Chapter 01 - Strategic Human Resource Management
Canadian Human Resource Management 12th Edition Schwind Test Bank
Chapter 01 Strategic Human Resource Management
True / False Questions
- People are the common element in all social organizations.
TRUE
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Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Discuss the objectives of human resource management.
Topic: 01-01 What is Human Resource Management?
- Organizational goals are an organization's short- and long-term outcomes that human
resource management aims to support and enable.
TRUE
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Learning Objective: 01-01 Discuss the objectives of human resource management.
Topic: 01-01 What is Human Resource Management?
- The field of human resource management is unrelated to key organizational goals, product-
market plans, technology, and innovation.
FALSE
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- Since human resource management is central to all organizations, all organizations have a
dedicated human resource department.
FALSE
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Learning Objective: 01-01 Discuss the objectives of human resource management.
Topic: 01-02 The Difference between Human Resource Management and a Human Resource Department
- A new venture or micro-business might initially have the entrepreneur perform HR related
tasks.
TRUE
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Learning Objective: 01-01 Discuss the objectives of human resource management.
Topic: 01-01 What is Human Resource Management?
- Strategies for businesses are formulated at three levels: corporate, a major business activity,
and employee.
FALSE
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Learning Objective: 01-02 Identify steps in strategic management of human resources.
Topic: 01-03 Strategic Human Resource Management
- Employee salaries may account for more than 65% of the operating expenses in many
organizations.
FALSE
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Difficulty: Hard
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- Using the focus strategy, a firm concentrates on a segment of the market, competing on the
basis of either differentiation or cost leadership.
TRUE
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Learning Objective: 01-02 Identify steps in strategic management of human resources.
Topic: 01-04 Understanding the Strategic Human Resource Management Process
- Many organizations are now including specific strategies that directly consider their
employees, such as a strategy to become one of Canada's "Top 50 Best Managed Companies." TRUE
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Learning Objective: 01-02 Identify steps in strategic management of human resources.
Topic: 01-04 Understanding the Strategic Human Resource Management Process
- Economic boom and bust business cycles are experienced the way same across the
country.
FALSE
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- Economic forces are defined as economic factors facing Canadian business, including
historical trends, global trade forces, and the force to increase one's own competitiveness and productivity levels.
FALSE
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