Assignment: 6th Week
Talent Acquisition and Management
1. Corporations must prepare their employees to cope with the complexities
and ________ of an increasingly global economy.
a) Accelerated speed
b) Decelerate speed
c) Impede
d) Halt
2. Companies will succeed or fail based on how well they link employee
training to their _________.
a) Their family’s aim
b) To benefit the competitor
c) To reduce the employees’ capacities
d) Their business strategy
3. Which of the following is not the role of the manager with respect to
Talent Management?
a) Assessing and selecting talent
b) Coaching and developing talent
c) Rewarding and recognizing talent
d) Preparing grocery Budget
4. Which of the following are the three dimensions were discussed in
Whirlpool’s Leadership Model?
a) Leadership attributes, Unethical practices, Poor Performance
b) Leadership processes, Partiality, Poor Performance
c) Leadership attributes, Leadership practices, Leadership
Performance
d) Learning attributes, discriminatory practices, Performance Analytics
5. Which of the following ability is required to motivate and engage an
employee is central to all effective talent management practices including
assessment, providing feedback, coaching, developing, and rewarding
staff.
a) Technology Ability
b) Management Ability
c) Financial Ability
d) Writing Ability
6. State True and False
Engaging the hearts, minds, and hands of talent is the most sustainable source of
competitive disadvantage.
a) True
b) False
7. Michael Porter’s seminal work on strategy suggests competitive
advantage is fundamentally about _____ and _____?
a) Inferior value and resource utilization
b) Superior value and resource misutilization
c) Superior value creation and resource utilization
d) Low-grade value and mishandling of finances
8. Building a talent management system that delivers competitive advantage
focuses on value creation at the intersection of talent and _____ where it
matters most to achieving the overall business strategy.
a) Money
b) Material
c) Method
d) Roles
9. Which of the critical five elements comprise the construct of total
rewards?
a) culture, work environment, career, compensation and benefits
b) culture, processes, seminars, enjoyment, and benefits
c) fieldwork, procedure, seminars, enjoyment and attrition
d) attrition, harassment, enjoyment, compensation and benefits
10.State true and False
Managers and employees invest a significant amount of time and effort in
creating, collecting, reviewing, and revising performance assessments.
a) True
b) False
Answers:
1. a
2. d
3. d
4. c
5. b
6. b
7. c
8. d
9. a
10.a