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This set of Human Resource Planning and Development Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Human Resource Planning And Development Set 1

Q1 | The focus of Human Resource Management revolves around
  • machine
  • motivation
  • money
  • men
Q2 | Quality- oriented organization primary concern centers around
  • coordination
  • communication
  • human resources
  • discipline
Q3 | HRM is associated with the management of
  • general people.
  • financial resources
  • organizational people
  • community members.
Q4 | Effective SHRM leads to:
  • organizational success
  • organizational failure.
  • organizational complexity
  • organizational inefficiency
Q5 | Organizational goals should be
  • achievable.
  • ambiguous.
  • random
  • vague.
Q6 | Customers of an organization fall under which of the following category?
  • shareholders.
  • . staff.
  • partners.
  • stakeholders.
Q7 | Cost of human resources refers to;
  • company profits.
  • . employee shares
  • salary packages.
  • earned revenues
Q8 | To anticipate the human resource needs of the organization based on some previous data ormanagerial judgment is known as;
  • demand forecasting
  • supplies forecasting.
  • financial forecasting
  • sales forecasting
Q9 | ________________ is commonly used by IT companies to assign their costly activities tooutside providers for the purpose of cost saving as well as using of HR expertise in other companies.
  • planning.
  • decentralization.
  • restructuring
  • outsourcing
Q10 | . A system used to acquire, store, manipulate, analyze, retrieve, and distributed informationrelated to the company's human resources is called a(n) _______________
  • hris.
  • progressive discipline system.
  • irs
  • contingent workforce system.
Q11 | Which of these is a major dimension of HRM practices contributing to companycompetitiveness?
  • compensating human resources.
  • acquiring and preparing human resources
  • managing the human resource environment.
  • all of the given options
Q12 | In which of these steps, the HR manager attempts to ascertain the supply of and demandfor various types of human resources?
  • forecasting.
  • program implementation
  • evaluation
  • goal setting
Q13 | Which of these is defined as any practice or activity carried on by the organization with theprimary purpose of identifying and attracting potential employees?
  • a leading indicator analysis
  • recruitment.
  • personnel policies.
  • selection.
Q14 | Playing the role of ____________ requires designing and delivering efficient and effectiveHR systems, processes, and practices
  • administrative agent.
  • change agent.
  • strategic partner
  • . employee advocate
Q15 | Employee involvement requires extensive additional HRM activity in which of these areas
  • training.
  • benefits.
  • labor negotiation
  • marketing.
Q16 | The people who perform tasks in a wide variety of human resource-related areas are called
  • hr executives
  • hr generalists.
  • hr specialist
  • all of the given options.
Q17 | A strategy intended to achieve fair employment by urging employers to hire certain groupsof people who were discriminated against in the past is known as
  • fair employment.
  • equal employment opportunity (eeo).
  • affirmative action.
  • employment discrimination
Q18 | The method that uses the organizations current level of employment as the starting pointfor determining future staffing needs is
  • zero based forecasting
  • bottom-up approach.
  • forecasting human resource availability.
  • none of the given options
Q19 | What tactic will employers likely have to take to fill openings left by retiring employees
  • instituting flexible work hours
  • providing elder care
  • hiring more women
  • rehiring retirees
Q20 | An employee evaluation appears on your desk that includes the following descriptions: skilled, specialty focused, strong technical background, filtered listener, limited experience in interfacing, avoids conflict, good at developing techniques and operates well in themanagement hierarchy. Your first thought is to consider this person for a position as a
  • project coordinator
  • project manager
  • task force leader
  • project specialist.
Q21 | The project manager leads a project team that is comprised of many different skills anddisciplines. He must use an exceptional number of negotiating skills because he __________.
  • is expected to discuss all facts of the technical parameters of the project.
  • will be leading individuals without having direct control over them
  • will encounter the shoptalk of each unique discipline
  • will be using these skills to keep from accepting additional work.
Q22 | The project manager is the leader of the project team and needs to be foward-reaching inobtaining a consensus on an issue. However, it would be counterproductive to an attempted resolution of an issue if the project manager said, "__________
  • lets do this ....
  • do we have some better information
  • i believe we are saying
  • i have another subject to address if this is too difficult to solve now
Q23 | Project managers often work 10 or more hours per day to fit the many activities into their professional schedule. There is a general agreement that all the professional time is not used asefficiently as possible. the major consumer of time, nearly two hours per day, is __________.
  • talking to top management
  • visiting the customer
  • attending project meetings
  • . writing reports.
Q24 | The development function of human resources has three dimensions. Which of thefollowing does NOT fall under them
  • employee training
  • management development
  • career development
  • identifying ways to motivate employees
Q25 | Who was the pioneer of Hawthorne studies?
  • fredrick taylor
  • elton mayo
  • fred luthans
  • henry mintzberg