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Final Examination: Fundamentals of Human Resource Management (HRM/300) Please include your name on the final examination in the right hand corner for identification.Please take your time on this exam. All the questions are taken directly from the textbook and electronic readings. There are 42 questions totaling 15 points (15% of Your Grade). There are four sections each with separate point values. They are labeled.Good Luck!True and False: Please mark either T or F in the appropriate space before the question (14 * .20 each = 2.80 points)Answers1. T2. T3. T4. T, p. 205. F, p. 3586. T7. F8. F, p. 3589. F10. T11. F 12. F, Electronic Reading Week 2, Keeping the faith but losing in court: Legal implications of proselytizing in the workplace 13. T, p. 35914. T, p. 35415. E16. E17. E, p. 60118. C19. C20. E, Electronic Reading Week 2, Sexual harassment in city government21. A, p. 9922. A23. A or B, p. 21324. A 25. B26. E27. C28. C, p. 34229. C, D, or E30. D1. ____Today’s managers have found that employees do not set aside their cultural values and lifestyle preferences when they come to work. The challenge is to make organizations more accommodating to diverse groups of people by addressing different lifestyles, family needs, and work styles.2. ____The part-time, temporary, and contract workers used by organizations to fill peak staffing needs or perform work not done by core employees is called the contingent workforce.3. ____Quality management’s objective is to create an organization committed to continuous improvement or one that leads to achieving an effective and lean work force. A well-managed organization according to W. Edward Deming was one in which statistical control reduced variability and resulted in uniform quality and predictable quality of output.4. ____Work process engineering will generate its benefits only if Human Resource Management does train its employee population.5. ____ Causes of stress can be grouped into two major categories: motivational and personal6. ____Technological changes have required HRM to address or change its practices whenit deals with such activities as recruiting as recruiting and selecting employees, motivating and paying individuals, training and developing employees, and in legal and ethical matters.27. ____Drug testing in today’s organization is conducted not to eliminate illegal substance at the point of hire, but only to catch those using it in the workplace.8. ____Type A behavior is characterized by a procrastinated sense of time urgency, excessively competitive drive, and difficulty accepting and enjoying leisure time.9. ____The purpose of job analysis is only concerned with the amount of money that is paid to the employee for following their job description.10.___A financial protection plan for executives in case they are released from the organization is called a golden parachute. 11.___Social Security does not provide a source of income for American retirees, disabled workers, and surviving dependents of workers who have died.10. ___Employees cannot assume that well-publicized sexual harassment policies will constitute reasonable care to prevent religious harassment. This was the issue in Agay v. City of Benton Harbour 1998.13.___Some stress in organizations is absolutely necessary; without it, workers lack energy.14.___Safety committee’s which follow the Occupational Safety and Health Act in the workplace are used to prevent employee related accidents.Multiple Choice: Please select your answer and place it in the space before the question (16 * .20 each = 3.20 points)15 ____Primary functions of management include which of these items.a. Planning b. organizing c. leading d. controlling e. all of the above 16 ____The Human Resource Management process consists of which basic functions?a. staffing b. training and development c. motivation d. maintenance e. all of the above 17 ____The Civil Rights Act that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, sex, and national origin was first coupled with the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution in what year?a. 1865 b. 1938 c. 1964 d. 1867 e. none of the above18 __Effective communication programs involve which element?a. employment b. Mary Parker Follet c. effective upward communication d. employee relations e. an effective code of ethics19 ___ Sexual harassment case which examined the fault of the victim and the organization. __Albemarle Paper Company v. Moody b. Griggs v. Duke Power Company c. Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, (1996) d. Toussaint v. Blue Cross and Blue Shieldof Michigan e. none of the above20 ___Sexual harassment is defined as having which one of the elements?3a. Quid pro quo b. Health Maintenance Organizations c. a hostile environment d. none of the above e. a & c21 ___The implied employment contract was an issue in which employment law caseconcerning retirement age?a. Toussaint v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan b. Washington v. Davis c. McDonnell-Douglas Corporation v. Green d. Connecticut v. Teal e. all of the above 22 ___An employee handbook is for which reason?a.


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