Test Bank For Human Resource Management 5th Canadian Edition By Sandra Steen

Chapter 01 

Strategies, Trends, and Challenges in Human Resource Management

True / False Questions
1. Managers and economists traditionally have seen human resource management as a source of value to their organizations.
FALSE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization’s performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-03 Human Resources and Organizational Performance

2. The concept of “human resource management” implies that employees are interchangeable, easily replaced assets that should be managed like any other physical asset.
FALSE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization’s performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-03 Human Resources and Organizational Performance

3. No two human resource departments will have precisely the same roles and responsibilities.
TRUE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization’s performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-04 What Are the Responsibilities of HR Departments?

4. Recruitment refers to the process by which an organization selects applicants with the right knowledge, skills, and abilities to help the organization achieve its goals.
FALSE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization’s performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-07 Recruiting and Hiring Employees

5. Performance management requires that employee activities and outputs match the individual’s goals.
FALSE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization’s performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-09 Performance Management

6. Important decisions in planning pay and benefits include how much to offer employees in salary or wages, as opposed to bonuses, commissions, and other performance-related pay.
TRUE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization’s performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-10 Total Rewards

7. The shift to self-service requires HR to spend more time on day-to-day transactional tasks.
FALSE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization’s performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-13 Managing and Using Human Resource Data

8. Compliance with laws and regulations is not an HR responsibility, but rather the sole responsibility of managers within the organization.
FALSE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization’s performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-14 Ensuring Compliance with Federal and Provincial/Territorial Legislation

9. HR is increasingly becoming a purely administrative function.
FALSE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization’s performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-15 Focus on Strategy

10. As part of its strategic role, one of the key contributions HR can make is to engage in evidence-based HRM.
TRUE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Define human resource management and explain how HRM contributes to and supports an organization’s performance and strategies.
Topic: 01-16 Evidence-based HRM