Chapter04 雷蒙德第七版_Human_Resource_Management.doc

Chapter 04 Human Resource Planning and Recruitment True / False Questions 1. The first step in the human resource planning process is forecasting. True False 2. An objective measure that accurately predicts future demand is called a nominal predictor. True False 3. Economic planning models are useful when there is a long, stable history that can be used to reliably detect relationships among variables. True False 4. Change matrices are extremely useful for charting historical trends in a companys supply of labor. True False 5. The goals an organization sets in its human resource planning process should come directly from the analysis of its labor supply and demand. True False 6. As an option for avoiding an expected labor shortage, the use of new external hires is fast and the terms of revocability are high. True False 7. In the past decade, the typical organizational response to a surplus of labor has been downsizing, which is fast, but high in human suffering. True False 8. The typical organizational response to a labor shortage has been either hiring temporary employees or outsourcing, responses that are fast and high in revocability. True False 9. One of the reasons organizations engaged in downsizing was that, for economic reasons, many firms changed the location of where they did business. True False 10. Despite the fact that baby boomers are approaching retirement, early indicators show this group has no intention of retiring. True False 11. An advantage of employing temporary workers is that it frees the firm from many administrative tasks and financial burdens associated with being the employer of record. True False 12. Outsourcing is a logical choice when a firm does not have certain expertise and is unwilling to invest the time and effort to develop it. True False 13. Increasingly, call center staffing is the only type of work that is being offshored.