Exam 11: Human Resources

A company that has successfully created groups of employees with similar diverse backgrounds to interact with one another is

The percentage of the U.S.workforce that is considered diverse is almost

A pervasive "employee first" focus is a primary criterion of

Methods analysis is used to

A graph used to analyze how the steps of a job fit together in the overall flow of a production process is a

Vertical and horizontal job enlargement are principles of

If the first unit of a job takes 15 hours to complete and the learning curve is 80%,how long will it take to complete the 20^th unit?

The decrease in processing time per unit as production doubles will normally range from

It is estimated the percentage of U.S> companies that offer some form of telecommuting is

"New" theories or human resource management that replaced the principles of scientific management were based on

Fitting a job task to the person in a work environment is called

The company that was the most influential in promoting scientific management was

An element of job design that details the step-by-step procedure for a job is

Each time production doubles a 90% learning curve shows an improvement rate of

Government initiated laws and regulations designed to increase diversity in a company's workplace is

An advantage of scientific management was that it

In a successful quality management program employees are

The dominant approach to human resource management in the first part of the twentieth century was

Learning curves were first defined in a 1936 journal article by

Assigning a worker a complete unit of work that includes all tasks necessary to complete a process or product with clearly defined start and end points is called