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- The basic functions of management include all of the following except?
- Planning
- organizing
- motivating
- leading
- Staffing
- Celeste spends most of her time at work setting goals and standards and developing rules and procedures. Which function of management does Celeste specialize in?
- planning
- organizing
- motivating
- leading
- staffing
- _____ is the process of acquiring, training, appraising, and compensating employees, and attending to their labor relations, health and safety, and fairness concerns.
- Human Resource Management
- Labor Relations
- Industrial Psychology
- Organizational Behavior
- Organizational Health and Safety Management
- _____ is the right to make decisions, to direct the work of others, and to give orders.
- Leadership
- Authority
- Delegation
- Management
- Responsibility
- 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
- functional control; authoritarian control
- staff authority; specific authority
- Which of the following job titles indicates a position in human resources?
- recruiter
- job analyst
- training specialist
- EEO coordinator
- all of the above
- The _____ measures the rate at which employees leave the company.
- turnover costs
- turnover rate
- time to fill
- cost per hire
- absence rate
- Information regarding how, why, and when a worker performs each activity is included in the information about _____ an HR specialist may collect during a job analysis.
- work activities
- human behaviors
- machines, tools, equipment, and work aids
- performance standards
- job context
- A(n) _____ shows the flow of inputs to and outputs from the job being analyzed.
- organization chart
- process chart
- value chain
- job preview
- job description
- Which of the following is not an advantage of using interviews to collect job analysis data?
- it is simple to use
- some information may be overstated or Incomplete
- it is quick to collect information
- it can identify uncommon, but important activities
- it can be used to explain need for job analysis
- Abid records every activity he participates in at work along with time in a log. This approach to data collection for job analysis is based on _____.
- diaries
- interviews
- direct observation
- questionnaires
- supervisor verification
- Most job descriptions contain sections that cover _____.
- job summary
- standards of performance
- working conditions
- all of the above
- none of the above
- When filling jobs with untrained people, the job specifications may include _____.
- quality of training
- length of previous service
- previous job performance
- physical traits
- all of the above
- A(n) _____ is a procedure designed to obtain information from a person through oral responses to oral inquiries.
- writing test
- work sample simulation
- interview
- reference check
- background check
- _____ is the division of a business that is charged with finding, screening, recruiting, and training job applicants, as well as administering employee-benefit programs.
- Corporate HR teams
- Embedded HR teams
- Centers of expertise
- Transactional HR teams
- None of the above
- All of the Above
- _____ is the process of periodically moving employees from one specialized job to another.
- Job Enrichment
- Job Enlargement
- Job Rotation
- Job Termination
- None of the above