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SHRM-CP WORKPLACE Questions - Part 23
1. Creating a CSR Strategy HR is looking for ways to increase the organization's brand while developing the employees. How can this be achieved?
A) Volunteering
B) Outsourcing
C) Job sharing
D) Job rotation
2. An organization gains many benefits from its employees volunteering in the community. How can volunteering help the employees?
A) By increasing branding
B) By improving the company culture
C) By providing time off
D) By building skills
3. A manufacturer assembles commercial equipment in its host country, using Β components purchased from small manufacturers in other countries. Pursuing a new corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy, the manufacturer has reviewed its own processes for potential environmental improvements related to energy and waste. HR has been directed to survey employees' workplace impressions, implement engagement practices, and initiate volunteer programs with local community groups. What else is HR in a good position to Β do to advance the CSR program?
A) Train suppliers in the organization's code of conduct.
B) Implement an employee suggestion program at headquarters.
C) Conduct workplace compliance audits for Β supply chain partners.
D) Compile a list of Β green products to be used in the organization.
4. What is the implication of an organization using the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards to create an enhanced and comprehensive sustainability strategy?
A) It will save money by enabling the use of GRI-provided templates, forms, and surveys.
B) The GRI Standards have been in place longer than the organization's own measures.
C) These metrics are approved by all national and global HR organizations.
D) It is easier to evaluate performance and progress against industry and global benchmarks.
5. Which is a primary business benefit associated with implementation of an employee volunteerism program?
A) Strengthening the company's brand and reputation
B) Expanding skill sets for employees who participate
C) Developing opportunities for employee recognition
D) Enhancing sense of camaraderie and teamwork
A) Volunteering
B) Outsourcing
C) Job sharing
D) Job rotation
2. An organization gains many benefits from its employees volunteering in the community. How can volunteering help the employees?
A) By increasing branding
B) By improving the company culture
C) By providing time off
D) By building skills
3. A manufacturer assembles commercial equipment in its host country, using Β components purchased from small manufacturers in other countries. Pursuing a new corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy, the manufacturer has reviewed its own processes for potential environmental improvements related to energy and waste. HR has been directed to survey employees' workplace impressions, implement engagement practices, and initiate volunteer programs with local community groups. What else is HR in a good position to Β do to advance the CSR program?
A) Train suppliers in the organization's code of conduct.
B) Implement an employee suggestion program at headquarters.
C) Conduct workplace compliance audits for Β supply chain partners.
D) Compile a list of Β green products to be used in the organization.
4. What is the implication of an organization using the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards to create an enhanced and comprehensive sustainability strategy?
A) It will save money by enabling the use of GRI-provided templates, forms, and surveys.
B) The GRI Standards have been in place longer than the organization's own measures.
C) These metrics are approved by all national and global HR organizations.
D) It is easier to evaluate performance and progress against industry and global benchmarks.
5. Which is a primary business benefit associated with implementation of an employee volunteerism program?
A) Strengthening the company's brand and reputation
B) Expanding skill sets for employees who participate
C) Developing opportunities for employee recognition
D) Enhancing sense of camaraderie and teamwork
1. Right Answer: A
Explanation: Volunteering gives people a chance to learn new skills while representing the organization. Job sharing and rotation may improve an organization's effectiveness and productivity but not perceptions of its brand by external stakeholders. Outsourcing, if performed without due diligence, can hurt the organization's brand, but performed appropriately it will affect productivity and effectiveness rather than brand.
2. Right Answer: D
Explanation: Volunteering can allow employees to learn new skills while helping in the community.
3. Right Answer: C
Explanation: Because of the manufacturer's business model, it makes sense for HR to recommend to management that suppliers' workplaces be audited for conditions that would violate local laws and/or the organization's own values and ethical code. The employee suggestion program has probably already been considered as part of an engagement program. Compiling a list of green products is outside HR's area of expertise. The manufacturer and HR cannot impose their code of ethics on a supplier, who must develop a code that complies with local laws, customs, and their own values. HR could, however, include review of such a code in their compliance audit of suppliers.
4. Right Answer: D
Explanation: The GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards are universally accepted for global reporting of an organization's sustainability efforts and progress, enabling meaningful and consistent comparisons of multinational organizations' sustainability performance.
5. Right Answer: A
Explanation: While all of these may occur as a result of successfully implementing an employee volunteerism program, they are not all considered business benefits. Strengthening the company's brand and reputation is a business benefit. The others are benefits to the employees and/or the work environment.
Explanation: Volunteering gives people a chance to learn new skills while representing the organization. Job sharing and rotation may improve an organization's effectiveness and productivity but not perceptions of its brand by external stakeholders. Outsourcing, if performed without due diligence, can hurt the organization's brand, but performed appropriately it will affect productivity and effectiveness rather than brand.
2. Right Answer: D
Explanation: Volunteering can allow employees to learn new skills while helping in the community.
3. Right Answer: C
Explanation: Because of the manufacturer's business model, it makes sense for HR to recommend to management that suppliers' workplaces be audited for conditions that would violate local laws and/or the organization's own values and ethical code. The employee suggestion program has probably already been considered as part of an engagement program. Compiling a list of green products is outside HR's area of expertise. The manufacturer and HR cannot impose their code of ethics on a supplier, who must develop a code that complies with local laws, customs, and their own values. HR could, however, include review of such a code in their compliance audit of suppliers.
4. Right Answer: D
Explanation: The GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards are universally accepted for global reporting of an organization's sustainability efforts and progress, enabling meaningful and consistent comparisons of multinational organizations' sustainability performance.
5. Right Answer: A
Explanation: While all of these may occur as a result of successfully implementing an employee volunteerism program, they are not all considered business benefits. Strengthening the company's brand and reputation is a business benefit. The others are benefits to the employees and/or the work environment.
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