SHRM Ch2 (High-performing HR systems)

Which of the following is not an HR challenge that must be considered when designing HR systems?

• Environmental influences

• Organizational demands

• Regulatory issues

• CEO’s demands

To achieve internal alignment, you must ensure the specific practices within each HR activity are _______ and reinforce, not conflict with each other.

• state-of-the-art

• consistent

• independent

• SHRM certified

Synergies between HR systems are _______.

• positive

• neutral

• negative

• both positive and negative

If a company hires truly outstanding employees but then uses a performance evaluation method that requires the firm’s managers to make arbitrary distinctions among employees that don’t accurately reflect their performance, it can lead to ____________.

• lower satisfaction and higher turnover

• lower satisfaction and reduced turnover

• higher satisfaction and higher turnover

• higher satisfaction and reduced turnover

______ occur when managers rely on HR practices that seem appropriate but present problems when combined with other HR practices to manage employees.

• Powerful connections

• Strategic values

• Deadly combinations

• Conflicting synergies

When HR practices are used in combinations that support and reinforce other practices that are in place, ______ occur.

• deadly combinations

• powerful connections

• connecting values

• conflicting synergies

An effective management system helps align the contributions employees make to give the firm a ________.

• competitive advantage

• powerful connection

• deadly combination

• competitive synergy

The extent to which the contributions of employees help their organization achieve a competitive advantage is called ______.

• profitability potential

• strategic value

• market share

• revenue optimization

A ______ involves considering two factors: the strategic value and the uniqueness of the contributions they make.

• cost/benefit approach

• value/contribution perspective

• uniqueness-to-value ratio

• portfolio perspective

When considering strategic value, the question is whether your company needs to have ______ perform certain tasks internally, or whether some external provider of these services could perform them more effectively or more efficiently.

• full-time employees

• part-time employees

• temporary staff

• consultants