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  • A. HRD systems maturity score
  • B. Employee linkage score
  • C. HRD culture
  • D. HRD competence score

Explanation: The HRD competence score assesses the competence of HRD-related personnel and management across organizational levels, from senior…

Correct answer: HRD competence score
  • A. HRD culture
  • B. Business linkage score
  • C. HRD competence score
  • D. HRD system maturity scoreHuman Resources

Explanation: The business linkage score connects HRD activities with organizational results, including their cost-effectiveness and business…

Correct answer: Business linkage score
  • A. Achievement of strategic goals
  • B. Organizational performance
  • C. all of aboveStrategic Planning
  • D. Emergent employee behaviors

Explanation: HR activities can shape employee behaviours, improve organizational performance, and support achievement of strategic goals, forming a…

Correct answer: all of aboveStrategic Planning
  • A. 5-point scale
  • B. none of above
  • C. 4-point scale
  • D. 10-point scale

Explanation: The HRD scorecard commonly evaluates HRD practices using a 10-point rating scale, allowing more detailed assessment than a four- or…

Correct answer: 10-point scale
  • A. Potential Weaknesses
  • B. Potential Threats
  • C. Potential Strengths
  • D. Potential opportunities

Explanation: Management turnover is an internal condition that can disrupt continuity, increase recruitment costs and reduce organisational…

Correct answer: Potential Weaknesses
  • A. moderate maturity level
  • B. highest maturity level
  • C. least maturity level
  • D. all of above

Explanation: On a maturity scale running from the lowest level to level 10, scale 10 represents the highest maturity, indicating the most developed HRD…

Correct answer: highest maturity level
  • A. both A and B
  • B. HR scorecard
  • C. Human Resource Development (HRD) scorecard
  • D. none of above

Explanation: The HRD scorecard is used to assess the maturity and contribution of human-resource development in relation to strategic goals.

Correct answer: Human Resource Development (HRD) scorecard
  • A. HR scorecard
  • B. HR digital dashboard
  • C. all of above
  • D. strategy map

Explanation: A strategy map is a visual representation of how activities and objectives connect to produce organizational performance, giving managers…

Correct answer: strategy map
  • A. top management
  • B. supervisor and subordinates
  • C. departmental managers
  • D. all of above

Explanation: Management by objectives relies on participative goal setting, in which the supervisor and subordinate agree on the subordinate's…

Correct answer: supervisor and subordinates
  • A. moderate maturity level
  • B. highest maturity level
  • C. least maturity level
  • D. all of aboveStrategic Planning

Explanation: On an HRD scorecard maturity scale, level 1 represents the starting or least mature condition, with higher levels indicating progressively…

Correct answer: least maturity level
  • A. none of aboveTry Asset Software
  • B. HR digital dashboard
  • C. both A and B
  • D. HR scorecard

Explanation: An HR scorecard tracks how HR contributes to organizational performance through both financial and non-financial measures.

Correct answer: HR scorecard
  • A. 4
  • B. 3
  • C. 5
  • D. 6Consult Strategy Experts

Explanation: HRD maturity is commonly assessed across four dimensions, covering the development and integration of HRD systems, competencies, culture…

Correct answer: 4
  • A. evidence based management
  • B. human resource metrics
  • C. high performance work system
  • D. competitive advantage

Explanation: Employee turnover and training hours are numerical indicators used to evaluate human-resource activities, so they are HR metrics.

Correct answer: human resource metrics
  • A. arbitration
  • B. impasse
  • C. mediation
  • D. intervention

Explanation: Mediation uses a neutral third party to help disputing sides communicate and reach their own agreement.

Correct answer: mediation
  • A. economic strike
  • B. wildcat strike
  • C. unfair labor practice strike
  • D. sympathy strikeMcqs Website Access

Explanation: A sympathy strike occurs when workers stop work in support of employees involved in another union's dispute.

Correct answer: sympathy strikeMcqs Website Access
  • A. both a and b
  • B. permissible bargaining items
  • C. illegal bargaining items
  • D. voluntary bargaining items

Explanation: Permissible, or voluntary, bargaining items are neither legally required subjects nor illegal subjects, and neither side can compel…

Correct answer: both a and b
  • A. unfair labor practice strike
  • B. wildcat strike
  • C. sympathy strike
  • D. economic strike

Explanation: A wildcat strike is an unauthorized strike, often undertaken in violation of an existing collective-bargaining agreement.

Correct answer: wildcat strike
  • A. sympathy strike
  • B. wildcat strike
  • C. unfair labor practice strike
  • D. economic strikeUnions & Labor Movement

Explanation: An unfair labor practice strike is called to protest an employer's unlawful actions, such as discrimination or interference with union…

Correct answer: unfair labor practice strike
  • A. wildcat campaign
  • B. impasse campaign
  • C. picket campaign
  • D. corporate campaign

Explanation: A corporate campaign applies pressure beyond the immediate employer by targeting customers, shareholders, directors, and creditors.

Correct answer: corporate campaign
  • A. agency shop
  • B. union shop
  • C. closed shop
  • D. preferential shopDownload Reference Apps

Explanation: Under an agency shop, employees need not join the union but must generally pay dues or an equivalent representation fee.

Correct answer: agency shop