Trends in Human Resource Management
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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