HRCI PHRca Exam Practice Test Instant Access

Question 1

Consider your role as a HR Professional in your organization. In your duties you're to keep abreast of market trends, practices in HR, employee attitudes, and your business needs. What component of the HR Impact Model is addressed in this situation?

APrograms and processes

BPolicies and procedures

CCatalyst

DConsultation

Answer : C

Question 2

All of the following statements about employment at-will are true except which one?

AThe employee may resign at any time, with or without notice.

BThe employer may terminate the employee for cooperating with an SEC investigation.

CThe employer may withdraw an offer of employment after the employee has accepted the position and resigned another job.

DThe employer may terminate the employee at any time for any reason.

Answer : B

Answer option B is correct. The public-policy exception to the at-will doctrine prevents an employer from terminating an employee who is cooperating in a government investigation of wrongdoing. Options D and B are elements of at-will employment. Option C would also be allowed based on the at-will doctrine but could be affected by other common-law doctrines.

Chapter: Employee and Labor Relations

Objective: Review Questions

Question 3

Which of the following clause protects the employee's job and compensation in the event of a reorganization, acquisition, or merger, for a specifed period of time?

ATermination clause

BChange of control

CAdvice of counsel

DDisability or death

Answer : B

Question 4

As an HR Professional you need to be familiar with the Age Discrimination in Employment Act 1967. What is the maximum age this act applies to people?

AThere is no age limit in the act

B65

C70

D75

Answer : A

Question 5

As an HR Professional you should be familiar with the terminology, practices, and rules governing union-based strikes. What is the ally doctrine?

AA union may expand upon its primary picketing activity to include employees who are allies of the primary employer.

BEmployers cannot force friends, colleagues, and family members into joining a union picket. Allies of the picketing union can allow allies into the picket line.

CA union may expand upon its primary picketing activity to include employers who are allies of the primary employer.

DA union may serve as an ally to another striking union by allowing their members to join the picket against the primary employer.

Answer : C

Question 6

Martha is the HR Professional for her organization and she's working with her team to complete non-quantitative job evaluations. Martha wants to stress the available types of non-quantitative job evaluation techniques that are appropriate for her team to be communicated to managers. Which one of the following is not a non-quantitative job evaluation technique that Martha should share?

AWhole job ranking

BJob slotting

CFactor comparison

DJob classification

Answer : C

Question 7

Which of the following types of training evolution measures whether the training had a positive impact on the bottom line?

AResult

BReaction

CLearning

DBehavior

Answer : A

HRCI PHRca Professional in Human Resources - California Exam Practice Test