In order to lead change,researchers suggest that HR professionals should be able to identify the activities,outcomes,and human capital necessary for a business to succeed in its market.What is this HR competency?

A) strategic positioner
B) credible activist
C) paradox navigator
D) communicator
E) systems thinker

In the context of the six sections of the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) , which of the following represent the reasoning, decision-making, planning, and information-processing activities involved in performing a job?

A) Job contexts
B) Information inputs
C) Mental processes
D) Special codes

Describe an equality matching relationship.

Oral contracts for ________ goods are enforceable even if they normally would have to be in writing.

A) retail
B) wholesale
C) collateral
D) consumer
E) customized

Refer to Table 8.1. The maximum profit available to the firm is:

A) $20.
B) $30.
C) $35.
D) $155.
E) $180.

Glebson Security, a security services agency in North Carolina, adds another process to its traditional interview round to make its selection procedure more stringent. In this new process, shortlisted candidates are individually sent into a room in which a trained clinician shows them an ambiguous inkblot as a stimulus and asks them what they see in it. This process helps the firm measure the personality traits of prospective employees. In this scenario, Glebson Security is using _____.

A) the logistic regression technique
B) a self-report inventory
C) an in-basket exercise
D) the projective technique