Answer questions below

MGT 643 -

Ch. 1 Questions

1. What activities within a company is HR responsible for? How do these connect to the employee life cycle?
2. How is HR typically structured within a company? How has this changed in the last decade or two?
   1. What kind of HR jobs are available?
3. What is evidence-based HR?
4. What is strategy? How can HR influence business strategy? What tools do we have to help us do this?
5. What are the changing trends in the workforce and how can HR address these?

Ch. 2 Questions

1. What is strategy and what are the common categorizations? What is the goal of having a strategy?
2. What is a SWOT analysis?
3. What levels of strategy integration exist within HR?
4. What are the various directional strategies (think of them as growth strategies) and what implications do these have for HR, hiring, training, compensation, etc.?
5. What are other strategic ways HR can help the organization? (e.g., emergent strategies, âconsist of the strategies that evolve from the grassroots of the organization and can be thought of as what organizations actually do, as opposed to what they intend to do â not necessarily proactive, rather it is strategy evolving like a stream of thoughtâ)

Ch. 3 Questions

1. What role does the law play in HR? How does it fit in the ee life cycle?
2. Be able to list the protected classes and the EEO laws
3. Understand the roles of various agencies responsible for enforcement of these laws
4. Know and be able to identify a BFOQ
5. Understand the process to claim discrimination with the EEOC, and what is needed to establish a prima facie case.
6. Understand the different types of discrimination, the difference between disparate treatment and disparate impact, and understand how to interpret an AI ratio.

Ch. 4 Questions

1. Understand the difference between job analysis and job design, and the relationship between them.
2. Understand basic principles of work flow analysis, efficiency, and organizational structure
3. How does JA help each step in the employee life cycle?
4. Be able to create a task and KSAO list, and know what these mean and how they connect to a job description and job specification.
5. Know the disadvantages/advantages to using different sources of job info (e.g., incumbents vs. supervisors)
6. Understand job analysis methods â know adv/disadv, types of ratings and info they collect
   1. PAQ
   2. O*NET
   3. Job Observation, Interview, Critical Incidents
   4. C*JAM
7. Understand four different approaches to Job Design, the components of Hackman and Oldhamâs Job Characteristics model, and the adv/disadv to each.

Ch. 5 Questions

1. How does strategy tie into HR planning and recruitment?
2. Know the HR planning process, and what types of variables go into determining labor demand and labor supply
   1. Advantages and disadvantages of statistical versus judgment methods
3. What are our options in the event of a shortage or a surplus of labor? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
4. Understand the various recruitment policies and the recruitment process
5. List various sources from which job applicants can be drawn, their advantages and disadvantages, and evaluation methods.

Ch. 6 Questions

1. Define reliability and validity and describe one way to measure each for a selection test.
2. What is an assessment center? What are the various uses of an assessment center in HR?
3. Describe the various types of interviews. If you were designing an interview, what type of rating format would you suggest?
4. Compare and contrast the following selection tools: work samples, cognitive ability tests, biodata. Consider the advantages and disadvantages of each in your answer.
5. Compare and contrast the following selection tools: interviews, personality tests, and integrity/honesty tests. Consider the advantages and disadvantages of each in your answer.

Ch. 8 Questions

1. What are the five criteria for designing an effective PM system?
2. Compare and contrast the following approaches to performance management: comparative, attribute, behavioral, results, and quality approach. (consider the five critiera for effective PM). Give an example of each approach in your answer.
3. From what sources is performance information collected during a 360-degree feedback process? What are the advantages and disadvantages to the information gathered from each source?
4. Describe three types of rating errors that occur in the performance management process. How can we minimize them?

Ch. 15 Questions

1. What is the driving force behind globalization?
2. What are Hofstedeâs cultural dimensions? Why are these important?
3. What are the various types of international employees?

Ch. 16 Questions

1. What are some of the HRM roles plays in companies today?
2. How is HR typically structured?