INTRODUCTİON TO BUSİNESS

The correct answer is D. The correct answer is D. Reporting is made within the scope of accounting process.

Statement II and IV are internal factors that direct human resources management. Expression I and III is one of the external factors that direct human resources management.

The correct answer is B. Human resources management activities include planning, recruitment, selection and orientation.

Managers should pay close attention to external environment for adapting organization’s human resource strategy to the new developments occurring outside the organization.

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.

The first human resource planning activity entails forecasting labor demand.Labor demand determines how many and what type of employees the organization needs in the future.The key objective is to determine how many and what type of employees the firm needs at a point in the future. For example, many Japanese electronics firms estimated in the mid-1990s that the product segments of music and games would increase at double-digit rates for 20 years. Much of the assembly work of putting together the various components of the music and game playing machines would require relative low-skilled and low-cost labor.

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.