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True / False Questions
1. Statistical techniques are of little importance to HR managers and should usually be rejected as methods for evaluating HRP needs.
2. In regression analysis, historical predictors of workforce size, like sales or new customers, are used to predict staffing levels.
3. Trend analysis directly takes into account external factors that might change trends.
4. Manager judgment is an ideal method for forecasting workforce availabilities for companies with large numbers of employees in many job categories.
5. Markov Analysis is used to assess a previous period's workforce demands on the basis of historical patterns of external applications.
6. When conducting Markov analysis, it is desirable to have 20 or more employees in each job category/level.
7. The key to ratio analysis is assessing each promotable employee for KSAO or competency gaps, and where there are gaps, creating employee training and development plans that will close the gap.
8. Through replacement and succession planning the organization constructs internal talent pipelines.
9. Succession planning precedes replacement planning.
10. Replacement and succession planning are conducted primarily for managerial jobs.
11. The quality of a replacement or succession plan is largely independent of the quality of an organization's performance appraisal systems.
12. Staffing objectives are derived from identified gaps between requirements and availabilities.
13. Long term options for dealing with an employee shortage include hires, transfers into the position, retraining workers, or transferring the work out of the firm.
14. If an organization faces a surplus of workers, it is likely that they will have to either downsize or encourage voluntary retirement, because there aren't many alternatives to these actions.
15. One advantage of a core workforce is that the organization maintains the legal right to control employees working in its behalf, in terms of both work process and expected results.
16. A core workforce is nearly always less expensive than a flexible workforce because the core workforce will accept lower pay and benefits.
17. A core workforce is an excellent technique for acquiring new technical and administrative knowledge.
18. A flexible workforce can bring in new technical and administrative knowledge that isn't available from the core workforce.
19. Sometimes members of the internal workforce will resent external hires, which can limit the effectiveness of external hiring.
20. Internal hiring methods are often less expensive than external hiring methods.
Changing nature of jobs
: Many small-business owners, general managers of start-up strategic business units, and top management members perform flexible jobs that are difficult to classify in traditional job analysis.
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Staffing planning
: To have a high probability of being acceptable in the eyes of the Supreme Court, an organization's AAP should
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Staffing planning
: A manager has collected data on sales, the economy, and taxes over a number of years, and statistically estimates an equation that describes how each of these predictors has affected staffing levels in the past. This equation is used to predict futur..
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Diversity planning
: Targeted recruitment, inclusion of women and African-Americans on top management teams, work family accommodations, and affirmative action plans increase the racial and gender diversity of the organization's managerial workforce.
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Human resource planning
: One advantage of a core workforce is that the organization maintains the legal right to control employees working in its behalf, in terms of both work process and expected results.
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External influences
: In plan-based HR planning, the organization's representatives set up a system that is integrally related to the organization's strategic planning process.
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Diversity planning
: To have a high probability of being acceptable in the eyes of the Supreme Court, an organization's AAP should
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External influences
: A manager has collected data on the dollar value of sales and has divided this by the number of FTE. Assuming this relationship will hold in the future, and using projected sales, the manager estimates the number of employees required.
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How much time has elapsed according to the students watch
: a spacecraft moves past a student with a relative velocity of .90 c. how much time has elapsed according to the student's watch
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