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Test Bank For Human Resource Management 15th Edition Mathis
8. Some of the major ways of increasing employee productivity are organizational restructuring, redesigning work,
aligning human resource activities, and outsourcing analyses.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
9. Organizational culture consists of the shared values and beliefs that give members of an organization meaning and
provide them with rules for behavior.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
10. Even if an organization does not have a history in which people have shared experiences for years, the organizational
culture will stabilize.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
11. The operational role of human resource involves focusing on clerical administration and recordkeeping, including
essential legal paperwork and policy implementation.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
12. The administrative role of human resource involves serving as employee “champion” for employee issues and
concerns.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
13. The strategic role of human resource involves helping to define and implement the business strategy relative to human
capital and its contribution to the organization's results.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
14. An expatriate is a citizen of one country who is working in a second country and employed by an organization
headquartered in the first country.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
15. HR leaders are looking into making overseas assignments shorter in length and relying on technology to help build
overseas business relationships.
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16. Global staffing has created political issues such as questioning U.S. federal legislation that restricts the number of
high-skilled workers admitted from other countries.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
17. Replacing the experience and talents of longer-service workers is a challenge facing employers in all industries.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
18. An increasing number of individuals characterize themselves as multiracial, changing the diversity of potential
workers.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
20. Firms using tweets on competitive service details lead to problems associated with using social media.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
21. A written corporate code of ethics encourages ethical behavior among employees.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
22. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires companies to establish ethics codes, develop employee complaint systems, and have
antiretaliation policies for employees who act as whistle-blowers to identify wrongful actions.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
23. It is not necessary for human resource professionals at all levels to possess strategic knowledge and impact.
a. True
b. False
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24. A person who has in-depth knowledge and expertise in a limited area of human resources is known as a human
resource generalist.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
25. A person with the responsibility of performing a variety of human resource activities is known as a human resource
specialist.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
26. For human resource specialists, the largest organization is the Society for Human Resource Management.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
28. Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), a human resource certification, is sponsored by the Human
Resource Certification Institute.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
29. Global Professional in Human Resource (GPHR), a human resource certification, is sponsored by the American
Society for Training and Development.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
30. Certified Compensation Professional (CCP), a human resource certification, is sponsored by the WorldatWork
Association.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
Multiple Choice
31. Which of the following statements is true of the functions of human resource management?
a. It is a clerical operation in large companies concerned with payroll and employee records.
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32. Binkers, LLC and Toves Inc. have merged, doubling the number of production facilities. To help decide which
facilities to keep open and which should be closed, Bella has been asked to measure the productivity of the workforces at
the facilities. Bella should __________.
a. determine the total cost of people required for each unit of output
b. determine the total cost of people required for an output of 100 units
c. determine the total cost of people required to complete a day’s worth of work
d. determine the total cost of people required to complete a year’s worth of work
ANSWER: a
34. Big Drop Inc. wants to increase employee productivity by eliminating layers of management and changing reporting
relationships, as well as cutting staff through downsizing, layoffs and early retirement buyout programs. This is an
example of __________.
a. organizational restructuring
b. redesigning work
c. aligning human resource activities
d. outsourcing analyses
ANSWER: a
35. __________, a method of increasing employee productivity, involves making changes to the way work gets done by
focusing on the characteristics of jobs and altering how tasks are structured and coordinated.
a. Organizational restructuring
b. Aligning HR activities
c. Outsourcing analyses
d. Redesigning work
ANSWER: d
36. __________, a method of increasing employee productivity, includes ensuring that HR efforts and practices are
consistent with organizational efforts to improve productivity and satisfy strategic goals.
a. Outsourcing analyses
b. Redesigning work
c. Aligning human resource activities
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“I find here still the Jews. The same precise account of their
arrival and taking up their residence in the valleys of Atlas. One is
here from Jerusalem begging alms, unusual amongst the Jews. He
is advanced in years, quite blind, and has kept constant pace with
me, taking advantage of my escorts from Tangier to this place: is
anxious to get to Arowan,[160] where there is a very learned Rabbi. I
cannot help him; my means will not allow me. They ask nearly as
much for his passage as my own; having a greater fear of the Jews
getting to Soudan than the Christians. I trust by this time your Royal
Highness has recovered your perfect sight, hoping that about the
period of this letter’s reaching England, your Royal Highness will
have received the copies of the inscriptions from the tombs of the
district of Mesfywa. I can hardly expect the copy of the record from
Couba or Kobba will reach Morocco till the end of the autumn, when
the Rabbi told me he should be returning, and would deliver it to the
Consular Agent, the Jew Courkoss, to whom I have several times
written. My companion begs most respectfully to present his duty,
and hopes your Royal Highness will deign to receive the few lines
from his pen, which he begs me to enclose. I am sorry to say I have
great fears for his health; he cannot bear fatigue, and has been
attacked with ophthalmia. The whole of the Soudan people know
him, and tell me he will prove a certain passport; that he is a cousin
of Hamed Libboo; and another of his cousins, Ali, called Koutouk,
the warrior, is now king of Kong, and that many of his family are at
Kong, all rich and in power.
“Hoping this will find your Royal Highness in the enjoyment of
perfect health, and trusting shortly to have the honour of addressing
your Royal Highness from Soudan,
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“John Davidson.”
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immense, near 400 men, and, they say, 2,000 camels, I am not even
going with it. I should, by all accounts, as a Christian and a doctor,
be worried to death. I go straight from this to Arowan, never touching
the Cafila route at all; we shall not see a single tent. There are some
wells, known only to two or three of the guides. We take five naggas
(she camels) for milk, the five men, and Mohammed El Abd, some
zimēta (barley meal). I take the biscuit for Abou and self; each
carries a skin of water, to be touched only if the milk fails: thirty days
to bring us to Arowan, and five more to Timbuctoo.’
“I have made the above extracts to assure you that the
arrangements were made, and Mr. Davidson ready to start at a
moment’s notice, and that in the course of two or three days I hope
to have the pleasure to acquaint you of his having proceeded on his
journey. Once away from Wád Nún, and I have every and the fullest
confidence of his efforts being crowned with success.
“I have the honour to be, Sir,
“Your most obedient servant,
“Wm. Willshire.”
“P.S.—I open this letter to add, I have received a letter from Mr.
Davidson, dated Saturday, the 5th inst., who appears in high spirits,
and writes,—
“‘The start is to be on Monday, although I do not go on that day;
everything is now packed up, and placed ready to be put on the
camels, with which Abou starts at day-break on Monday. I am to be
left here, as if having sent him on. Mohammed El Abd remains
behind. On Wednesday or Thursday, according to the distance made
by the camels on the first day, we start on horseback, accompanied
by Beyrock and about six horsemen, and are to make Yeisst, if
possible, in one day. Here I leave the district of Wadnoon. And to this
place is three days’ journey for loaded camels. I here leave my horse
and mount my camel, and we push on to the tents.’
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to me by a courier, who brought me a letter from him of that date,
and which I reported in a letter I had the honour to address to his
Majesty’s secretary of state, Viscount Palmerston, on the 8th inst.,
and which you will oblige me by correcting and making known to his
lordship.
“Your most obedient servant,
“W. W.”
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expedition:—
Society of London:—
“To the Noble Prince, exalted by the Lord, Mulai Abd Errachnan ben
Hussein, whom God protect.
“An English gentleman having arrived at Gibraltar within a few
days past, as bearer of a letter, which he is charged to deliver to his
Imperial Majesty, from the King my most gracious sovereign, may it
please your Imperial Majesty to deign to cause me to be informed
when and where it may be convenient for your Imperial Majesty to
receive the bearer of the royal letter.
“Peace—this 20th day of September, in the year of Christ 1835
(26th Joomad the 1st, 1251).
“Edw. Drummond Hay,
“H. B. M.’s Agent and Consul-General in Morocco.”
“In the name of the merciful God, and there is no power or
strength but in God the high and excellent.
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nation—this premised—
“Your letter has reached our presence, exalted of God, regarding
the gentleman who arrived at Gibraltar with a letter from the Pre-
eminent of your nation; in consequence whereof, if he please to
deliver the letter to our employed, the kaid ............[202] Essedy, for the
purpose of being forwarded to our presence, exalted of God, he may
do so; but if he wish to bear it himself, he is to proceed to Swerrah
by sea, and thence he may come to our high presence, since the
voyage by sea is more convenient than that by land, and the journey
from the said port to our presence is short.
“Peace—11th Joomad the 2d, 1251 (4th October, 1835).
THE END.
LONDON:
Printed by J. L. Cox and Sons, 75, Great Queen Street,
Lincoln’s-Inn Fields.
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