Exam 1: Strategic Human Resource Management in a Changing Environment

Unlike other corporate functions,such as Finance,HRM is not concerned with quantitative analysis as a part of decision-making preferring to rely on intuition to make decisions.

A successful workforce scorecard should be balanced and include measurements related to both leading and lagging indicators.

What are examples of high-performance work practices (HPWP)?

HPWP includes HRM practices that motivate employees to put forth discretionary effort.

It is necessary to use quantitative analysis to determine the ______ of HRM methodology.This allows managers to know if a methodology is predicting something important.

If a company is able to offer a higher quality product at a lower price than its competition because of a well designed employee selection process and incentive system,their

The following are examples of current HR trends. 1.Decreased litigation 2.Technological changes 3.Increased globalization of the economy 4.Stagnation in the labor force

Organizational design is concerned with establishing,fostering,and maintaining employee skills based on organizational and employee needs.

Strategic capability represents the business's ability to manage organizational systems and people in order to match customer and strategic needs.

Which domain would include assessment of an individual,or a department's,degree of success in meeting or exceeding predetermined levels of productivity and/or quality.

HRM is concerned with ensuring that ___________.

Discuss how organizational commitment,job satisfaction,employee engagement and other so-called "soft" measures are relevant to an organization's bottom-line.

When a change is made in one functional area of HRM,such as a change in the skills needed to perform a job,there is no need for management to consider the impact on another HRM functional area.

The following is not a characteristic of a HPWP:

Corporate social or environmental performance relates to a company's ability to make profits while not sacrificing the resources of its people,the community,and the planet.

Graphology was not found to be a(n)_____ method to predict future employee _______,

Measurement and ________ are key to achieving organizational effectiveness and gaining and maintaining a competitive advantage.

Competitive advantage occurs if customers perceive that they receive more value from their transaction with an organization than from its competitors.

Why is measurement so important for effective HRM?

Which of the following challenge for "successful workforce measurement and management" asks whether managers have the access,capability,and motivation to use measurement data to communicate strategy and monitor progress?