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Human resource planning activities most directly involve _____.

A) assessing external environmental factors
B) forecasting labor requirements and availabilities
C) generating technological replacements for labor
D) all of the above

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Through replacement and succession planning the organization constructs internal talent pipelines.

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Plan-based HRP consists of _________.

Employing organizations usually have a lot of control over the quality of the flexible workforce.

Project-based HRP consists of _________.

Internal hiring methods are often less expensive than external hiring methods.

The gap between current workforce size and available workforce size is a critical part of the reconciliation process.

Very few people prefer part-time work, as surveys suggest 88% of part-time workers are seeking full-time employment.

In general, the labor force is becoming ____.

Statistical techniques are of little importance to HR managers and should usually be rejected as methods for evaluating HRP needs.

Which of the following are advantages of external staffing?

The process of determining reconciliation and gaps tells managers _____.

What percentage of employers believe high school graduates are deficient in work habits such as professionalism, critical thinking, personal accountability, and time management?

Employment reconciliation analyzes gaps between ________.

Most data suggest that there will be job growth in the service sector, the education sector, and in business/professional services.

Human resource managers are concerned that as the workforce ages, increases in retirement, will lead to shortage of skilled workers in some fields.

The quality of a replacement or succession plan is largely independent of the quality of an organization's performance appraisal systems.

Replacement goals from AAPs are often legally termed "quotas" for minorities and women in an organization.

Replacement and succession planning are conducted primarily for managerial jobs.

A manager has gathered data on staffing levels over time, and then predicts future requirements based on the pattern of demand, taking seasonal variations in demand into account. This equation is used to predict future staffing levels. This is an example of _______________.