Exam 1: Human Resources in a Globally Competitive Business Environment

Many factors are driving change,but none is more important than the rise of:

The focus for the 21^st century organization is far more likely to look like a web: a flat,intricately woven form that links partners,employees,external contractors,suppliers,and customers in various collaborations.

In a(n)_____,employees operate remotely from each other and from managers.

Retention comprises all of the following activities EXCEPT:

Explain at least three new organizational forms.

How the people are selected,trained,and managed determines to a large extent how successful an organization will be:

The sharing of information on such things as financial performance,strategy,and operational measures conveys to an organization's people that they are trusted.

What growing trend will result in waves of individualized products and services,as well as huge savings for companies,which will no longer have to guess what and how much customers want?

Company X is increasing production by adding more employees to its workforce and scaling up its existing facilities.Company X is essentially increasing its productivity.

_____ comprises activities intended to maintain compliance with the organization's HR policies and business strategies.

A process is a collection of activities that takes one or more kinds of input and creates an output that is of value to a customer.

Which factors have contributed to the attractiveness of globalization?

"Business-based flexibility" is characterized by private deals based on individual's needs.

If the findings of the study that examined restructuring's effects on 500 representative companies listed on the NYSE is assumed to hold good in future,a company that downsizes now will yield stock returns significantly higher than those of upsizers or stable employers.

Managing change is an ongoing process whose objective is to enhance the ability of an organization to anticipate and respond to developments that are only in its external environment.

Quality of work life is defined in terms of management perceptions of employee physical and mental well-being at work.

The advantage of bringing breakthrough products to market first will be shorter than ever because globalization will let competitors match or exceed them almost instantly.

Quality of work life (QWL)depends a lot on what workers want._____ is the main requirement of workers in the United States.

When senior managers take true ownership of their responsibility to have the right people in critical leadership roles,they are embracing their role of:

Globalization has been encouraged by