Exam 7: Managing Human Resources

The most important environmental force that affects HRM is the legal environment.

________ indicates how consistently a selection device measures a criterion.

A strength of a written essay as an employee appraisal device is that it allows the writing skill of the evaluator to be a determining factor in the appraisal of performance.

Most job training does not take place on the job.

The best way to measure the effectiveness of job training is to find out how stressful the process was for trainees.

Which of the following is NOT a voluntary form of downsizing?

If employment planning shows a large surplus of employees, management may want to ________.

Firing, layoffs, furloughs, and early retirements are the only three downsizing options.

Affirmative action programs seek to make sure that employers ________ minority groups.

Human resource management is about hiring and firing only.

In a short essay, discuss on-the-job training methods.

A disadvantage of a written essay for employee appraisal is that it tends to be biased by ________.

Which multiperson employee evaluation method allows for two or more employees to get the same rating?

The lengthy process by which a job is examined in detail in order to identify the skills, knowledge and behaviors necessary to perform the job is known as a ________.

A 360-degree feedback process differs from other appraisal methods in that it includes ________.

The difference between firing and layoffs is that ________.

This is the goal of employment planning.

Nine out of ten organizations in the United States pay their workers on a scale that is based primarily on ________.

Advertisements have been shown to be the most effective method for identifying the best applicants for jobs.

In a short essay, discuss off-the-job training methods.