True/False Job enrichment initiatives involve going beyond merely adding tasks t

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True/False Job enrichment initiatives involve going beyond merely adding tasks to employees' jobs. Advances that are of an unwelcome nature could be deemed sexual harassment only if it is made known to the individual that it is offensive. Many workers and managers do not know what sexual harassment is and do not know what constitutes sexual harassment. Integrated strategically focused HR practices are directly related to profitability and market value. Determining the workload is an important component in the HR planning process. Determining the size of the organization is NOT an effective HR planning strategy Being a goal-driven organization means ensuring that employees career and opportunities are aligned with clearly defined goals and business needs Competencies describe the business outcomes employees are expected to support or accomplish

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1. Job enrichment initiatives involve going beyond merely adding tasks to employees- True

It also involves the level of responsibility and accountability that has now been risen for an employee by designing the work accordingly.

Advances that are of an unwelcome nature could be deemed sexual harassments only if it is made known to the individual that it is offensive.

False

Such advances may be offensive but it may hold the victim from speaking out since that may be the precondition to the victim’s employment. Further, even if the victim does not specifically let it know to the individual that it is offensive, the declining or accepting of such advances may have a considerable impact upon the decisions taken regarding employment, education, etc., concerning the victim. Hence in all such cases as well, it may not be necessary for the victim to state that the unwelcome nature is offensive, but the circumstances shall be also enough to prove the same.

Many workers and managers do not know what sexual harassment is and do not know what constitutes sexual harassments: True

Many workers, especially the female ones, are not even aware that being subject to the sexual harassment is the violation of their rights and that necessary actions can be taken against the same. Apart from the workers, often, event he managers are not much aware of the acts governing the sexual harassments and hence they are also not in a state to reach out to the vulnerable workers in a proactive way.

Integrated strategically focused HR practices are directly related to profitability and market value: True

As per High-Performance Work system principles, Integrated strategically focused HR practices are directly related to profitability and market value because Human Resource are considered to be the valuable assets of the Organization. An efficient Human Resource could hence bring more business to the Organization thereby directly concerned with profitability and market value.

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