True False Questions

1-1 Chapter 01 Strategies, Trends, and Challenges in Human Resource Management

True / False Questions

• Managers and economists traditionally have seen human resource management as a source

of value to their organizations.

FALSE

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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

• The concept of "human resource management" implies that employees are interchangeable,

easily replaced assets that should be managed like any other physical asset.

FALSE

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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

• No two human resource departments will have precisely the same roles and

responsibilities.

TRUE

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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?

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Chapter 01 - Strategies, Trends, and Challenges in Human Resource Management 1-2

• 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

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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

• Performance management requires that employee activities and outputs match the

individual's goals.

FALSE

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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

• 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

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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

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

FALSE

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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

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Chapter 01 - Strategies, Trends, and Challenges in Human Resource Management 1-3

• Compliance with laws and regulations is not an HR responsibility, but rather the sole

responsibility of managers within the organization.

FALSE

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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

• HR is increasingly becoming a purely administrative function.

FALSE

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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

• As part of its strategic role, one of the key contributions HR can make is to engage in

evidence-based HRM.

TRUE

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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

• Canada underperforms the United States with respect to productivity.

TRUE

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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: 01-18 Productivity Improvement

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Chapter 01 - Strategies, Trends, and Challenges in Human Resource Management 1-4

• HRM should have a significant role in carrying out a merger or acquisition.

TRUE

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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: 01-19 Mergers and Acquisitions

• Non-traditional workers e.g. contractors and temporary workers, currently represent more

than 50 percent of the workforce, and this percentage is expected to increase significantly.

FALSE

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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: 01-20 Non-traditional Employment and the Gig Economy

• Setting up a business enterprise in another country (e.g. building a factory in China) is

called outsourcing.

FALSE

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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: 01-21 Outsourcing

• HR Professionals require a small number of highly specialized technical competencies.

FALSE

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Blooms: Analyze

Difficulty: Hard

Learning Objective: 01-02 Summarize competencies; careers; professional accreditation; and ethics in human resource management.

Topic: 01-23 What Competencies Do HR Professionals Need?

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