GPHR Practice Exam Questions and Answers

A Product Manager has been identified to travel 2 weeks every month to the Asia Engineering office on extended business travel for an eight-month period. The other 2 weeks of the month, she works at the U.S. Based headquarters. Which of the following training programs is the MOST critical to ensure success on the job ?

Which of the following functions does a job description NOT serve?

A U.S. based high tech company has just built a new manufacturing operation in Beijing, China. Over the last two months, they have been trying to recruit skilled and unskilled labor to fill the new open positions. In addition, the company has decided to create 2 international assignments to fill identified skill gaps.

One position is for a Senior Manufacturing Manager/Director to get the operation up and running within 4 more months meeting identified planned outs and the second position is for a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to deal with any engineering issues when developing the process. When trying to identify potential internal candidates for the Senior Manufacturing Engineering position through the skills inventory, which of the following skills is the MOST relevant ?

An organization is in the growth stage of the organizational life cycle. The company is a small staffing firm made up with a founder who largely performs a business development individuals, and 2 junior recruiters who perform most the administrative function. Each recruiter is paired up with a business development individual to target a specific niche in professions-sales and marketing vs. engineering vs. administrative staff (ie clerical, accounting, etc). Which of the following types of organizational structures is recommended?

Which of the following is NOT a benefit of a company and community site visit and orientation before an individual decides to accept an international assignment?

A company is considering moving its production offshore to Shenzhen, Chian. Which of the following is NOT a potential negative consequence of this strategy?

Human resource management is conducted to achieve______goals.

Which of the following represents a HR strategic activity?

In order to measure staffing effectiveness, a company measures the yield ratio of offers to interviews. According to the research, the company yields the following ratios for the following staffing sources: contingency firms (15% first year's salary) 1/10, website (1% G&A costs) 2/12, employee referrals ($0 cost) 3/9, internal recruiters (4% G&A costs) 1/15. Which of the following decisions is a good decision based on the information provided above ?

An U.S. base Engineering Manager has been identified for a short-term six-month assignment to recruit and build a team in England. Which of the following training programs is the MOST critical to ensure success on the job?

A company just posted openings for entry-level finance positions. There were 400 total job applicants. The organization narrows the candidate pool to 20 qualified applicants and schedules interviews with all of them. The company offers employment to 10 applicants and 6 individuals accept the offers. What is the yield ratio of offers to interviews?

You are in the process of developing a global compensation structure. Which of the following factors does NOT affect the strategy pursued ?

Which of the following selection methods is an effective tool to determine the psychological readiness of an individual for an international assignment ?

An organization allows its employees to make 2% of compensation contributions to a retirement plan. After retirement, the company promises to pay employees 50% compensation using the final pay formula. Which of the following is this an example of?

A company is a four-year old start-up running on venture capital investment. Its initial assumption of a $2 billion market for its product has ahrunk to a $50 million market. Which of the following stategies is NOT a stategy that would be deliberated during the strategy development phase of the strategic planning process?

Which of the following represents a PRIMARY reason why employees leave an organization ?

Which of the following is a measure of recruiting effectiveness in the long term?

Which of the following does NOT represent a strategic financial goal for a global company?

Individuals have various styles of learning. Which of the following types of learners is best suited for lectures?

Which of the following groups would NOT be considered to be subject matter experts (SME’s) of a job function?

Which of the following is an intangible cost of an international assignment?

Which of the following functional HR goals do NOT align with the organization’s long-term objective to expand international operational capacity?

What is a disadvantage of the divisional departmentalization ?

Which of the following is NOT A measurement technique that measures the effectiveness of an internal process?

Which of the following indicators is lagging indicator ?

According to the global performance management process, an organization should be aliging company systems in phases EXCEPT in which of the following stages?

A U.S. Based manufacturing company has decided to expand overseas to South Korea. Which of the following is an example of environmental scanning ?

Which of the following is one of the primary outcomes of a job analysis?

An organization decides to provide their employees who have stayed with the company for 15+ years a pension based on the average earnings in the last 3 rears of their employment with the company. Which type of formula does this utilize ?

Which of the following factors is NOT a significant variable in how an individual may re-adjust after returning home ?