FINAL EXAM ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES

Which of the following is NOT primarily a human resource management activity?

• a. providing compensation

• b. performing job analyses

• c. designing jobs

• d. conducting research

Human resource planning involves _____.

• a. assessing the future human resource needs

• b. determining the availability of the type of people needed

• c. creating plans for how to meet HR needs

• d. all of the above

Motorola determined that its manufacturing jobs required that employees read at the ninth grade level and have a basic understanding of statistics.  This is an example of _____.

• a. job specification

• b. job analysis

• c. job description

• d. job selection

Orientation may involve a discussion of _____.

• a. the company and its business activities

• b. the company’s key competitors

• c. key policies and pay procedures

• d. all of the above

Human resource management best reflects

• a. contingency theory

• b. general management theory

• c. organizational behavior and Hawtorne studies

• d. burocracy theory

Job analysis and job descrition best explains....

• a. contingency theory

• b. organizational behavior and Hawtorne studies

• c. scientific management theory

• d. a and b

Job analysis and job description are aligned with principle number_________from the scientific management theory

• a. 2

• b. 1

• c. 3

• d. 4

decruting is related to.....

• a. hiring people

• b. training people

• c. firing and laying people off

• d. all of the above

the one that does not correspond to organizational design is...

• a. functional

• b. by product

• c. by market

• d. scientific management

types of selections tools are....

• a. application forms

• b. interviews

• c. background investigations

• d. all of the above