Reference no: EM13521507

True / False Questions 

1. Human capital refers to the knowledge, skill, and ability of people and their motivation to use them successfully on the job. 

True    False 

2. For the average organization, employee costs (wages or salaries and benefits) are under 10% of its total revenue. 

True    False 

3. Staffing is the process of acquiring, deploying, and retaining a workforce of sufficient quantity and quality to create positive impacts on the organization's effectiveness. 

True    False 

4. Acquisition activities involve external staffing systems that govern the initial intake of applicants into the organization. 

True    False 

5. Internal staffing systems work in fundamentally different ways than external staffing systems. 

True    False 

6. Organizations should attempt to eliminate all employee turnover if at all possible. 

True    False 

7. Employee turnover does not represent a significant cost to most organizations. 

True    False 

8. Staffing is more of a process than an event. 

True    False

 9. Staffing the organization requires attention to both the quantity and quality of people brought into, moved within, and retained by the organization. 

True    False 

10. Staffing systems exist primarily to fill specific vacancies, and are not closely linked to overall organizational profitability and growth. 

True    False 

11. Quantity or quality labor shortages can mean lost business opportunities, scaled-back expansion plans, an inability to provide critical consumer goods and services, and even threats to organizational survival. 

True    False 

12. Employee shortages seldom require job reassignments or overtime for current employees. 

True    False 

13. When the federal government needed to hire airport security screeners, applicants started the process of getting a job with a structured interview and physical ability test. 

True    False 

14. Pfizer has concluded that it cannot project what kind of talent it needs in the next 10 years and then select employees whose skills matched these long-range future talent needs. 

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15. The quantity portion of the staffing definition means that organizations must be concerned about staffing levels and their adequacy. 

True    False

16. When head count requirements exceed availabilities, the organization will be overstaffed. 

True    False

 17. The person/job match model says that jobs are characterized by their level of qualifications and motivation. 

True    False 

18. The person/job match model says that individuals are characterized by their level of qualifications and motivation. 

True    False 

19. The person/job match model states that it is more important to match job rewards to individual motivations than to match job requirements to KSAOs. 

True    False 

20. Matching concerns that involve the larger organization include organizational values, new job duties, multiple jobs, and future jobs. 

True    False