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For a merger or acquisition to be successful,:

A) the human resource department should not interfere in decision making.
B) the human resource department of the new firmshould play the role of a final arbiter.
C) all the employees should identify the new firm and cooperate with one another.
D) a large scale fresher recruitment should be carried out and old employees should be laid off
E) policies of the large firm of the merger or acquisition should be implemented abolishing the policy of the small firm.

F) A) and C)
G) All of the above

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Providing employees with overtime opportunitiesisespecially beneficial when the increased need for humanresources is short term.

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B) False

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Distributive justiceisinsignificant in determining an employee's reactions to pay decisions.

Which of the following is true of the contingent workforce?

Scenario 6.1 In 2003, managers at BabyBlooms Corp., a national retailer of baby products, noticed that sales and profits were slumping.Store managers were instructed not to fill any vacant positions, which saved some money.However, by January, 2004, it was essential that BabyBlooms cut expenses further.The firm decided to offer incentives for top managers if they decided to leave before their tenure out of free will.Expenses still remained high, and in May, the firm asked store managers to reduce staff by laying off 10 percent of its workers (about two workers per store) .When those cuts were still not enough, management called for store closings in some locations.For example, one of the store closing was announced to employees on August 1 and accomplished by December 1.In locations where stores were not closed, managers were ordered to terminate any under-performing employees, identified by low performance appraisal scores in the last two evaluations. -Refer to Scenario 6.1.The scenario is the best example of _____.

Describe a basic model of the turnover process.What other models or mechanisms have been proposed to explain turnover?

Which of the following is a major cause for involuntary turnover in an organization?

Which of the following is true of job description index?

Exceptions to the doctrine of employment at will is inapplicable when:

The contingent workforce are the most desirable alternative for recruitment.

Which of the following is most likely to be an effective retention strategy to retain engineers and computer scientists of a high-tech software company for an extended period of time?

Interactional justice refers to quality of the interpersonal treatment people receive when a decision is made.

_____ describes employees who feel guilty over keepingtheir jobs when others lost theirjobs.

The WorkerAdjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act requires that employers give at least 60 days' notice for a mass layoff.

Scenario 6.1 In 2003, managers at BabyBlooms Corp., a national retailer of baby products, noticed that sales and profits were slumping.Store managers were instructed not to fill any vacant positions, which saved some money.However, by January, 2004, it was essential that BabyBlooms cut expenses further.The firm decided to offer incentives for top managers if they decided to leave before their tenure out of free will.Expenses still remained high, and in May, the firm asked store managers to reduce staff by laying off 10 percent of its workers (about two workers per store) .When those cuts were still not enough, management called for store closings in some locations.For example, one of the store closing was announced to employees on August 1 and accomplished by December 1.In locations where stores were not closed, managers were ordered to terminate any under-performing employees, identified by low performance appraisal scores in the last two evaluations. -Refer to Scenario 6.1.Which of the following was the second reduction strategy implemented by BabyBlooms?

Employee leasing involves paying a fee to a company that provides a pool of employees on a temporary basis.

Voluntary turnover occurs when:

_____ is a critical dimension of procedural justice that refers to the perception that a person applying rules to a decision had no vested interest in the outcome of the decision.

Today, there is a severe shortage of nurses in some medical specialties, and hospitals are working hard to retain their current nursing staff.Which of the following options would be most effective in retaining nurses?

Sally's boss, Kim, prepared a list of workers to be laid off in the next quarter.Sally felt that Kim did not handle the situation professionally since she displayed the names of the workers on the notice board causing embarrassment to those workers.In this case, Kim has _____.