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This set of Human Resource Management (HRM) Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Trends in Human Resource Management

Q1 | Competency ………………...is a process of identifying key competencies required for undertaking organisational tasks.
  • Mapping
  • Scaling
  • Tasking
  • Learning
Q2 | Employee …………………... refers to a gradual reduction in workforce without firing employees.
  • Turnover
  • Attrition
  • Downsizing
  • Removal
Q3 | ……………………...popularized the concept of learning organisation through his book ‘The Fifth Discipline.
  • Peter Senge
  • Peter Drucker
  • Philip Kotler
  • F.W. Taylor
Q4 | Innovative culture is the work…………….that managers encourage to nurture and develop to generate innovative ideas.
  • problem
  • environment
  • rules
  • issues
Q5 | ………………..refers to planned elimination of positions or jobs.
  • Termination
  • Downsizing
  • Upsizing
  • Selection
Q6 |                          organisation provides autonomy to the employees.
  • Innovative
  • Line
  • Matrix
  • Autocratic
Q7 | Which is the part of planning and development
  • Organizational planning
  • Manpower planning
  • Training
  • All of these
Q8 | _____________________is the study of people as individuals and in groups of relationships between individual and groups
  • Financial management
  • Wages
  • Manpower planning
  • Industrial psychology
Q9 | Human resource management includes
  • Morale
  • Leadership
  • Job enrichment
  • Recruitment
Q10 | Which one of the following does not include under the function of human resource management
  • Planning
  • Organizing
  • Recruitment
  • Profitability
Q11 | Selection includes
  • Framing & developing application blanks
  • Checking of references
  • Formulating interviewing technique
  • All of these
Q12 | Recruitment deals with
  • Identification of existing source of applicants and developing them
  • Creation of new source of applicants
  • All of these
  • None of these
Q13 | Training involves
  • Identification of training needs of individual and the company
  • Developing suitable training programme
  • Evaluating the effectiveness of training programme
  • All of these
Q14 | Job design is affected by
  • Organizational, environmental & behavioral factors
  • Process
  • Study
  • Price
Q15 | Process of manpower planning consists
  • Forecasting
  • Development implementation
  • Controlling
  • All of these
Q16 | Utility of job analysis includes
  • Selection of employee
  • Recruitment of employee
  • Work study
  • Training of employee
Q17 | Job enlargement expands the number of related tasks in the
  • Job
  • Work
  • Identity
  • Range
Q18 | Training information system includes
  • Annual Review of years training plans
  • Monthly review of budget and plans
  • Real time review of specific projects
  • All of these
Q19 | Horizontal job rotation refer to
  • Lateral transfer
  • Lateral promotion
  • Lateral motivation
  • All of these
Q20 | Job enrichment
  • Includes job enlargement
  • Includes salary hike
  • Is a concept promoted by McClelland and Mcgregor
  • Includes some of planning and control necessary job accomplishment
Q21 | Manpower planning involves all of the following accept
  • Organizing and training the staff
  • Estimating future personnel department
  • Monitoring the quality of the product
  • Preparing and maintaining personnel records
Q22 | The origin of personnel management was an outcome of
  • Welfare workers
  • Legislation relating factory Reform
  • The govt. notification
  • The work of 19th century social reformers and employee
Q23 | 3600 feedback involves appraisal by
  • Line managers
  • Subordinate
  • Superiors
  • Anyone who is directly in contact with appraisee
Q24 | HRM aims at maximizing employees as well as organizational
  • Effectiveness
  • Efficiency
  • Economy
  • Performance
Q25 | HRM function does not include
  • Recruitment
  • Selection
  • Training
  • Cost-control