Human resource management is:
• a perspective on personnel management
The most common criticism of HRM is that:
• it is more concerned with business performance than people
Which of the following comments about HRM is the most perceptive?
• HRM is too important to be left to personnel managers' (Guest, 1991)
• Allignment is needed
The biggest problem with HRM is:
• reconciling the interests of employees with the interests of the business
Human capital advantage is best achieved when an organization has
• people with unique talents that are not available to its competitors
Human resources are most likely to make a major contribution to achieving
human capital advantage if they are:
• VRIO
• Scarce
• Uniue
• Irreplaceable
The most important aim of integrated HRM is to:
• seek both vertical and horizontal fit
• Vertical = corporate strategy and HR strategy
• Horizontal = aligning diff. HR practices
The resource-based view:
• HRM delivers competitive advantage through the strategic development of the organization's rare,
hard to imitate and hard to substitute human resources
To develop a successful HR strategy it is necessary to:
• Generate insight into the real issues facing the organization
• We look at the org. Context
The purpose of HR policy is to:
• provide guidelines on how things relating to people should be done
• How we do things - how to treat people at wrk place
• Not about strategy
Which of the following best conveys the purpose of HR policies:
• they express the organization's values or beliefs about how people should be treated
The purpose of HR procedures is to:
• a perspective on personnel management
The most common criticism of HRM is that:
• it is more concerned with business performance than people
Which of the following comments about HRM is the most perceptive?
• HRM is too important to be left to personnel managers' (Guest, 1991)
• Allignment is needed
The biggest problem with HRM is:
• reconciling the interests of employees with the interests of the business
Human capital advantage is best achieved when an organization has
• people with unique talents that are not available to its competitors
Human resources are most likely to make a major contribution to achieving
human capital advantage if they are:
• VRIO
• Scarce
• Uniue
• Irreplaceable
The most important aim of integrated HRM is to:
• seek both vertical and horizontal fit
• Vertical = corporate strategy and HR strategy
• Horizontal = aligning diff. HR practices
The resource-based view:
• HRM delivers competitive advantage through the strategic development of the organization's rare,
hard to imitate and hard to substitute human resources
To develop a successful HR strategy it is necessary to:
• Generate insight into the real issues facing the organization
• We look at the org. Context
The purpose of HR policy is to:
• provide guidelines on how things relating to people should be done
• How we do things - how to treat people at wrk place
• Not about strategy
Which of the following best conveys the purpose of HR policies:
• they express the organization's values or beliefs about how people should be treated
The purpose of HR procedures is to:
