Human Resources Management (Recruitment and Selection)

The process of acquiring, deploying, and retaining a workforce of sufficient quantity and quality to create positive impacts on the organization's effectiveness is called ________.

• staffing

• recruitment

• selection

• placement

Which of the following statements is true regarding staffing?

• The organization is the only active player in the staffing process.

• The staffing process is composed of a series of interrelated parts including recruitment, selection, decision making and job offers.

• The staffing process should only be viewed from the perspective of the individual (line) manager.

• None of the above

The process that involves the placement of new hires on the actual job they will hold is called ________.

• acquisition

• deployment

• retention

• none of the above

The purpose of retention systems is to ________.

• attract qualified applicants to job openings in the organization

• establish a good person-job match

• manage the flow of employees out of the organization

• establish a good person-organization match

Staffing systems should ultimately be used, to ________.

• ensure that day-to-day operations run smoothly

• ensure that procedural, transactional, and routine activities are accomplished

• reduce costs regardless of the effects on quality or quantity

• contribute to the attainment of organizational goals such as survival, profitability, and growth

According to the staffing quantity model, an organization will be ________ when availabilities exceed requirements.

• fully staffed

• understaffed

• overstaffed

• none of the above

The staffing quantity model uses ________ to determine whether a condition of being overstaffed, fully staffed, or understaffed exists.

• projected staffing requirements

• projected staffing availabilities

• projected economic trends

• projected staffing requirements and projected staffing availabilities are both needed

Which of the following are portions of person-job match?

• Jobs are characterized by their requirements

• Jobs are characterized by their embedded rewards

• Individuals are characterized by their level of qualification and motivation

• All of the above

Which of the following statements is false regarding person-job match?

• Jobs are characterized by their requirements and embedded rewards.

• Individuals are characterized by their level of qualification.

• Organizational culture is an important aspect of person-job match.

• Individuals can be characterized by their motivation levels.

The person/job match model says that there must be a match between ________.

• job requirements with KSAOs and job rewards with individual motivation

• job requirements and individual motivation

• KSAOs and individual motivation

• none of the above