Question 1

One of the reasons that organizations engage in downsizing is that many firms change the location of where they do business for economic reasons.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Which of the following best explains why older people approaching retirement age have no intention of retiring?

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A)  Many employers want to stay away from the costs of hiring a younger crowd and refuse to retire the older workers.
B)  Older workers typically occupy the best-paid jobs and hence prevent the hiring of younger workers.
C)  Improved health of older people in general,in combination with the decreased physical labor in many jobs,has made working longer a viable option.
D)  Employers are ignoring situations where it is more expensive to pay for an older worker's experience than to hire younger employees.
E)  Statistical forecasting results have shown that older people are an asset to an organization's economic strength.F) D) and E)
G) All of the above

Question 3

Hope College is planning for the next biennium.School administrators know that the enrollment is on the decline,but still need to offer students the best experience possible.They want to shrink their payroll slowly.They can accomplish this through

Accepted Answer

A)  downsizing.
B)  demotions.
C)  early retirement.
D)  pay reduction.
E)  temporary employees.F) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 4

In the late 1990s and early 2000s many jobs left the United States for a cheaper labor force.The American people did not like this move to ________ and stopped buying certain products until the company came back to the United States.

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A)  homesourcing
B)  co-sourcing
C)  reshoring
D)  telecommuting
E)  offshoringF) C) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 5

Yield ratios express the

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A)  output yielded by a new hire in relation to the cost of recruiting the new hire.
B)  percentage of applicants who successfully move from one stage of the recruitment and selection process to the next.
C)  ratio between the price paid to a recruiting firm for potential applicants versus the number of applicants hired.
D)  cost of hiring new employees as opposed to promoting internal employees to vacant positions.
E)  quality of new hires by comparing the cost of training new recruits to the cost of hiring them.F) B) and E)
G) C) and E)

Question 6

________ is the practice or activity carried on by an organization with the primary purpose of identifying and attracting potential employees.

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A)  Human resource recruitment
B)  An applicant tracking system
C)  Customer relationship management
D)  Sensitivity training
E)  Customer experience transformationF) D) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 7

The process of attempting to ascertain the supply of and demand for various types of human resources is called

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A)  outsourcing.
B)  downsizing.
C)  delegation.
D)  forecasting.
E)  implementation.F) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 8

You are a recruiter for your company.Describe two traits that applicants might respond to and why?

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Two traits stand out when applicants' re...

Question 9

Which of the following pairs of recruiter characteristics does an applicant tend to respond to most positively?

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A)  Warmth and informativeness
B)  Race and qualifications
C)  Age and experience
D)  Gender and warmth
E)  Experience and qualificationsF) A) and C)
G) B) and D)

Question 10

The last step in the human resource planning process is forecasting.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

________ is considered a slow option for avoiding an expected labor shortage but has high revocability.

Accepted Answer

A)  Natural attrition
B)  Retrained transfer
C)  Outsourcing
D)  Transfer
E)  Technological innovationF) A) and B)
G) C) and E)

Question 12

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using temporary employees as an option in response to labor shortages.

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The advantages of using temporary worker...

Question 13

Public employment agencies serve primarily the blue-collar labor market; private employment agencies perform much the same service for the white-collar labor market.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Knowing the college is on the verge of a financial crisis,a few of the older professors get together and decide that they can help.Which option will they choose?

Accepted Answer

A)  Early retirement causes relatively less human suffering.
B)  The human suffering after pay reduction is relatively low.
C)  Retraining causes comparatively more human suffering than other options.
D)  A hiring freeze causes immense human suffering.
E)  Transfers cause the least amount of human suffering.F) C) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 15

Compare and contrast the employment-at-will policies and due process policies.

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Employment-at-will policies state that e...

Question 16

An advantage of employing temporary workers is that it frees a firm from many of the administrative tasks and financial burdens associated with being the "employer of record."

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Which of the following is true of statistical forecasting methods that capture historic trends?

Accepted Answer

A)  They are useful for predicting events in the labor market that have no historic precedent.
B)  They are particularly useful in situations where there is no long,stable history.
C)  They provide predictions that are much more precise than judgmental methods.
D)  They remove the need for subjective judgments of experts.
E)  They include variables such as intuition and guesswork in economic decision-making.F) A) and D)
G) C) and E)

Question 18

Which of the following is NOT one of the forces that draw out an older worker's career?

Accepted Answer

A)  The improved health of older people in general
B)  The fear of Social Security being cut
C)  Employers being constrained by age discrimination legislation
D)  Insufficient younger workers to replace the older workforce
E)  Employers' fear of losing the experience that older workers possessF) A) and E)
G) All of the above

Question 19

________ are people who are prompted to apply for a job by someone within the organization.

Accepted Answer

A)  Direct applicants
B)  Internal employees
C)  Boomerang employees
D)  Referrals
E)  Virtual employeesF) A) and C)
G) C) and D)

Question 20

How do statistical forecasting methods differ from judgmental forecasting methods with regard to the labor market?

Accepted Answer

A)  Judgmental methods are not useful in situations that have no historic precedent.
B)  Statistical methods are the best option for events that have no historic precedent.
C)  Forecasting using judgmental methods is always more precise than forecasting using statistical methods.
D)  Statistical methods are excellent for capturing historic trends.
E)  Judgmental methods are better than statistical methods for events that have historic precedent.F) A) and B)
G) B) and C)

Exam 5: Human Resource Planning and Recruitment

How do statistical forecasting methods differ from judgmental forecasting methods with regard to the labor market?

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One of the reasons that organizations engage in downsizing is that many firms change the location of where they do business for economic reasons.

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Public employment agencies serve primarily the blue-collar labor market; private employment agencies perform much the same service for the white-collar labor market.

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The last step in the human resource planning process is forecasting.

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________ is the practice or activity carried on by an organization with the primary purpose of identifying and attracting potential employees.

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Knowing the college is on the verge of a financial crisis,a few of the older professors get together and decide that they can help.Which option will they choose?

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Which of the following is NOT one of the forces that draw out an older worker's career?

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An advantage of employing temporary workers is that it frees a firm from many of the administrative tasks and financial burdens associated with being the "employer of record."

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Compare and contrast the employment-at-will policies and due process policies.

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In the late 1990s and early 2000s many jobs left the United States for a cheaper labor force.The American people did not like this move to ________ and stopped buying certain products until the company came back to the United States.

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________ is considered a slow option for avoiding an expected labor shortage but has high revocability.

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You are a recruiter for your company.Describe two traits that applicants might respond to and why?

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Hope College is planning for the next biennium.School administrators know that the enrollment is on the decline,but still need to offer students the best experience possible.They want to shrink their payroll slowly.They can accomplish this through

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Which of the following best explains why older people approaching retirement age have no intention of retiring?

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Yield ratios express the

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Which of the following pairs of recruiter characteristics does an applicant tend to respond to most positively?

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The process of attempting to ascertain the supply of and demand for various types of human resources is called

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Which of the following is true of statistical forecasting methods that capture historic trends?

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Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using temporary employees as an option in response to labor shortages.

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________ are people who are prompted to apply for a job by someone within the organization.

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