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EXAM QUESTIONS & UPDATED
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Freedom of Association - Correct Answer ✔✔ Right for workers to unite to promote
desired employment conditions as a group
4 Layers of Diversity - Correct Answer ✔✔ 1. Personality
2. Internal Dimensions
3. External Dimensions
4. Organizational Dimensions
Summary Offense - Correct Answer ✔✔ Gross misconduct in which no prior warnings
are required for termination so long as a proper investigation and hearing was
preformed
3 reasons to approach diversity as a strategic initative - Correct Answer ✔✔ 1. To make
it a priority
2. To allow for its complexity
3. To address organizational resistance to change
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Structural Org - Correct Answer ✔✔ look at how the org is helped or hindered by its
structure
Interventions include movement of decision making authority,
mergers/acquisitions/divestitures
Interpersonal Org - Correct Answer ✔✔ focus on work relationships between
employees
Process/Technological Org - Correct Answer ✔✔ focus on activities such as work flow
and departmental coordination
Most critical piece of effective performance management - Correct Answer ✔✔ Clarity
of performance standards
For effective information management, a balance must be struck between: - Correct
Answer ✔✔ Openness and security
,Porter's 3 Successful generic strategies - Correct Answer ✔✔ 1. Cost Leadership
2. Differentiation
3. Focus
2 functions of an HR audit - Correct Answer ✔✔ 1. Help management understand what
is happening in HR
2. Allow HR to determine which programs should be eliminated or enhanced
Zero based Budgeting - Correct Answer ✔✔ Everyone's budget starts at zero and
departments must present a case on how their budget will help the org's goals. Each
department is then given a priority rating
Incremental budgeting - Correct Answer ✔✔ aka line item budgeting, is based on the
prior year's budget being increased by a set percentage
According to Goleman, what leadership attribute separates good leaders from great
leaders? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Emotional intelligence
4 T's that help an org increase global mindsets - Correct Answer ✔✔ Travel, Teams,
Training, & Transfers
Trait Engagement - Correct Answer ✔✔ The inherent personality-based elements that
predispose an individual to being engaged
Primary goal of supply analysis - Correct Answer ✔✔ Obtain a snap shot of the current
talent pool
Primary focus of organizational development - Correct Answer ✔✔ Managing change
and disrupting the status quo
Pull Learning - Correct Answer ✔✔ a continuous process where training is pulled
seamlessly through computers anywhere, at anytime
Behavioral Engagement - Correct Answer ✔✔ The effort employees put into their jobs -
occurs when both Trait & State engagement are in place
Exempt status salary minimum - Correct Answer ✔✔ Exempt individuals must make a
minimum of $455/week
ADA applies to companies with X number of employees - Correct Answer ✔✔ 15
Upside risk - Correct Answer ✔✔ Provides an opportunity that arises out of uncertainty
of outcomes (i.e. an early completion date)
What does Reservation mean in the context of diversity and inclusion? - Correct Answer
✔✔ laws mandate a percentage quota or other special considerations for specified
,minority groups or ethnic communities, is often based on the concept that historic
national discrimination against a given minority requires counterbalancing favorable
"affirmative actions."
Cultural determinism - Correct Answer ✔✔ the idea that all human actions are the
product of culture, which denies the influence of other factors like physical environment
and human biology on human behavior
Short Term Assignee - Correct Answer ✔✔ An assignee that goes to another country
for a period of less than 1 year without moving family
Globalist - Correct Answer ✔✔ Someone that spends their entire career on international
assignments
Repatriate - Correct Answer ✔✔ One who returns from assignment
International Assignee - Correct Answer ✔✔ Traditional expat
Just in time Assignee - Correct Answer ✔✔ Ad hoc, contract assignees
E-Procurement - Correct Answer ✔✔ use of electronic communications and transaction
processing when buying (or contracting for/tendering) supplies and services
Leader vs. Manager - Correct Answer ✔✔ Manager - Plans activities, organizes
resources, directs tasks
Leader - Models group values, challenges the status quo, inspires & motivates others
Trait Theory of Leadership - Correct Answer ✔✔ Leaders are assigned based on
inherent personality personalist traits, wisdom, & political skills
+ Some traits do commonly appear with leaders
- No proven correlation of success
- Discourages the development of leadership skills
Behavioral School of Leadership & key behaviors - Correct Answer ✔✔ Leaders
influence through certain behaviors:
1) Consideration - employee centered (meeting the social and emotional needs of the
group)
2) Initiating Structure - Job oriented (focus on task goals)
Blake & Mouton's Managerial (Leadership) Grid - Correct Answer ✔✔ Behavioral
leadership model, designed to explain how leaders help organizations to reach their
purposes
Blake-Mouton's Team Leader Definition - Correct Answer ✔✔ lead by positive
examples & encouragement
, Blake-Mouton's Authoritarian Definition - Correct Answer ✔✔ do what you're told, not
foster collaboration
Blake-Mouton's Country Club Definition - Correct Answer ✔✔ avoid discipline to protect
relationships
Blake-Mouton's Impoverished Definition - Correct Answer ✔✔ delegate & disappear
Blake-Mouton's Middle of the Road Definition - Correct Answer ✔✔ get work done, but
are not leaders
Situational Leadership - Correct Answer ✔✔ Leaders can flex behaviors to meet the
needs of unique situations based on employee maturity
1) Relationship Behavior - support employees psychologically
2) Task Behavior - provide guidance on task completion
Hersey and Blanchard's situational leadership theory - Correct Answer ✔✔ Telling -
used when employee lacks KSAs
Selling - used when employee is capable of task, but requires explanation
Participating - used when employee is capable, but manager supports brainstorming
Delegating - used when employee no longer needs support
Fielder's Contingency Theory - Correct Answer ✔✔ Situational leadership theory that
states a leader is most effective when the leader's skills match task & team needs
creating "situational favorableness"
situational favorableness is based on what key factors - Correct Answer ✔✔ the degree
to which a particular situation either permits or denies a leader the chance to influence
the behavior of group members
1) Leader-member relations are strong
2) Task structure & requirements are clear
3) Leader can exert the power needed to reach the group goal
Path-Goal Theory of Leadership - Correct Answer ✔✔ A situational leadership theory in
which a leader performs the behavior needed to keep the team on track towards their
goal
Types of "path-goal theory" leadership behaviors (4) - Correct Answer ✔✔ 1) Directive -
define the task/goal
2) Supportive - fulfill relationships & remove obstacles
3) Achievement - Motivate by setting challenging goals
4) Participative - control work & leverage group expertise through participative decision
making
Emergent Theory of Leadership - Correct Answer ✔✔ A leader gradually & naturally
emerges & exerts influences over others
EXAM QUESTIONS & UPDATED
ANSWERS PASSED 100%
Freedom of Association - Correct Answer ✔✔ Right for workers to unite to promote
desired employment conditions as a group
4 Layers of Diversity - Correct Answer ✔✔ 1. Personality
2. Internal Dimensions
3. External Dimensions
4. Organizational Dimensions
Summary Offense - Correct Answer ✔✔ Gross misconduct in which no prior warnings
are required for termination so long as a proper investigation and hearing was
preformed
3 reasons to approach diversity as a strategic initative - Correct Answer ✔✔ 1. To make
it a priority
2. To allow for its complexity
3. To address organizational resistance to change
BEST SHRM COURSE ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Correct Answer ✔✔ Search on Google ->
Certexamdb
Structural Org - Correct Answer ✔✔ look at how the org is helped or hindered by its
structure
Interventions include movement of decision making authority,
mergers/acquisitions/divestitures
Interpersonal Org - Correct Answer ✔✔ focus on work relationships between
employees
Process/Technological Org - Correct Answer ✔✔ focus on activities such as work flow
and departmental coordination
Most critical piece of effective performance management - Correct Answer ✔✔ Clarity
of performance standards
For effective information management, a balance must be struck between: - Correct
Answer ✔✔ Openness and security
,Porter's 3 Successful generic strategies - Correct Answer ✔✔ 1. Cost Leadership
2. Differentiation
3. Focus
2 functions of an HR audit - Correct Answer ✔✔ 1. Help management understand what
is happening in HR
2. Allow HR to determine which programs should be eliminated or enhanced
Zero based Budgeting - Correct Answer ✔✔ Everyone's budget starts at zero and
departments must present a case on how their budget will help the org's goals. Each
department is then given a priority rating
Incremental budgeting - Correct Answer ✔✔ aka line item budgeting, is based on the
prior year's budget being increased by a set percentage
According to Goleman, what leadership attribute separates good leaders from great
leaders? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Emotional intelligence
4 T's that help an org increase global mindsets - Correct Answer ✔✔ Travel, Teams,
Training, & Transfers
Trait Engagement - Correct Answer ✔✔ The inherent personality-based elements that
predispose an individual to being engaged
Primary goal of supply analysis - Correct Answer ✔✔ Obtain a snap shot of the current
talent pool
Primary focus of organizational development - Correct Answer ✔✔ Managing change
and disrupting the status quo
Pull Learning - Correct Answer ✔✔ a continuous process where training is pulled
seamlessly through computers anywhere, at anytime
Behavioral Engagement - Correct Answer ✔✔ The effort employees put into their jobs -
occurs when both Trait & State engagement are in place
Exempt status salary minimum - Correct Answer ✔✔ Exempt individuals must make a
minimum of $455/week
ADA applies to companies with X number of employees - Correct Answer ✔✔ 15
Upside risk - Correct Answer ✔✔ Provides an opportunity that arises out of uncertainty
of outcomes (i.e. an early completion date)
What does Reservation mean in the context of diversity and inclusion? - Correct Answer
✔✔ laws mandate a percentage quota or other special considerations for specified
,minority groups or ethnic communities, is often based on the concept that historic
national discrimination against a given minority requires counterbalancing favorable
"affirmative actions."
Cultural determinism - Correct Answer ✔✔ the idea that all human actions are the
product of culture, which denies the influence of other factors like physical environment
and human biology on human behavior
Short Term Assignee - Correct Answer ✔✔ An assignee that goes to another country
for a period of less than 1 year without moving family
Globalist - Correct Answer ✔✔ Someone that spends their entire career on international
assignments
Repatriate - Correct Answer ✔✔ One who returns from assignment
International Assignee - Correct Answer ✔✔ Traditional expat
Just in time Assignee - Correct Answer ✔✔ Ad hoc, contract assignees
E-Procurement - Correct Answer ✔✔ use of electronic communications and transaction
processing when buying (or contracting for/tendering) supplies and services
Leader vs. Manager - Correct Answer ✔✔ Manager - Plans activities, organizes
resources, directs tasks
Leader - Models group values, challenges the status quo, inspires & motivates others
Trait Theory of Leadership - Correct Answer ✔✔ Leaders are assigned based on
inherent personality personalist traits, wisdom, & political skills
+ Some traits do commonly appear with leaders
- No proven correlation of success
- Discourages the development of leadership skills
Behavioral School of Leadership & key behaviors - Correct Answer ✔✔ Leaders
influence through certain behaviors:
1) Consideration - employee centered (meeting the social and emotional needs of the
group)
2) Initiating Structure - Job oriented (focus on task goals)
Blake & Mouton's Managerial (Leadership) Grid - Correct Answer ✔✔ Behavioral
leadership model, designed to explain how leaders help organizations to reach their
purposes
Blake-Mouton's Team Leader Definition - Correct Answer ✔✔ lead by positive
examples & encouragement
, Blake-Mouton's Authoritarian Definition - Correct Answer ✔✔ do what you're told, not
foster collaboration
Blake-Mouton's Country Club Definition - Correct Answer ✔✔ avoid discipline to protect
relationships
Blake-Mouton's Impoverished Definition - Correct Answer ✔✔ delegate & disappear
Blake-Mouton's Middle of the Road Definition - Correct Answer ✔✔ get work done, but
are not leaders
Situational Leadership - Correct Answer ✔✔ Leaders can flex behaviors to meet the
needs of unique situations based on employee maturity
1) Relationship Behavior - support employees psychologically
2) Task Behavior - provide guidance on task completion
Hersey and Blanchard's situational leadership theory - Correct Answer ✔✔ Telling -
used when employee lacks KSAs
Selling - used when employee is capable of task, but requires explanation
Participating - used when employee is capable, but manager supports brainstorming
Delegating - used when employee no longer needs support
Fielder's Contingency Theory - Correct Answer ✔✔ Situational leadership theory that
states a leader is most effective when the leader's skills match task & team needs
creating "situational favorableness"
situational favorableness is based on what key factors - Correct Answer ✔✔ the degree
to which a particular situation either permits or denies a leader the chance to influence
the behavior of group members
1) Leader-member relations are strong
2) Task structure & requirements are clear
3) Leader can exert the power needed to reach the group goal
Path-Goal Theory of Leadership - Correct Answer ✔✔ A situational leadership theory in
which a leader performs the behavior needed to keep the team on track towards their
goal
Types of "path-goal theory" leadership behaviors (4) - Correct Answer ✔✔ 1) Directive -
define the task/goal
2) Supportive - fulfill relationships & remove obstacles
3) Achievement - Motivate by setting challenging goals
4) Participative - control work & leverage group expertise through participative decision
making
Emergent Theory of Leadership - Correct Answer ✔✔ A leader gradually & naturally
emerges & exerts influences over others
