Scenario 5.1 CyberRocket Is a High-Tech Manufacturer with an Exciting New Product

question 36

Multiple Choice

Scenario 5.1
CyberRocket is a high-tech manufacturer with an exciting new product, the Astro-Cruiser, a virtual Ethernet connector for shuttles orbiting the Earth. This product will allow astronauts to cruise the Web while cruising in space. The product depends on vastly new technology requiring a technical knowledge of astrophysics. CyberRocket is planning to rapidly expand this business, but it first must analyze the jobs needed to produce the Astro-Cruiser. The job analysis should contain information about what the workers will do, rather than what is involved in the job. The company would like to identify only the essential functions of the jobs, leaving them more flexibility. Two top executives, the head of research and development and the head of production, are the only two individuals within the company who really understand the new product and what new knowledge, skills, and abilities of employees will be necessary to produce it.
-Refer to Scenario 5.1. The definition of the essential functions of the new jobs will be particularly helpful with which other aspect of human resource management?

• A) The turnover reduction program
• B) Compliance with the ADA
• C) Early retirement incentives
• D) Increased productivity
• E) Motivation of existing employees

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Definitions:

Action Potential

A brief electrical impulse that a neuron uses to transmit information along its axon, essentially an on-off signal.

Axon

A narrow, elongated extension of a neuron that usually transmits electrical signals from the cell body of the nerve cell.

Refractory Period

The period immediately following the transmission of a nerve impulse or the contraction of a muscle during which a nerve or muscle is unresponsive to further stimulation.

Threshold

The point or level at which something begins or changes.