Human Resource Management Set 43 MCQs

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