MAJOR CHALLENGES
PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING STRATEGIES
SELECTING STRATEGIES
BEST PRACTICES
ORGANIZATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
100
As the director of HR, you are in a meeting with your corporate officers discussing the firm's deliberate use of personnel to gain a competitive edge in the marketplace. You are most likely discussing...
What is human resource strategies?
100
Strategic human resource planning is best defined as the process of
What is formulating HR strategies and establishing programs to implement them?
100
Which term refers to the compatibility between HR strategies and other key aspects of an organization?
What is Fit?
100
This term refers to an organization-wide approach to improving the quality of all the processes that lead to a final product or service?
What is Total Quality Management?
100
Formal or informal relationships between people in an organization are known by this term.
What is Organizational structure?
200
Tony works in the finance department as an accounting clerk. He keeps a time card and receives extra pay for any overtime he works. Tony is most likely a(n)...
What is nonexempt staff employee?
200
Molly heads a large company that has just experienced a major brain drain. She immediately increases compensation to new employees and gives each employee with over 10 years experience an extra 3 days of paid vacation per year. This is an example of
What is reactive HR strategy?
200
For an HR strategic plan to fit with organizational strategies, it most likely needs to align with...
What is the firm's corporate and business unit strategies?
200
This has aided decentralization in many companies.
What is Internet technology ?
200
The choice of a prospector strategy for a business would be most appropriate when a firm:
What is operates in an uncertain business environment?
300
Salaried employees are also known as ________ employees.
What is exempt?
300
Managers who rely on their personal views and experiences to solve problems are more likely to run the risk of
What is making false assumptions about the business and threatening corporate profitability?
300
An evolutionary firm would most likely be
What is highly decentralized and flexible?
300
A study of fast-growth firms shows that they are more likely to employ managers who are...
What is risk-takers?
300
A company with a prospector strategy would most likely...
What is give employees more responsibility?
400
Due to the increasing work pace and burnout in the United States, more workers are dealing with stress. According to your text, an increasing number of firms are choosing to...
What is provide employees with stress-control programs?
400
In order to stimulate critical thinking, the strategic HR planning process should most likely be
What is ongoing and flexible?
400
Manvel Enterprises is implementing a differentiation strategy. Manvel will most likely...
What is create a unique product?
400
A periodic review of the effectiveness with which a company uses its human resources is called a(n)...
What is HR audit?
400
Which type of organizational structure would be most appropriate for a company with a defender strategy?
What is Bureaucratic?
500
RCA is creating a corporate identity to smooth over cultural differences between its domestic and international employees. RCA is most likely addressing the HRM challenge of:
What is globalization?
500
Kelly spends her day focusing on recruiting qualified employees for her growing company, reviewing benefit plans in order to offer competitive compensation packages, and creating online job postings. Kelly is most likely facing the strategic HR planning challenge of
What is concentrating too much on day-to-day problems?
500
Firms that display a defender strategy will most likely...
What is encourage individual training?
500
Rudy is writing a report about the challenges at the individual-level his firm is facing. This topic would be LEAST relevant to the report?
What is outsourcing low-paying jobs?
500
Alyssa finds a job description for an interesting retail position. The job description indicates exactly what department of the store she would be responsible for and what her duties would be. The ad describes good opportunities for advancement within the retail area, so she could become the managing retail director for her department. However, she would not be able to move into finance or production. This is an example of which organizational strategy?
What is Work specialization?
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