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WGU D351 FUNCTIONS OF HUMAN RESOURCES
MANAGEMENT OA AND PA NEWEST 2025 TEST BANK|
COMPLETE 200 ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS (100% CORRECT
ANSWERS) /ALREADY GRADED A+
What are the two major components of job matching systems? - ANSWER - job profiles and candidate profiles
What are job profiles? - ANSWER - Job profiles are detailed job descriptions and include job specifications.
Define employee selection - ANSWER - Selection refers to determining the most qualified candidates from the applicant pool.
Explain the benefits to organizations of new employee, orientation, and socialization - ANSWER - Help to reduce turnover and increase productivity among the new employees.
What are the benefits of developing selection devices or tests on the basis of a job analysis? - ANSWER - It increases the accuracy of job descriptions, and recruiting and aids in developing job related selection procedures
Define criterion - ANSWER - Selection criterion are standards that job applicants need to meet. These include qualifications, knowledge, skills, 1 / 4
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pg. 2 abilities, and experience. Some examples are excellent research and analytical skills.
Define reliability - ANSWER - The consistency or stability of a selection instrument
What are the benefits of a reliable selection process? - ANSWER - High reliability increases the likelihood of a positive work environment and the overall productivity in the organization
Define validity - ANSWER - the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to
What are the key benefits of ensuring the validity of selection tests? - ANSWER - The validity of a selection test helps to ensure that organizations avoid legal action by ensure the assessment doesn't discriminate.
Describe empirical validity - ANSWER - Empirical validity describes how closely/accurately scores on a test measure the KSAs needed for a position.
Describe the role interviewing play in the selection process - ANSWER - Interviews allow organizations to gather subjective information that can't be measured by an assessment such as verbal communication, and interpersonal skills, etc.
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pg. 3 Describe the role applications play in the selection process - ANSWER - Applications are an effective method for gathering a large amount of applicant biographical information for relatively little cost.
Why is being a learning organization, beneficial? - ANSWER - There is an increase acquisition in transfer of knowledge route to organization regardless of level
Define employee training. - ANSWER - It corrects employee skill deficiencies; seeks to improve employee in current job role by increasing knowledge, skill or other ability levels
Define employee development. - ANSWER - It prepares employees for career changes; seeks to provide knowledge, skills or abilities that apply to future roles in the organization
What are the five steps of the ADDIE model? - ANSWER - 1. Analyze
- Design
- Development
- Implementation
- Evaluation
What are the goals of a needs assessment? - ANSWER - 1. To determine whether a training need exists, 2. to identify where in the organization this need exists, and 3. to determine the precise nature of the required training 3 / 4
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pg. 4 What are the three levels of needs assessment associated with the ADDIE model? - ANSWER - Organizational, Task, Person
What is the primary purpose of an organizational level needs assessment? - ANSWER - Look at vision and future direction and determine the workforce needs of the future.
What is the primary purpose of a task level needs assessment? - ANSWER - This assessment focuses on the skills and knowledge necessary to do particular tasks.
What is the primary purpose of a person level needs assessment? - ANSWER - This assessment focuses is on individual employees and how well they perform their jobs.
What three factors are critical for transfer of training to occur - ANSWER - Have conditions in training identical to the job position.Teach principles for applying the behaviors in a job situation .Have a contract .
What are the advantages of offsite training? - ANSWER - The advantage of offsite training is that at forces training to leave their workstations and focus on the training and content
What are the advantages of on-site training? - ANSWER - The advantage of presenting training in an onsite conference room is that it is
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