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This set of Human Resource Management (HRM) Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Human Resource Management Set 39

Q1 | Effective HRM leads to:
  • Organizational success
  • Organizational failure
  • Organizational complexity
  • Organizational inefficiency
Q2 | Which of the following is the main responsibility of an HR department?
  • Attracting candidates for job
  • Ensure staff development
  • Keep employees motivated
  • All of the given options
Q3 | The three important components in aligning business strategy with HR practice:
  • Business Strategy, Human Resource Practices, Organisational Capabilities
  • Marketing Strategy, Human Resource Practices, Organisational Capabilities
  • Business Strategy, Human Resource Practices, Organisational structure
  • Marketing Strategy, Human Resource Practices, Organisational structure
Q4 | The following are the factors which come under ‘Work planning’ that iscomponent systems of HRD
  • Contextual analysis
  • Role analysis
  • Performance appraisal
  • All the above
Q5 | ______ is the simple act of comparison & learning for organisational improvement
  • Benchmarking
  • Feedback
  • Ranking
  • Job evaluation
Q6 | HRD process variable include
  • Role clarity
  • Work planning
  • Better communication
  • All of the above
Q7 | What term refers to the knowledge, education, training, skills, and expertise of a firm’sworkers?
  • human resources
  • human capital
  • intangible assets
  • knowledge assets
Q8 | A _____ is a company’s plan for how it will balance its internal strengths and weaknesses with external opportunities and threats in order to maintain a competitive advantage.
  • SWOT analysis
  • mission statement
  • strategy
  • tactic
Q9 | The term _____ means contributing in a measurable way to achieving the company’sstrategic goals.
  • competitive advantage
  • achievement success
  • value creation
  • success metric
Q10 | Managers use a(n) _____ to measure the HR function’s effectiveness and efficiency in producing employee behaviors the company needs to achieve its strategic goals.
  • metric
  • HR Scorecard
  • benchmark
  • high performance work system
Q11 | Effective human resource management could include all of the following responsibilitiesexcept _____.
  • placing the right person in the right job
  • training employees
  • controlling labor costs
  • all are responsibilities necessary for effective human resource management
Q12 | Human resource managers generally exert _____ within the human resources departmentand _____ outside the human resources department.
  • line authority; implied authority
  • staff authority; line authority
  • line authority; staff authority
  • functional control; authoritarian control
Q13 | HR’s strategic architecture can be shown as: -
  • HR Function → HR System→ Employee Behaviors
  • HR System→ HR Function → Employee Behaviors
  • HR Function → Employee Behaviors → HR System
  • HR System → Employee Behaviors → HR Function
Q14 | Which activities are not associated with human resource planning?
  • Forward planning
  • Scenario planning
  • Time keeping
  • Succession planning
Q15 | JA process is: -
  • Mostly informal
  • Specialized
  • Highly formal
  • Mostly technical
Q16 | Why is job analysis so infused with organizational politics? Is it:
  • The process which could lead to contraction of employees in a department and therefore diminishing its power base.
  • A result of interdepartmental rivalry.
  • Because it is not an objective activity.
  • The process through which companies try to shed labour.
Q17 | Reasonable balance between demand and supply of labor is necessary in: -
  • Manpower planning
  • JD
  • Recruitment
  • JA
Q18 | Which of the following is not involved in manpower planning?
  • Analysis of requirements
  • Intuitive judgment
  • Forecast
  • Course of action
Q19 | Forecast requirements, besides demand, essentially take into account
  • Processes
  • Consumers
  • Supply of labor
  • Products
Q20 | Statement describing the values, objectives and goal of HR department is called ____
  • HR vision
  • HR strategy
  • HR mission
  • HR design
Q21 | Method of data collection to back up a forecast of personnel needs ____
  • IPS
  • PEEP
  • PAIR
  • HRIS
Q22 | Minimum acceptable qualifications required for a job are termed as: -
  • JS
  • JD
  • JA
  • Job Appraisal
Q23 | Job Enlargement means: -
  • Horizontal expansion
  • Vertical expansion
  • Diagonal expansion
  • Circular
Q24 | That which adds more of the same type of duties requiring same skills is: -
  • Job progression
  • Job enrichment
  • Job enlargement
  • Job relatedness
Q25 | Intelligence and memory of a person constitute______ characteristics: -
  • Psychological
  • Physical
  • Mental
  • Socia