Exam 4: Planning for and Recruiting Human Resources

Cost per hire is:

In human resource management,any practice or activity carried out by the organization with the primary purpose of identifying and attracting potential employees is known as:

Succession planning focuses on:

Organizations are most likely to benefit from hiring and retaining employees who have competencies that are part of the organization's competency framework.

Workforce planning may result in:

Which of the following options for avoiding an expected labour shortage has the benefit of being a relatively fast solution while maintaining the ability to change later?

A small company that manufactures special-order wood furniture has kept its employees busy on a 40-hour-a-week schedule for the past two years.The company just received the largest contract in its history from a European company opening offices in the area.There is no expectation of repeat business from the European company.In order to complete the contract in the required three months,additional skilled woodworking employees are needed.Under these circumstances,to avoid an expected labour shortage,the best option would be:

As an option for avoiding an expected labour shortage,the use of new external hires is relatively fast,but low in terms of ability to change later.

Which of the following options for avoiding a labour shortage is slow in achieving results and provides a low ability to change later?

What is employer branding? What does it mean to have an effective employment brand?

Which of the following options for reducing an expected labour surplus is a relatively slow solution,but has the benefit of being low in suffering caused?

A strategic approach of attaching a visual,emotional,or cultural brand to an organization is called:

Which of the following recruiter characteristics do applicants tend to respond to most positively?

What is succession planning? What are the benefits of succession planning?

What is downsizing and what is the primary reason that organizations engage in downsizing? What are the four objectives organizations pursue in their downsizing efforts?

To ensure success with an outsourcing strategy,companies should follow which of the following guidelines?

The most important source of recruits for entry-level professional and managerial vacancies is:

Much of the evidence suggests that downsizing improves long-term organizational performance.

HR planners need to focus primarily on the internal labour supply within organizations.

The steps in a workforce utilization review are identical to the steps in the workforce planning process.