Addressing the need for change in the legal environment

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1. Suppose you are a human resource executive, supporting strategy. Executives in your industry are concluding that a certain HR-related law no longer seems relevant in the Internet age. To which government branch would it be most effective to turn for addressing the need for a change in the legal environment?

the executive branch, requesting a new law in this area

the judicial branch, requesting a new law in this area

the legislative branch, requesting a new law in this area

the legislative branch, requesting it not enforce the existing law

the executive branch, requesting it not enforce the existing law

2. _________ the talent refers to developing and training the current workforce to meet the future needs of the organization

a. Buying b. Building c. Outsourcing d. Borrowing

3. Which word best completes the following statement? The success of managerial estimates in workforce planning is entirely dependent on the _______ of information provided to managers to use in making estimates.

a. Probability b. Quality c. Face value d. Quantity e. Timeliness

4. Which of the following is a characteristic of bicultural stress?

a. role conflict

b. balanced growth

c. improved skills

d. reverse discrimination

e. pluralism

5. Asking a question such as “Where are we now?” relates to which part of a workforce planning analysis process?

a. Demand Analysis b. Supply Analysis c. Gap Analysis d. Strategies Analysis e. Regression Analysis

6. Toyota sells 140 cars per month in Spokane. It sells twice as many hybrids as it does cars and four times as many hybrids as it sells vans. If the factory operates 20 days per month, how many hybrids, cars and vans should it produce daily? What is the optimal sequence that maximizes uniform flow?

a. h=5, c=3, v=1

b. h=4, c=3, v=2

c. h=4, c=2, v=1

d. h=3, c=2, v=1

7. . Ayesha is an Israeli immigrant to the United States. She works for a pharmaceutical company and is not only a gender minority, but also an ethnic minority in the company. Her peers, colleagues, and subordinates expect a lot from her. She is having a tough time fulfilling all these expectations. Ayesha is said to be facing ________. Select one:

a. role ambiguity

b. role conflict

c. role insufficiency

d. role interference

e. role overload

8. According to the affirmative-action plan required by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, which of the following refers to a comparison of the race, sex, and ethnic composition of an employer's workforce with that of the available labor supply?

job analysis

content analysis

applied behavior analysis

SWOT analysis

utilization analysis

9. Bill manages a large department with employees from diverse cultural backgrounds. A review of his management style revealed that Bill's informal way of speaking to employees is offensive to some people who come from cultures where formality and respect are the norm between different organizational levels. Which stage of progress in managing a diverse workforce is Bill in? Select one:

a. unconscious incompetence

b. conscious incompetence

c. conscious competence

d. unconscious competence

e. controlled incompetence

10. One of the advantages to union membership that Gary Wheeler mentions is the ability to have a formal process in place to express complaints about the company through the union. This system is known as a?

a. grievance procedure

b. checkoff of dues

c. seniority system

d. collective bargaining agreement

e. rights arbitration

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