Exam 1: Introduction to Human Resource Management

The SHRM Human Resource Certification exams include testing on management practices,staffing,development,compensation,labor relations,and health and safety.

Why is human resource management important to all managers? What is the role of line managers in human resource management?

A line manager's human resource responsibilities most likely include all of the following EXCEPT ________.

________ is the process of acquiring,training,appraising,and compensating employees,and attending to their labor relations,health and safety,and fairness concerns.

Globalization,competition,and technology have led to which of the following trends in human resource management?

Which of the following describes the most significant demographic trend facing the U.S.work force?

Hiring the wrong person for the job,committing unfair labor practices,and failing to motivate employees are personnel mistakes that hinder firms from achieving positive results.

In most firms,top human resource executives have many years of experience working in the human resources department,and about 40% of them have professional HR certification.

Transactional HR groups focus on assisting top management in big picture issues such as developing a firm's long-term strategic plan.

In general,how many human resource employees would be on staff for a firm with 500 total employees?

One of the ________ functions of a human resource manager includes directing the activities of his or her subordinates in the HR department.

What is the LEAST likely reason for the growing number of U.S.firms that are re-shoring jobs?

________ is the right to make decisions,to direct the work of others,and to give orders.

Which of the following refers to the authority exerted by an HR manager as coordinator of personnel activities?

Which HR specialty involves preparing job descriptions?

An HR manager who wants to analyze the costs associated with each new hire will most likely use which of the following?

Which of the following best describes a nontraditional worker?

Functional authority is the authority exerted by an HR manager as coordinator of personnel activities.

Which term refers to a set of quantitative performance measures that human resource managers use to assess their operations?

Staff managers have staff authority which enables them to issue orders down the chain of command unlike line managers.