Download PDF Abstract: Modern online platforms offer users an opportunity to participate in a variety of content-creation, social networking, and shopping activities. With the rapid proliferation of such online services, learning data-driven user behavior models is indispensable to enable personalized user experiences. Recently, representation learning has emerged as an effective strategy for user modeling, powered by neural networks trained over large volumes of interaction data. Despite their enormous potential, we encounter the unique challenge of data sparsity for a vast majority of entities, e.g., sparsity in ground-truth labels for entities and in entity-level interactions (cold-start users, items in the long-tail, and ephemeral groups). Submission history From: Aravind Sankar [view email] Human Resource Management, 13e (Mondy) Chapter 7 Training and Development 7.1 Multiple-Choice Questions 1) What percentage of externally hired executives in the private sector fail within the first 18 months? A) less than 15% B) over 50% C) nearly 25% D) up to 40% Answer: D Explanation: D) Although considerable time, effort, and money are spent recruiting top talent, companies often do a poor job of onboarding new executives. As a result, up to 40 percent of externally hired executives in the private sector fail within the first 18 months and many others who are recruited from outside the firm leave within five years. Diff: 1 Chapter: 7 Skill: Concept LO: 1 2) When an "outsider" CEO is unsuccessful, usually it is because he or she __________. A) did not understand the company's products B) did not understand how to operate in the new culture C) did not understand the company's customers D) did not understand how to respond to government regulators Answer: B Explanation: B) Although impossible to calculate precisely, the costs resulting from a failed CEO are usually significant, particularly for an "outsider." When executives are unsuccessful, usually it is because they did not understand how to operate in the new culture. Diff: 2 Chapter: 7 Skill: Concept LO: 1 1 Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. 29) Which of the following is a social networking learning tool associated with behaviormodeling?A) role playingB) e-learningC) bloggingD) spammingAnswer: CExplanation: C) Social networking has been used as a learning tool involving behavior modeling."In a corporation, micro-blogging can be a way to augment behavior modeling," says SarahMillstein, author of the O'Reilly Radar Report. This works by having a person who excels at atask send out frequent updates about what he or she is doing. Skill: ConceptLO: 3AACSB: Use of IT 30) At ABC Manufacturing, which of the following tasks is LEAST likely to be taught through thebehavior modeling method? Get answer to your question and much more Diff: 2Chapter: 7Skill: ApplicationLO: 331) Employees at Maxwell Enterprises are participating in a training and development program.Participants are required to respond to specific problems they may encounter in their jobs byacting out real-world situations. Which type of T&D method is the firm most likely using? Get answer to your question and much more Diff: 2Chapter: 7Skill: ApplicationLO: 3 32) Ben is a mid-level manager at a glass manufacturing company, and he has difficultyinterviewing job candidates. Which T&D method would most likely be used to help Benimprove his interviewing skills? Get answer to your question and much more Diff: 2Chapter: 7Skill: ApplicationLO: 3 Upload your study docs or become a Course Hero member to access this document Upload your study docs or become a Course Hero member to access this document End of preview. Want to read all 151 pages? Upload your study docs or become a Course Hero member to access this document Tags Skill, AACSB, E learning, Vocational education |