BUSI 642 QUIZ 3 HR Planning, Recruitment, Selection, Placement
1. Malek feels that his employer let him go for no reason. Although the company
practices employment-at-will, he still pursues resolution with the EEOC. This is called
Affirmative action policy
DUE PROCESS POLICY
Employment at will policy
Countercyclical hiring policy
Outsourcing policy
2. The final step in the planning process is to
X Implement recruiting methods
Establish forecasting methods
Formulate strategies
Evaluate results
Set goals & objectives
3. Hiring employees from external sources is a
Slow option to avoid an expected labor shortage, & its revocability is low
Slow option to avoid an unexpected labor shortage
Fast option to avoid an unexpected labor shortage;plus. Its revocability is high
X Fast option to avoid an expected labor shortage, & its revocability is low.
Slow option to avoid an unexpected labor shortage & its revocability is low
4. Pietro works as a sale executive for RangerCo,, a large manufacturer of care stereos.
He hears about a vacancy for sales manager at HearAll Inc., a competitor in the same
industry, & sends in his resume requesting HearAll to consider him for the vacancy.
Pietro is an example of an
X referral
Internal employee
Direct applicant
Virtual employee
Poached employee
5. _______serve primarily the blue-collar labor market; ______perform much the same
service for the white-collar labor market
Direct applications: referrals
Public employment agencies: referrals
Referrals: private employment agencies
Newspaper ads: online job search engines
PUBLIC EMPLOYMENTS AGENCIES: PRIVATE EMPLOYMENTS
AGENCIES
6. Which of the following is an advantage of relying on internal recruitment sources?
The applicants are relatively less knowledgeable about the company’s vacancies
& are hence easily trainable
It results in a workplace whose members all think alike and who therefore are
more suited to innovation
It generates a sample of applicants who are well known to the firm.
Because of the applicant’s lack of knowledge about a particular position, their
expectations are easy to meet
X It is a good way to strengthen one’s own company, while weakening one’s
competitors at the same time, because it increases diversity
7. _______is a generic term used to refer to organizational decisions that affect the
nature of the vacancies for which people are recruited
Fiscal policies
Judicial policies
