Suppose the employees of Air Canada borrowed heavily to buy all of the firm's stock and take the company private. This would be an example of a(n) _______________.

A) Proxy contest.
B) Merger acquisition.
C) Asset purchase acquisition.
D) Taxable acquisition.
E) Leveraged buyout.

The third step in the factor-comparison method for job evaluation is:

A) selecting and defining the comparison factors to be used.
B) identifying benchmark or key jobs in an organization.
C) developing a job-comparison chart to display the benchmark jobs in an organization.
D) ranking the benchmark jobs in an organization on each compensable job factor.

One important indicator that human resource management is truly strategic in an organization is when the HRM function is headed by a ___.

A) human resources director reporting to a middle-level manager
B) middle-level manager reporting to an upper-level executive
C) mid-level management team
D) human resources manager reporting to an executive vice president
E) senior executive reporting directly to the chief executive officer

Less socialable people are usually called extraverts.

What does arbitration require in order to be effective?

Subgroups

A) Occur to some extent in most if not all groups
B) Rarely occur in groups
C) Should never be encouraged by the worker
D) Are always a problem