HRM 5365 Talent Management- Strategic Staffing 3e Phillips Gully Test Bank

Strategic Staffing, 3e (Phillips/Gully)
Chapter 1 Strategic Staffing

1) Although a companycan better match employees with jobs they like, staffing does
not influence organizational performance.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1
Skill: Concept
Objective: 1

2) Although staffing practices can influence turnover rates, they cannot influence a
firm's stock market performance.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2
Skill: Concept
Objective: 1

3) The final hiring decision is usually made by the hiring manager.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2
Skill: Concept
Objective: 1

4) Talent management requires the development of improved processes for attracting,
developing, retaining, and utilizing people with the required skills and aptitude to
meet current and future business needs.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Skill: Concept
Objective: 1

5) Strategic staffing consists of filling a job as quickly and cheaply as possible.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 4
Skill: Concept
Objective: 2

6) Strategic staffing systems are not necessarily aligned with the firm's business
strategy.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1
Skill: Concept
Objective: 2

,7) Forecasting the skills an organization will need in the future is an example of
employer branding.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1
Skill: Concept
Objective: 3

8) Sourcing is locating qualified individuals, appropriate sources and labor markets
from which to recruit.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Skill: Concept
Objective: 3

9) Recruiting large numbers of applicants is always the best way to ensure quality
hires.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2
Skill: Concept
Objective: 3

10) Socialization is the process of assimilating or integrating newly hired or recently
promoted employees with their job, workgroup, and organization.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Skill: Concept
Objective: 3

11) Deployment involves assigning talent to appropriate jobs and roles in the
organization.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Skill: Concept
Objective: 3

12) The increased financial return on staffing investment is an example of a process
goal.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2
Skill: Concept
Objective: 3

13) Attracting sufficient numbers of appropriately qualified applicants is an example
of a staffing outcome goal.
Answer: FALSE

,Diff: 2
Skill: Concept
Objective: 3

, 14) Reducing the turnover rate of high performers is an example of a staffing process
goal.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2
Skill: Concept
Objective: 3

15) Firms should select only those candidates who already possess the skills that are
necessary to be quickly and cheaply trained by the firm.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2
Skill: Concept
Objective: 5

16) An organization's competitive advantage is ________.
A) not something that can be influenced by staffing
B) the number of employees it hires in a year
C) the annual employee turnover rate
D) what it can do differently from its competitors
Answer: D
Diff: 1
Skill: Concept
Objective: 1

17) Staffing can be considered a cornerstone of human resource management because
it ________.
A) takes the largest part of the human resource budget
B) determines the workforce representing the company
C) takes the most time of any human resource management function
D) is the only function performed by human resources
Answer: B
Diff: 1
Skill: Concept
Objective: 1

18) Staffing influences organizational performance because ________.
A) it is an expensive part of human resources
B) it is how people learn about the organization
C) its outcomes determine who will work for and represent the firm
D) it has no direct relation to profitability and profit growth
Answer: C
Diff: 1
Skill: Concept
Objective: 1