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Strategic Human Resource Management 2
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Strategic Human Resource Management 2
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1. Human resource research is a distinct HRM function that requires a special department in most large firms.
2. Development involves learning that goes beyond an employee's present job.
3. Although shareholders invest money in a firm, they have very little influence on management.
4. The performance standards of a profession are established by outside accreditation agencies.
5. Human resource planning is the systematic process of determining the skills, duties, and knowledge required for performing jobs in an organization.
6. Organization development is the planned and systematic attempts to change the organization, typically to a more behavioral environment.
7. Industrial relations requires HR specialists to negotiate with competing businesses for market share.
8. Staffing involves job analysis, human resource planning, recruitment, and selection.
9. Employer branding refers to the firm's corporate image or culture.
10. Richard works as an HR generalist at a furniture manufacturing firm, so he focuses on a single functional area of human resources.
11. Federal laws, society, and politics are external environmental factors, but shareholders, customers, and unions are internal environmental factors that affect a firm's human resources.
12. Performance management is a formal system of review and evaluation of individual or team task performance.
13. As a result of outsourcing and technology, the five HR functions have been reduced to four in most firms.
14. Human resource development involves training, career planning, organization development, and performance management.
15. Shared service centers typically handle tasks associated with benefits and pension administration, payroll, and relocation assistance, but succession planning and global training activities remain the responsibility of the firm's HR department.
16. Today, most firms would prefer having employees belong to unions because the unions handle health benefits.
17. Indirect financial compensation is the pay that a person receives in the form of wages, salaries, commissions, and bonuses.
18. A professional employer organization (PEO) leases employees to other organizations.
19. Billings Manufacturing has made the decision to use a professional employer organization. As a result, Billings will release its employees, who will then be hired by the PEO.
20. Human resource management (HRM) is the utilization of individuals to achieve organizational objectives.
21. Recruitment is the process of attracting qualified individuals and encouraging them to apply for work with the organization.
22. Business process outsourcing involves transferring one element of a business process, such as benefits administration, to a third party.
23. Society pressures a firm's HRM by expecting corporate social responsibility and ethical decision-making.
24. A shared service center (SSC), also known as a center of expertise, takes routine, transaction-based activities dispersed throughout the organization and consolidates them in one place.
25. A human resource manager is an individual who normally acts in an advisory or staff capacity by assisting other managers with HR issues.