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True/False
- Interestingly, good human resource practices create more satisfied employees, however, there is no
research supporting that satisfied employees work any harder or more effectively.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
Page: 4
Ref: How Can Human Resource Management Make an Organization Effective?
- As an organization grows, measures of organizational and human resource success change.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
Page: 6
Ref: How Is Organizational Success Determined?
- The entrepreneurial stage, the communal stage, the formalization stage and the elaboration stage are
the four common stages in an organization life cycle.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Page: 6-7, Table 1.1
Ref: How Is Organizational Success Determined?
- It is critical that human resource practices, during the entrepreneurial stage of an organization’s life
cycle, focus on the development of compensation and benefit programs that increase employee retention.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
Page: 7, Table 1.1
Ref: How Is Organizational Success Determined?
- During the communal stage of an organization expansion, innovation and cooperation are important.
The most critical human resource activity is to find and hire employees.
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Page 2 of 19
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
Page: 7, Table 1.1
Ref: How Is Organizational Success Determined?
- The stakeholder perspective focuses on people who affect and are affected by an organization.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Page: 9 & 10
Ref: How Is Organizational Success Determined?
- An organization strives to move from the formalization stage in the organizational life cycle to the
elaboration stage.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
Page: 9
Ref: How Is Organizational Success Determined?
- Employees, customers and owners are the only stakeholders considered by successful organizations.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
Page: 10
Ref: How Is Organizational Success Determined?
- Low turnover is a sign that employee needs are being met.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Page: 10
Ref: How Is Organizational Success Determined?
- Employees satisfied with their jobs tend to have more satisfied customers.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
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Ref: How Is Organizational Success Determined?
- Research demonstrates that employees who have better skills, are well paid, and feel their jobs are
secure have higher individual performance which translates into desirable organizational improvements.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Page: 11
Ref: How Is Organizational Success Determined?
- Research finds that organizations are more profitable if they do not expend resources to deal with
societal or community concerns.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
Page: 11
Ref: How Is Organizational Success Determined?
- Organizations can effectively reduce unethical corporate behavior through effective human
resource management that creates open channels of communication.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Page: 11
Ref: How Is Organizational Success Determined?
- The needs of stakeholder groups are not mutually exclusive; meeting the needs of one stakeholder
group can sometimes help meet the needs of others.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Page: 11
Ref: How Is Organizational Success Determined?
- Organizations, according to research, are more profitable when they treat employees well.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy 3 / 4
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Page: 12, Figure 1.1
Ref: How Is Organizational Success Determined?
- Strategic management is not a core human resource function; rather it is the responsibility of top-
level management.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
Page: 13-14, Table 1.2
Ref: What Does Human Resource Management Provide to an Organization?
- Successful companies need human resources to only be involved in hiring processes because
involvement by human resources in other functions reduces efficiency and increases costs.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
Page 13-14, Table 1.2
Ref: What Does Human Resource Management Provide to an Organization?
- The human resource development function ensures that employees learn the knowledge, skills, and
abilities required for current and future performance.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Page: 14
Ref: What Does Human Resource Management Provide to an Organization?
- When unions are present the human resource department must work directly with managers to
ensure fair treatment of workers.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
Page: 16
Ref: What Does Human Resource Management Provide to an Organization?
- Successful organizations understand that good human resource practices are “common sense” and
are all about one’s ability to hire the best person.
Answer: False
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