11/24/2018 Quiz 001

Question 1 When an organization is sold, the purchase price may be higher than the total value of its physical and financial assets. This
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a. potential value

b. goodwill

c. social cost
d. level price

Question 2 Which of the following major human resource functions would include providing a human resource information base?
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a. Human resource development
b. Compensation and benefits

c. Employee and labor relations

d. Human resource research

Question 3 Talent management involves identifying and developing outstanding performers only in the middle management.
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True
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Question 4 The laying off of large numbers of managerial and other employees is known as:
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a. Outsourcing.
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b. Crowdsourcing.

c. Rightsizing.
d. Downsizing.

Question 5 Which of the following information does a job specification provide?

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a. The duties and responsibilities involved in a job
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b. The knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics needed to perform a job

c. The supervision a jobholder will receive

d. The meetings to be attended and reports to be filed by a jobholder

Question 6 The process of choosing from those available the individuals who are most likely to perform successfully in a job is known as
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a. recruitment

b. orientation

c. appraisal
d. selection

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Question 7 The average age of the American workforce is:
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a. Decreasing.

b. Increasing.

c. Impossible to predict.
d. Constant.

Question 8 A human resource department normally acts in an advisory capacity and does not have authority over operating managers.
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Question 9 According to a survey published in Monthly Labor Review, January 2012, approximately 45 percent of the new entrants during
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a. Hispanic women

b. women

c. men
d. white men

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Question 10 Related tasks comprise the ____ of a job.
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a. micromotions

b. elements

c. duties
d. macromotions

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