TESTED QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
●● HR scholars view employee performance as a function of
employees'abilities, mobility, and opportunities to perform..
Answer: False
(Motivation)
●● Employees'/managers' activities may.
Answer: end up being recognized as accounts on the balance sheet
●● People themselves are.
Answer: NOT recognized as an explicit account on the balance sheet
●● Employees'/managers' activities.
Answer: may affect revenue and expenses, and, thus,net income
●● Financing activities.
Answer: Low financing costs (e.g., interest rate for bond holders,return
on equity for shareholders)
,Better capital structure
●● Operational activities.
Answer: Better business strategy
Better revenue (e.g., sales) generation
Better individual and organizational performance Better cashflow
●● Investment acitivites.
Answer: Better selection of investment target
Better return on investment
●● Employees'/managers' activities may affect revenue and expenses,
and, thus, net income..
Answer: Net income, in turn, may affect retained earnings on the
balance sheet.
●● HR Strategy.
Answer: HR Planning• Analysis & Work
Design
• Recruitment
• Selection
• Training &Development
,• PerformanceManagement
●● Employees do not appear as explicit accounts in financial statements.
Answer: True
●● Employees are listed on the company's balance sheet under the
account named "human assets..
Answer: False
●● The account on the balance sheet that reflects the value of the
company's employees is called "human capital.".
Answer: False
●● Since a layoff significantly reduces the number of employees,
totalassets decrease immediately afterward.
Answer: False
●● Employee activities do not influence the firm's financial statements.
Answer: False
●● History of HR/OB Research.
Answer: Late 19C-early 20C (Kaufman, 2008)
Labor problem
, Government regulation and labor law movement Scientific management
movement
●● Scientific management movement.
Answer: Theory developed by Frederick Taylor (Taylorism)
Goal was to improve economic efficiency, especially labor productivity
●● Industrial safety movement.
Answer: WWI
●● Employment Management.
Answer: Employment Managers' Association of Boston, December
1912, promoted by Meyer Bloomfield•
It was intended to handling the human relations problems between
employers and employees
- Generally viewed as confronting relationships
●● Example practices of Employment Management.
Answer: A centralized employment department (e.g.,personnel office)
with responsibility to administerhiring and firing