Multiple choices. Only one answer is right for each question, please pick it out.

1)________ is the process of acquiring, training, appraising, and compensating employees, and attending to their labor relations, health and safety, and fairness concerns.

A) Labor relations

B) Human resource management

C) Behavioral management

D) Organizational health and safety management

2)Personnel activities associated with human resource management most likely include all of the following EXCEPT ________.

A) orienting and training new employees

B) appraising employee performance

C) building employee commitment

D) developing customer relationships

3)________ is the right to make decisions, to direct the work of others, and to give orders.

A) Leadership

B) Authority

C) Management

D) Responsibility

4)All of the following are examples of human resource specialties EXCEPT ________.

A) job analyst

B) financial advisor

C) compensation manager

D) labor relations specialist

5)Which of the following human resource management specialties calls for collecting data to write job descriptions?

A) job analyst

B) job training specialist

C) compensation manager

D) EEO coordinator

6)________ has affected how people work, and therefore on the skills and training today's workers need.

A) Technology

B) Factory jobs

C) Global environmental concerns and legislation

D) Manufacturing

7)Unlike HR managers of the past, modern HR managers must be able to ________.

A) assist with employee training in various departments within a firm

B) explain HR activities in terms of a firm's performance and profitability

C) determine the most appropriate compensation for employees

D) hire workers who are well-matched to a firm's HR needs

8)Strategic human resource management refers to ________.

A) formulating and executing human resource policies and practices that produce the employee competencies and behaviors the company needs to achieve strategic aims

B) planning the balance of internal strengths and weaknesses with external opportunities and threats to maintain competitive advantage

C) emphasizing the knowledge, education, training, skills, and expertise of a firm's workers

D) extending a firm's sales, ownership, and manufacturing to new markets

Why is human resource management important to all managers?

What is human resource management? What competencies are necessary for HR managers to succeed in today's business environment?