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Question 191

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Let's assume you are a HR Manager at a high tech start-up company in its late stages with 3 rounds of funding. The firm's cash balance is $13 million, with a burn rate off $1 million/per month. It anticipates a break-even within 1 1/2 years, and there are no plans for acquisition or IPO within the next year. The company is an opto-electronics company, which is a highly specialized niche within the telecommunications industry. You are building out a team for Operations, which will be made up of experienced individuals from top competitor. What is the most appropriate compensation philosophy for this organization?

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Question 192

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An organization is in the growth stage of the organizational life cycle. It has five locations, one in the U.S. (headquarters), two in Asia, one in South America, and one in Europe. The company has decided to utilize a geographic organizational structure. Although the foreign locations are relatively new, they are fully operational each running fairly independently. However, once a year the executive team from headquarters visits each office to meet with the managers at each site to discuss the coming fiscal year's strategic goals and objectives. According to Hannon's framework, which of the following human resource strategies BEST aligns with this type of organizational structure?

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Question 193

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Which of the following elements of a competency model allows for clear feedback to employees regarding their career growth?

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Question 194

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A company has selected a young Operations manager to start a factory operation in Malaysia over a three-year period. The assignment may extend another couple of years depending on the required transition. Which of the following programs is likely the MOST valuable to this international assignee while on assignment?

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Question 195

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Which of the following is NOT a cultural impact on the performance appraisal process?

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Question 196

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Which of the following best describes the reason why continual environmental scanning is important for an organization?

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Question 197

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Which of the following is NOT a reason why corporations in the 21st century have decided to accelerate the rate of their global expansion?

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Question 198

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Which of the following is an advantage of utilizing internal recruitment methods?

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Question 199

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Which of the following situations describes a plan to provide an employee with job enlargement?

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Utilizing Briscoe and Hall's framework of defining competencies, which of the following is disadvantage of utilizing a strategies-based approach to defining competencies?

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A high tech company has decided to adopt a fun culture that inspires hard work and innovation. There are wacky, colorful pieces of furniture all around the offices, free lunch is provided on a daily basis in their state-of-the-art kitchen managed by gourmet chefs; all engineers are required to spend one day a week to work on something new and of their own creation. According to Trompenaars, which of the following types of corporate cultures describe this organization?
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Which of the following situations describes a plan to provide an employee with job enlargement?
Which of the following is an advantage of utilizing internal recruitment methods?
Which of the following is NOT a reason why corporations in the 21st century have decided to accelerate the rate of their global expansion?
Which of the following best describes the reason why continual environmental scanning is important for an organization?
Which of the following is NOT a cultural impact on the performance appraisal process?