1. Assume the interest rate in the US is 6% and the UK is 4%. Which currency will be expected to depreciate according to the Fisher Effect? Explain your answer.

2. Define a Peg Exchange Rate regime? What are some of the benefits of pegged currency? Give a real-life example of a currency that is currently pegged.

3. What is the difference between spot rates and forward rates?

4. Discuss the arguments that favor a floating exchange rate system against a fixed exchange rate system. Which system do you think is better.

5. What is strategy? How does strategy relate to a firm’s profitability?

6. Consider the firm in terms of a value chain. What is the difference between primary activities and support activities? Provide examples of each.

7. Define the term supply chain management. How is supply chain management linked with production?

8. What are the three main factors that affect the decision of where to locate production? Discuss.

What is the difference between independent floating, managed floating, and fixed exchange rate systems? Provide an example of a direct quote of an exchange rate.

1. How can HR professionals demonstrate that they provide value in terms of return on investment for an organization?
2. How do an organization’s vision, mission, and strategywork together to help organizations survive and thrive, and what is the role recruitment and selection plays in this? Clearly define each of the terms within your answer.
3. Discuss the impact of demographics and current socioeconomic conditions on organizational recruitment and selection practices for organizations.
4. Discuss the impact of demographics and current socioeconomic conditions on organizational recruitment and selection practices for organizations.
5. Can an invalid selection test be reliable? Can an unreliable selection test be valid? Explain, and provide examples of each instance to illustrate.
6. Compare and contrast content, construct, and criterion related validity strategies? Provide an example of each approach
7. Define, compare, contrast, and provide examples of fairness and bias as used in the context of HR selection
8. Would the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms prohibit an employer from putting in place a selection system that favoured women over men in the hiring process? Could such discrimination ever be justified under the Charter?
9. What are the prohibited grounds of employment discrimination in Alberta, define prohibited grounds of employment discrimination?
10. What does it mean to accommodate someone to the point of undue hardship?
11. Why is basing hiring practices on a “gut feeling” risky business?
12. Why is a job analysis essential to the defence of any selection process or selection system?
13. What is the relationship of a “position” to a “job” and a “job” to a “job family”?
14. What are the major differences between a competency-based selection system, and one developed through job analysis?
15. What is a competency? Defend your answer
16. If you were limited in selecting employees based on only one of the four types of performance discussed in this chapter, which one would you choose? Why?
17. Why is it important to understand performance as part of the recruitment and selection process?
18. Define task performance, contextual performance, adaptive behaviour, and counterproductive behaviour. Discuss the role each of these plays in developing a recruitment and selection system.
19. List and explain each of the performances defined in Campbell’s performance taxonomy

The difference between a company's strategy and a company's business model is that

A)a company's strategy is the plan for achieving strategic objectives while its business model is the plan for achieving financial objectives.

B)the strategy concerns how to compete successfully and the business model concerns how to operate efficiently.

C)a company's strategy is management's game plan for realizing the strategic vision whereas a company's business model is the game plan for accomplishing the business purpose or mission.

D)strategy relates broadly to a company's competitive moves and business approaches (regardless of the financial outcomes it produces) while the term business model relates to whether the revenues and costs flowing from the strategy demonstrate that the business is viable from a profit perspective.

E)a company's strategy concerns how to please customers while its business model concerns how to please shareholders