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SHRM-CP Organization Questions - Part 32
1. How can technology advance HR's role in supporting a culture of compliance?
A) By focusing on greater use of e-procurement throughout the organization
B) By enablingΒ secure and scalableΒ databasesΒ to store employment documents
C) By restricting access to information through mandating software as a service to store information
D) By encouraging business process integration across all core business functions
2. Which should be a primary concern for employers regarding the 'bring your own device' (BYOD) technology approach?
A) Protection of employee privacy
B) Expense reimbursement to employees
C) Security and data integrity threats
D) Decline in face-to-face communication
3. What is a direct implication of HR's evolving strategic role?
A) Redesign of incentive systems to reward increased customer satisfaction
B) More employee engagement programs to smooth generational differences in the workforce
C) Required competence to develop talent through career development and succession planning
D) Increased knowledge of employment law, compliance issues, and record keeping
4. Which best describes how HR should be involved in the strategic planning process to serve their organization?
A) Acting as a consultant to leadership and other functions on HR issues
B) Critiquing and assessing the input and contributions of strategic planning participants
C) Assuming sole responsibility for making decisions on matters related to HR
D) Focusing on accurately representing the needs of the HR department to management
5. Which activity is considered an HR strategic responsibility?
A) Supporting an organization's core business functions
B) Outsourcing core HR functional activities
C) Ensuring that transactions are processed correctly
D) Identifying HR trends in social media
A) By focusing on greater use of e-procurement throughout the organization
B) By enablingΒ secure and scalableΒ databasesΒ to store employment documents
C) By restricting access to information through mandating software as a service to store information
D) By encouraging business process integration across all core business functions
2. Which should be a primary concern for employers regarding the 'bring your own device' (BYOD) technology approach?
A) Protection of employee privacy
B) Expense reimbursement to employees
C) Security and data integrity threats
D) Decline in face-to-face communication
3. What is a direct implication of HR's evolving strategic role?
A) Redesign of incentive systems to reward increased customer satisfaction
B) More employee engagement programs to smooth generational differences in the workforce
C) Required competence to develop talent through career development and succession planning
D) Increased knowledge of employment law, compliance issues, and record keeping
4. Which best describes how HR should be involved in the strategic planning process to serve their organization?
A) Acting as a consultant to leadership and other functions on HR issues
B) Critiquing and assessing the input and contributions of strategic planning participants
C) Assuming sole responsibility for making decisions on matters related to HR
D) Focusing on accurately representing the needs of the HR department to management
5. Which activity is considered an HR strategic responsibility?
A) Supporting an organization's core business functions
B) Outsourcing core HR functional activities
C) Ensuring that transactions are processed correctly
D) Identifying HR trends in social media
1. Right Answer: B
Explanation: With the electronic retention of employee files and other employment-related records, electronic record keeping helps HR comply with legal requirements without having to provide physical storage space for paper records.
2. Right Answer: C
Explanation: While asking people to bring their own devices can lower costs and improve efficiency, effectiveness, and morale, it also raises a host of security concerns. Many security scenarios raise the risk for the unauthorized disclosure or destruction of business data. Fortunately, most of these concerns can be addressed through a well-crafted policy.
3. Right Answer: C
Explanation: HR's talent management strategy needs to be aligned to the organization'sΒ strategies and business partners' needs. While the other activities listed are important, they are tied more to HR's operational and administrative roles. Operational activities focus on the day-to-day needs of managing people (e.g., compensation and incentive systems), while administrative activities focus on transactions, such as implementing payroll orΒ creating and updating employee records.
4. Right Answer: A
Explanation: HR professionals should be directly involved in the strategic planning process and can identify and help the organization manage the implications that strategic planning has for all employees. HR's unique cross-functional (and possibly global) perspective allows HR leaders to create value by consulting and advising on aligning workforce assets with strategy demands.
5. Right Answer: A
Explanation: The three major areas of HR's involvement in strategy are participating in creating the organizational strategy, aligning HR's functional strategy with the organizational strategy, and thenΒ supporting other functions as they work to fulfill their own strategic goals. HR must act as a business partner for all other functions
Explanation: With the electronic retention of employee files and other employment-related records, electronic record keeping helps HR comply with legal requirements without having to provide physical storage space for paper records.
2. Right Answer: C
Explanation: While asking people to bring their own devices can lower costs and improve efficiency, effectiveness, and morale, it also raises a host of security concerns. Many security scenarios raise the risk for the unauthorized disclosure or destruction of business data. Fortunately, most of these concerns can be addressed through a well-crafted policy.
3. Right Answer: C
Explanation: HR's talent management strategy needs to be aligned to the organization'sΒ strategies and business partners' needs. While the other activities listed are important, they are tied more to HR's operational and administrative roles. Operational activities focus on the day-to-day needs of managing people (e.g., compensation and incentive systems), while administrative activities focus on transactions, such as implementing payroll orΒ creating and updating employee records.
4. Right Answer: A
Explanation: HR professionals should be directly involved in the strategic planning process and can identify and help the organization manage the implications that strategic planning has for all employees. HR's unique cross-functional (and possibly global) perspective allows HR leaders to create value by consulting and advising on aligning workforce assets with strategy demands.
5. Right Answer: A
Explanation: The three major areas of HR's involvement in strategy are participating in creating the organizational strategy, aligning HR's functional strategy with the organizational strategy, and thenΒ supporting other functions as they work to fulfill their own strategic goals. HR must act as a business partner for all other functions
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