Project Human Resource Management

118. Project team members are drawn from all available sources, both internal and external. When the project management team is able to influence or direct staff assignments, characteristics to consider include all of the following EXCEPT: a) Availability. b) Political philosophy. c) Ability. d) Experience. 119. It is important that the staffing management plan addresses how team members will be released when they are no longer needed on the project for all of the following reasons EXCEPT: a) To reduce costs. b) To improve morale when smooth transitions to upcoming projects are already planned. c) To optimize the utilization of enterprise material resources. d) To eliminate payments for people who are finished with their assignments. 120. To be effective, recognition and rewards systems should have the following characteristics EXCEPT: a) There should be clear criteria for rewards and a planned system for their use. b) Recognition and rewards should be based on activities and performance under a persons control. c) Recognition and rewards should consider cultural differences. d) Make the required performance unachievable for most team members, to ensure that all team members strive for excellence throughout the project. 121. Co-location is one of the tools and technique to: a) Plan the organizational structure. b) Develop the project team. c) Acquire the project team. d) Plan the project resources. 122. The Project Human Resource Management processes include the following: a) Leadership, Team Building, and Negotiation. b) Recruitment, Labor Relations, and Personnel Administration. c) Organizational Structure Planning, Team Building, Communication, and Labor Relations. d) Develop Human Resource Plan, Acquire Project Team, Develop Project Team, and Manage Project Team. 123. Tools and techniques to acquire the project team include all of the following EXCEPT: a) Pre-Assignment. b) Acquisition. c) Staffing management plan. d) Negotiation. 124. All of the following are outputs of Develop Human Resource Plan EXCEPT: a) Roles and responsibilities. b) Project organization charts. c) Staffing management plan. d) Project interfaces. 125. Management of the project team is complicated: a) When team members are co-located. b) When minor problems do not impact the project completion date or budget targets.

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When team members are accountable to both a functional manager and the project manager. d) When formal training plans are implemented. 126. The responsibility assignment matrix (RAM): a) Is used for development of the project budget. b) Is developed at the activity level and used to closely link project roles and responsibilities to project network activities. c) Is used to show the connections between work that needs to be done and project team members. It can show responsibilities at various levels of detail. d) Is used to identify accountabilities in individual performance appraisals. 127. A resource histogram has all of the following characteristics EXCEPT: a) It generally shows that the project has insufficient resources to be completed on schedule. b) It is a tool of the staffing management plan. c) It illustrates the number of hours that a person, department, or entire project team will be needed each week or month over the course of the project. d) It can include a horizontal line that represents the maximum number of hours available from a particular resource. Bars that extend beyond the maximum available hours identify the need for a resource leveling strategy. 128. Team-building activities have all of the following characteristics EXCEPT: a) Some group activities, such as developing the WBS, can increase team cohesiveness when that planning activity is structured and facilitated well. b) Should only be considered after major conflicts within the project team, since they generally waste precious resource time and cause schedule delays. c) Are particularly valuable when team members operate virtually from remote locations, without the benefit of face-to-face contact. d) Can vary from a five-minute agenda item in a status review meeting to an off-site, professionally facilitated experience designed to improve interpersonal relationships. 129. Training has all of the following characteristics EXCEPT: a) Includes all activities designed to enhance the competencies of the project team members. b) Can be formal or informal. Examples of training methods include classroom, online, computer-based, on-the-job training from another project team member, mentoring, and coaching. c) If project team members lack necessary management or technical skills, the project should be abandoned and deemed outside the core competencies of the performing organization. d) If project team members lack necessary management or technical skills, such skills can be developed as part of the project work. 130. Effective team development strategies and activities are expected to increase the teams performance, which increases the likelihood of meeting project objectives. The evaluation of a teams effectiveness can include all of the following indicators EXCEPT: a) Improvements in skills that allow a person to perform assigned activities more effectively. b) Improvements in competencies and sentiments that help the team perform better as a group. c) Increased intensity of conflict among project team members. d) Reduced staff turnover rate. 131. During the course of many projects, negotiations are: a) Primarily the concern of contract administration. b) Likely for staff assignments. c) A direct result of ineffective decision-making.

d) Conducted by senior executives. 132. Questions that may arise when planning the acquisition of project team members generally include all of the following EXCEPT: a) Whether the human resources come from within the organization or from external, contracted sources. b) The costs associated with each level of expertise needed for the project. c) Senior executive compensation. d) The extent of assistance that the organizations human resource department can provide to the project management team. 133. All of the following are true about conflict EXCEPT: a) It should be addressed early. b) It should be addressed usually in private. c) It should be addressed only when it escalates and at a special team meeting. d) It should be addressed using a direct, collaborative approach.