MGMT 410 Week 4 Quiz

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Question 1

(TCO 1) The vice president of marketing tells a marketing manager to prepare a presentation by the end of the week. The vice president is most likely exercising which of the following?

Question 2

(TCO 1) Sweet Leaf Tea, a Texas-based maker of bottled iced tea, is a small but fast-growing firm that has gained a loyal following for its use of fresh, organic ingredients in its beverages. Although beverage industry experts recommended that Sweet Leaf replace the organic cane sugar and honey it uses with less costly high-fructose corn syrup, Sweet Leaf refused because of the company's mission to provide a high-quality, organic beverage to consumers. The 11-year-old company has 50 employees, and its products are available in 30% of the U.S. market. Sweet Leaf Tea recently received multimillion dollar investments that will enable the business to expand its national presence.
 
Which of the following, if true, would best support the argument that Sweet Leaf Tea should implement a corporate-level strategy of market penetration?

Question 3

(TCO 1) A large manufacturing organization uses several consulting firms to provide training programs, private staffing agencies to perform recruiting and selection activities, and a financial organization to handle benefits administration. This situation is an example of

Question 4

(TCO 1) Which of the following refers to an analysis by which an organization measures where it currently stands and determines what it has to accomplish to improve its HR functions?

Question 5

(TCO 2) Which of the following best defines termination at will?

Question 6

(TCO 2) A company used a personality test to select job candidates for customer service positions. There were 40 male candidates and 20 female candidates. It appeared that 30 men passed the personality test and five women passed the personality test. Was there evidence of disparate impact against female candidates with this personality test?

Question 7

(TCO 2) Health-Tech Materials is a firm that manufactures medical equipment purchased by hospitals and clinics. The firm employs over 2,500 workers in its two manufacturing facilities located in Texas and Arizona. Recently, Health-Tech dismissed a number of employees for ethics violations ranging from improper Internet usage to stealing company funds. In addition, the firm has been sued by two former employees for wrongful discharge. As a result, Health-Tech's top executives are evaluating the firm's hiring process, ethics training system, reward system, and disciplinary system to determine how to promote ethics and fair treatment.

Question 8

(TCO 2) Larry has worked for a 2,500-employee chemical manufacturer, ABCHEM, for 2 years. He went to work on Monday morning to find his key no longer fit the front door lock and a new sign—FUTURE HOME OFFICE OF ALLIED PLASTICS—on the front door. He called his office and found that the telephone had been disconnected. He then noticed the local paper with headlines, "ABCHEM Sells Plastics Subsidiary: 2,000 Layoffs!" Larry remembered the letter he received from the HRM department 3 months earlier that had warned of this probable plant closing, but he ignored it as a rumor. Which protection is Larry given under WARN?

Question 9

(TCO 3) A written statement of what a job holder does, how it is done, under what conditions it is done, and why it is done is

Question 10

(TCO 3) Which method interviews the job incumbents simultaneously?

Question 11

(TCO 3) When using either a trend analysis or a ratio analysis, it is assumed that _____ will remain the same.

Question 12

(TCO 3) Which is not a constraint on recruiting efforts?

Question 13

(TCO 3) Which is the difference between a conditional job offer and a permanent job offer?

Question 14

(TCO 3) An activity included in preemployment testing that creates a miniature replica of a job is called