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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 5

Q1 | Reassignment of an employee to a higher level job that involves greater responsibility orstatus or pay is termed
  • transfer
  • cross functional transfer
  • demotion
  • promotion
Q2 | The process of selecting and developing employees in the organization to occupy keypositions in the future is termed
  • career planning
  • succession planning
  • career development
  • human resource enhancement
Q3 | Evaluation of an employees performance by his colleagues is called
  • peer appraisal
  • management by objectives
  • formal appraisal
  • group appraisal
Q4 | Clear and well defined goals, a definite time plan and an action plan to achieve thesegoals, combined with timely feedback, are characteristics of
  • work standards approach
  • management by objectives
  • bars
  • balanced score card method
Q5 | Paired comparison of employees is a method of
  • ranking
  • checklist
  • point allocation
  • forced choice rating
Q6 | ______ helps in improving the communication, people management and relationshipmanagement skills of the trainees
  • computer modeling
  • role playing
  • class room lectures
  • vestibule training
Q7 | Response, learning, performance and results are four levels of evaluating a managementdevelopment program. This system of evaluation is called
  • taylors system
  • kirkpatricks system
  • werther & davis method
  • armstrong method
Q8 | Traditionally, the pay scales in companies were associated with
  • employee performance
  • organizational hierarchy
  • worth hierarchy
  • charm of the employee
Q9 | _______ is the systematic process of analyzing and evaluating jobs to determine theirrelative worth in an organization
  • job analysis
  • job design
  • job evaluation
  • job enrichment
Q10 | The process of ranking in which the relative importance of each job is determined incomparison with the representative job is called
  • relative ranking
  • comparative ranking
  • paired comparison
  • single factor ranking
Q11 | Performance bonus is an example of a/an
  • intrinsic reward
  • extrinsic reward
  • intrinsic wage payment
  • extrinsic wage payment
Q12 | The process of rewarding employees by giving them a stake in the company, whichfurther enhances their performance is called the
  • gain sharing
  • annual bonus
  • employee stock plan
  • profit sharing
Q13 | A benefit plan where an employee gets a chance to choose from a lot of benefits is alsocalled
  • holiday benefit plan
  • restaurant benefit plan
  • cafeteria benefit plan
  • variable/flexible benefit plan
Q14 | As a student, when one is trying to assess ones self and the opportunities available in themarket to choose the right career, he/she is said to be in the
  • exploration stage
  • establishment stage
  • maintenance stage
  • disengagement stage
Q15 | Virtuous Services Pvt Ltd. believes that it pays quite handsome salaries to its employees. However, the turnover rate has been quite high in the recent past and all the exit interviewspoint ot one factor - compensation , as the culprit. The company failed to
  • meet the legal requirement
  • follow the principle of equanimity
  • match the employee expectations
  • match the pay scaled abroad
Q16 | The approach that stresses on the fact that individuals should not be treated as merefactors of production is
  • human relations approach
  • scientific management approach
  • humanistic approach
  • none of the above
Q17 | Hawthorne studies gave raise to this approach of human resource management
  • mathematical approach
  • human relations approach
  • human resources approach
  • contingent approach
Q18 | An average sincere employee expects his boss or manager to have all the followingcharacteristics except
  • be genuinely interested in the employee and the work
  • ignore all the employees mistakes
  • be fair and frank in his dealings with the employee
  • recognize and reward the employee and his contributions
Q19 | As an auditor, the HR professional
  • ensures that all managers of the organization perform their respective roles
  • conducts training and development activities
  • solve employee grievances
  • provides support to other departments in conducting appraisals
Q20 | ________ organizations are characterised by rigid structures , directives and rules and areappropriate for static environments
  • mechanistic
  • organic
  • flat
  • decentralised
Q21 | The marketing manager was asked to handle the product re launch of toothpaste by VPmarketing. The managers obligations toward the VP is called
  • responsibility
  • accountability
  • authority
  • none of the above
Q22 | The process of ensuring that there are the right number of qualified people in the rightjobs for best results is termed
  • human resource planning
  • recruitment
  • retrenchment
  • downsizing
Q23 | The statement of the required set of knowledge, skills and competencies for a job is calledthe
  • job specification
  • job description
  • job classification
  • job analysis
Q24 | Adding more responsibility, providing wider scope, greater sequencing and minimizingcontrols, all constitute
  • job enlargement
  • job expansion
  • job design
  • job enrichment
Q25 | If a selection method produces consistent results across different situations and times, it istermed to be
  • reliable
  • valid
  • legal
  • none of the above