Midterm Questions Flashcards
What is considered the “hidden cost” of a poor selection?
The cost of orienting a newly selected employee to replace the unsuccessful?
Strategic objectives not being met?
*?Customer alienation and internal disorganization?
Customer alienation only?
Learning Inc. has an HRIS which has a subsystem that includes data on employees skills and competencies, development activities, and career planning in terms of which positions might be most appropriate for an employee based on skills/competences. What subsystem do they have?
training and development
Compliance is a subsystem of HRIS mainly used by
HR only
Being completely familiar with employment legislation, HR policies and procedures, collective agreements, and the outcome of recent arbitration hearings and court decisions is most closely related to which of the following HR activities
Offering advice
In an office with one supervisor, on assistant, two clerks and two data entry operators, there are how many positions and how many jobs?
four jobs six positions
Inadequate human resource planning within an organization can result in direct costs when labour demand decreases significantly for an extended period of time. What provides an accurate reasoning for this?
A) there are project management costs.
B) there is a link to privacy laws.
C) it would cause costs associated with hiring part-time workers.
D) severance pay is required for a large number of staff.
E) it would cause hiring more HR staff.
Severance pay is required for a large number of staff.
Deploying highly developed HR techonolgy to manage HR functions will enable members of an HR department to…
A) increase their efficiency.
B) focus on transforming information to knowledge.
C) relinquish the role of the ʺsole custodianʺ of employee information.
D) delegate to managers and employees the ability to use HR information to solve their
problems.
E) all of the above.
relinquish the role of the ʺsole custodianʺ of employee information.
What is the first step in human resource planning?
forecasting availability of internal candidates
Nelu is part of the HR department of a production company. The HR department was the sole custodian of all HR related data. Therefore, Nelu spends most of her time handing employee queries on personal questions. The company has….
a paper based system
Amal works for a production line. Hist task is to sew a button to the button hole of winter jackets. Since last month he was given the task of creating the button hole in addition to attaching the button. This is know as…
Job enlargement
Jim is a new employee. He makes unwelcome sexual remarks and jokes. His behaviour is offensive and intimidating the the female employees. Jims behaviour is…
sexual harassment
Guidelines for implementing a harassment policy should include
???
The charter of rights and freedoms and the rights it contains, such as freedom of association apply to
???
Each of the following statments about HRP is true except??
??
Evidence of pervasive patterns of differential treatment against the employment equity designate groups includes
…
