1. How do small businesses handle human resource management issues?

A. Small businesses are exempt from employment laws and do not need to concern themselves about human resource management issues.

B. All HR activities are outsourced.

C. Line managers in the company usually handle HR activities.

D. They let their HR department deal with those issues

E. Their HR departments deal with all issues that are not outsourced.

2. Which of the following would NOT be a factor as to whether the EEOC will pursue litigation?

A. The type of charge

B. Compliance evaluations and complaint investigations of federal contractors and subcontractors

C. The amount of money involved in the charge

D. The number of people affected by the alleged practice

E. Other charges against the employer

3. Which of the following BEST ties sustainability to each aspect of the organization and encourages employee support for the sustainability goal?

A. Cutting carbon emissions from production facilities

B. Pursuing the goals of alternative energy vehicles, even if it is at a financial loss

C. Using a plastic made from plants instead of oil

D. Attaching bonuses and rewards to meeting sustainability goals

E. Informing institutional investors of sustainability plans

4. Evaluating an employee compared to other employees instead of performance standards can most directly result in what kind of error?

A. Halo effect

B. Leniency error

C. Contrast error

D. Strictness error

E. Similar-to-me effect

5. Companies that aligned talent management programs with their business strategy produced a return on investment (ROI) that was approximately ________ percent higher over a five-year period than companies without such an orientation.

A. 20

B. 10

C. 437

D. 38

E. 6