human resources managers. These are people who are working beyond their capabilities.

Services now exist that allow firms to perform quick background checks of potential employees.

"Hot desking" means sharing a desk with another employee, while "hoteling" means reserving office space when you plan to be at the office.

Humphrey Communications uses a flextime plan, however, all employees must be on the job from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. These hours are referred to as the:

When she met with John to discuss his performance appraisal, Regina noted that John had difficulty with managing his time on certain projects. One drawback of a performance appraisal is that it does not allow for feedback during the evaluation process.

A plan gives employees some ability to adjust when they work, as long as they work the required number of hours.

Early in the year, manager John Jacobs set reasonable, understandable, and measurable performance standards and communicated these standards clearly to all team members. Because of these efforts, he should be prepared for the next step in the appraisal process.

Selection is the process of gathering information and deciding who should be hired, under legal guidelines, for the best interests of the individual and the organization.

Recruiting is relatively easy today because qualified labor is so plentiful.

Human resource planning involves the assessment of both the future demand and the future supply of the various types of labor needed by the organization.

Which of the following conditions does

The , which is developed from the previous four steps of the human resource planning process, addresses how the firm will accomplish a wide array of human resource functions such as recruiting, selecting, training and developing, appraising, compensating, and scheduling its employees.

Hector Cruz is receiving training in maintaining and repairing assembly line robots at a school that uses equipment very similar to that used on his new job at Blast Off Technologies. His classroom training is called vestibule training.

According to the Thinking Green box, "Green Eggs and Ham", contemporary firms do not see a cost benefit to providing healthy snacks for employees.

A common feature of flextime plans is the establishment of core times when all employees are expected to be at their job stations.

A golden handshake refers to the severance pay that is offered to a worker that is laid off when the firm downsizes.

Job applications can ask about educational background and past job experience.

The Americans With Disabilities Act protects people who are born with physical disabilities, exclusively, but not those who acquire disabilities later in life.