ILR places second out of 24 teams
April 3 2008
"HR Games" held in Rhode Island
Think "Jeopardy!"
Give it an HR twist and what do you have?
What is HR Games?
Yes!
ILR's team won second place in the Northwest Regional HR Games in March. Twenty-four collegiate teams competed at Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I. "HR," of course, is short for human resources.
Katherine Bosch '08, Pat Ryan '10, and Rachel Zheng '10 bowed only in the ninth and final round.
The ILR coach, Assistant Professor of Human Resource Studies Bradford S. Bell, tells it like this: "The final match literally came down to the last question. We had a 600-point lead, but Penn State answered the 1000-point question correctly to win the match 6,400 to 6,000."
"The students had a great deal of fun and were very proud to have earned a second place finish in such a large field," Bell said.
Formatted much like "America’s Favorite Quiz Show," the HR Games are sponsored annually by The Society for Human Resource Management. The organization is the world's largest professional association devoted to human resource management.
Try your luck with questions from previous HR Games:
- This is an increasingly publicized phenomenon described as a state of extreme fatigue or frustration.
What is burnout? - Job duties that employees in a position must do to be an effective employee.
What are essential functions? - This negotiating strategy focuses on dividing a fixed economic "pie" between two sides.
What is distributive bargaining? - Compulsive gambling, kleptomania, and pyromania are not covered by this.
What is the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act)? - A set of simulated tasks or exercises that are used to determine managerial potential of employees.
What is an assessment center? - According to expectancy theory, to motivate employees, pay should be based on this.
What is performance?
