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_________ is the skillful employment and coordination of tactics.
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Strategy
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_________ can be thought of as the pattern of planned human resource deployments and actively enable an organization to achieve its goals.
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Strategic HRM
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Strategy formulation involves all but one of the following. Name the exception.
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• Defining the firms mission and goals
• Assessing the firms external opportunities and threats Defining the firms organizational structure • Generating various strategic alternatives |
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The first component in the strategy formulation process is:
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Completion of an external analysis
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The _________ is a statement of the organizations reason for being that usually specifies the needs satisfied and/or the values received by the customers and the technology used
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Mission
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_________ consists of examining the organizations operating environment to identify the strategic opportunities and threats.
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External Analysis
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________ attempts to identify the organizations strengths and weaknesses
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Internal Analysis
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The purpose of the SWOT analysis is to:
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Generate a large number of strategic alternatives
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The last step in the strategy formulation is:
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Strategic Choice
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HRM is primarily responsible for three of the following variables in the strategy implementation, identify the exception.
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• Selection, training and development of people
• Task design • Reward system • Customer awareness |
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A woman and a man are both performing the job of executive assistant and have equal performance. However the woman is paid $2,000 less than the man. Which act does this fall under?
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Equal Pay Act
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The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) of 1967 prohibits discriminations against employees
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Ages 40 and over
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Which organization if most specifically involved in the enforcement of equal employment
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EEOC
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________ exists when individuals in similar situation are treated differently and the differentiation is based on the individual’s race, color, religion, sex national origin, age or disability status.
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Disparate Treatment
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A job qualification based on race, sex, religion and so on, that an employer asserts is required for the qualification for the job is:
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BFOQ
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Rather than simply requiring an employer to refrain from some action, ______ places an employer to affirmatively do something to accommodate an individual’s disability.
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Reasonable Accommodation
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When an individual is promised a positive outcome for submission to sex, or threatened for failure to submit to sex is:
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Quid Pro Quo Harassment
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A male employee, over the objection of his female colleagues, continues to display a highly suggestive calendar within his office. This is likely to result in a charge of:
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Hostile working environment harassment
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________ authorized the federal government to establish and enforce occupational safety and health standards for all places of employment engaging in interstate commerce.
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OSHA
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Under OSHA, the responsibility for inspecting employers, applying the standards and levying fines assigned to the:
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Department of labor
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