2248_MGMT 4710/6950 - Ch 2 - CONNECT Activities

Trends in the external labor force most immediately affect a company's

• internal work force

• bottom line

• sustainability efforts

• sales forecasting

Which of the following is not a trend in the composition of the U.S. labor force affecting HRM practices today?

• Required skills have shifted away from physical strength.

• Younger workers between 16 and 24 will be fewer.

• Fewer women are in the paid labor force than in the past.

• Older workers are staying in the workforce longer.

Over the next decade, which of the following will be the fastest-growing age group in the U.S. workforce?

• 55 and older

• 25–54

• 16–24

• None of the answer choices are correct

What is the fastest-growing ethnic category in the U.S. workforce?

• White

• Black

• Asian

• Hispanic

Today's workplaces often bring together employees representing three or four generations of workers. Which generation of workers tends to be pragmatic and cynical with well-developed self-management skills?

• Millennials

• Generation X

• Baby Boomers

• The Silent Generation

For employees who work at Accenture, there would be a noticeable emphasis on a strategy to deal with the increasing velocity of change. Which focus of Human Resource Management best identifies that strategy?

• Ensure employee skills in technology, industry, and functional areas remain current.

• Help employees understand that technology will eventually eliminate human jobs.

• Ensure the company does not overreact to leading-edge technologies but rather waits to train on them until they are much further developed.

• Minimize the ways in which to offer training in order to control consistency of delivery.

Accenture has “democratized” learning approaches. This means that

• employees will determine together what training is to be offered.

• employees will take turns facilitating training in order to gain important new skills.

• employees will have “real-time” access to training through options like mobile devices, classroom, or training centers.

• employees will vote on the time, place, and methods to learn new skills.

In the video, Ellyn stated that Accenture is focused on massive reskilling of its workforce on extended reality, artificial intelligence (AI), and block chain. These are all examples of

• new ways to deliver training.

• ways to leverage generational diversity in the workforce.

• leading-edge technological changes.

• strategic initiatives for human resources.

Accenture has strategically promoted the idea of generational diversity as an advantage for its company. Which of the following statements best summarizes Accenture's strategy?

• They acknowledge that older workers can reach a level where they do not need further skill development and serve as mentors only to the younger workers.

• They try to limit reskilling to those generations who are the best at accepting change.

• They appoint older workers to train younger and newly entering workers on emerging technologies.

• They pair older workers with younger workers to accomplish learning and training that benefits older workers more.

According to Ellyn, the best way to reskill employees most quickly is to

• practice a skill in trial and error format and then learn the correct way at some later time.

• learn something new and then practice the skill right away.

• force them to learn the skills through “extended reality” first.

• not provide that many opportunities to learn something new until they have demonstrated long-term mastery of basic skills first.