The Senior Management of a Firm Is Undecided About the Number

question 57

Multiple Choice

The senior management of a firm is undecided about the number of employees needed for its new project. To advise the executives, a human resource specialist uses a computer system to estimate how long teams of three different sizes will take to complete the project, assuming the project is of either low, average, or high difficulty. The type of system appropriate for this case is a(n)

• A) expert system.
• B) HR dashboard.
• C) decision support system.
• D) transaction-processing system.
• E) document management system.

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Definitions:

Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a data set.

Standard Scores

Scores that are derived from the raw data and standardized to a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, enabling comparison across different scales.

Z Scores

An index showing the variance of a specific value from the mean of a group, calculated through its number of standard deviations from the mean.

Probability

A measure of the likelihood that an event will occur, defined on a scale from 0 to 1.