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This set of Human Resource Management (HRM) Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Human Resource Management Set 32

Q1 | Identify which one is an added specific goal of Human resource management
  • Retaining
  • Learning
  • Unlearning
  • Separating
Q2 | Identify the top most goal of Human resource management
  • Legal compliance
  • Competitive edge
  • Work force adaptability
  • Productivity
Q3 | To achieve goals organizations require employees
  • Control
  • Direction
  • Commitment
  • Corporation
Q4 | The amount of quality output for amount of input means
  • Productivity
  • Production
  • Sales increase
  • Increase in profits
Q5 | Responding to employees and involving them in decision making referred to as
  • Quality of wok life
  • Autonomy
  • Empowerment
  • Pre action
Q6 | The primary goal of Human resource management is to
  • Facilitate organizational performance
  • Influence internal constituencies
  • Eliminate non-automated operative positions
  • None of these
Q7 | Methods for forecasting Human resource needs can be classified as either
  • Based on judgment or contingency
  • Based on situation or mathematics
  • Based on judgment or mathematics
  • None of these
Q8 | Personality test aims at
  • Measuring the basis make up of the individual
  • Measuring the candidate’s knowledge and skill
  • Measuring the candidates intelligence
  • Measuring the king of aesthetic sense the candidate possesses
Q9 | HRD systems or possesses may include the following process mechanisms or sub systems
  • Career planning, man power planning and collective bargaining
  • Performance appraisal, motivation and grievance handling
  • Performance appraisal, career planning organization development
  • Training and development, communication and quality of work life
Q10 | Common uses of information generated via performance appraisal include all of the following except
  • Administrator/personal decisions
  • Organizational training and development programme
  • Input to job content evaluation
  • Feedback to individuals performance
Q11 | Successful career planning development requires action from
  • The organization, the employees immediate manager and the employees himself
  • The employees and his/her immediate manager
  • A verity of source both internal and external to the organization
  • The employee with some assistance guidance from his or her immediate manager
Q12 | A frequently used method for determining training needs involves
  • Observation analyses conducted by training experts
  • Group discussion with employee groups
  • Individual skill assessment by supervisors
  • All of the above
Q13 | The purpose of any Human resource information system is to
  • Replace human decision making with computerized decision making
  • Provide data and data summarizes that are error free
  • Assist management in decision making
  • Reduce the number of low level support staff
Q14 | It is useful to look up on Human resource department as providing three types of assistance
  • Specific services, management development and employee evaluation
  • Advice, management development and organizational maintenance
  • Specific services, advice and coordination
  • None of the above
Q15 | Which of the following is not a reason for the increased use of Human resource department in the strategic planning process?
  • The societal shift towards greater conservation
  • A work force that is becoming most demanding with regard to job satisfaction and the quality of work life
  • Changes in the composition of work force
  • None of the above
Q16 | The primary goal of Human resource management is to
  • Facilitate organizational performance
  • Influence internal constituencies
  • Eliminate non-automated operative positions
  • None of the above
Q17 | Which of the following is not a typically used procedure to reduce the total number of employees
  • Lay off
  • Terminations
  • Downsizing
  • Early retirement inducements
Q18 | In which of the following kinds of interview, the questions are predetermined?
  • Panel
  • Stress
  • Group
  • Structural
Q19 | Which of the following is the formal reward provided by organization that lends itself to being related to performance?
  • Insurance plans
  • Merit plans
  • Paid holidays
  • Paid vacations
Q20 | The test, which samples and measures an applicant’s knowledge and skills for the purpose of employee selection is termed as
  • Achievement test
  • Aptitude test
  • Personality test
  • Emotional intelligence
Q21 | An experienced employee offering guidance and support to a junior employee so that the later learns and advances in the organization is called
  • Mentoring
  • Counseling
  • Coaching
  • job instruction training
Q22 | The method of performance appraisal required to correct the tendency of a rater to give consistently high or low ratings to all the employee is
  • Critical incident technique
  • Behaviorally anchored rating scale
  • Forced choice method
  • Graphic rating scale
Q23 | Which of the following is not the main objective of Human resource development
  • To provide suitable need based training programmes
  • To evaluate the job and set the wages or salaries
  • To contribute towards the excellence of technical and management education
  • To motivate the employees in order to show better performance
Q24 | Which of the following can be considered as HRD functions
  • Identify and imparting training needs
  • Identifying and selecting the best candidates
  • Methods, rates the appraise on various parameters on point scale
  • All of the above
Q25 | Which of the following performance appraisal method, rates the appraise on various parameters on point scale
  • Critical incident method
  • MBO method
  • Graphic rating scale
  • Bell curve methods