MyManagementLab only—comprehensive writing assignment for this chapter.

1-12. What do you think of the idea of Google correlating personal traits from the employees’
answers on the survey to their performance, and then using that as the basis for screening job candidates? In other words, is it or is it not a good idea? Please explain your answer.
2-13. The benefits that Google pays obviously represent an enormous expense. Based on what you know about Google and on what you read in this text, how would you defend all these benefits if you’re making a presentation to the security analysts who were analyzing Google’s performance?
3-14. If you wanted to hire the brightest people around, how would you go about recruiting and selecting them?
4-15. To support its growth and expansion strategy, Google wants (among other traits)
people who are super-bright and who work hard, often round-the-clock, and who are flexible and maintain a decent work–life balance. List five specific HR policies or practices that you think Google has implemented or should implement to support its strategy, and explain your answer.
5-16. What sorts of factors do you think Google will have to take into consideration as it tries transferring its culture and reward systems and way of doing business to its operations abroad?
6-17. Given the sorts of values and culture Google cherishes, briefly describe four specific activities you suggest they pursue during new-employee orientation.

7-1. Given Bandag Automotive’s size, and anything else you know about it, should we reorganize the human resource management function, and if so, why and how?
8-2. What, if anything, would you do to change and/or improve upon the current HR systems, forms, and practices that we now use?
9-3. Do you think that the employee whom Jim fired for creating what the manager called a poisonous relationship has a legitimate claim against us, and if so, why and what should we do about it?