Which of the Following Statements About Recruiting and Retaining Capable

question 64

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about recruiting and retaining capable employees is FALSE?

• A) The quality of an organization's people is always an essential ingredient if critical value chain activities are to be performed competently.
• B) Recruiting and retaining capable employees is a particularly important organization-building task in enterprises where superior intellectual capital is a key resource and also a basis for competitive advantage.
• C) Recruiting and retaining capable employees are usually much more important to good strategy execution and the achievement of true operating excellence than is assembling a capable top management team.
• D) It is very difficult for a company to competently execute its strategy and achieve operating excellence without a large band of capable employees who are actively engaged in the process of making ongoing operating improvements.
• E) In many industries,adding to a company's talent base and building intellectual capital is more important to good strategy execution than additional investments in plants,equipment,and capital projects.

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