MNGT 361 Exam 1 Study Guide questions with answers.

MNGT 361 Exam 1 Study Guide questions
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What is Human Resource (HR) Management? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Designing management systems to ensure
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that human talent is used effectively and efficiently to
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accomplish organizational goals |\ |\




What are the various roles of HR Management? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-Administrative |\ |\ |\




-Operational |\




-Strategic


What are some examples of potential HR-related ethical
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misconduct activities? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔- |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



Compensation |\




-Employee Relations |\




-Staffing and Equal Employment
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How can an organization help to prevent ethical
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misconduct? What specifically is HR's role? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔-Written code of ethics and standards of
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conduct
-Employee training on ethical behaviors |\ |\ |\ |\ |\

, -Advice to employees on ethical situations
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-Confidential reporting of ethical problems |\ |\ |\ |\




How was Lynn Brewer treated at Enron? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔She was looked down upon and people |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



didn't believe her |\ |\




What is the difference between strategic human
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resources management and just HR? - CORRECT |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



ANSWERS ✔✔Focuses on organizational performance and |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



the role of HR management systems as solutions to
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business problems |\




What is the resource based view (RBV)? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Focuses on firm's strategic capabilities (not
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on test)
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Delery & Doty (1996) suggested three approaches to
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strategic human resource management. What are they
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and what do they mean? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-
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Universalistic - some HR practices are always better than |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



others
-Contingency - in order to be effective, an organization's |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



HR policies must be consistent with other aspects of the
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organization
-Configurational - synergistic effects among HR practices |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\