WGU C202 MANAGING HUMAN CAPITAL EXAM
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1. How can HRM create value within an organization?
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Answer> by making the company better at executing its strategy
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2. The purpose of the organizational function of HRM is to
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Answer> attract, hire, develop, reward, and retrain talent
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3. Taking workplace health and safety seriously helps to reduce
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Answer> com- pliance
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4. When an organization adopts a new manufacturing process, which HRM f
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unction is responsible for improving employees' skills to meet its new talent
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Answer> training
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5. Staffing is the process of planning, acquiring, deploying, and retaining
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6. planning can help to ensure that an organization has people ready to
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7. Separations due to poor performance, layoffs, or restructuring as well as
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employees quitting are part of the staffing function.
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8. What type of management involves aligning individual employees' goals a
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nd behaviors with organizational goals and strategies?
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Answer> performance manage- ment
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9. By providing the raw talent that the system will manage, staffing influences
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the effectiveness of which system?
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Answer> performance management
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10. To promote and maintain ethical behavior, managers need to provide
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11. Compensation received in the form of salary, wages, commissions, stock
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12. Compensation including free meals, vacation time, and health insurance
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Answer> indirect financial compensation
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13. Rewards and incentives given to employees that are not financial in nature,
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Answer> nonfinancial compensation
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14. HRM affects the speed and effectiveness of talent acquisition as well as t
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Answer> operational risk
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18. To expand internationally,
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Answer> mergers and acquisitions
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Answer> culture issues m m
20. between HR and employees is extremely important.
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Answer> commu- nication m m
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100% Correct | Grade A
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1. How can HRM create value within an organization?
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Answer> by making the company better at executing its strategy
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2. The purpose of the organizational function of HRM is to
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Answer> attract, hire, develop, reward, and retrain talent
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3. Taking workplace health and safety seriously helps to reduce
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Answer> com- pliance
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4. When an organization adopts a new manufacturing process, which HRM f
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unction is responsible for improving employees' skills to meet its new talent
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needs?
Answer> training
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5. Staffing is the process of planning, acquiring, deploying, and retaining
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6. planning can help to ensure that an organization has people ready to
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Answer> - succession m m
7. Separations due to poor performance, layoffs, or restructuring as well as
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employees quitting are part of the staffing function.
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8. What type of management involves aligning individual employees' goals a
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nd behaviors with organizational goals and strategies?
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Answer> performance manage- ment
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9. By providing the raw talent that the system will manage, staffing influences
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the effectiveness of which system?
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Answer> performance management
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10. To promote and maintain ethical behavior, managers need to provide
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Answer> performance m
11. Compensation received in the form of salary, wages, commissions, stock
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,Answer> direct financial compensation
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12. Compensation including free meals, vacation time, and health insurance
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Answer> indirect financial compensation
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13. Rewards and incentives given to employees that are not financial in nature,
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ronment, are called
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Answer> nonfinancial compensation
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14. HRM affects the speed and effectiveness of talent acquisition as well as t
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failure are examples of
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Answer> operational risk
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, 15. When a company creates new HRM initiatives to strengthen employees' e
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Answer> strategic risk m m
16. When new HRM processes reduce the cost of hiring employees, they have
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Answer> financial risk m m
17. Thinking through the ramifications of an employment related decision in
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18. To expand internationally,
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Answer> mergers and acquisitions
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19. Mergers and acquisitions often fail because of
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Answer> culture issues m m
20. between HR and employees is extremely important.
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Answer> commu- nication m m
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