Question

Question 1: Which of the following statements best reflects a managerialist ideology?

A. Strategic HRM should be taught in all Business Schools so that future managers can learn how to best maximise staff efficiency.

B. Although organisations frequently attest that employees are their greatest assets, workers report growing work precarity, intensification and stress.

C. Managers are not a monolithic group. They often struggle with their identity and what it means to be a ‘manager’.

D. Emotions play a vital role in the ethical dilemmas faced by human resource managers in their everyday practice

Question 2: Jeffrey is about to meet with a staff member who tripped on the staircase at the office last week and sprained her ankle. He knows that according to the law, the staff member is entitled to workers compensation including medical treatment, time off work and accommodation of suitable duties. However, Jeffrey’s manager mentioned that the insurance premiums for workers compensation have increased significantly in the last few years at the company and suggested that they offer the injured staff a footrest to use at her desk and to not alert her to her rights. Jeffrey feels torn about this. He goes into the meeting shaking with shame but attempts to put on a brave face. What is the best way to describe Jeffrey’s experience in this moment?

A. Jeffrey is experiencing organisational violence but attempting to resist structures of domination.

B. Jeffrey is choosing to obey his manager because he believes it is ultimately right for the company

C. Jeffrey is performing emotional labour in order to suppress his moral emotions.

D. Jeffrey is suffering microaggressions from his manager.

Question 3: Annie works in human resources at a large Australian charity and her team is evaluating the performance of the bank’s Melbourne staff. She has prepared a personality assessment in order to help her decide who has the most desirable traits to retain. Annie’s approach is an example of which process?

A. Distancing

B. Dissembling

C. Desiring

D. Decentralising

Answer 1

(a) Option D: Emotional factors plays a very vital role in Managers day to day life. Even if they are working in their office, they face emotional turmoil daily and they handle it with the qualities they possess. They face something daily which is ethically wrong but, emotionally they have to do it for thye sake of the company.

(b) Option C: Since Jeffery knows about the rights of the employee, he is morally not feeling right to keep the lady in darkness by not telling her the benefits that should she should be getting. His moral instincts are telling him to tell the lady everything about her rights, but emotionally he feels that it will not be right for the company.

(c) Option B: Annie wants to keep the most desiring candidate in her staff. She wants to have those who are highly motivated and equally qualified for the job. So, the process of Dissembling will be usedby her.