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This set of Human Resource Management (HRM) Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Human Resource Management Set 37

Q1 | The _____ assigns a quantitative score to each job based on its decision-making, skilled activity, physical activity, equipment operation, and information-processing characteristics.
  • Department of Labor Procedure
  • position analysis questionnaire
  • functional job analysis
  • log approach
Q2 | Which quantitative job analysis technique can be conducted online?
  • position analysis questionnaire
  • Department of Labor Procedure
  • functional job analysis
  • all of the above
Q3 | Most job descriptions contain sections that cover _____.
  • job summary
  • standards of performance
  • working conditions
  • all of the above
Q4 | One uses information from the _____ to write a job specification.
  • job summary
  • job identification
  • job description
  • standards for performance
Q5 | What type of information is contained in the job identification section of a job description?
  • job title
  • job summary
  • relationships statement
  • major functions or activities
Q6 | FLSA status is located in the _____ section of a job description.
  • job summary
  • job identification
  • relationships
  • responsibilities and duties
Q7 | The _____ classifies all workers into one of 23 major groups of jobs.
  • Department of Labor Procedure
  • Job analysis
  • Standard Occupational Classification
  • Federal Professions Classification System
Q8 | Under the _____, the individual must have the requisite skills, educational background, and experience to perform the job’s essential functions.
  • SOC
  • DOL
  • ADA
  • FCC
Q9 | Which section of a job description should define the limits of the jobholder’s authority, direct supervision of other personnel, and budgetary limitations?
  • job identification
  • job summary
  • relationships
  • responsibilities and duties
Q10 | When is an employer required to make a “reasonable accommodation” for a disabled individual?
  • any time a disabled individual applies for a position
  • employers are only encouraged to make reasonable accommodations
  • when a disabled individual has the necessary skills, education, and experience to perform the job, but can’t because of the job’s current structure
  • when it would present an undue hardship
Q11 | Job duties that employees must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, are called _____.
  • essential job functions
  • job requirements
  • primary job activities
  • work activities
Q12 | The job specification takes the job description and answers the question, _____?
  • What human traits and experience are required to do this job well
  • When will the supervisor be completely satisfied with a worker’s work
  • What are the four main activities making up this job
  • How many other employees are available to perform job functions
Q13 | When filling jobs with untrained people, the job specifications may include _____.
  • quality of training
  • length of previous service
  • previous job performance
  • physical traits
Q14 | Which of the following work behaviors is considered “generic” or important to all jobs?
  • industriousness
  • intelligence
  • experience
  • morality
Q15 | All of the following work behaviors are considered “generic” or important to all jobs except _____.
  • thoroughness
  • attendance
  • experience
  • schedule flexibility
Q16 | _____ means assigning workers additional same-level activities, thus increasing the number of activities they perform.
  • Job rotation
  • Job enrichment
  • Job assignment
  • Job enlargement
Q17 | _____ means systematically moving workers from one job to another.
  • Job rotation
  • Job enrichment
  • Job assignment
  • Job enlargement
Q18 | ______ means redesigning jobs in a way that increases the opportunities for the worker to experience feelings of responsibility, achievement, growth, and recognition.
  • Job rotation
  • Job enrichment
  • Job assignment
  • Job enlargement
Q19 | Who argued that the best way to motivate workers is to build opportunities for challenge and achievement into their jobs via job enrichment?
  • Adam Smith
  • Frederick Taylor
  • Frederick Herzberg
  • Abraham Maslow
Q20 | De jobbing can be described as _____.
  • assigning workers additional work at the same level
  • redesigning jobs to increase opportunities for responsibility
  • moving workers from one job to another
  • encouraging employees not to limit themselves to what’s on their job descriptions
Q21 | Job enrichment can be described as _____.
  • assigning workers additional work at the same level
  • redesigning jobs to increase opportunities for responsibility
  • moving workers from one job to another
  • encouraging employees not to limit themselves to what’s on their job descriptions
Q22 | Jack works at a Hilton hotel. Some weeks he works in catering but he also works in housekeeping, and in reservations periodically. This is an example of _____.
  • job enlargement
  • job rotation
  • job enrichment
  • de jobbing
Q23 | The fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in performance is called _____.
  • job redesign
  • reengineering
  • process engineering
  • job enlargement
Q24 | Describing the job in terms of the measurable, observable, and behavioral competencies necessary for good job performance is called a _____.
  • competency-based job analysis
  • Department of Labor Procedure
  • functional job analysis
  • SOC classification system
Q25 | Competency analysis focuses on _____.
  • what is accomplished
  • how work is accomplished
  • when work is accomplished
  • who accomplishes the work