SHRM SHRM-SCP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

SHRM SHRM-SCP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 1031:

  How can HR minimize the risk of failure of an organization's diversity initiative?

  A. Emphasize visible diversity traits over invisible diversity traits
  B. Making management diversity training mandatory
  C. Implementing pay-for-performance reward systems based on compliance with diversity directives
  D. Integrating diversity initiatives into the business culture
  D. Integrating diversity initiatives into the business culture

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  In order for a diversity initiative to succeed, an organization must embrace diversity and integrate the varied lifestyles, beliefs, and needs of its diverse workforce into its business culture.

• Question 1032:

  The original deadline for a project was shortened by two weeks. Subsequently, the project manager learns that the project schedule must be shortened by another two weeks. Which action by the manager would best motivate the team to take on the new schedule?

  A. Conduct a workforce analysis to assess if there is a need to hire more people for the team.
  B. Send the project staff to training to efficiently and effectively conduct the work.
  C. Conduct a team-building session to encourage greater working relationships among project staff.
  D. Offer an incentive to project staff if the new schedule is met.
  D. Offer an incentive to project staff if the new schedule is met.

• Question 1033:

  Which is a strategic role of HR in merger and acquisition (MandA) due diligence?

  A. Helping the company carry out the process faster.
  B. Setting a timeline for the MandA project.
  C. Analyzing the cultural aspects of the company to be acquired.
  D. Communicating the steps of the process to employees.
  C. Analyzing the cultural aspects of the company to be acquired.

• Question 1034:

  A global organization with its core operations in the Middle East has recently received several alerts of an increase in radicalism. Based on this, it establishes an integrated software that provides a prompt warning to employees to evacuate, shelter or lockdown; it alerts public emergency services with full and accurate information and helps dispatchers send the right responders and equipment; and it facilitates staff training on building and process systems that can reduce loss of lives and minimize damage to the facility and the environment.

  What is the best method to evaluate the organization's emergency response plan?

  A. Assign priority and responsibility
  B. Utilize insurance data as lagging indicators.
  C. Conduct crisis drills and exercises.
  D. Delineate steps for avoidance and prevention
  C. Conduct crisis drills and exercises.

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  Crisis drills and exercises are designed to evaluate an organization's emergency response plan through a practiced review of response plans and procedures. The crisis drill is a simulation of emergency situations in real time with all necessary resources deployed, allowing for the evaluation of operational capabilities of emergency management systems in a highly stressful environment that simulates actual conditions. This may include walk-through drills, functional drills, evacuation drills and full-scale drill exercises.

• Question 1035:

  An organization is extremely risk-averse, and its technology policies aim at retaining the greatest degree of physical and legal control. Which option for acquiring software offers the most control to the organization?

  A. Software as a subscription hosted on the public cloud
  B. Perpetual license software hosted on private cloud servers.
  C. Subscription software hosted on private cloud servers.
  D. Proprietary software hosted on the organization's on-site servers
  D. Proprietary software hosted on the organization's on-site servers

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  Proprietary software hosted on the organization's on-site servers. The organization owns proprietary software outright, and hosting it on site on the organization's own servers allows the organization to maintain physical and logical security levels to the degree it finds necessary. Risk-averse means disinclined or reluctant to take risks.

• Question 1036:

  During off-duty hours, a shift production supervisor at a chemical manufacturing plant is caught driving while under the influence by local law enforcement. The supervisor is fined and banned from driving any vehicle for three years, and the offense is reported to the company. During this time, members from the supervisor's shift come forward saying that the supervisor has come to work under the influence on multiple occasions for several years and the members have been covering it up. The company has a wellestablished and known zero-tolerance policy on substance use at work. Pending an investigation to determine what disciplinary action, if any, needs to be taken, the supervisor is transferred to a nonsupervisory job writing and reviewing technical documents. The HR manager is engaged to help address the situation.

  The supervisor's shift employees say that they never spoke up about their supervisor 's substance use at work due to fear of losing their jobs. How should the HR manager respond?

  A. Tell the employees that not reporting behaviors that violate company policies in the future will be grounds for dismissal.
  B. Assure the employees that the company has zero tolerance for retaliation and will always protect their jobs when they report violations of company policies.
  C. Implement random substance use testing in the workplace to detect substance use policy violations.
  D. Conduct an ethics training to remind employees of their obligation to report workplace misconduct.
  B. Assure the employees that the company has zero tolerance for retaliation and will always protect their jobs when they report violations of company policies.

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  Reinforcing a strict no-retaliation stance and assuring job protection builds trust and encourages employees to report policy violations without fear, addressing the root concern.

• Question 1037:

  In a structured interview:

  A. candidates are asked a set of open-ended questions which are followed up with probe questions
  B. questions are designed to address all of the Big Five personality traits
  C. a set of standardized questions are asked of all job candidates
  D. Each candidate appears before a panel of interviewers and is asked specific set of questions
  C. a set of standardized questions are asked of all job candidates

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  A structured interview is a systematic approach to interviewing where you ask the same predetermined questions to all candidates in the same order and you rate them with a standardized scoring system.Advantages of structured interview is it reduces bias, helps with hiring stronger candidates, helps with gathering useful data, saves time, and increases diversity.

• Question 1038:

  In order to add value to the human capital of the organization:

  A. HR policies and procedures should result in a workforce with maximum quantity and maximum quality needed to achieve productivity goals
  B. The HR function must navigate the interface between the internal conditions and external environment of the organization
  C. HR managers must be focused on reducing the total cost of human capital projections and compensation
  D. HR must utilize accurate metrics and analytics regarding the human capital portion of the business
  D. HR must utilize accurate metrics and analytics regarding the human capital portion of the business

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  HR analytics is the science of gathering, organizing and analyzing data related to HR functions like recruitment, talent management, employee engagement, performance and retention to ensure better decision making operationally and strategically. The objective of HR analytics is to analyze HR data and turn it into a valuable insight and strategic advantages.

• Question 1039:

  A __________ Human Capital Management (HCM) solution strategy is one involving an end-to-end suite designed to manage the entire life cycle of an employee within one integrated system;

  A. Shared services.
  B. Co-sourcing.
  C. Unified.
  D. Best of breed model.
  C. Unified.

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  A Unified Human Capital Management (HCM) solution strategy is one involving an end-to-end suite designed to manage the entire life cycle of employees within one integrated system.

• Question 1040:

  Which of the following types of international firms are most likely to benefit from a global strategy as opposed to a multi-domestic strategy?

  A. Firms in industries that are expanding very rapidly.
  B. Firms in industries that have much value added in research and design or manufacturing.
  C. Firms that compete in industries in which consumer preferences vary substantially in each country.
  D. Firms in industries that have value added by sales and marketing departments.
  B. Firms in industries that have much value added in research and design or manufacturing.

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  The answer is firms in industries that have much value added in research and design or manufacturing. Global companies are the opposite of multi-domestic companies. They offer a standardized product worldwide and have the goal to maximize efficiencies in order to reduce costs as much as possible. Global companies are highly centralized and subsidiaries are often very dependent on the HQ. Their main role is to implement the parent company's decisions and to act as pipelines of products and strategies. This model is also known as the hub-and-spoke model.