Which of the following terms describes the best possible fit between a company’s social system and its technical system?

THE HOMEWORK THE

FOR FUNDAMENTALS OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT.

 

 

 

 

 

The Human Resource Environment

 

 

 

When you have completed your exam and reviewed your answers,

 

 

 

Questions 1 to 20: Select the best answer to each question. Note that a question and its answers may be split across a page

 

 

 

break, so be sure that you have seen the entire question and all the answers before choosing an answer.

 

 

 

1. Which of the following cases would most likely be filed under the theory of disparate impact?

 

 

 

A. A black employee is fired for testifying in a discrimination suit filed against an employer.

 

 

 

B. A white applicant is told he won’t be hired because the employer doesn’t like whites.

 

 

 

C. Black applicants are being disproportionately rejected relative to whites by a paper-and-pencil test.

 

 

 

D. White applicants with high test scores are rejected due to an affirmative-action plan.

 

 

 

2. Which of the following terms describes the best possible fit between a company’s social system and its

 

 

 

technical system?

 

 

 

A. Self-service system

 

 

 

B. Outsourcing

 

 

 

C. High-performance work system

 

 

 

D. Total quality management

 

 

 

3. People’s right to freedom of speech is the right to

 

 

 

A. do as they wish in their private life.

 

 

 

B. refuse to do something that’s environmentally unsafe.

 

 

 

C. be treated only as they knowingly and willingly consent to be treated.

 

 

 

D. criticize an organization’s ethics if they do it in good conscience.

 

 

 

4. Which of the following categories of workers is not covered under OSHA’s Hazard Communication

 

 

 

Standards?