All About Best Quality PHR Samples

NEW QUESTION 1
Deal and Kennedy defined the four dimensions of organizational culture that you should be familiar with, as an HR Professional. What dimension of organizational culture is best defined by the hidden hierarchy of power?

• A. Culture network
• B. Joy
• C. Values
• D. Heroes

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 2
As an HR Professional you should be familiar with the terminology, practices, and rules governing unions and management in the bargaining process. What is the zipper clause in regard to negotiations?

• A. Items in a management-union contract can be "zipped" open and closed as often as necessar
• B. Management is locked out of union meeting
• C. Management and union representations are locked out of union employee meeting
• D. Items in a management-union contract are "zipped" closed, once the agreement is signed by both partie

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 3
As an HR Professional you must be familiar with the project management processes and the stakeholders of projects. All projects can map to the project management lifecycle. Which one of the following best describes the project management lifecycle?

• A. It is the aggregation of the nine knowledge areas of project management: integration management, scope, schedule, costs, quality, human resources, communication, risk, and procuremen
• B. It is the life of the management of the project -from initiation, planning, execution, controlling, through closin
• C. It is the life of a project to interact with all areas including scope, schedule, costs, quality, human resources, communication, risk, and procuremen
• D. It is a unique life of each project -from its initiation through its closin

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 4
All organizations need prevoyance, or planning, as a part of a manager's duty. As an HR Professional what is the primary purpose of planning?

• A. Directs the project team and staff to accomplish the project scope
• B. Establishes groundwork for the managers to achieve the goals of the organization
• C. Communicates the direction of the organization
• D. Establishes groundwork for the managers to achieve their goals

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 5
Consider your role as a HR Professional in your organization. In your duties you're to keep abreast of market trends, practices in HR, employee attitudes, and your business needs. What component of the HR Impact Model is addressed in this situation?

• A. Programs and processes
• B. Policies and procedures
• C. Catalyst
• D. Consultation

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 6
Martha is the HR Professional for her organization and she's working with her team to complete non-quantitative job evaluations. Martha wants to stress the available types of non-quantitative job evaluation techniques that are appropriate for her team to be communicated to managers. Which one of the following is not a non-quantitative job evaluation technique that Martha should share?

• A. Whole job ranking
• B. Job slotting
• C. Factor comparison
• D. Job classification

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 7
As an HR Professional, you must be familiar with the collective bargaining agreements and the process that rights are given, contracts, and union and management cooperation. Consider an arbitration process between the management and the union. What term is assigned to the resolution of the disagreement, by an arbitrator's interpretation of the language of the contract?

• A. Resolution
• B. Interpretation
• C. Decision
• D. Outcome

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 8
Your organization has 80 full-time employees. Management has recently informed you that they have sold their business and they'll be releasing all employees in the organization. Based on the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988, how many days must management give in writing to the employees of this organization before the mass layoff?

• A. 60 days
• B. 120 days
• C. Zero days
• D. 30 days

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 9
Fred is a union employee who has been summoned by the management to an investigatory hearing regarding his conduct. Fred would like to have a union representative with him at the meeting. What is the name of the right that allows Fred to have a union representative with him at the meeting?

• A. Management Rights
• B. Bumping Right
• C. Right of Way
• D. Weingarten Right

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 10
As an HR Professional you must be familiar with the strategic business management of your organization. Henry Fayol identified five functions of business management which still apply to businesses today. Which one of the following answers correctly identifies the five functions of a manager?

• A. Prevoyance, to command, to execute, to close, and to control
• B. Prevoyance, to organize, to command, to coordinate, andto control
• C. To plan, to organize, to control, to propose, and to close
• D. Initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 11
As an HR Professional you should be familiar with the terminology, practices, and rules governing union-based strikes. What is the ally doctrine?

• A. A union may expand upon its primary picketing activity to include employees who are allies of the primary employe
• B. Employers cannot force friends, colleagues, and family members into joining a union picke
• C. Allies of the picketing union can allow allies into the picket lin
• D. A union may expand upon its primary picketing activity to include employers who are allies of the primary employe
• E. A union may serve as an ally to another striking union by allowing their members to join the picket against the primary employe

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 12
You are the HR Professional for your organization and you're working with the management to define the role of contractors versus employees in your organization. According to the Internal Revenue Service, there are three categories of control that help determine whether a person is a contractor or an employee. Which one of the following is not one of the three levels of control as defined by the IRS for employee versus contractor?

• A. Financial control
• B. Locale of work performed
• C. Behavioral control
• D. Type of relationship

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 13
You have just hired a job candidate for a position in your company. You are now required by the Immigration and Control Act of 1986, to complete an employment eligibility form to verify the new employee's eligibility to work in the United States. Within how many days must you complete this form?

• A. 3 days
• B. 30 days
• C. 7 days
• D. 10 days

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 14
As an HR Professional, you should be familiar with OSHA rules, standards, and regulations. Should an organization violate an OSHA standard, there are often penalties that the employer must pay. What is the maximum fine an employer may face for a deliberate and intentional violation of an OSHA standard?

• A. $100,000
• B. $10,000
• C. $50,000
• D. $70,000

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 15
Which of the following requires employers to pay social security tax for employees and to withhold the tax amount from employee paychecks?

• A. Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
• B. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
• C. Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA)
• D. Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 16
The Taft-Hartley Act, also known as the Labor Management Relations Act, addressed unions and engaged in certain types of secondary boycotts. What is a secondary boycott?

• A. It is an effort to convince others to stop doing business with a particular organization that is the subject of a primary boycot
• B. It is an effort to create more than one boycott on an organization, on two or more revenue stream
• C. It is two or more boycotts by two or more union-backed organizations against one compan
• D. It is additional boycotts against companies that do business with a company which the union is boycottin

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 17
You are the HR Professional within your organization, and you're working with the management to address the organizational culture. You explain to the management the four dimensions of organizational culture - as addressed by Deal and Kennedy. Which one of the following is not one of the four dimensions of organizational culture?

• A. Heroes
• B. Joy
• C. Values
• D. Rites and Rituals

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 18
As a HR Professional you must be familiar with several different lawsuits and their affect on human resource practices today. What did the Regents of the University of California versus Bakke lawsuit primarily accomplish?

• A. Universities could not use race as the reason to exclude an applicant to a college admissions program, but the university could use race as one of the reasons to include a person as an applicant to a college admissions progra
• B. Universities could not hire a person based solely on their rac
• C. Universities could not use race as a reason to not hirea person, but could use race as a reason to hire a perso
• D. Universities could not use race as a reason to include or to exclude a person from a college admissions progra

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 19
Which of the following are established by Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose three.

• A. Criteria for exempt and nonexempt employees
• B. Minimumwage requirement
• C. Laws for protecting American children against labor exploitation
• D. Health insurance requirement

Answer: ABC

NEW QUESTION 20
You are a HR Professional for your organization. You have presented an idea to your staff. The staff members then discuss their ideas based on your presentation. All of the ideas are recorded and collectively ranked from most important to least important (or some other ordinal scale). Through this process a selection or forecast can be made for the organization. What forecasting technique have you used in this scenario?

• A. Nominal group technique
• B. Ratio analysis
• C. Brainstorming
• D. Delphi Technique

Answer: A

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