Human Resource Management— Midterm

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Time due: 12 PM 7th January, 2020 ( Beijing Time)

1. What is human resource planning? How does it relate to other human resource management activities?

2. How can an HRIS help organizations respond to today’s pressures to reduce costs and be more efficient?

3. Describe the pros and cons associated with outsourcing most of your organization’s HR functions to an independent vendor for a contract period of 10 years.

4. What factors would affect your choice of an HR planning system? What factors would influence your choice of forecasting methods?

5. Assume that your organization wants to retain senior employees who might otherwise want to retire. What incentives and other retention techniques should you use to keep these valued employees? Explain.

6. Why should organizations keep their skills inventories up to date? Explain.

1. For approximately 80 percent of employers, complying with ADA requirements to make “reasonable accommodation” costs $500 or less. What types of changes would fall into this category?

2. Do you believe that Muslims working in the United States need legal protection against retaliation? Why or why not?

3. When employees are discriminated against because of their age, gender, or a disability, what negative effects does this discrimination have on the organization and other employees?

4. What are the major differences between disparate treatment and disparate impact? Explain.

5. What can managers do to minimize their chance of litigation and of being found negligent with regard to sexual harassment?

HumanResource Management—Final Exam

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Time due: 12 PM 7th January, 2020 ( Beijing Time)

1. What guidelines should be followed to make sure that recruitment advertising does not violate equal employment laws? (7 marks)

2. Can you think of three organizations that have used their image to recruit employees? What image did they try to project to potential applicants? (7 marks)

3. Why is it important to have accurate and well-written job descriptions and job specifications when recruiting job applicants? (7 marks)

4. Considering that there are millions of résumés posted on companies’ job boards, what steps should recruiters follow to screen out unqualified candidates in a fair and nondiscriminatory manner? Explain your answer.(7 marks)

5. Can you think of any instances in which you would consider working part-time as a temporary worker? Why do some individuals prefer this form of employment? (7marks)

6. Discuss how such websites as Monster.com, SimplyHired.com, and CareerBuilder.com have changed how companies recruit potential job applicants and how individual applicants look for jobs. (6 marks)

7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of recruiters providing a realistic job pre-view to job applicants? What are some instances when realistic job previews should not be used? (6 marks)

8. Visit three different job search websites. Search for a job in a particular region of the United States. Which of the three websites is most useful to job seekers? Explain your answer. (6 marks)

9. Why are so many companies shifting to online résumé screening programs to sift through applicants’ résumés? (6 marks)

10. Can you think of any disadvantages associated with the use of online résumé screening? From the company’s perspective? The candidate’s perspective? (6marks)

11. What can job seekers do to improve their chances of making it through the online résumé screening process and getting an interview? (7 marks)

12. In your view, is comparable worth a legitimate strategy for determining job compensation? (7 marks)

13. As the director of Twin Oaks’ HR department, what recommendations would you make to James Bledsoe? (7 marks)

14. From an HRM perspective, what are the challenges of implementing comparable worth? (7 marks)

15. Why is training an important requirement for organizations to undertake? (7 marks)