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Wk 1 - Apply: HR Structure and Role Test Test Content 1. Review Week 1 Knowledge Check. Choose the single best answer for each of the questions in the Week 1 HR Structure and its Role Test. Note: The question answers are randomized. You have only one attempt available to complete assignments. 2. Scenario: You are a human resource director at a growing new service-providing tech company called Consolidation Tech Plus (CTP), Inc. The company has grown large enough to have a full-time human resource department. Currently, the company is staffed with approximately 175 employees. The company has projected it will grow to 350 employees in the next two years. You have been asked to set up the new HR department and provide a Strategic Human Resource Staffing Plan. While establishing this new HR department, it is imperative to understand changes and trends in the work environment and establish how HR will play such a critical role in the new growing organization. As the new HR Director

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Question 1.
What are the challenges (trends) Consolidation Tech Plus (CTP), Inc. should be aware of in the
environment of human resource management that require HR to play a more central role in this
growing organization?
4 - Communication, employee satisfaction, and safe work environment
Question 2.
Currently CTP does not have a diverse workforce. How is the workforce likely to become more
diverse?
3. There will be a higher percentage of minority group members in the workplace.
Question 3.
If CTP is going to have an effective human resource department then the company must
understand that human resources is best defined as the process of ________.
4. Acquiring, training, appraising, and compensating employees
Question 4.
Using best practices as utilized in most organizations and by most professionals, CTP human
resource managers should be categorized as ________, who assist and advise ________ in areas
like recruiting, hiring, and compensation.
1. Line managers; middle managers
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Which of the following best explains why a human resource management department in CTP is
important to not only the company but all managers?
3. Investing in human capital enables managers to achieve positive results for the firm.
Question 6.
Personnel mistakes to be avoided by the CTP human resource department while managing
should include all of the following EXCEPT ________.
1 Hiring the wrong person for the job
Question 7.
CTP, as does most modern employers, will expect HR managers in the company to do all of the
following EXCEPT ________.
4. Communicate with shareholders
Question 8.
By 2024, U.S.-based service-providing industries like CTP are expected to account for ________
of wage and salary jobs overall.
4. 64%
Question 9.
Companies like CTP that rely on freelancers, consultants, and other such non-traditional
employees need special HR _____________ and __________ to deal with them.
2. Policies and practices

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Question 10.
Tara Robles earned an MBA degree and is now your Senior HR manager for the department. In
which of the following tasks does Tara's advanced degree benefit her the most?
4. Assisting upper management in formulating business strategies