7.3 HR Relationships

Question 1

Which HR activities directly influence performance appraisals?

Answer 1

job analysis, selection and placement, compensation, and training and development.

Question 2

What is the foundation of a performance appraisal?

Answer 2

Job analysis

Question 3

What should a job description reflect?

Answer 3

The critical knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) of the job.

Question 4

How can performance appraisals be used?

Answer 4

To determine pay levels, provide contingent rewards, as well as pay increments

Question 5

How can performance appraisals be helpful in training and development?

Answer 5

Gives the employer an understanding of what training is needed and helps the employee decide whether they may need to choose another career path if training doesn’t help

Question 6

Which of the following comes after the performance appraisal?

Using the information from the evaluation for future planning
Setting expected performance standards
Knowing the job requirements that go along with the organization’s strategy
Establishing competencies

Answer 6

Using the information from the evaluation for future planning

Question 7

What is the foundation of the performance appraisal (PA)?

Training and development
Compensation
Selection and placement
Job analysis

Answer 7

Job analysis

Question 8

How does performance appraisal (PA) help in the selection process?

It motivates the applicants
It establishes the validity of rewards
It help ensure the company job description is accurate
It helps dsetermine the applicants’ goals

Answer 8

It help ensure the company job description is accurate

Question 9

Performance appraisals can be used to determine which of the following types of compensation?

Pay increments
All of these
Contingent rewards
Pay levels

Answer 9

All of these

Question 10

True or False: If performance appraisals and job analysis are used together, the organization can hire anyone, and that person would be able to turn out a satisfactory performance

Answer 10

True

Used in conjunction with job analysis, performance appraisal is necessary for implementing effective pre-employment training programs. The assessment of performance can also help the employee make a decision about changes in his/her career. Providing the appropriate training can significantly improve employee performance, but if the employee finds out that, in spite of training and aptitudes, he/she is unable to deliver a satisfactory performance, a change in career may be sought. This can be done internally (through a transfer) or externally (change to another organization).