The Job Description is used in multiple human resources processes such as recruiting, compensation and training.

Select one:

a. TRUE

b. FALSE

Information Repositories are dedicated for capturing, organizing, and retrieving data by the firm.

Select one:

a. TRUE

b. FALSE

It is very important that managers take multiple views of the strategic landscape.

Select one:

a. TRUE

b. FALSE

Organizations whose HR strategies match their competitive strategies do perform better.

Select one:

a. FALSE

b. TRUE

Which of the following is a characteristic of organizations with an external labor orientation

Select one:

a. people are hired early in their careers

b. a primary goal is to identify employees who will have long careers with the organization

c. the organization seeks to buy talent

d. employees identify closely with the organization

Which of the following is applicable to cost strategies

Select one:

a. Cost strategies encourage innovation.

b. One objective is to standardize jobs so that employees can learn and apply their work quickly.

c. One objective is to create new products and services that are better than competitors.

d. In cost strategies, people are free to try new approaches.

Which of the following statement applies to Universalistic Approach to HR strategy

Select one:

a. seeks to identify a set of human resource practices that is beneficial for all organizations.

b. identified a bundle of practices that appear to be generally beneficial.

c. seeks to align human resource practices with competitive business strategies.

d. helps ensure that employees have the training and freedom to pursue important job tasks.

Integration is one of work design principles that is concerned with coordinating the efforts of employees.

Select one:

a. TRUE

b. FALSE

Job specifications describe which of the following

Select one:

a. Knowledge and skills

b. Abilities

c. All answers are true.

d. Qualifications

Understanding broad changes outside the organization is NOT critical for human resource strategy.

Select one:

a. FALSE

b. TRUE

A job specification identifies tasks, effort responsibilities and working conditions of the job.

Select one:

a. TRUE

b. FALSE

Competitive business strategies focus on choices and actions concerning the management of people within the organization.

Select one:

a. FALSE

b. TRUE

Which of the following is TRUE about Social Capital as an IT resource

Select one:

a. All answers are true.

b. Social capital is about deciding who is connected to whom.

c. Social capital describes How people interact.

d. Social capital describes How people think and share opinions.

In Free Agent HR strategy, training is rare.

Select one:

a. FALSE

b. TRUE

Which of the following is TRUE about strategic Alignment of HR Practices

Select one:

a. Aligning HR practices with each other.

b. Both A and B are true

c. Aligning HR practices with strategic objectives.

d. Aligning HR practices with resources and capabilities.

Technical skills are part of the IT Assets.

Select one:

a. TRUE

b. FALSE

Excellent customer service is another potential area for differentiation.

Select one:

a. TRUE

b. FALSE

A strategy is a coordinated set of actions to fulfill objectives, purposes, or goals.

Select one:

a. FALSE

b. TRUE

The emphasis of Free Agent HR strategy is obtaining employees who do not demand high wages.

Select one:

a. FALSE

b. TRUE

A job is a collection of tasks that a person is required to perform at work.

Select one:

a. TRUE

b. FALSE

Organizations with differentiation strategies are expected to do best with which of the following HR strategy

Select one:

a. Committed Expert or Free Agent HR strategy

b. Loyal Soldier or Committed Expert HR strategy

c. Bargain Laborer or Loyal Soldier HR strategy

d. Free Agent or Loyal Soldier HR strategy

Which of the following statements is applicable to strategic work design

Select one:

a. Through work design, employees efforts are coordinated in a way that helps the organization achieve its competitive strategy.

b. Strategic work design uses both differentiation and integration.

c. All statements are TRUE.

d. Good differentiation and integration of work helps organizations increase productivity and improve customer satisfaction.

IS Strategy is the plan an organization uses in providing information services.

Select one:

a. TRUE

b. FALSE

Work design is defined as the process of assigning and coordinating work tasks.

Select one:

a. FALSE

b. TRUE

Human resource management is critical for strategic planning

Select one:

a. because high-quality employees are relatively rare

b. mainly when an organization requires general skills

c. because of the high cost of compensation

d. mainly when an organization requires technological skills

The goal of a business pursuing cost leadership is to become highly efficient.

Select one:

a. FALSE

b. TRUE

Which of the following Recruitment and Selection practice is in alignment with Committed Expert HR Strategy

Select one:

a. Emphasis on job fit only.

b. Emphasis on career fit

c. Emphasis on both organizational and job fit

d. Emphasis on organizational fit only.

Autonomy is the extent to which individual workers are given the freedom and independence to plan and carry out work tasks.

Select one:

a. FALSE

b. TRUE

Job analysis is the process of systematically collecting information about work tasks.

Select one:

a. TRUE

b. FALSE