Company culture influences workforce planning tactics

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1. Dollar General uses a low-cost strategy as a company. They want to bring in more customers by keeping prices low. How would this strategy impact the type of recruitment process used at Dollar General for sales associates?

A. The company would use the same recruitment process it would use if it had a differentiation strategy since strategy does not change how recruitment is done

B. The company will need to increase the target area for recruiting applicants beyond the local area to ensure they get a lot of applicants with the right customer service skills

C. The company will focus on conveying a strong value proposition that attracts highly educated applicants

D. The company will want to minimize the costs associated with recruiting job applicants, focusing on a local labor market

2. A job applicant has complained that a selection test she took for a job at your company has adverse impact on females. Which of the following is not an option?

A. Evaluate the selection test to see whether it does have adverse impact

B. Simply continue to use the test

C. Show that the test is valid

D. Have a test expert review the reliability and validity of the test

3. "Which of the following is a way that companies work with external organizations to perform work that could have been, or has previously been, performed internally?"

A. Hybrid Hiring

B. Externalizing

C. Contractization

D. Outsourcing

4. Company culture influences workforce planning tactics in many ways. Which of the following is not one of the ways culture relates to workforce planning?

A. It influences managers willingness to use different tactics

B. It influences the speed in which firms can use different tactics

C. It influences employee reactions to the use of different tactics

D. It influences the likelihood of firms using choice among different tactics

5. Diversity training is a type of ______________which helps reduce discrimination and makes employees aware of the biases they may have

A. behavioral trainin

B. compliance training

C. knowledge training

D. awareness training

6. Why would a company want to benchmark best recruiting practices at other firms?

A. Because they are nosey

B. To know what the competition is doing so they can find ways to subvert that activity

C. To understand how their costs for recruiting are determined

D. To assess what the competition is doing and decide to match or exceed it

7. When deciding to use on-the-job training, the most important consideration is

A. what time of day the training will occur

B. all of the above are important

C. to what extent e-learning will be included

D. the qualifications of the person doing the training

8. The H1-B visa classification is available for employers under what circumstances?

A. The company wants to help immigrants find work in the U.S

B. The company wants to do business abroad and needs to take employees from the U.S. with them to start up operations

C. When they want to convert illegal immigrants to legal status

D. When they need to use nonimmigrant aliens to work temporarily to fill vacancies for which there are not qualified workers available in the U.S

9. When pursuing a cost leadership strategy

A. the company would only focus on legal training

B. companies train employees to be efficient in their jobs

C. the company will likely train all employees on the core competencies of the business

D. training is de-emphasized since employees are replaceable

10. Company Planet is expanding and needs to fill 25 new job openings as quickly as possible. After ensuring that there is a clear picture of what the hired employees will need to know and be able to do, the next step in finding these employees is to

A. hire someone to hire employees for you

B. pass the task off to the operations manager for whom the employees will be working

C. develop a recruiting process to attract qualified applicants

D. place an advertisement in the local newspaper

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