Human Resource Management Gaining A Competitive Advantage 9th Edition By Noe - Test Bank

1.

The goal of strategic management in an organization is to deploy and allocate resources in a way that it provides the company with a competitive advantage. 
 
True    False

2.

To be maximally effective, the human resource management function of a company must be isolated from the company's strategic management process. 
 
True    False

3.

Strategic planning groups decide on a strategic direction during the strategy implementation phase. 
 
True    False

4.

Strategy implementation includes structuring an organization and allocating resources. 
 
True    False

5.

In a two-way linkage, an organization is restricted from considering the human resource issues while formulating their strategic plan. 
 
True    False

6.

Untapped labor pools are an example of a strategic threat to an organization's operating environment. 
 
True    False

7.

External analysis attempts to identify an organization's strategic opportunities and threats. 
 
True    False

8.

Strategic choice describes the way an organization attempts to fulfill its mission and achieve its long-term goals. 
 
True    False

9.

Job design addresses what tasks should be grouped into a particular job. 
 
True    False

10.

The strategy a company is pursuing does not have an impact on the types of employees that it seeks to recruit and select. 
 
True    False

11.

Training refers to a planned effort to facilitate the learning of job-related knowledge, skills, and behavior by employees. 
 
True    False

12.

Companies that are not diversified use objective measures of performance to evaluate managers. 
 
True    False

13.

Executives who have extensive knowledge of the behaviors that lead to effective performance tend to focus on evaluating the objective performance results of their subordinate managers. 
 
True    False

14.

By tying pay to performance, a company can elicit specific activities and levels of performance from employees. 
 
True    False

15.

Concentration strategies require that an organization bring radical change to the current skills that exist in the organization. 
 
True    False

16.

An overall cost leadership strategy is achieved primarily by offering unique product features. 
 
True    False

17.

Companies engaged in a cost strategy require employees to have reduced concern for quantity and a short-term focus. 
 
True    False

18.

Companies engaged in cost strategies develop internally consistent pay systems with negligible pay differentials between superiors and subordinates. 
 
True    False

19.

Employees in companies with a differentiation strategy need to have only a moderate concern for quantity. 
 
True    False

20.

Differentiation companies will have compensation systems that are geared toward internal rather than external equity. 
 
True    False