INTRODUCTİON TO BUSİNESS - Deneme Sınavı - 3

One of the most common uses of performance appraisals is for making
administrative decisions relating to promotions, firings, layoffs, and merit pay increases. Orientation is not included in these activities.

The compensation program has three components. These are base compensation, pay incentives and benefits.

Internal environmental factors affecting HRM are personal characteristics, job characteristics, and organizational factors.External environmental factors affecting HRM are workforce and demographic trends, government regulations, and economic challenges and trends.The correct answer is A.

A skills inventory (human resource information system) is a computerized databank containing information on the education, skills, and experience of all present employees.The correct answer is C.

College recruitment involves sending an employer’s representatives to college campuses to prescreen applicants and create an applicant pool from the graduating classes. It is an important source for management to reach professional and technical employees. College recruiting could be expensive and time consuming if the recruiters are not experienced. Employers need to train recruiters in how to interview candidates, how to explain what the company has to offer, and how to put candidates at ease. The correct answer is D.

Completing an application form is normally the first step in most selection procedures. The application provides basic employment information for use in latter steps of the selection process and can be used to screen out unqualified applicants. So preliminary screening is the first step of a selection process. The correct answer is B.

The third step in the selection process is an employment test which measures the aptitudes, skills, abilities, or knowledge of job candidates. Employment tests allow managers to choose candidates according to how they will fit into the open positions and the organizational culture. Since tests alone are not enough to make an evaluation of a candidate, firms need to use employment testing conjunction with other selection tools such as interviewing. Besides, test should be validated, administered, and scored consistently. All candidates should be given the same directions, allowed same amount of time, and offered the same environmental conditions for testing. The correct answer is C.

Internal recruiting or hiring from within the organization means using various sources developed and managed inside the organization. If an organization has been effective in recruiting and selecting employees in the past, current employees are often the best source of candidate pool. The correct answer is D.

One of the best sources for individuals who will perform effectively on the job is a recommendation from a current employee. Many organizations have found that their employees can serve an important role in the recruitment process by actively soliciting applications from their friends and associates.  The correct answer is D.

Job posting is publicizing the open job to employees (often by literally posting it on bulletin boards or company intranets) and listing the job’s attributes, like qualifications, supervisor, working schedule, and pay rate. The correct answer is B.

A number of methods are available for external recruitment methods. These are advertising, online recruitment, employment agencies, and college recruiting. The correct answer is B.

College recruiting. College recruitment involves sending an employer’s representatives to college campuses to prescreen applicants and create an applicant pool from the graduating classes. It is an important source for management to reach professional and technical employees. College recruiting could be expensive and time consuming if the recruiters are not experienced. Employers need to train recruiters in how to interview candidates, how to explain what the company has to offer, and how to put candidates at ease. The correct answer is C.

Once the firm has determined its human resources needs via human resource planning, it needs to hire the most qualified employees to fill the available positions. The hiring process has three steps: recruitment, selection, and orientation. The correct answer is C.

A benefit is an indirect reward given to an employee or a group of employees as a part of organizational membership. The correct answer is A.

In Turkey, some benefits defined by the law are funeral, birth and marriage benefits, duty travel allowances, mobile duty compensation, paid vacations, severance pay, unemployment insurance, medical leave, dismissal pay or collective payment in the form of severance pay. The correct answer is A.

Dealing with human resource issues is not only the HR department’s responsibility. All managers are, in a sense, human resource managers because they all get involved in recruiting, interviewing, selecting, and training their employees. The success of any HRM program requires the cooperation of managers at different levels who must interpret and implement HRM policies and procedures. Even line supervisors select prospective employees, train them, make salary recommendations, and provide performance feedback. Without managerial support, HRM programs cannot succeed. Therefore, human resource managers need to understand clearly how to communicate their policies and procedures to other units of the organization.

The correct answer is D.

Internal environmental factors are issues that are related with an organization’s internal environment. Internal environmental factors affecting HRM are personal characteristics, job characteristics, and organizational factors. Some of these factors are organizational, e.g. size of the organizations, environmental climate, top management, structure of the organization and the sector, and the characteristics of the industry that the organization operates. Thus, top management of the organization is an internal factor that affects HRM policies of the organization. 

Number of women in the US workforce and the aging workforce are related with workforce diversity. Labor Law No.4857 in Turkey is a part go governmental regulations. Globalization is a factor that affects economic conditions. these are all external environmental factors.

The correct answer is B.

Employees' motivation is a part of personal characteristics, which is one of the internal environmental factors that affect human resource management. Workforce demographics, technological advancements, economic conditions and government regulations are among external factors.

The correct answer is A.

Labor supply is the availability of workers with the required skills in the future. The forecast of the supply of human resources must take into account both the present workforce and any changes that may occur within it. When forecasting the supply, planners should analyze the organization’s existing employees to determine who can be retained to perform the required tasks. Thus, in this example, the human resource department forecasts the supply of engineers needed in the future.

The correct answer is C.

Job analysis is the systematic process of getting detailed information about the skills, duties, and knowledge required for performing jobs in an organization. Job analysis provides a summary of a job’s duties and responsibilities, its relationship to other jobs, the knowledge and skills required, and working conditions under which it is performed.

A job specification is a document containing the minimum acceptable qualifications that a person should possess in order to perform a particular job. Job specification includes job related information such as educational requirements, experience, personality traits, and physical abilities.

The correct answer is D.