Scanning the External Environment
Measuring Strategic Outcomes
Ethical Issues
Legislative and Regulatory Environment
Potpourri
100
Seven general factors shape this and affect an organization's success and productivity.
What is the external environment.
100
This provides a more rounded assessment of the results of strategic activity.
What is a balanced scorecard
100
Employers should have a carefully crafted electronic communications policy to minimize their exposure under this Act.
What is the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA)
100
The requirements regarding employing the disabled stem from this Act.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act
100
SHRM stands for this
What is the Society for Human Resource Management
200
Gender and ethnicity are examples of this.
What are Demographic Factors
200
This is calculated by dividing the net benefits of an action by the cost of the action. Net benefits equal the value received minus the action's cost.
What is ROI
200
This can be defined as principles of conduct within an organization that guide decision making behavior.
What is a Code of Ethics
200
S238 is an example of a bill originating from this body.
What is the Senate
200
Incidence rate statistics for work-related illnesses and injuries are the primary measure of this
What is the safety performance of the organization
300
For example, merit pay increases could be set slightly above inflation in order to keep pace with this.
What is the consumer price index (CPI)
300
Population, sample and normal distribution are important concepts of this
What is Inferential Statistics
300
This established that employer surveillance of union activities is an unfair labor practice
What is the Labor-Management Relations Act (Taft-Hartley Act)
300
A modification of the Constitution or a law.
What is an Amendment
300
Working with senior and line managers to forecast workforce needs for the next five years is a good example of this type of HR role
What is Strategic
400
Understanding turnover data and trends helps an organization plan its retention strategies and is an example of this environmental factor.
What is Employment.
400
The ability of an instrument to measure what it is intended to measure
What is Validity
400
One of the provisions of this 2010 Act is that Shareholders must be informed of the relationship between an executive's compensation and organization's financial performance
What is Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
400
The song 'I'm Just a Bill' was introduced on this Saturday morning 'show between shows'
What is Schoolhouse Rock
400
The use of third party contractors is known as this
What is outsourcing
500
The global economy is one of the International Factors that should be considered in an environmental scan. Increasingly, attention has been focused on the newly emerged economies of these countries, represented by this acronym, that now comprise 25% of the global economy
What is BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China)
500
The distance between the highest and lowest scores describes this measure of variation
What is Range
500
This illegal practice occurs when investors buy and sell shares of a company based on nonpublic information
What is Insider Training
500
The action of canceling or postponing a decision or bill
What is a Veto
500
March 9, 2012
What is the deadline for applying to take the PHR/SPHR test
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