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SHRM-CP Certification Exam Questions 2023 - Part 55
1. Which component of a values-based code of conduct would most likely address conflict of interest, confidentiality, privacy, record-keeping, relations with external stakeholders, and use of company resources?
A) Specific rules of conduct
B) Organizational values and principles
C) Ethical and conduct guidance
D) Performance evaluation
2. Which of the following U.S. employment laws covers private and public employers with 20 or more employees?
A) 2009 ADA Amendments Act
B) 1964 Civil Rights Act
C) 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act
D) 1967 Age Discrimination in Employment Act
3. According to James MacGregor Burns' leadership theory, there are two types of leadership. What are they?
A) Corrective and persuasive leadership
B) Transactional and transformational leadership
C) Punishment and transactional leadership
D) Behavioral and transformational leadership
4. What is a characteristic typical of an adult learner?
A) Easily adaptable to change
B) More comfortable with basic theory than application
C) Focus on 'real-world' issues
D) Learn best in directive environment
5. Gloria will not receive her employer's contribution to her pension plan until she has worked for the employer for 5 years. What type of vesting is this?
A) Participant vesting
B) Graded vesting
C) Immediate vesting
D) Cliff vesting
A) Specific rules of conduct
B) Organizational values and principles
C) Ethical and conduct guidance
D) Performance evaluation
2. Which of the following U.S. employment laws covers private and public employers with 20 or more employees?
A) 2009 ADA Amendments Act
B) 1964 Civil Rights Act
C) 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act
D) 1967 Age Discrimination in Employment Act
3. According to James MacGregor Burns' leadership theory, there are two types of leadership. What are they?
A) Corrective and persuasive leadership
B) Transactional and transformational leadership
C) Punishment and transactional leadership
D) Behavioral and transformational leadership
4. What is a characteristic typical of an adult learner?
A) Easily adaptable to change
B) More comfortable with basic theory than application
C) Focus on 'real-world' issues
D) Learn best in directive environment
5. Gloria will not receive her employer's contribution to her pension plan until she has worked for the employer for 5 years. What type of vesting is this?
A) Participant vesting
B) Graded vesting
C) Immediate vesting
D) Cliff vesting
1. Right Answer: C
Explanation: Ethical and conduct guidelines address a wide range of topics typically addresses and controlled by organizational policies. A is wrong because organizational values and principles are what the organization hopes to accomplish. B is incorrect because it addresses specific rules of conduct. D is incorrect because performance evaluation is how performance and conduct will be evaluated.
2. Right Answer: D
Explanation: The 1967 Age Discrimination in Employment Act applies to private and public employers with 20 or more employers.
3. Right Answer: B
Explanation: The concepts of transformational leadership were developed by political sociologist James MacGregor Burns, in the late 1970s. Burns identified two types of leadership,Transactional: where a leader influences others by what they offer in exchange, the transaction;Transformational: where a leader connects with followers in such a way that it raises the level of motivation and morality.
4. Right Answer: C
Explanation: Adult learners learn best when learning can be immediately applied to the job or other 'real-life' situations.
5. Right Answer: D
Explanation: Cliff vesting is when the employee becomes fully vested at a specified time rather than becoming partially vested in increasing amounts over an extended period of time (graded vesting). An example of 'cliff vesting' is when an employee is fully vested in a pension plan after 5 years of full-time service. An example of graded vesting could be a five-year schedule in which the employee receives 20 percent vesting each year.
Explanation: Ethical and conduct guidelines address a wide range of topics typically addresses and controlled by organizational policies. A is wrong because organizational values and principles are what the organization hopes to accomplish. B is incorrect because it addresses specific rules of conduct. D is incorrect because performance evaluation is how performance and conduct will be evaluated.
2. Right Answer: D
Explanation: The 1967 Age Discrimination in Employment Act applies to private and public employers with 20 or more employers.
3. Right Answer: B
Explanation: The concepts of transformational leadership were developed by political sociologist James MacGregor Burns, in the late 1970s. Burns identified two types of leadership,Transactional: where a leader influences others by what they offer in exchange, the transaction;Transformational: where a leader connects with followers in such a way that it raises the level of motivation and morality.
4. Right Answer: C
Explanation: Adult learners learn best when learning can be immediately applied to the job or other 'real-life' situations.
5. Right Answer: D
Explanation: Cliff vesting is when the employee becomes fully vested at a specified time rather than becoming partially vested in increasing amounts over an extended period of time (graded vesting). An example of 'cliff vesting' is when an employee is fully vested in a pension plan after 5 years of full-time service. An example of graded vesting could be a five-year schedule in which the employee receives 20 percent vesting each year.
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