HRCI GPHR Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 6

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Question 51

A U.S. Based manufacturing company has decided to expand overseas to South Korea. Which of the following is an example of environmental scanning?
Building internal training programs for the new international employees
Developing a compensation structure in line with the local market
Changing the company's product mix to take advantage of the new labor market
Analyzing the number of skilled workers in the area
Question 52

As the of its corporate restructuring program, a corporation has invest in a manufacturing site ten miles outside of Bnagkok, Thailand. Which of the following factors is NOT a labor market factor that might affect the compensation strategy?
Inflation and interest rates are rapidly rising
Geographic concentration of labor around Bangkok, Thailand
Demand for labor
Types of renumeration sought
Question 53

A U.S. based high tech company has built a R&D office in Bangalore, India. Four years have passed since the Greenfield operation was successfully built. During this time, the new location has taken on higher priority engineering projects and trained and developed managerial skills of its newly recruited manages in Bangalore. Headquarters wants the office to take on a new engineering project that would expand its business in the U.S. by adding a new product line. This project has been identified as the most important objective for the corporation in the mid-term. The project is still in the phase of identifying specifications and developing milestones, where the engineering management team is working closely with the product manager. The management team understand that is must create an international assignment program to have this project run smoothly. The team believes that extended business travel would be the most appropriate program. In order t confirm their belief, the HR manager does extensive research. The analysis shows that extended business travel will result in $10,000,000 additional revenue in the first year and $5,000,000 additional revenue in the second year due to the customization of the product to customer demand. The cost of the program is $400,000 initial investment plus a variable cost of $100,000 per year. What is the break-even point?
2.4 months
4.8 months
6 months
2 months
Question 54

A corporation decides to pursue a participative management style in order to make improvements in their operational efficiencies. Which of the following processes is the organization utilizing in order to achieve their strategic goal?
Continual renewal process
Total quality management
Horizontal learning process
Entrepreneurial process
Question 55

According to the global performance management process, an organization should be aliging company systems in phases EXCEPT in which of the following stages?
Specifying each employee's performance plan
Defining global business strategy and objectives
Linking benefits & rewards as well as employee development to the process
Conducting the appraisal with each employee
Question 56

After performing a global gap analysis, the global HR team has identified an initiative to identify at least three potential candidates for each Senior Director and VP position. In order to build accountability for implementing this initiative, which of the following pieces of information is NOT necessary?
Source of resources
Modes of communication
Benefit to the individual and organization
Developing S.M.A.R.T objectives
Question 57

Which of the following type of listening is occurring when a person is thinking. ''Robert has some legitimate points about the importance of quality and its importance in the company's growth'' while listening to a ISO-9001 training session?
Active
Empathic
Informational
Evaluative
Question 58

Which of the following is NOT a potential difference in benefits practices that Human Resources should evaluate when developing a global compensation and benefits strategy?
Leaves of absences
Life insurance benefits
Medical coverage
Reasons for termination
Question 59

A gap analysis is performed to measure the skill gap between current executives and the type of executives in order to have a truly global workforce. Which of the following analysis techniques does this measure utilize?
Ratio analysis
Criterion-referenced analysis
Trend analysis
Norm-referenced analysis
Question 60

According to Claus, which of the following HR activities is considered an upstream function?
Compensation
Employee relations
HRIS
Staffing
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