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This set of Human Resource Management (HRM) Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Human Resource Management Set 43

Q1 | Performance development plan is set for the employee by his immediate boss.
  • Employer
  • Department Head
  • Immediate boss
  • Any of the above
Q2 | The following person has suggested the new concept which takes into account various key factors that will tell the overall performance of a job.
  • Elliot Jecques
  • Fred Luthas
  • Juran
  • None of the above
Q3 | The whole process of conducting a 360 – Degree Feedback process in any Organisationcould last about ________.
  • 1.5 to 3 months
  • 3 to 6 months
  • 6 to 9 months
  • 9 to 12 months
Q4 | The following system is simple, less expensive and less time consuming.
  • Paired comparison
  • Confidential report system
  • Ranking
  • Checklist method
Q5 | Which is not a method of performance appraisal?
  • Straight ranking method
  • Man-to-man comparison method
  • Check list method
  • None of the above
Q6 | Which of these is an advantage of the critical incidents methods while performing performance appraisal?
  • Minimize inventory costs
  • Negative incidents are generally more noticeable than positive ones
  • Evaluation is based on actual job behavior
  • None of the above
Q7 | What is the full form of "BARS"?
  • Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scales
  • Baseline Accounting and Reporting System
  • Budgeting Accounting and Reporting System
  • None of the above
Q8 | What do behaviorally anchored scales represent?
  • The scales are anchored by descriptions of actual job behaviour.
  • Superiors would feel comfortable to give feedback.
  • A range of descriptive statements of behavior varying from the least to the most effective.
  • None of the above
Q9 | Who conducts the field review method?
  • Peers
  • Supervisor
  • Subordinates
  • Someone from corporate office or the HR department
Q10 | Which of the following activities constitute HRM?i] Human Resource Planningii] Recruitment and Selectioniii] Job Designiv] Campus Design
  • Both i and ii
  • Both i and iv
  • All i, ii, and iii
  • All the above
Q11 | Which of the following is covered under the development function of HRM?i] Employee Trainingii] Career Developmentiii] Organization Developmentiv] Policy Development
  • Only i and ii
  • Only ii and ii
  • Only iii and iv
  • All i, ii and iii
Q12 | What do the following characteristics in an individual indicate?i] Ability to take considerable responsibilityii] Ability to influence and control othersiii] Problem solving skills
  • Search for security
  • Managerial competence
  • Dysfunctional competence
  • Technical-functional competence
Q13 | _______ is a methodology to evaluate various elements of HRD.
  • HRD Audit
  • HRD Systems
  • HRD Structures
  • HR Planning
Q14 | The organization prefers people who look for _________ with the company.
  • A long - term association
  • Selection
  • Promotion
  • Training
Q15 | The process of forecasting an organizations future demand for, and supply of, the right type of people in the right number is called
  • Recruitment
  • Human Resource Planning
  • Human Capital Management
  • Human Resource Management
Q16 | A process that is used for identifying and developing internal people with the potential to fill key business leadership positions in the company is called
  • Succession planning
  • Investing in human resources
  • Highly talented personnel creation
  • None of the above
Q17 | What is human factor?
  • Micro and macro issues of socioeconomic factor.
  • Interrelated Physiological, Psychological and Socio-ethical aspects of human being.
  • The entire concept of human behaviour
  • None of the above.
Q18 | What are the factors responsible for the growth of HRM?
  • Development of scientific management and awakened sense of social responsibility.
  • The problem of how the available human resource could effectively minimise the cost and maximise the production.
  • Technical factors, awakening amongst workers, attitude of the government, cultural and social system.
  • All the above.
Q19 | Who has defined personnel management as a field of management which has to do with planning and controlling various operative functions of procuring, developing, maintaining and utilising labour force?
  • Harold Koontz
  • Glueck
  • Michael Jucius
  • Flippo
Q20 | Directing is one of the important functions of HRM which comes under___________.
  • managerial function
  • operative function
  • technical function
  • behavioral function
Q21 | Whom does Human relation approach refer to?
  • Worker, who should be given humanly treatment at work.
  • Mutual cooperation between employer and employee in solving the common problems.
  • Integration of people into a work situation that motivates them to work together to achieve productivity and also economic, psychological and social satisfaction.
  • None of the above.
Q22 | Who laid the foundation of HRM practice?
  • Elton Mayo
  • Roethlisberger and Dickinson
  • Peter Drucker and Douglas McGregor
  • David C. McClelland.
Q23 | How HRM has become a highly specialised job?
  • It is concerned with obtaining and maintaining a satisfied work force.
  • It maximises the output and satisfaction of the employees.
  • Promote group satisfaction and individual development.
  • Optimum utilisation of man-power by motivation and improving the efficiency.
Q24 | What is the scope of HRM?
  • Training and development of employees for their growth.
  • Maintenance of good industrial relations and workers’ high morale for higher productivity
  • Further researches in behavioural science, new ideas in man, management and advances in the field of training and development.
  • None of the above.
Q25 | The most popular form of interview is___________
  • The situational interview
  • The competency based interview
  • The biographical interview
  • The unstructured interview