Human Resource Management Questions & Answers
- Q: 1. The company that makes your favourite snack product has been accused of being weak in its social responsibility efforts. What impact will this have on your purchase of any more products from that company? 2.... Posted 2 years ago
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- Q: 1. What are the four criteria used in making ethical decisions, and how do they differ? 2. What is corporate social responsibility? 3. ... Posted 2 years ago
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- Q: 1. What are the strengths and weaknesses of group (versus individual) decision making? 2. How effective are interacting, brainstorming, and the nominal group technique? 3.... Posted 2 years ago
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- Q: Observe two sports teams (either college/university or professional— one that you consider successful and the other unsuccessful). What leadership styles appear to be used in these team situations? Give some specific examples of the types of... Posted 3 months ago
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- Q: Think of a group or team to which you currently belong or of which you have been a part. What type of leadership style did the leader of this group appear to exhibit? Give some specific examples of the types of leadership behaviours he or she used.... Posted 7 months ago
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- Q: Moving from Colleague to Supervisor Cheryl Kahn, Rob Carstons, and Linda McGee have something in common. 136 They all were promoted within their organizations into management positions. As well, each found the transition a challenge. Kahn was... Posted 3 months ago
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- Q: Undercover Leaders The W Network television show Undercover Boss Canada features a leader working undercover in his or her own company to find out how the organization really works. 135 Here, we consider the ethical leadership lessons it might offer.... Posted one year ago
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- Q: 1. What is Fiedler’s contingency model? Has it been supported in research? 2. How do charismatic and transformational leadership compare and contrast? Are they valid? 3.... Posted 3 months ago
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- Q: 1. How are leadership and management different from one another? 2. What are the conclusions of trait theories of leadership? 3. What are the central tenets and main limitations of behavioural theories of leadership? Posted 11 months ago
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- Q: . Do some comparisons of the atmosphere or feeling you get from various organizations. It will probably be easiest for you to do this exercise using restaurants, retail stores, or banks. Based on the atmosphere that you observe, what type of... Posted 11 months ago
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- Q: Is a 5S Culture for You? Jay Scovie looked at his workspace. 95 He took pride in how nice and tidy he had made it look. As it turns out, his pride was misplaced. Sweeping visible clutter from your workspace by packing it into boxes hidden in a closet... Posted one year ago
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- Q: 1. What is a positive organizational culture? 2. Choose 2 courses that you are taking this term, ideally in different faculties, and describe the culture of the classroom in... Posted 4 months ago
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- Q: Choosing Your Battles While much of this chapter has discussed methods for achieving harmonious relationships and getting out of conflicts, it’s also important to remember that there are situations in which too little conflict can be a problem.... Posted one year ago
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- Q: The Lowball Applicant Consider this first-person account: I am a human resources manager, so I interview people every day. Sometimes the managers in my company ask me to pre-screen candidates, which I do after discussing the job at length with the... Posted 2 years ago
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- Q: A Negotiation Role Play This role play is designed to help you develop your negotiating skills. The class is to break into pairs. One person will play the role of Alex, the department supervisor. The other person will play C.J., Alex’s boss.... Posted one year ago
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- Q: 1. You and 2 other students carpool to school every day. The driver has recently taken to playing a new radio station quite loudly. You do not like the music, or the loudness. Using one of the conflict-handling strategies outlined in Exhibit 9-1 ,... Posted 11 months ago
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- Q: Keep a one-week journal of your behaviour, describing incidents when you tried to influence others around you. Assess each incident by asking: Were you successful at these attempts to influence them? Why or why not? What could you have done... Posted 2 months ago
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- Q: Barry’s Peer Becomes His Boss As Barry looked out the window of his office in Toronto, the gloomy October skies obscured his usual view of CN Tower. 120 “That figures,” Barry thought to himself—his mood was just as gloomy.... Posted one year ago
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- Q: Delegate Power, or Keep It Close? Samantha Parks is the owner and CEO of Sparks, a small agency that develops advertising, promotions, and marketing materials for high-fashion firms. 119 Parks has tended to keep a tight rein on her business,... Posted one year ago
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- Q: How Much Should You Defer to Those in Power? Although it’s not always easy to admit it to ourselves, often we adapt our behaviour to suit those in power. 118 To some degree, it’s important for organizational success that we do so. After... Posted one year ago
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- Q: 1. What are the causes and consequences of political behaviour? 2. What are some examples of impression management techniques? 3. What... Posted 3 months ago
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- Q: 1. What are the nine most often identified power or influence tactics and their contingencies? 2. What does it mean to be empowered? What factors lead to empowerment? 3.... Posted 11 months ago
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- Q: 1. What is power? 2. What are the five bases of power? 3. What is the role of dependence in power relationships? Posted 2 years ago
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- Q: An Absence of Nonverbal Communication This exercise will help you see the value of nonverbal communication in interpersonal relations. 1. The class is to divide into pairs (Party A and Party B). 2. Party A is to select a topic from the following... Posted 3 months ago
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- Q: 1. What are the differences between formal small-group networks and the grapevine? 2. What potential problems underlie cross-cultural communication? How can they be overcome? Posted 11 months ago
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- Q: 1. How does channel richness underlie the choice of communication channel? 2. What are some common barriers to effective communication? 3. ... Posted 2 years ago
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- Q: 1. When is work performed by individuals preferred over work performed by teams? 2. What are the key parts of the communication process, and how do you distinguish formal from... Posted 2 years ago
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- Q: 1. What characteristics contribute to the effectiveness of a team? 2. What are the implications of diversity for group effectiveness? 3. ... Posted 9 months ago
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- Q: 1. Do role requirements change in different situations? If so, how? 2. How do group norms influence an individual’s behaviour? 3. ... Posted 2 years ago
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- Q: 1. Define group and team. What are the different types of teams? 2. How do you explain the growing popularity of teams in organizations? 3. What are the five types of teams? Posted 7 months ago
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- Q: 1. Think of the worst job you have ever had. Analyze the job according to the five dimensions identified in the JCM. Redesign the job to make it more satisfying and motivating. 2.... Posted one year ago
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- Q: Attaching the Carrot to the Stick It seems like common sense that people work harder when there are incentives at stake, but many scholars question this premise. 163 Alfie Kohn has long suggested that employees are “punished by rewards”... Posted one year ago
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- Q: “When I have time I don’t have money. When I have money I don’t have time,” says Glenn Kelman, CEO of Redfin. 162 He is not alone. While many employees find themselves faced with 60-, 70-, or 80-hour weeks (and sometimes... Posted 2 years ago
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- Q: 1. What are the three alternative work arrangements of flextime, job sharing, and telecommuting? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? 2. What are employee... Posted 2 years ago
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- Q: 1. What are the motivational benefits of intrinsic rewards? 4 2. What is the job characteristics model? How does it motivate employees? 3.... Posted 11 months ago
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- Q: 1. What is variable pay? What variable-pay programs are used to motivate employees? What are their advantages and disadvantages? 2. How can flexible benefits motivate... Posted 3 months ago
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- Q: Organizational Justice 1. Each person should recall an instance in which he or she was (a) treated especially fairly and (b) treated especially unfairly. Work-related instances are preferable, but nonwork examples are fine too. 2. Spend several... Posted 3 months ago
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- Q: Harvard University recently changed its grading policy to recommend to instructors that the average course mark should be a B. This was the result of a study showing that more than 50 percent of students were receiving an A or A– for... Posted 11 months ago
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- Q: You are unhappy with the performance of one of your instructors and would like to encourage the instructor to present more lively classes. Choose one of the available theories and indicate how the theory explains the instructor’s current... Posted 2 years ago
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- Q: One of the members of your team continually arrives late for meetings and does not turn drafts of questions in on time. Choose one of the available theories and indicate how the theory explains the member’s current behaviour and how the... Posted 2 years ago
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- Q: 1. How is organizational justice a refinement of equity theory? 2. How do the predictions of selfdetermination theory apply to intrinsic and extrinsic rewards? 3.... Posted 2 years ago
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- Q: 1. What are the key principles of goal-setting theory, self-efficacy theory, and reinforcement theory? 2. Why do equity and fairness matter in the workplace? Posted one year ago
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- Q: 1. What are the three key elements of motivation? 2. What are some early theories of motivation? How applicable are they today? 3. What are the key tenets of expectancy theory? Posted one year ago
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- Q: Can You Read Emotions from Faces? Some researchers—psychologist Paul Ekman may be the best known—have studied whether facial expressions reveal true emotions. 185 These researchers have distinguished real smiles (so-called duch*enne... Posted 10 months ago
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- Q: On the Costs of Being Nice Agreeable people tend to be kinder and more accommodating in social situations, which you might think could add to their success in life. 184 However, one downside of agreeableness is potentially lower earnings. Recent... Posted 2 years ago
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- Q: Happiness Coaches for Employees We know there is considerable spillover from personal unhappiness to negative emotions at work. 183 Moreover, those who experience negative emotions in life and at work are more likely to engage in counterproductive... Posted one year ago
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- Q: Who Can Catch a Liar? We mentioned earlier in the chapter that emotion researchers are highly interested in facial expressions as a window into individuals’ emotional worlds. 182 Research has also studied whether people can tell someone... Posted one year ago
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- Q: 1. Describe a situation where your perception turned out to be wrong. What perceptual errors did you make that might have caused this to happen? Posted 2 years ago
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- Q: 1. What is the evidence for and against the existence of emotional intelligence? 2. What are some strategies for emotion regulation and their likely effects? 3.... Posted 4 months ago
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- Q: 1. How do the Big Five personality traits predict behaviour at work? 2. What is the difference between emotions and moods? 3. What impact... Posted 2 years ago
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- Q: 1. What is perception? What factors influence our perception? 2. What is attribution theory? What are the three determinants of attribution? What are the implications of attribution theory for explaining organizational behaviour? Posted 2 years ago
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