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1. In the present view of the field, human resource managers no longer run an organizational ______. Their function, along with all other managers, is to improve organizational revenues and profits.
a. productivity center
b. cost center
c. revenue center
d. business skill
2. Which of the following is true of power?
a. A high need for power is an important characteristic of successful managers.
b. Staff personnel have little power but much authority to influence line managers.
c. A leader’s possession of authority is sufficient to assure that subordinates respond as the leader’s desires.
d. Power is not related to leadership.
3. Section I of the practitioner’s model of human resource management focuses on the things that are most critical to the organization’s basic stability and success and contains ______.
a. 21st-Century HRM, strategic planning, and HR laws
b. developing and managing
c. staffing
d. protecting and expanding
4. Productivity is the result of two components over which managers have control. The two components are ______.
a. effectiveness and efficiency
b. productivity and revenue
c. sustainability and turnover
d. absenteeism and turnover
5. Devin is concerned about how Acme Global will continue to recruit employees given the aging workforce and skills shortages. Devin is concerned about ______.
a. technical skills
b. labor demographics
c. employee engagement
d. knowledge workers
6. ______ is how organizations go through the process of creating new things—the opposition itself drives the organization to change.
a. Creativity
b. Functional conflict
c. Diversity
d. Innovation
7. ______ are the fundamental duties of a job including things that are done routinely and frequently.
a. Essential functions
b. Job relatedness
c. Disability
d. Reasonable accommodation