HRM Quiz 3

Course	Human Resource Management
Test	Quiz 1
Started	11/19/15 1:32 AM
Submitted	11/19/15 2:45 AM
Status	Completed
Attempt Score	47.5 out of 50 points
Time Elapsed	1 hour, 13 minutes out of 1 hour and 15 minutes
Results Displayed	Submitted Answers, Feedback

• Question 1

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	Which of the following describes the best training and development process?
	Selected Answer: 5. Training and development is a way to foster the career development of employees at all levels.

• Question 2

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	The industrial welfare movement started around the turn of the century. It was
	Selected Answer: 5. a voluntary effort by employers to improve the life of employees on and off the job.

• Question 3

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	The Hawthorne studies were experiments that studied
	Selected Answer: 5. how lighting effects workers and their outputs.

• Question 4

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	Non-financial rewards are particularly important in organizations staffed by unpaid volunteers.
	Selected Answer: 1. True

• Question 5

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	_______________ is the process of assessing the organization’s HR needs and making plans to ensure that a competent, motivated work force is employed.
	Selected Answer: 5. Human resources planning

• Question 6

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	When Jim attended a class on how to use statistics for assembly-line quality control, he was
	Selected Answer: 5. participating in the performance evaluation process.

• Question 7

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	The Wagner Act recognized the right of union employees to bargain collectively.
	Selected Answer: 1. True

• Question 8

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	A change in the perspective on human resources management has been
	Selected Answer: 1. toward a more dynamic, organization-wide, action-oriented role interrelated with strategic planning.

• Question 9

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	The __________ established a nationwide unemployment compensation system.
	Selected Answer: 1. Social Security Act

• Question 10

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	Frank and Lillian Gilbreth’s analytical approach to efficiency in industry is called time-and-motion study.
	Selected Answer: 1. True

• Question 11

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	Scientific management is most closely associated with the research at the Hawthorne Plant of Western Electric Company.
	Selected Answer: 2. False

• Question 12

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	Under a yellow-dog contract, employers agree to hire only certified union members.
	Selected Answer: 2. False

• Question 13

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	All personnel functions are interrelated.
	Selected Answer: 1. True

• Question 14

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	Labor unions are formed to
	Selected Answer: 2. protect workers and improve their working conditions.

• Question 15

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	Staffing uses only those already employed to fill positions within the organization.
	Selected Answer: 2. False

• Question 16

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	The flow of events, including the necessary strategies through which the people in the organization improve the organization’s effectiveness is called the
	Selected Answer: 3. organization improvement process.

• Question 17

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	Frederick Taylor analyzed workers’ body movements by studying motion pictures of tasks being performed.
	Selected Answer: 2. False

• Question 18

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	The purpose of performance appraisal is to provide feedback to employees and information for organizational decisions.
	Selected Answer: 1. True

• Question 19

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	Testing the alphabetizing skills of job applicants for a file clerk’s position is an example of the work of
	Selected Answer: 4. Hugo Munsterberg, an early industrial psychologist.

• Question 20

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	Only HR specialists are responsible for the human resources management functions.
	Selected Answer: 2. False