Student ID: XXXXXXXXXXExam: 412712RR - THE HUMAN RESOURCE ENVIRONMENT When you have completed your exam and reviewed your answers, click Submit Exam. Answers will not be recorded until you hit Submit...

Student ID: 21154367 Exam: 412712RR - THE HUMAN RESOURCE ENVIRONMENT When you have completed your exam and reviewed your answers, click Submit Exam. Answers will not be recorded until you hit Submit Exam. If you need to exit before completing the exam, click Cancel Exam. Questions 1 to 20: Select the best answer to each question. Note that a question and its answers may be split across a page break, so be sure that you have seen the entire question and all the answers before choosing an answer. 1. Which of the following cases would most likely be filed under the theory of disparate impact? A. Black applicants are being disproportionately rejected relative to whites by a paper-and-pencil test. B. A black employee is fired for testifying in a discrimination suit filed against an employer. C. A white applicant is told he won't be hired because the employer doesn't like whites. D. White applicants with high test scores are rejected due to an affirmative-action plan. 2. Which of the following is a true statement about Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? A. The act protects employers from employee threats. B. The act prohibits employers from discriminating against workers due to their age. C. The act applies to organizations with 15 employees or more. D. The act is enforced by the U.S. Department of Labor. 3. Which of the following is not an action that OSHA can take, under the Occupational Safety and Health Act? A. Conduct unannounced workplace inspections B. Close a workplace that represents an occupational hazard C. Issue citations and require that they be posted in a prominent place near the location of the violations D. Assess fines ranging from $20,000 for violations that result in the death of an employee to $1,000 for less serious violations 4. The largest number of immigrants to the U.S. workforce are from A. Asia. B. North America. C. Europe. D. Africa. 5. Managers and economists traditionally have seen HRM as a(n) A. essential component of a high-performance work system. B. asset. C. source of value to their organization. D. necessary expense. 6. Which of the following refers to an employer's obligation to do something to enable an otherwise qualified person to perform a job? A. Reasonable accommodation B. Utilization analysis C. Reverse discrimination D. General-duty clause 7. One of the most common grievances that employees at Craines Tech have is that they don't get performance feedback. That is, they don't get proper information as to how they've performed and where they need to improve, and the performance goals are vague and not measurable. Which HR function does Craines Tech need to improve? A. Employee relations B. Recruitment and selection C. Performance management D. Training and development 8. Which of the following recommendations for job descriptions is not desirable? A. Use the same format for all job descriptions within the organization. B. Provide job descriptions to all newly hired employees. C. Use the annual performance appraisal process as an opportunity to update job descriptions. D. Omit the phrase "and other duties as requested" from all job descriptions. 9. Which of the following is a true statement about older employees? A. Older people are often willing and able to learn new technology. B. Older employees typically can't accept younger people as their managers. C. Older employees typically want to retire as soon as they near retiring age. D. Employing older people usually increases costs and provides no benefits. 10. Which of the following decisions does not come under HRM? A. What training to offer B. How to achieve sales targets C. Whom to hire D. How to evaluate employee performance 11. Which of the following is a true statement about the composition of the U.S. labor force during the next decade? A. The labor force is expected to grow at a greater rate than at any other time in U.S. history. B. For the first time ever, the number of workers under 40 years of age will exceed the number of workers 40 years of age or older. C. The largest proportion of the labor force is expected to be in the 16- to 25-year age group. D. In spite of the growing number of young workers, the overall workforce will be aging. 12. Why do complaints of age discrimination grow when the economy is slow? A. Companies are forced to retain their best talent during times of recession. B. Companies try to save labor costs by laying off older workers. C. Older employees provide a tremendous pool of potential. D. Companies try to provide more opportunities to younger workers. 13. Which of the following approaches would be most appropriate when gathering information for jobs that are repetitive and involve physical activity? A. A job analyst visits the workplace and asks employees to show what the job entails. B. A manager imagines what a well-done job would look like. C. A job analyst questions the peers about a particular job. D. A job analyst visits the workplace and videotapes an employee performing the job. 14. Which of the following is a correct statement about the Americans with Disabilities Act? A. The Americans with Disabilities Act requires employers to have a minimum of 15 percent of the workforce to be people with disabilities. B. The Americans with Disabilities Act covers disabilites such as obesity and drug abuse. C. The Americans with Disabilities Act requires employers to take steps to accommodate people with disability so that they can perform their duties without difficulty. D. The Americans with Disabilities Act covers people who took mitigating measures that allow them to perform major life activities with no difficulty. 15. People's right to freedom of speech is the right to A. refuse to do something that's environmentally unsafe. B. criticize an organization's ethics if they do it in good conscience. C. be treated only as they knowingly and willingly consent to be treated. D. do as they wish in their private life. 16. Which of the following is a false statement about the performance management process? A. The evaluation may focus on the short term or long term and on individual employees or groups. B. In some organizations, employees evaluate their own performance, and often, peers and subordinates participate, too. C. When the person evaluating performance isn't familiar with the details of the job, specific behaviors tend to be easier to evaluate than outcomes. D. Performance measures may emphasize either observable behaviors or outcomes, or both. 17. Which of the following refers to the KSAOs that an individual must have to perform the job? A. Job specifications B. Job analysis C. Dictionary of Occupational Titles D. Job descriptions 18. Which of the following is a false statement about the Position Analysis Questionnaire? A. It describes specific duties and tasks that comprise the actual job. B. It's one of the broadest and best-researched instruments for analyzing jobs. C. It's a standardized, commercial instrument. End of exam D. It requires trained job analysts to complete it. 19. Which of the following categories of workers is not covered under OSHA's Hazard Communication Standards? A. Production engineers manufacturing car batteries B. A technician servicing copy machines for most of the day C. Health-care workers exposed to latex and disinfectants D. A receptionist changing the toner in a copier machine 20. Which of the following is a correct statement about dejobbing? A. Dejobbing involves the downsizing or elimination of jobs. B. Dejobbing involves viewing organizations as a field of work to be done. C. Dejobbing involves the use of task-based organization structures. D. Dejobbing involves emphasizing on detailed job descriptions which will be applicable year after year