How have HR executives taken a greater strategic role in organizations?

Which of the following is NOT a step in the strategic planning process?

What is the process called by which top management determines overall organizational purposes and objectives and how they are to be achieved?

The marketing department at ABC Widget Company has been assigned the task of developing a strategic plan. The marketing team has completed the first three steps of strategic planning. Which of the following steps does the marketing department need to take in order to complete the strategic planning assignment?

In strategic planning, the purpose of a SWOT analysis is to assess the organization's ________.

Which of the following terms refers to a unit's continuing purpose, or reason for being?

8) What is the first step in the strategic planning process?

5) Which is a true statement about price premiums for differentiated products?

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of an objective?

Which of the following should most likely be accomplished before setting an objective?

Brand loyalty is most characteristic of which competitive strategy?

Two fundamental business strategies are ________.

Compared with lowest-cost strategies, successful attainment of differentiation strategies

depends on _____

The systematic process of matching the internal and external supply of people with job openings anticipated

in the organization over a specified period of time is referred to as _____

What activity precedes the human resource planning process?

What are the two components of human resource planning?

Steve is an HR specialist at Cisco Systems. Steve needs to determine the number, skill, and location of employees

that Cisco will need in 12 months in order to achieve the firm's strategic plan.

Which of the following would best meet Steve's needs?

A firm becomes aware of having a surplus or shortage of employees

as a result of comparing ________.

AAA Technology manufactures 2,000 cell phones each week, which requires 20,000 hours of work from assemblers during a 40-hour week.

How many assemblers does AAA need each week?

Which of the following is a forecasting technique that uses the organization's current level of employment

as the starting point for determining future staffing?

What forecasting technique involves an analysis to determine

whether the firm can justify filling an open position?

In ________, each successive level in the organization, starting with the lowest, forecasts its requirements,

ultimately providing an aggregate forecast of employees needed.

What relationship tends to exist between demand (sales volume)

and the number of employees needed?

Which of the following is NOT an action firms take

when a shortage of workers is forecasted?

Which of the following is NOT an alternative to laying off employees?

The process of ensuring that a qualified person is available to assume a key managerial position

once the position is vacant is referred to as ________.

The systematic process of determining the skills, duties and knowledge required for performing jobs

in an organization is referred to as a job ________.

Which term refers to a group of tasks that must be performed

if an organization is to achieve its goals?

Which of the following refers to the collection of tasks and responsibilities performed by one person?

 In a workgroup consisting of a supervisor, two analysts, and four clerks,

how many jobs and positions are involved?

Why are most job analyses conducted?

Job analysis information is used to prepare ________.

A document that provides information regarding the tasks, duties, and responsibilities

of the job is referred to as a ________.

Which of the following provides the minimum acceptable qualifications

that a person should possess to perform the job?

How does job analysis primarily benefit an HR manager?

Job description information benefits HR management

in all of the following ways EXCEPT ________.

Competencies refer to an individual's capability to orchestrate

and apply combinations of ________ over time to perform work successfully.

The process of determining the specific tasks to be performed, the methods used in performing these tasks, and how the job relates to other work in the organization refers to ________.

Which term refers to basic changes in the content and level of responsibility of a job

so as to provide greater challenges to the worker?

Which of the following terms refers to increasing the number of tasks a worker performs, with all of the tasks

at the same level of responsibility?

Audrey is a recent college graduate who was hired by a computer manufacturing firm.

Each week, Audrey will be assigned to a different department in order to broaden her understanding of the firm and help her understand a variety of jobs.

In which of the following is Audrey most likely participating?

Which term refers to the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to become

more competitive?

As an HR specialist at a large auto manufacturer, you have noticed that many of the technicians employed

by your firm are bored with their jobs, not meeting performance goals, and frequently absent.

Which of the following would most likely resolve some of these problems among technicians?

Talent management does not include ________.

Which of the following is one of the greatest challenges to global talent management?

The strategic endeavor to optimize the use of human capital is called ________.

Talent management enables an organization to drive short-term and long-term results

by building all of the following EXCEPT ________.