Which of the following Acts was the first federal legislation to regulate minimum wages?

Walsh Healy Public Contracts Act

Which of the following Acts was the first federal legislation to regulate minimum wages?

Walsh Healy Public Contracts Act

Which of the following is not a benefit of hiring a multigenerational workforce?

A multigenerational workforce increases an organization's productivity.

Recruiting for a multigenerational workforce increase the applicant pool from which to choose employees.

A multigenerational workforce is a reflection of the population, considering the large number of baby boomers who are reaching retirement age.

A multigenerational workforce increases an organization's productivity.

A multigenerational workforce increases the availability of different perspectives for use in management decision-making.

Which of the following is a basic principle behind job analysis?

The analysis focuses on the job, not the person.

The required qualifications should include everything the manager would like the employee to have.

The analysis is limited to task inventories and questionnaires.

The analysis focuses on the person doing the job, not the job.

What is the purpose of a diversity initiative?

To increase the diversity of the workforce

To educate all employees about other groups in the workforce

To increase the diversity of the workforce

To increase organizational creativity

To increase the comfort level of employees

Pauline is a HR Professional for her organization and she's meeting with the sales manager Jim. Jim wants to know if Randy, one of his sales people, is considered exempt or not because he's doing outside sales. Pauline tells Jim that there are just two qualifiers for Randy to be considered exempt in his role as an outside salesperson. The first is that Randy's primary duty must be making sales. What is the other consideration?

Randy must be customarily engaged away from the employer's place of business.

Randy must earn more than $48,234 per year.

Randy must not have a contract to complete sales.

Randy must be customarily engaged away from the employer's place of business.

Randy must earn all income from commission.

The motivation theory that suggests people are motivated by the reward they will receive when they succeed and that they weigh the value of the expected reward against the effort required to achieve it is known as what?

McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y

McClelland's acquired needs theory

A PEST analysis is used during the strategic planning process. What is PEST an acronym for?

Political, economic, social, technology

Political, environmental, strengths, threats

Product, environment, social, technology

Political, economic, social, technology

Political, economic, specific, timely

For employers with 15 or more employees, records of all job announcements, applications, and resumes must be kept for one year under which of the following acts?

Americans with Disabilities Act

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act

Before selecting an HRIS system, which of the following questions should be answered?

Who will have access to the information stored in the HRIS?

What information will be converted to the HRIS?

You are the senior HR Professional for your company. Management has asked you to identify how you'll measure results for human resources performance through one of four tactical accountability measures. Which of the following tactical accountability measures is not a valid measurement approach for HR performance?

Ratio of management to HR staff

HR expenses as a percentage of operating expenses

Ratio of management to HR staff

HR expenses as a percent of total revenue

Ratio of total employees to HR Staff

To which of the following does the balanced scorecard concept not apply?

Eliminate unnecessary processes to increase customer satisfaction.

Tie objectives to specific performance measures.

Set targets for meeting objectives.

Measure how objectives contribute to organization goals.

Eliminate unnecessary processes to increase customer satisfaction.

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