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Staffing
The process of acquiring, deploying, and retaining a workforce of sufficient quantity and quality to create positive impacts on the organization's effectiveness?
Overstaffed
According to the staffing quantity model an organization will be __ when availabilities exceed requirements?
There is a concern with the fit of people to multiple jobs or future jobs
In terms of the person/organization match ____?
Missions, goals, objectives
According to the overall staffing organizations model Human Resource Staffind strategy are driven by?
Job Analysis
According to the overall staffing organization model one support activity is?
Pure Acquisition (Acquire)
A ____staffing strategy would have an organization concentrate on acquiring new employees who can hit the ground running?
Relocate system
A____ staffing strategy is when organizations decide to go to locations where there is ample labor surplus.
Flexible workforce
The ____is composed of more peripheral workers who are used on a as-needed just-in- time basis?
TRUE
Using acceptable workforce may mean that employees will be less qualified; but they may also be less expensive for the organization to acquire & retain, true or false?
TRUE
Some organizations under staff to avoid costly layoffs; true or false?
TRUE
In human resource planning a comparison is made between labor force requirements & labor availability; true or false?
TRUE
Counting the number of employees on payroll may be misleading as an indicator of the
workforce because it ignores the amount of schedules time worked by each employee relative to a full work week; true or false?
Ratio Analysis
A manager has collected dated on the dollar value of sales and divided this by number of FTEs assuming this relationship will hold if the future and using projected sales; the manager estimated the number of employees required is an example of?
Motivation levels
Which of the following would NOT be address in forecasting H/R availabilities?
Availability forecasting
Markov Analysis is a technique for?
Small sample size
Which of the following creates a problem for markov analysis?
Training & development plans in place
For Succession planning to work, organizations must have?
FALSE
If an organization faces a surplus of workers it's likely that they will have to either downsize or encourage voluntary retirement because there aren't many alternatives to those actions; true or false?
FALSE
Internal hires will require more time to reach full productivity than external hires; true or false?
ALL THE ABOVE
A major disadvantage of flexible workforce is that?
FALSE
It is usually advised that a company either adopt an open or targeted recruitment across the board for all employees; true or false?
A specific skill set are needed
Which situation most strongly calls for targeted recruitment?
All the above
A study of the best practices of the web sites of 140 high-profile organizations indicates that one of the features of high-impact web site is_____
FALSE
Most research shows that recruiters are even more important than job characteristics in attracting applicants to an organization; true or false?
FALSE
It's a bad idea to share too much information with applicants about the selection system during the later parts of the recruiting process because likely that applicant will just learn how to game the system; true or false?
Increasing expenditures on recruiting increases yields
Which of the following statements is false?
TRUE
Electronic recruiting may lead to adverse impact because certain demographic groups are less likely to own and regularly use computers; true or false?
That the plaintiff had perfect knowledge regarding the misrepresentation.
Which of the following does not have to be show by a plaintiff in a fraud and misrepresentation

lawsuit related to recruiting?
TRUE
Legally, an applicant is a person who has indicated interest in being considered for hiring, promotion, or other employment opportunities; true or false?
Evidence of a visit to physical employment
Which of the following is not required for someone to be considered an internet applicant?
Characterized by upward lateral & downward movement
A lattice mobility path is?
Alternative mobility paths may move in any direction
Which of the following is true regarding mobility paths?
They are not costly to implement
Which of the following is true regarding closed internal recruitment systems?
All of the above.
Which of the following is true regarding open internal recruitment systems?
TRUE
One problem with job posting is that employees believe that someone has been selected before the job was posted so with either not bother to apply or will believe the system is unfair; true or false?
Talent management systems
Employees KSAOs which are used in making advancement decisions are stored in?
Procedural justice
Formal policy for promo or other internal recruiting activities can enhance?
Permitted in most cases under EEOC law even if it results in adverse impact
A bona fide seniority system is?
Lack of outreach recruitment practices
Which of the following have contributed to the glass ceiling?
TRUE
Seniority based systems may need to be eliminated as a means of reducing the prevalence of glass ceiling effects; true or false?
FALSE
Research reveals that years of experience & specific types of experience are equally relevant for predicting future job performance?
Indicators of a person degree of success in part situations should be predictive of future job success
Within the context of the selection process the logic of prediction means that?
TRUE
The first step in developing a selection plan is to list the relevant KSAOs associated with a job; true or false?
All of the above
Which of the following or common sources of resume fraud?
Resumes
An example of an assessment method, which has an especially low reliability?
Use extracurricular activities when they correlate with KSAOs required by the job.
When considering the use of extracurricular activities as a job predictor one should?
The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior
The principal assumption behind the use of biodata is the axiom?
Biodata
Which of the following methods is the most valid predictor of performance?
TRUE
Many organizations are reluctant to give out detailed reference information regarding their former employees because they are afraid of being sued; true or false?
TRUE
The proportion of organizations that conduct pre-hire background checks to determine if employees have criminal records or inaccurate reporting on resumes has risen dramatically in recent years; true or false?
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