WGU C202 MANAGING HUMAN CAPITAL EXAM

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WGU C202 MANAGING HUMAN CAPITAL EXAM

QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS / A+ GRADE

• How can HRM create value within an organization

ANS: by making the company

better at executing its strategy

• The purpose of the organizational function of HRM is to

ANS: attract, hire, develop, reward, and retain talent

• Taking workplace health and safety seriously helps reduce risk.-

ANS:: Compliance

• When an organization adopts a new manufacturing process, which HRM

function is responsible for improving employee's skills to meet its talent needs

ANS: Training

• Staffing is the process of planning, acquiring, deploying, and retaining employees

that enables the organization to meet its talent needs and execute its

ANS: business strategy 1 / 4

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• Separations due to poor performance, layoffs, or restructuring are part of which

HRM function

ANS: staffing

• planning can help to ensure that an organization has people ready to

assume leadership positions as soon as those positions become available

ANS: Succession

• What type of management involves aligning individual employees' goals and

behaviors with organizational goals and strategies

ANS: performance manage- ment

• By providing the raw talent that the system will manage, staffing influences the

effectiveness of which system

ANS: performance management

• To promote and maintain ethical behavior, managers need to provide

feedback

ANS: Performance

• Compensation received in the form of salary, wages, commissions, stock options,

or bonuses is called

ANS: direct financial compensation

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• Compensation including free meals, vacation time, and health insurance is called

ANS: indirect financial compensation

• Rewards and incentives given to employees that are not financial in nature,

including intrinsic rewards received from the job itself or from the work environment, are called

ANS: nonfinancial compensation

• When a company creates new HRM initiatives to strengthen employees' ethical

awareness and company culture to enhance its competitive advantage, it is managing

ANS: strategic risk

• HRM affects the speed and effectiveness of talent acquisition as well as the

development of employees' skills and the identification and retention of top performers. These and other HRM activities that can directly influence the organization's success or failure are examples of

ANS: operational risk 3 / 4

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• When new HRM processes reduce the cost of hiring employees, they have

reduced its

ANS: financial risk

• Thinking through the ramifications of an employment-related decision in terms

of legal risk, particularly in the areas of diversity, health and safety, union relations, whistleblowers, and harassment, is an example of managing

ANS: compliance risk

• To expand internationally, have been common organizational

strategies

ANS: mergers and acquisitions

• Mergers and acquisitions often fail because of

ANS: culture issues

• between HR and employees is extremely important

ANS: Communica- tion

• What are the four broad types of organizational culture

ANS: entrepreneurial, bureaucratic, consensual, competitive

• Sports teams like the New York Yankees and Pittsburgh Steelers consis- tently

excel because of their strong culture

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