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A company that implements a growth strategy is most likely to:


A) reduce its recruiting efforts.
B) downsize its workforce.
C) roll out early retirement offers and packages.
D) hire employees readily without additional work.

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Which of the following statements is true of efficiency wages?


A) They lead to a decrease in the average market wage rate.
B) They are offered to attract the best employees.
C) They are higher for jobs with low demand.
D) They result in an increase in employee turnover.

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If an organization anticipates retrenchment, then it will most likely need to hire additional human resources in the future.

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In the past, data analytics was at times referred to as "data mining."

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In the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) , the section on information inputs:


A) includes the physical activities, tools, and devices used by a worker to perform his or her job.
B) includes where and how a worker gets data needed to perform his or her job.
C) includes the relationships with other people that are required in performing a job.
D) represents the reasoning and information-processing activities involved in performing a job.

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The first step in the job-analysis process of an organization involves determining:


A) who is responsible for collecting data.
B) the precise information needs of the organization.
C) the methods for obtaining the information that the organization requires.
D) the subject matter experts within the organization.

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In the context of job-analysis techniques, which of the following refers to a family of job-analysis methods, each with unique characteristics, and each focusing on analyzing all the work performed in the focal job?


A) A narrative job analysis
B) The task-analysis inventory
C) A functional job analysis
D) The critical incidents approach

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Which of the following statements is true of job specifications?


A) They may include general educational requirements.
B) They focus more on jobs than on the individuals required to perform those jobs.
C) They provide some indication of the relative importance of specific tasks in the effective conduct of jobs.
D) They may specify major job elements.

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Which of the following statements is true of the functional job-analysis technique?


A) It provides information on 187 separate job-related items, allowing a rich picture of what happens on a job.
B) It focuses on the critical behaviors that distinguish effective from ineffective performers.
C) It emphasizes that all jobs can be described in terms of the level of involvement with people, data, and things.
D) It is the most common form of job analysis used in the U.S. military.

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Klebo and Philly is a growing pharmaceutical company. As part of its expansion process, the company must hire many new employees. It hires job analysts to list the knowledge, skills, and abilities that all future employees must have to perform the jobs that will emerge as a result of the expansion plan. In the given scenario, the job analysts hired by Klebo and Philly will most likely create a _____.


A) job description
B) job specification
C) job role
D) job title

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A company that implements a stability strategy is most likely to:


A) downsize its workforce through terminations and layoffs.
B) offer early retirement offers and packages to its employees.
C) increase the value of the existing employees through additional training.
D) intensify recruitment efforts and design attractive salary packages.

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A company's strategy is an important source of information for making human resource decisions because:


A) it provides a comprehensive picture of labor force trends and issues.
B) it determines whether employee turnover should be reduced or encouraged.
C) it generates an accurate description of the tasks performed in the company.
D) it helps the company comply with laws and government regulations.

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Which of the following statements is true of the task-analysis inventory?


A) The information generated by this method is often detailed and useful for setting training needs.
B) The task-analysis inventory is complex and relatively difficult to use.
C) It is easy to make comparisons across job families using this method.
D) Jobs are described in terms of the level of involvement with people, data, and things.

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Which of the following statements is true in the context of the use of data analytics and big data in human resource management (HRM) ?


A) The use of big data in human resource management is risk-free.
B) Data analytics does not have implications for decision-making in the human resource area.
C) Data analytics has been more popular in areas such as marketing, rather than in human resource management.
D) The application of big data in human resource management is limited to the analysis of transactional data in large volumes.

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In the context of job-analysis techniques, which of the following is a disadvantage of the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) ?


A) Unlike functional job analysis, its dimensions are believed to underlie selected jobs.
B) It is less useful for higher-level managerial jobs compared with other jobs.
C) Unlike the Management Position Description Questionnaire, it consists of less than 100 items.
D) It is typically individualistic, making it difficult to compare the tasks on one job with the tasks on another.

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Explain the concept of knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) in relation to job families.

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Which of the following job-analysis techniques most likely focuses on the important behaviors that distinguish effective from ineffective performers?


A) The critical incidents approach
B) The Position Analysis Questionnaire
C) The Fleishman job-analysis system
D) The task-analysis inventory method

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Which of the following lists the tasks, duties, and responsibilities that a particular job entails?


A) A job description
B) A job specification
C) Job enlargement
D) Job enrichment

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Which of the following statements is true of a narrative job analysis?


A) It is inexpensive as compared with other job-analysis techniques.
B) It is the least commonly used approach to job analysis.
C) It requires job analysts to undergo extensive training.
D) It focuses on the critical behaviors that distinguish effective from ineffective performers.

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What are human resource information systems? How do they help in the human resource planning process?

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