HRM Session 1

_____ are responsible for assisting and advising line managers in areas like recruiting, selection and performance management.

• Board of directors

• Senior employees

• Human Resource Managers

• Staff managers

All of the following except _____ are ways that human resource management improves corporate performance.

• High performance work systems

• Technology

• Human resource practice

• Strategic planning

Human resource management is ___________.

• the concepts and techniques used to control people at work

• the process of organizing work activities

• the process of identifying countries with cheaper labor costs and relocating jobs to those countries

• the process of acquiring, training, appraising, and compensating employees, and attending to their labor relations, health and safety, and fairness concerns

___________is the right to make decisions, to direct the work of others, and to give orders.

• Leadership

• Authority

• Delegation

• Management

___________ are responsible for assisting and advising line managers in areas like recruiting, hiring, and compensation.

• Human resource managers

• Staff managers

• Line managers

• Board memebers

Human resource managers generally exert ___________ within the human resources department and ___________ outside the human resources department.

• line authority; implied authority

• staff authority; line authority

• line authority; staff authority

• implied authority; line authority

Which of the following responsibilities do human resource managers fulfill in their role as employee advocates?

• establish guidelines for how management should be treating employees

• provide support for employees contesting unfair practices

• represent employees’ interests as appropriate

• all of the above

All of the following are examples of human resource job duties except ________.

• recruiter

• job analyst

• financial advisor

• compensation manager

• labor relations specialist

Strategic human resource management refers to ________.

• formulating and executing human resource policies and practices that produce the employee competencies and behaviors the company needs to achieve strategic aims

• planning the balance of internal strengths and weaknesses with external opportunities and threats to maintain competitive advantage

• emphasizing the knowledge, education, training, skills, and expertise of a firm’s workers

• extending a firm’s sales, ownership, and manufacturing to new markets

• managing a firm’s insurance benefits administration process

Which term refers to letting outside vendors provide services for a firm?

• data warehousing

• outsourcing

• external work systems

• application service providers