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True / False Questions
1. Sound staffing strategy should always focus on acquiring employees who can hit the ground running and be at peak performance the moment they arrive.
2. Small and midsized organizations have increasingly turned to outsourcing as a way to improve the quality of certain recruiting and hiring processes.
3. Organizations choose to follow an internal staffing strategy if they want to cultivate a stable, committed workforce.
4. An organization's core workforce is composed of workers who are used on an as-needed, just-in-time basis.
5. Some organizations accept a certain level of turnover as inevitable and frequently hire replacements to fill vacancies.
6. Outsourcing is when an organization sets up its own operations in another country.
7. Some organizations understaff in order to avoid costly layoffs.
8. When forced to choose between addressing short-term labor shortages and identifying talent for the long term, most organizations focus on developing the long-term concerns.
9. A person/organization match is likely to be more important than a person/job match when jobs are poorly defined and fluid.
10. Examples of job-specific KSAOs include flexibility and adaptability, ability to learn, written and oral communication skills, and algebra/statistics skills.
11. An active diversity strategy might be pursued as a way of acquiring workers who can help identify products that might be received favorably by various segments of the marketplace.
12. In organizations where technology and globalization have caused jobs to change at a rapid pace, person/organization match is more important than person/job match.
13. It is usually wise to just focus on task and KSAO requirements when staffing, because job requirements almost never extend beyond task and KSAO requirements.
14. The three stages of entering an organization (in order) are selection, recruitment, and employment.
15. The initial stage in the staffing system components model is recruitment.
16. The recruitment stage of the staffing process involves identification and attraction activities by both the organization and the individual.
17. The selection stage of the staffing process emphasizes the assessment and evaluation of job applicants.
18. Self-selection refers to employee decisions about whether to continue in or drop out of the staffing process.
19. Organizational strategy usually dictates HR strategy, and HR strategy seldom has an impact on organizational strategy.
20. Support activities for HR include legal compliance, planning, and job analysis.
21. Core activities for HR include legal compliance, planning, and job analysis.
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