A) HR department lever
B) strategic results lever
C) practices
D) employee cost lever
Answer: B
Explanation: B) Today's human resources manager is in a powerful position to improve the firm's performance and profitability and uses three main levers to do so. One is the strategic results lever which puts in place the policies and practices that produce the employee competencies and skills the company needs to achieve its strategic goals.
Difficulty: Moderate
Chapter: 1
Objective: 3
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Outcome: 1.3 List and briefly describe "distributed HR" and other important aspects of human management today.
94) ________ refers to being psychologically involved in, connected to, and committed to getting one's jobs done.
A) Ethics
B) Sustainability
C) Human capital
D) Employee engagement
Answer: D
Explanation: D) Employee engagement refers to being psychologically involved in, connected to, and committed to getting one's jobs done. Engaged employees "experience a high level of connectivity with their work tasks," and therefore work hard to accomplish their task-related goal.
Difficulty: Moderate
Chapter: 1
Objective: 3
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Outcome: 1.3 List and briefly describe "distributed HR" and other important aspects of human management today.
95) Distributed HR is the idea that more and more human resource management tasks are now being redistributed from a central HR department to the company's employees and line managers.
Answer: TRUE
Explanation: Distributed HR involves human resource management tasks being redistributed from a central HR department to the company's employees and line managers, facilitated by digital technologies like mobile phones and social media.
Difficulty: Moderate
Chapter: 1
Objective: 3
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Outcome: 1.3 List and briefly describe "distributed HR" and other important aspects of human management today.
96) Strategic human resource management refers to performing basic day-to-day duties that satisfy the needs and demands of both the employees and the employer.
Answer: FALSE
Explanation: Strategic human resource management means formulating and executing human resource policies and practices that produce the employee competencies and behaviors the company needs to achieve its strategic aims.
Difficulty: Easy
Chapter: 1
Objective: 3
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Outcome: 1.3 List and briefly describe "distributed HR" and other important aspects of human management today.
97) The HR department lever has HR managers put in place the policies and practices that produce the employee competencies and skills the company needs to achieve its goals .
Answer: FALSE
Explanation: The strategic results lever has HR managers put in place the policies and practices that produce the employee competencies and skills the company needs to achieve its strategic goals.
Difficulty: Easy
Chapter: 1
Objective: 3
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Outcome: 1.3 List and briefly describe "distributed HR" and other important aspects of human management today.
98) According to research, less than one-third of all workers in the U.S. are mentally and emotionally invested in their work.
Answer: TRUE
Explanation: In one survey, about 30% were engaged, 50% were not engaged, and 20% were actively disengaged (anti-management).
Difficulty: Easy
Chapter: 1
Objective: 3
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Outcome: 1.3 List and briefly describe "distributed HR" and other important aspects of human management today.
99) The evidence used in evidence-based human resource management may come from actual measurements, existing data, or critically evaluated research studies.
Answer: TRUE
Explanation: Evidence is the core of evidence-based human resource management. Data, facts, analytics, scientific rigor, critical evaluation, and critically evaluated research/case studies are used to support human resource management proposals, decisions, practices, and conclusions.
Difficulty: Easy
Chapter: 1
Objective: 3
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Outcome: 1.3 List and briefly describe "distributed HR" and other important aspects of human management today.
100) What is evidence-based human resource management? How does evidence-based human resource management benefit firms?