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BUS 303 Human Resource Management
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BUS 303 Human Resource Management in Business
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BUS 303 Strategic Human Resource Managment
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BUS 303 Week 1 DQs
Internal and external factors exert a strong influence on the HRM function. List one external factor that you feel has a powerful influence on your company's HRM function and explain why.
How does the global environment of business today impact the role of HR within an organization?
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BUS 303 Week 1 Quiz
1.Effective HRM focuses on _________ rather than record keeping, written procedure, or rules. (Points :1)
action
intuition
experience
precedent
2.All of the following are key concepts that should be applied by HRM except: (Points :1)
Analyzing and solving problems from a profit-oriented point of view
Assessing costs or benefits of recruitment and training
Using planning models that include realistic, challenging, specific, and meaningful goals
Emphasizing the strategic importance of expendable employees.
3.To improve performance, people must see _______ in the rewards that are given. (Points :1)
potential
consistency
justice
seniority
4.The letters in ARDM stand for: (Points :1)
Acquiring, rewarding, directing, maintaining
Acquiring, routing, directing, monitoring
Acquiring, rewarding, developing, maintaining and protecting
None of the above
5.Before productivity can be effectively managed and improved, it must be _________. (Points :1)
monitored
measured
identified
prioiritized
6.EEO has implications for all of the following except: (Points :1)
Investing
Hiring
Training
Evaluating
7.Title VII prohibits discrimination by all of the following, except: (Points :1)
Private employers with 15 or more employees
Private membership clubs
Federal employers
Employment agencies
8.The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 covers the actions of private employers with _______ or more employees. (Points :1)
5
20
50
100
9.Which of the following was identified as a problem by the highest percentage of international corporations? (Points :1)
Employee retention
Partner dissatisfaction
Finding suitable candidates
Relocation reluctance
10.When an organization begins to operate as a global rather than a multinational corporation, the use of expatriate managers will ___________. (Points :1)
increase
decrease
remain the same
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BUS 303 Week 2 DQs
What is Human Resources planning? How does the HR planning process facilitate the achievement of an organization's strategic objectives? If you can, use your organization as an example.
Dependent in part, on statistical utility, organizational utility is primarily based on cost / benefit analysis. With consideration of the question: ‘What are the goals of selection?’ > I submit that the ultimate goal is profit over cost (Ivancevich, 2010).
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BUS 303 Week 2 Quiz
1. From 2006 - 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor projects that the two fastest growing demographic groups will be:
Asians and Hispanics
Asians and non-Hispanics
Hispanics and Whites
Asians and Whites
2. The difference between the Delphi and nominal group technique (NGT) is that:
Delphi uses brainstorming and NGT doesn’t
NGT uses experts and Delphi doesn’t
Both methods allow equal input from participants
Delphi collects information individually and NGT uses a group setting
3. Many baby boomers are projected to keep working for all of the following reasons except:
There is no one available to take their place.
Insufficient retirement savings.
They define themselves by their work.
They are able to reduce the number of hours they work.
4. Which law requires 60 days notice of plant closings?
Worker Layoff and Plant Closing Act
Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act
Worker Relocation Amendment
Layoff Adjustment and Retraining Act
5. __________ is the foundation upon which all other HRM activities must be constructed.
Employee analysis
Market analysis
Job analysis
Government regulation
6. The Functional Job Analysis assumes that jobs can be described in terms of basic relationships that the ncumbent has with his or her work. Which of the following in not one of those relationships?
Physically relating to things
Using mental resources to process data
Interacting with the artificial intelligence of machines
Interacting with people
7. ___________ are general attributes that employees need to do well across multiple jobs or within the organization as a whole.
Competencies
Intelligence
Abilities
Attitudes
8. __________ addresses the questions of what a test measured and how well it measured it.
Reliability
Validity
Interrator reliability
Vindication
9. Which of the following is an indirect cost of a selection process?
Interviewer's salary
Changes in the organization's public image
The price of the tests
Equipment used in a work sample test
10. The ___________ is a comprehensive paper-and-pencil test that generates two scores: the verbal score and the performance score.
Wonderlic Personnel Test
California Test of Mental Maturity
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
psychomotor ability simulation
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BUS 303 Week 3 Assignment Characteristics for high performance
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BUS 303 Week 3 DQs
It is of my opinion that a company cannot ask and expect employees to change or identify ways to become more efficient without introducing measures to make sure that change occurs. To be effective, these measurements must be objective, quantifiable and observable.
Reliability, Relevance, Sensitivity, and practicality are the fundamental distinctions of performance evaluations. Because supervisor assessment and interpretation is an unavoidable and influential factor of overall performance, there needs to be a performance measurement based off of metrics; or self selection will takes place (Ivancevich, 2010).
In part, employers are inspired to offer benefits and services to their employees by either the forced hand of mandated benefits, or their own desire to increase employee morale; which increases performance (Ivancevich, 2010).
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BUS 303 Week 3 Quiz
1. All of the following are features of a behaviorally anchored rating scale except:
Six to ten performance dimensions are identified and defined by raters and ratees.
The dimensions are anchored with positive and negative critical incidents.
The wording on the form contains jargon commonly used by the ratee.
Ratings are fed back using the terms displayed on the form.
2. The behavioral observation scale developed by Latham uses the ___________ technique to identify a series of behaviors covering the domain of the job.
critical incident
self-evaluation
field review
peer review
3. Which of the following is not one of the reasons that many merit pay systems fail to increase performance?
Employees fail to make the connection between pay and performance.
The secrecy of the reward is perceived by other employees as inequity.
The budget is too small to fund the merit awards.
The merit award is too small to impact performance.
4. Winsharing awards are funded by work teams' contributions to ____________________.
job satisfaction
productivity
profitability
customer satisfaction
5. ____________________ plans offer two distinct advantages: They do not require elaborate cost-accounting systems to calculate awards, and they are easily implemented by companies of any size.
Gainsharing
Spot gainsharing
Profit-sharing
All of the above.
6. The bureaucratic job-based approach used in determining pay will not be used to design pay systems in the future. Instead, the new designs will be ____________________ based.
production
profit
people
customer
7. Which of the following benefits is mandatory?
Compensation for time not worked
Insurance protection
Workers' compensation
Retirement plans
8. Most elderly Americans believe that security in their later years rests on a three-legged stool consisting of all of the following except:
Social Security
Part-time employment
Personal savings
Private pensions
9. Before an organization can fill a job vacancy, it must find people who are not only qualified for the position, but who also ______ the job.
need
have performed
want
both A and C
10. Continuous overtime often results in ___________.
lower labor costs and higher productivity
lower labor costs and lower productivity
higher labor costs and lower productivity
higher labor costs and higher productivity
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BUS 303 Week 4 DQs
In my very first corporate job I had a 5 day employee orientation that addressed the company’s historical goals; as well as present and future goals. That was not more than 5 hours of orientation video though. The position was commodities with specific focus on semiconductors of all sorts; purchasing and selling on the secondary market. I was hired to work with the VP of Sales; specifically handling his client base with phone calls / order processing – but I knew nothing about semi-conductors, specifically. So the remaining 4 days was regarding the industry and what semiconductors were capable of, looked like, types, clients who want them & why, etc.
My ‘career’ has always been surrounding the segment of ‘sales’ – and in my 12 years of practice, the last 10 years has been in the market segment of residential real estate. Throughout the last 10 years I’ve hit all four stages of my career, and ground this observation in the fact that I now run my own business as a consultant in the business. My leadership is located in my ability to provoke new thought in subordinates, hiring and organizational design (Ivancevich, 2010).
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BUS 303 Week 4 Quiz
1. Behavioral psychologists have demonstrated that people learn best with immediate ____________________.
punishment for inappropriate behavior
reinforcement of appropriate behavior
peer pressure
financial rewards
2. ____________________ is required to assimilate what has been learned, to accept it, to internalize it, and to build confidence in it.
Repetition
Reinforcement
Time
Group discussion
3. Most of the money in a training budget is spent on ____________________.
training materials
training facilities
instructor salaries
seminars and conferences
4. All of the following represent the philosophy espoused in Peter Senge's landmark book, The Fifth Discipline, except:
Trainers are the driving force behind any successful organization
Teams are the core performance units in organizations
Leadership occurs at many levels in an organization
Championship of human values in the workplace
5. According to the book, The Fifth Discipline, which of the following disciplines is the one upon which are others are based?
Team Learning
Shared Vision
Mental Models
Personal Mastery
Systems Thinking
6. When members of a team suspend their assumptions and take up a think together mode that embraces the collective good and eschews self-interest, it is a phenomenon called ____________________.
conversation
dialogue
discussion
conversion
7. The intelligent career framework involves all the following ways of knowing except:
When we work
Why we work
How we work
With whom we work
8. The most significant shift for a person in ____________________ is to accept the decisions of subordinates without second-guessing them.
Stage I
Stage II
Stage III
Stage IV
9. Career development programs are most valuable when they are all of the following except:
Directed primarily toward middle and upper management
Open to all employees
Modified when evaluation indicates that change is necessary
Offered regularly
10. Consequences of unrealistic aspirations and routine initial assignments typically include all of the following except:
Low productivity
Low job satisfaction
Low satisfaction of growth needs
Low satisfaction of self-actualization needs
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BUS 303 Week 5 DQs
Being a self business generator I would submit to my fellow students that the disciplinary group I am always mindful of are the rules and regulations set forth on my financial market segment – such as the Department of Real Estate, FBI & Federal Mortgage Licensing System(s).
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BUS 303 Week 5 Human Resource Management
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