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True/ False MGT501 - Human Resource Management, Solved material for mid term and final term exams 71. Staff managers are authorized to direct the work of subordinates and are directly in charge of accomplishing the organization’s basic goals. (False) 72. Human resource managers are generally staff managers. (True) 73. Staff managers are always someone’s boss. (False) 74. In small organizations, line managers may carry out all personnel duties without the assistance of a human resource staff. (True) 75. Human resource managers assist in hiring, training, evaluating, rewarding, counseling, promoting, and hiring employees. (True) 76. When human resource managers make sure employees can contest unfair practices, they are carrying out an innovator role. (False) 77. The division of human resource responsibilities for line managers and staff managers varies from organization to organization. (True) 78. As firms seek to keep costs down, there has been a shift to using more traditional workers. (False) 79. With the aging of its workforce, America is facing a demographic shift as significant as the massive entry of women into the workforce that began in the 1960s. (True) 80. As baby boomers retire from the workforce, there will be more people entering the labor pool than leaving it. (False) 81. Ratios are quantitative performance measures used to assess operations. (False) 82. The HR Scorecard is a concise measurement system which shows the quantitative standards the firm used to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of human resource activities. (True) 83. Human resource management creates value for an organization by engaging in activities that produce the employee behaviors the company needs to achieve its strategic goals. (True) 84. Unlike other divisions, such as research and development, in an organization, the HR function is not evaluated on the extent to which it creates value for the company. (False) 85. The absence rate is focused on more than any other metric used in an HR Scorecard. (False) 86. Human capital ROI reports the return on investment ratio for employees. (True) 87. The revenue factor shows employees as an expense rather than as capital. (False) 88. The time to fill metric illustrates the efficiency of the firm’s recruiting function. (True) 89. The training investment factor measures the total training cost for all employees taken as a whole. (False) 90. The acronym FTE used in many of the HR metrics stands for foreign or temporary employees. (False) 91. Turnover rate and turnover costs can both be improved with retention efforts. (True) 92. HR should seek to increase the workers’ compensation cost per employee by eliminating such practices as disability management. (False) 93. The most important proficiency of the four highlighted in the text for human resource managers is law proficiency. (False) 94. Equal employment laws lay out what a supervisor can and cannot say and do when dealing with labor unions. (False) 95. Employment laws are intended to curb erroneous corporate financial reporting. (False) 96. Because of employment laws, HR managers must now review and approve a firm’s financial statements. (False) 97. Human resource managers must have MBA degrees to be promoted to HR directors. (False) 98. ASP is a special wireless technology used to synchronize various electronic tools like cellular phones and PCs and facilitate employee access to employer online HR services. (False) 99. Ethical issues such as workplace safety, security of employee records, comparable work, and employee privacy rights are all related to human resource management. (True) 100. HR portals represent a form of outsourcing. (False) http://htxt.it/c6rT