S | M05 Assignment 1

What is a direct benefit of conducting employee surveys?

• Improved individual employee performance

• Increased skills of HR staff

• Decreased labor strikes

• Early identification of workforce issues

What ER tactic is based on the principle of high employee involvement?

• Employees are regularly rotated into supervisory roles on a shop floor.

• Management makes significant workplace changes based on employee suggestions in an annual survey.

• Employee representatives vote on outsourcing a production function.

• A software development team determines how it will manage a project.

What HR risk management action contributes directly to a business continuity effort?

• Training staff in first aid

• Communicating evacuation plans to all employees

• Developing channels to facilitate reporting threats

• Maintaining succession plans

What is the major challenge for global organizations in establishing sustainable employee relationships?

• Developing standardized policies

• Balancing standardization and localization

• Understanding the demands of local law and culture

• Understanding differing employee expectations

What HR-directed policy initiative could best help resolve work/life balance conflicts for female employees?

• Revising promotion policies

• Instituting mentoring programs

• Initiating diversity awareness training

• Providing flextime and parenting leave benefits

What is the term for the agreement to not share or make public information that has been disclosed to an organization?

• Right to privacy

• Conflict of interest

• Confidentiality

• Anticorruption

Which of the following is NOT an outcome of employee engagement?

• Employees are motivated by pay increases.

• Employees have pride in their employer.

• Employees stay longer with the organization.

• Employees work extra to deliver excellent performance.

The employees have expressed dissatisfaction with rigid starting times, a lack of recognition for their work, and poor communication between managers and employees. The company can improve communication between management and employees by:

• increasing employee challenges and responsibilities.

• instituting an employee suggestion system.

• providing flexible work hours.

• directing employee concerns to the appropriate channel.

Task specialization usually

• decreases alienation and boredom.

• reduces productivity and efficiency.

• reduces absenteeism and turnover.

• decreases training time.

What is the MOST prevalent problem associated with the use of employee attitude surveys?

• Surveys are administered in-house.

• Employees are informed of survey results.

• Surveys are administered prior to management perceiving a problem.

• Survey results are not responded to by management.