aPHR CERTIFICATION 2024-2025 FINAL
EXAM STUDY GUIDE LATEST
QUESTIONS AND DETAILED CORRECT
ANSWERS | A+ GRADE STUDYGUIDE
Top 5 qualities employers look for in employees Correct
Answer 1)- Teamwork Skills
2)- Verbal Communications Skills
3)- Decision Making, Problem Solving
4)- Gathering / Processing information
5)- Planning/ Prioritizing Tasks
Training Correct Answer A planned effort to enable
employees to learn job-related knowledge, skills, and
behavior
Development Correct Answer The acquisition of
knowledge, skills, and behaviors that improve an
employees ability to meet changes in job requirements
and in customer demands
Performance Management Correct Answer The process of
ensuring that employees' activities and output match the
organization's goals.
Compensation and benefits Correct Answer This function
includes Wage and salary administration, incentive pay,
insurance, vacation leave administration, retirement plans,
profit sharing, stock plans
,Employee Relations Correct Answer Preparing and
distributing employee handbooks, company publications,
answer questions about benefits and company policy,
address problems between employees and supervisors,
communication with union representatives
Workforce analytics Correct Answer The use of
quantitative tools and scientific methods to analyze data
from human resource databases and other sources to
make evidence-based decisions that support business
goals.
Organizational Strategy Correct Answer Organization's
plan for meeting broad goals such as profitability , quality,
and market share
How HR supports the organization's strategy Correct
Answer Understanding the organization's business
operations, projecting how business trends might affect
the business,reinforcing positive aspects of the
organization's culture, developing talent for present and
future needs, crafting effective HR strategies, effective
human resource planning
Human Resource Planning Correct Answer Identifying the
numbers and types of employees the organization will
require to meet its objectives.
Forecasting Correct Answer The attempts to determine
the supply of and demand for various types of human
,resources to predict areas within the organization where
there will be labor shortages or surpluses
Trend analysis Correct Answer Constructing and applying
statistical models that predict labor demand for the next
year, given relatively objectives statistics from the previous
year
Leading indicators Correct Answer Objective measures
that accurately predict future labor demand
Transitional Matrix Correct Answer Statistical procedure to
determine labor supply
A chart that lists job categories held in one period and
shows the proportion of employees in each of those job
categories in a future period
Core Competency Correct Answer A set of knowledge and
skills that make the organization superior to competitors
and create value for customers
Options for reducing a surplus Correct Answer
Downsizing, pay reductions, demotions, transfers, work
sharing, hiring freeze, natural attrition, early retirement,
retraining
Options for avoiding a shortage Correct Answer Overtime,
temporary employees, outsourcing, retrained transfers,
turnover reductions, new external hires, technological
innovations
, Workforce Utilization Review Correct Answer A
comparison of the proportion of employees in protected
groups with the proportion that each group represents in
the relevant labor market
Talent Management Correct Answer A systematic,
planned effort to attract, retain, develop, and motivate
highly skilled employees and managers
Evidence-based HR Correct Answer Collecting and using
data to show that human resources practices have a
positive influence on the company's bottom line or key
stakeholders (employees, customers, community, and
shareholders)
Sustainability Correct Answer An organization's ability to
profit without depleting its resources, including employees,
natural resources, and the support of the surrounding
community
Stakeholders Correct Answer The parties with an interest
in the company's
'success ( shareholders, community, customers, and
employees )
HRM professionals' skills Correct Answer Successful
Members of The Human Resource department must be
able to share information, build relationships, and
influence persons inside and outside the company. The
HR department needs to bring together a large pool of
skills. These skills fall into six basic functions: 1-Credible
