Question: One common method to increase access speed is to: Answer Options Use legacy databases in an indexed sequential access method Encrypt all data with 256 byte encryption Denormalize the tables Delete all primary keys Only use alphabetic data
Answer: Denormalize the tables
Question: Question: Sidiqah, owner of Jacuzzi Warehouse, said, “We have to focus on our customers and how we can beat the competition, so we have to be flexible.” He encourages his R&D department to develop innovative products and focuses on being quick to respond to market changes. Jacuzzi Warehouse has a(n) ______.
Answer Choices:
focused approach
adhocracy culture
clan culture
market culture
goal-driven agenda
Answer: adhocracy culture
Question: Question: ______ is the economic or productive potential of employee knowledge, experience, and actions.
Answer Choices:
Human resource management
Knowledge worker
Human capital
Social capital
Answer: Human capital
Question: Question: What body of law requires organizations to provide employees with nonhazardous working conditions?
Answer Choices:
COBRA
ADA
ADEA
OSHA
Answer: OSHA
Question: Question: An effective source of external recruiting is employee referrals.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Question: Job ______ is the process of increasing the number of tasks in a job to increase variety and motivation.
Answer Choices:
design
development
enrichment
rotation
enlargement
Answer: enlargement
Question: Question: A ______ is a choice made from among available alternatives.
Answer Choices:
Value Statement
Plan
Goal
Decision
Answer: Decision
Question: Question: According to Herzberg, which of the following is an example of a motivating factor?
Answer Choices:
supervision
working conditions
the work itself
pay
company policy
Answer: the work itself
Question: Question: Organizational culture appears in four layers: clan, adhocracy, market, and hierarchy.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: Question: Sexual harassment that doesn’t risk economic harm but causes an offensive or intimidating work environment is called hostile environment.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Question: Phones R Us, a global phone company, frequently needs to respond quickly to fast-changing consumer tastes with its smartphones. Therefore, Phones R Us has fewer rules and procedures than most organizations, and networks of employees are encouraged to cooperate and respond quickly to unexpected tasks and changes in technology. Phones R Us is utilizing a(n) ______ structure.
Answer Choices:
inelastic
organic
inflexible
hierarchical
mechanistic
Answer: organic
Question: Question: Most vacant job positions in organizations are filled through ______.
Answer Choices:
Internal recruitment
Interviewing
Screening of job applicants
External recruitment
Answer: Internal recruitment
Question: Question: The model of decision making that explains how managers should make decisions, assuming managers will make logical decisions that will be the optimum in furthering the organization’s best interests, is known as the ______. For example, a manager who uses this model may be personally opposed to outsourcing jobs overseas, but she nonetheless decides to outsource customer-service operations to India because doing so is in the company’s best interests.
Answer Choices:
rational decision-making model
solutions agenda
employee relations model
interpersonal decision agenda
Answer: rational decision-making model
Question: Question: After struggling with the accounting training, Aaron is unsure whether he can complete the end-of-year financial reporting with no errors in the time allotted. In this case, Aaron is low on the ______ element of expectancy theory.
Answer Choices:
expectancy
valence
instrumentality
performance
outcomes
Answer: expectancy
Question: Question: ______ is the set of psychological processes that arouse and direct goal-directed behavior.
Answer Choices:
Motivation
Productivity
Self-actualization
Self-determination
Answer: Motivation
Question: Question: The Americans with Disabilities Act requires employers to ______.
Answer Choices:
give applicants with physical or mental disabilities the same consideration for employment as people without disabilities.
hire all qualified persons with disabilities.
hire all qualified persons with disabilities who apply.
all of the answers are correct
Answer: give applicants with physical or mental disabilities the same consideration for employment as people without disabilities.
Question: Question: Because she beat her goal this year by nearly 40 percent, Jane has been telling everyone in the sales department of her incredible skill as a salesperson. But last year when she didn’t even reach her goal, she said her failure was due to the poor economy. Jane provides an example of ______.
Answer Choices:
fundamental attribution bias
a self-fulfilling prophecy
self-serving bias
selective perception error.
the halo effect.
Answer: self-serving bias
Question: Question: All are steps to the strategic human resource management process EXCEPT:
Answer Choices:
Orient, train, and develop
Perform a job analysis
Establish the grand strategy
Formulate the strategic plans
Answer: Establish the grand strategy
Question: Question: The ______ enforces procedures whereby employees may vote to have a union and for collective bargaining.
Answer Choices:
Fair Labor Standards Act
EEOC
NLRB
OSHA
Answer: NLRB