1. Human capital refers to the knowledge, skill, and ability of people and their motivation to
use them successfully on the job.
TRUE
2. For the average organization, employee costs (wages or salaries and benefits) ar
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1. Human capital refers to the knowledge, skill, and ability of people and their motivation to
use them successfully on the job.
TRUE
2. For the average organization, employee costs (wages or salaries and benefits) are under
10% of its total revenue.
FALSE
3. Staffing is the process of acquiring, deploying, and retaining a workforce of sufficient
quantity and quality to create positive impacts on the organization's effectiveness.
TRUE
4. Acquisition activities involve external staffing systems that govern the initial intake of
applicants into the organization.
TRUE
5. Internal staffing systems work in fundamentally different ways than external staffing
systems.
FALSE
6. Organizations should attempt to eliminate all employee turnover if at all possible.
FALSE
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7. Employee turnover does not represent a significant cost to most organizations.
FALSE
8. Staffing is more of a process than an event.
TRUE
9. Staffing the organization requires attention to both the quantity and quality of people
brought into, moved within, and retained by the organization.
TRUE
10. Staffing systems exist primarily to fill specific vacancies, and are not closely linked to
overall organizational profitability and growth.
FALSE
11. Quantity or quality labor shortages can mean lost business opportunities, scaled-back
expansion plans, an inability to provide critical consumer goods and services, and even threats
to organizational survival.
TRUE
12. Employee shortages seldom require job reassignments or overtime for current employees.
FALSE
13. When the federal government needed to hire airport security screeners, applicants started
the process of getting a job with a structured interview and physical ability test.
FALSE
14. Pfizer has concluded that it cannot project what kind of talent it needs in the next 10 years
and then select employees whose skills matched these long-range future talent needs.
TRUE
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