WGU D351 FUNCTIONS OF HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES GRADED A+ NEW
MODIFIED TESTED AND APPROVED BEST
QUALITY EXAM 2026 LATEST
Which of the following is NOT one of the purposes of HR forecasting and planning?
- Provide a better basis for planning employee development that makes optimum use of
workers' strengths.
- Provide a tool for evaluating the effect of alternative HR actions and policies.
- Improve the overall business-planning process.
- Coordinate HR programs that achieve the goals no matter the cost.
--ANSWER--Coordinate HR programs that achieve the goals no matter the cost.
Why is HRP one of the fastest growing and most important areas of human resource
management?
- It helps the company achieve its goals
- It is not one of the fastest growing areas of human resource management, but it is important
- It helps the company be more visible to prospective employees and customers
- It makes the company look good because they have a plan
--ANSWER--It helps the company achieve its goals
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,True or False: Advances in technology have been very effective and helpful to companies in
many areas, but because human resource management works mostly with people, there is less
use for technology in the HRM area.
--ANSWER--FALSE:
With advances in technology, effective human resource planning is easier than ever before.
For example, technology allows organizations to create human resource information systems
that include important HR-related records for every employee within the organization.
Through human resource information systems, organizations can easily access employee job
preferences, work experiences, job histories and performance evaluations. Which can be used
to facilitate the purposes of HRP in the interests of the individual as well as the organization.
True or False: Few small- and medium-sized organizations can be successful without a
formal process for estimating future human resource needs.
--ANSWER--FALSE:
HRP is based on the organization's human resource needs, specifically, on human resource
supply and demand. Although these estimates are critical for organizational success, many
small- and medium-sized organizations still avoid formally estimating future human resource
needs.
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,True or False: Because knowing the estimates for the organization's human resource needs
(e.g. supply and demand) is so critical, most small- and medium-sized organizations formally
estimate these future human resource needs.
--ANSWER--FALSE:
HRP is based on the organization's human resource needs (supply and demand). Although
these estimates are critical for organizational success, many small- and medium-sized
organizations avoid formally estimating future HR needs.
What occurs in the first stage of human resource planning as talked about earlier?
- Controlling and evaluating HRM plans and programs
- Establishing HR objectives and policies
- Gathering, analyzing and forecasting data
- Designing and implementing plans and action programs
--ANSWER--Gathering, analyzing and forecasting data
True or False: HRP is very important to an organization to find out its needs, but it is a distant
relation to other functions such as recruitment and selection, job performance, etc.
FALSE:
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, Human resource planning (HRP) is important because it influences almost all other HR
activities, including job performance, recruitment and selection, training and development,
and career management.
Which of the following is not a question that HR professionals need to ask of internal
managers when starting to forecast the organization's human resource needs?
- What is it going to cost to implement the HR plans?
- What are our two best organizational strengths?
- What types of skills and positions are no longer needed?
- What are our key business goals and objectives for the next two years?
--ANSWER--What is it going to cost to implement the HR plans?
- The first phase of the process of human resources planning.
- Includes taking inventories of the current workforce, projecting future needs, and
understanding what will be required to meet those needs.
--ANSWER--Developing Data
- The most common method of estimating HR demand.
- Typically made by top management
- A type of Judgmental Forecasting
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MANAGEMENT EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES GRADED A+ NEW
MODIFIED TESTED AND APPROVED BEST
QUALITY EXAM 2026 LATEST
Which of the following is NOT one of the purposes of HR forecasting and planning?
- Provide a better basis for planning employee development that makes optimum use of
workers' strengths.
- Provide a tool for evaluating the effect of alternative HR actions and policies.
- Improve the overall business-planning process.
- Coordinate HR programs that achieve the goals no matter the cost.
--ANSWER--Coordinate HR programs that achieve the goals no matter the cost.
Why is HRP one of the fastest growing and most important areas of human resource
management?
- It helps the company achieve its goals
- It is not one of the fastest growing areas of human resource management, but it is important
- It helps the company be more visible to prospective employees and customers
- It makes the company look good because they have a plan
--ANSWER--It helps the company achieve its goals
Page 1 of 83
,True or False: Advances in technology have been very effective and helpful to companies in
many areas, but because human resource management works mostly with people, there is less
use for technology in the HRM area.
--ANSWER--FALSE:
With advances in technology, effective human resource planning is easier than ever before.
For example, technology allows organizations to create human resource information systems
that include important HR-related records for every employee within the organization.
Through human resource information systems, organizations can easily access employee job
preferences, work experiences, job histories and performance evaluations. Which can be used
to facilitate the purposes of HRP in the interests of the individual as well as the organization.
True or False: Few small- and medium-sized organizations can be successful without a
formal process for estimating future human resource needs.
--ANSWER--FALSE:
HRP is based on the organization's human resource needs, specifically, on human resource
supply and demand. Although these estimates are critical for organizational success, many
small- and medium-sized organizations still avoid formally estimating future human resource
needs.
Page 2 of 83
,True or False: Because knowing the estimates for the organization's human resource needs
(e.g. supply and demand) is so critical, most small- and medium-sized organizations formally
estimate these future human resource needs.
--ANSWER--FALSE:
HRP is based on the organization's human resource needs (supply and demand). Although
these estimates are critical for organizational success, many small- and medium-sized
organizations avoid formally estimating future HR needs.
What occurs in the first stage of human resource planning as talked about earlier?
- Controlling and evaluating HRM plans and programs
- Establishing HR objectives and policies
- Gathering, analyzing and forecasting data
- Designing and implementing plans and action programs
--ANSWER--Gathering, analyzing and forecasting data
True or False: HRP is very important to an organization to find out its needs, but it is a distant
relation to other functions such as recruitment and selection, job performance, etc.
FALSE:
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, Human resource planning (HRP) is important because it influences almost all other HR
activities, including job performance, recruitment and selection, training and development,
and career management.
Which of the following is not a question that HR professionals need to ask of internal
managers when starting to forecast the organization's human resource needs?
- What is it going to cost to implement the HR plans?
- What are our two best organizational strengths?
- What types of skills and positions are no longer needed?
- What are our key business goals and objectives for the next two years?
--ANSWER--What is it going to cost to implement the HR plans?
- The first phase of the process of human resources planning.
- Includes taking inventories of the current workforce, projecting future needs, and
understanding what will be required to meet those needs.
--ANSWER--Developing Data
- The most common method of estimating HR demand.
- Typically made by top management
- A type of Judgmental Forecasting
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