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Human Resource Management, 5th Canadian Edition By Sandra Steen, Raymond Noe, John Hollenbeck, Barry Gerhart, Patrick Wright (Test Bank)
Human Resource Management, 5th Canadian Edition By Sandra Steen, Raymond Noe, John Hollenbeck, Barry Gerhart, Patrick Wright (Test Bank)
(Human Resource Management, 5th Canadian Edition By Sandra Steen, Raymond Noe, John Hollenbeck, Bar
Gerhart, Patrick Wright)
(Test Bank all Chapters)
Chapter 01
Strategies, Trends, and Challenges in Human Resource Management
True / False Questions
1. Managers and economists traditionally have seen human resource management as a source
of value to their organizations.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization's
performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-03 Human Resources and Organizational Performance
2. The concept of "human resource management" implies that employees are interchangeable,
easily replaced assets that should be managed like any other physical asset.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization's
performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-03 Human Resources and Organizational Performance
3. No two human resource departments will have precisely the same roles and
responsibilities.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization's
performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-04 What Are the Responsibilities of HR Departments?
1-1
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4. Recruitment refers to the process by which an organization selects applicants with the right
knowledge, skills, and abilities to help the organization achieve its goals.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization's
performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-07 Recruiting and Hiring Employees
5. Performance management requires that employee activities and outputs match the
individual's goals.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization's
performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-09 Performance Management
6. Important decisions in planning pay and benefits include how much to offer employees in
salary or wages, as opposed to bonuses, commissions, and other performance-related pay.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization's
performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-10 Total Rewards
7. The shift to self-service requires HR to spend more time on day-to-day transactional tasks.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization's
performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-13 Managing and Using Human Resource Data
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8. Compliance with laws and regulations is not an HR responsibility, but rather the sole
responsibility of managers within the organization.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization's
performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-14 Ensuring Compliance with Federal and Provincial/Territorial Legislation
9. HR is increasingly becoming a purely administrative function.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization's
performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-15 Focus on Strategy
10. As part of its strategic role, one of the key contributions HR can make is to engage in
evidence-based HRM.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization's
performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-16 Evidence-based HRM
11. Canada underperforms the United States with respect to productivity.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization's
performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-18 Productivity Improvement
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12. HRM should have a significant role in carrying out a merger or acquisition.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization's
performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-19 Mergers and Acquisitions
13. Non-traditional workers e.g. contractors and temporary workers, currently represent more
than 50 percent of the workforce, and this percentage is expected to increase significantly.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization's
performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-20 Non-traditional Employment and the Gig Economy
14. Setting up a business enterprise in another country (e.g. building a factory in China) is
called outsourcing.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization's
performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-21 Outsourcing
15. HR Professionals require a small number of highly specialized technical competencies.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Analyze
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: 01-02 Summarize competencies; careers; professional accreditation; and ethics in human resource management.
Topic: 01-23 What Competencies Do HR Professionals Need?
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