BUS 335 Week 2 Quiz– Strayer NEW
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Chapter
1
Student:
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1. Human
capital refers to the knowledge, skill, and ability of people and their
motivation to use them successfully on the
job.
True False
2. For
the average organization, employee costs (wages or salaries and benefits) are
under 10% of its total revenue.
True False
3. Staffing
is the process of acquiring, deploying, and retaining a workforce of sufficient
quantity and quality to create positive impacts on the organization's
effectiveness.
True False
4. Acquisition
activities involve external staffing systems that govern the initial intake of
applicants into the organization.
True False
5. Internal
staffing systems work in fundamentally different ways than external staffing
systems.
True False
6. Organizations
should attempt to eliminate all employee turnover if at all
possible.
True False
7. Employee
turnover does not represent a significant cost to most
organizations.
True False
8. Staffing
is more of a process than an event.
True False
9. Staffing
the organization requires attention to both the quantity and quality of people
brought into, moved within, and retained by the
organization.
True False
10. Staffing
systems exist primarily to fill specific vacancies, and are not closely linked
to overall organizational profitability and
growth.
True False
11. Quantity
or quality labor shortages can mean lost business opportunities, scaled-back
expansion plans, an inability to provide critical consumer goods and services,
and even threats to organizational
survival.
True False
12. Employee
shortages seldom require job reassignments or overtime for current
employees.
True False
13. When
the federal government needed to hire airport security screeners, applicants
started the process of getting a job with a structured interview and physical
ability test.
True False
14. Pfizer
has concluded that it cannot project what kind of talent it needs in the next
10 years and then select employees whose skills matched these long-range future
talent needs.
True False
15. The
process of acquiring, deploying, and retaining a workforce of sufficient
quantity and quality to create positive impacts on the organization's effectiveness
is called
________.
A. staffing
B. recruitment
C. selection
D. placement
16. Which
of the following statements is true regarding staffing?
A. The
organization is the only active player in the staffing process.
B. The
staffing process is composed of a series of interrelated parts including
recruitment, selection, decision making and job offers.
C. The staffing
process should only be viewed from the perspective of the individual (line)
manager.
D. None of the above
17. The
process that involves the placement of new hires on the actual job they will
hold is called
___________.
A. acquisition
B. deployment
C. retention
D. none
of the above
18. The
purpose of retention systems is to __________.
A. attract qualified
applicants to job openings in the organization
B. establish a good
person-job match
C. manage the flow of employees out of the
organization
D. establish a good person-organization match
19. Staffing
systems exist, and should ultimately be used, to
__________.
A. ensure that day-to-day operations run
smoothly
B. ensure that procedural, transactional, and routine activities
are accomplished
C. reduce costs regardless of the effects on quality or
quantity
D. contribute to the attainment of organizational goals such as survival,
profitability, and growth
20. The
quantity portion of the staffing definition means that organizations must be
concerned about staffing levels and their
adequacy.
True False
21. When
head count requirements exceed availabilities, the organization will be overstaffed.
True False
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