WGU C202 Managing Human Capital Questions and
Answers
1. Human Resource Strategy - ✅✅✅Links the entire human resource
function with the firm's business strategy.
2. Business Strategy - ✅✅✅Defines how the firm will compete in its
marketplace.
3. Total Rewards - ✅✅✅The sum of all rewards employees receives in
exchange for their time, efforts, and performance.
4. The combined intrinsic and extrinsic rewards of a job.
5. Employee Handbooks - ✅✅✅Print or online materials that document
the organization's HRM policies and procedures.
6. HRM: Human Resource Management - ✅✅✅The organizational
function responsible for attracting, hiring, developing, rewarding, and
retaining talent.
7. Outsourcing - ✅✅✅Hiring an external vendor to do work for the
company rather than doing it internally.
8. Nonfinancial Compensation - ✅✅✅Rewards and incentives given to
employees that are not financial in nature including intrinsic rewards
received from the job itself or from the work environment.
,9. Intrinsic Reward - ✅✅✅Non-monetary rewards derived from the work
itself.
10.Competitive Advantage - ✅✅✅Doing something differently from the
competitor thus leading to outperformance and success.
11.Talent Philosophy - ✅✅✅A system of beliefs about how an
organization's employee should be treated.
12.Shared Service Center - ✅✅✅Centralized routine, transaction-based
HRM activities.
13.Professional Employer Organization - ✅✅✅A company that leases
employees to companies that need them.
14.Direct Financial Compensation - ✅✅✅Compensation received in the
form of salary, wages, commissions, stock options, or bonuses.
15.Virtue Standard - ✅✅✅The ethical action is consistent with certain
ideal virtues including civility, compassion, benevolence, etc...
16.Common Good Standard - ✅✅✅The ethical action shows respect and
compassion for all others, especially the most vulnerable.
17.Respect and compassion for all
,18.Codes of Conduct - ✅✅✅Specifies expected and prohibited actions in
the workplace and gives an example of appropriate behavior.
19.Stakeholder Perspective - ✅✅✅Considering the interests and opinions
of all people, groups, organizations, or systems that affect or could be
affected by the organization's actions.
20.Performance Culture - ✅✅✅Focuses on hiring, retaining, developing,
motivating, and making work assignments based on performance data and
results.
21.Organizational Culture - ✅✅✅The norms, values, and assumptions of
organizational members that guide members' attitudes and behaviors.
22.High-performance Work System - ✅✅✅High involvement or high
commitment organizations.
23.Code of Ethics - ✅✅✅A decision-making guide that describes the
highest values to which an organization aspires.
24.Rights Standard - ✅✅✅The ethical action is the one that best respects
and protects the moral rights of everyone affected by the action.
25.Corporate Social Responsibility - ✅✅✅Businesses showing concern for
the common good and valuing human dignity.
, 26.Fairness Standard - ✅✅✅The ethical action treats all people equally, or
at least fairly, based on some defensible standard.
27.Ethics - ✅✅✅The standards of moral behavior that define socially
accepted behaviors that are right as opposed to wrong.
28.Utilitarian Standard - ✅✅✅The ethical action that best balances good
over harm.
29.Protected Classes - ✅✅✅Groups underrepresented in employment.
30.Equal Employment Opportunity - ✅✅✅A firm's employment practices
must be designed and used in a manner that treats employees and
applicants consistently regardless of their protected characteristics, such as
their sex or race.
31.Affirmative Action - ✅✅✅Proactive efforts to eliminate discrimination
and its past effects.
32.Quid Pro Quo Harassment - ✅✅✅Unwanted verbal or physical conduct
of a sexual nature made as a term condition of employment or as a basis for
employment and/or advancement decisions.
33.Bona Fide Occupational Qualification - ✅✅✅Characteristic that is
essential to the successful performance of a relevant job fucntion.
Answers
1. Human Resource Strategy - ✅✅✅Links the entire human resource
function with the firm's business strategy.
2. Business Strategy - ✅✅✅Defines how the firm will compete in its
marketplace.
3. Total Rewards - ✅✅✅The sum of all rewards employees receives in
exchange for their time, efforts, and performance.
4. The combined intrinsic and extrinsic rewards of a job.
5. Employee Handbooks - ✅✅✅Print or online materials that document
the organization's HRM policies and procedures.
6. HRM: Human Resource Management - ✅✅✅The organizational
function responsible for attracting, hiring, developing, rewarding, and
retaining talent.
7. Outsourcing - ✅✅✅Hiring an external vendor to do work for the
company rather than doing it internally.
8. Nonfinancial Compensation - ✅✅✅Rewards and incentives given to
employees that are not financial in nature including intrinsic rewards
received from the job itself or from the work environment.
,9. Intrinsic Reward - ✅✅✅Non-monetary rewards derived from the work
itself.
10.Competitive Advantage - ✅✅✅Doing something differently from the
competitor thus leading to outperformance and success.
11.Talent Philosophy - ✅✅✅A system of beliefs about how an
organization's employee should be treated.
12.Shared Service Center - ✅✅✅Centralized routine, transaction-based
HRM activities.
13.Professional Employer Organization - ✅✅✅A company that leases
employees to companies that need them.
14.Direct Financial Compensation - ✅✅✅Compensation received in the
form of salary, wages, commissions, stock options, or bonuses.
15.Virtue Standard - ✅✅✅The ethical action is consistent with certain
ideal virtues including civility, compassion, benevolence, etc...
16.Common Good Standard - ✅✅✅The ethical action shows respect and
compassion for all others, especially the most vulnerable.
17.Respect and compassion for all
,18.Codes of Conduct - ✅✅✅Specifies expected and prohibited actions in
the workplace and gives an example of appropriate behavior.
19.Stakeholder Perspective - ✅✅✅Considering the interests and opinions
of all people, groups, organizations, or systems that affect or could be
affected by the organization's actions.
20.Performance Culture - ✅✅✅Focuses on hiring, retaining, developing,
motivating, and making work assignments based on performance data and
results.
21.Organizational Culture - ✅✅✅The norms, values, and assumptions of
organizational members that guide members' attitudes and behaviors.
22.High-performance Work System - ✅✅✅High involvement or high
commitment organizations.
23.Code of Ethics - ✅✅✅A decision-making guide that describes the
highest values to which an organization aspires.
24.Rights Standard - ✅✅✅The ethical action is the one that best respects
and protects the moral rights of everyone affected by the action.
25.Corporate Social Responsibility - ✅✅✅Businesses showing concern for
the common good and valuing human dignity.
, 26.Fairness Standard - ✅✅✅The ethical action treats all people equally, or
at least fairly, based on some defensible standard.
27.Ethics - ✅✅✅The standards of moral behavior that define socially
accepted behaviors that are right as opposed to wrong.
28.Utilitarian Standard - ✅✅✅The ethical action that best balances good
over harm.
29.Protected Classes - ✅✅✅Groups underrepresented in employment.
30.Equal Employment Opportunity - ✅✅✅A firm's employment practices
must be designed and used in a manner that treats employees and
applicants consistently regardless of their protected characteristics, such as
their sex or race.
31.Affirmative Action - ✅✅✅Proactive efforts to eliminate discrimination
and its past effects.
32.Quid Pro Quo Harassment - ✅✅✅Unwanted verbal or physical conduct
of a sexual nature made as a term condition of employment or as a basis for
employment and/or advancement decisions.
33.Bona Fide Occupational Qualification - ✅✅✅Characteristic that is
essential to the successful performance of a relevant job fucntion.
