Human Resource Management 5th Edition Steen Test Bank Chapter 01 Strategies, Trends, and Challenges in Human Resource Management
True / False Questions
- Managers and economists traditionally have seen human resource management as a source
of value to their organizations.
FALSE
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Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization's performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-03 Human Resources and Organizational Performance
- The concept of "human resource management" implies that employees are interchangeable,
easily replaced assets that should be managed like any other physical asset.
FALSE
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Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization's performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-03 Human Resources and Organizational Performance
- No two human resource departments will have precisely the same roles and
responsibilities.
TRUE
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Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization's performance and strategies.Topic: 01-04 What Are the Responsibilities of HR Departments? 1 / 4
- Recruitment refers to the process by which an organization selects applicants with the right
knowledge, skills, and abilities to help the organization achieve its goals.
FALSE
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Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization's performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-07 Recruiting and Hiring Employees
- Performance management requires that employee activities and outputs match the
individual's goals.
FALSE
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Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization's performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-09 Performance Management
- Important decisions in planning pay and benefits include how much to offer employees in
salary or wages, as opposed to bonuses, commissions, and other performance-related pay.
TRUE
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Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization's performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-10 Total Rewards 2 / 4
- The shift to self-service requires HR to spend more time on day-to-day transactional tasks.
FALSE
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Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization's performance and strategies.Topic: 01-13 Managing and Using Human Resource Data 3 / 4
- Compliance with laws and regulations is not an HR responsibility, but rather the sole
responsibility of managers within the organization.
FALSE
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Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization's performance and strategies.Topic: 01-14 Ensuring Compliance with Federal and Provincial/Territorial Legislation
- HR is increasingly becoming a purely administrative function.
FALSE
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Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization's performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-15 Focus on Strategy
- As part of its strategic role, one of the key contributions HR can make is to engage in
evidence-based HRM.
TRUE
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Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization's performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-16 Evidence-based HRM
- Canada underperforms the United States with respect to productivity.
TRUE
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Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization's performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-18 Productivity Improvement
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