HRM MCQs Quiz Multiple Choice Questions & Answers Page 2

51. What is the main disadvantage of off-the-job learning?

1. It isnt always directly related to real organisational issues and needs
2. The time needed to set up
3. Accessibility for those training
4. Long term costs

52. XYZ Corp. is centering on the objective of low-cost, high quality, on-time production by curtailing idle productive and facilities. The XYZ Corp is taking advantage of a system

1. Just-In-Time (JIT)
2. Last In, First Out (UFO)
3. First In, First Out (FIFO)
4. Highly mechanized

53. What do rational processes to recruitment and selection typically ignore?

1. Labour market demand
2. Wages
3. The time it takes to get to work
4. The use of power and micropolitics by managers

54. What are the ideas underpinning soft, e commitment, or high-road HRM practices?

1. Labour needs to be treated as an asset to be invested in
2. Employees are a cost which should be minimized
3. A lack of mutuality existing between employer and employee
4. A disregard for unlocking discretionary effort

55. What is the main reason employers give why employees are not fully proficient?

1. Lack of experience
2. Over qualified
3. Lack of numeracy skills
4. Lack of literacy skills

56. Which one of the following becomes a creative factor in production?

1. Land
2. Capital
3. Consumers
4. Human Resources

57. Identify the top most goal of human resource management?

1. Legal compliance
2. Competitive edge
3. Work force adaptability
4. Productivity

58. Which items below are forms of perceptual errors made during the selection process?

1. Like-me judgements
2. A candidates time-keeping
3. The interview setting
4. The time of day

59. Chases study (1997) identified what issue as being the biggest obstacle to creating aknowledgecreating company?

1. Limited resources for training and development
2. Organisational culture
3. Failure of management
4. Inability to access learning material

60. A companys ability to meet its short-term financial obligations is measured by which of the following categories?

1. Liquidity ratios
2. Profitability ratios
3. Activity ratios
4. Leverage ratios

61. The balanced scorecard supplies top managers with a ………………. view of the business

1. longterm financial
2. detailed and complex
3. simple and routine
4. fast but comprehensive

62. The focus of Human Resource Management revolves around

1. Machined.
2. Motivation
3. Money
4. Men

63. Wide range of abilities and attributes possessed by people are called as

1. Management
2. Human Resources
3. Entrepreneur
4. Intreprenuer

64. A cultural view of learning considers the values and norms of communities through:

1. Myths, legends and proverbs
2. Music, song and dance
3. Rituals, language and religion
4. Talk, practices and stories

65. Although firm infrastructure is quite frequently viewed only as overhead expense, it can become a source of competitive advantage. Examples include all of the following except:

1. negotiating and maintaining ongoing relations with regulatory bodies
2. marketing expertise increasing a firms revenues and enabling it to enter new markets.
3. effective information systems contributing significantly to a firms overall cost leadership strategy.
4. top management providing a key role in collaborating with important customers.

66. Which multinational bank used business sponsors to monitor international assignees?

1. Oman International Bank
2. Falcon International
3. HSBC
4. Barclays

67. Which of the following is not a limitation of SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunity, Threats) analysis?

1. Organisational strengths may not lead to competitive advantage
2. SWOT gives a one-shot view of a moving target
3. SWOTs focus on the external environment is too broad and integrative
4. SWOT overemphasises a single dimension of strategy

68. Which of the following is a key HR role as defined by Ulrich et al (2009)?

1. Personnel administrator
2. Business ally
3. Payroll adviser
4. Organisational geographer

69. An array of firm resources include interpersonal relations among managers in the firm, its culture, and its reputation with its customers and suppliers. Such competitive advantages are based upon:

1. physical uniqueness
2. path dependency
3. social complexity
4. tangible resources

70. Which of the following is an example of operative function of HR managers?

1. Planning
2. Organising
3. Procurement
4. Controlling

71. Strategic human resource management involves:

1. planning, foresight and analytical decision making
2. setting employment standards and policies
3. linking human resources with strategic objectives to improve performance
4. all of the above

72. Strategic human resource management aims to achieve competitive advantage in the market through

1. Price
2. Product
3. People
4. Process

73. Which consulting company is associated with the concept of talent management?

1. Price Waterhouse Coopers
2. Boston Consulting Group
3. Deloitte
4. McKinsey

74. Human resource management is normally in nature

1. Proactive
2. Reactive
3. Combative
4. none of the above

75. Identify the managerial function out of the following functions of HR managers

1. Procurement
2. Development
3. Organizing
4. performance appraisal

76. The scope of human resource management includes

1. Procurement
2. Development
3. Compensation
4. all of the above

77. Quality goals require alignment with:

1. Production
2. Human Resources
3. Finance
4. Purchase

78. Human resource management helps improve

1. Production
2. Productivity
3. Profits
4. Power

79. The amount of quality output for amount of input means

1. Productivity
2. Production
3. Sales increase
4. Increase in profits

80. Responding to employees and involving them in decision making is referred to as:

1. Quality of worklife
2. Autonomy
3. Empowerment
4. Preaction

81. Which is the most popular method of recruiting applicants to jobs?

1. Radio and TV advertisement
2. Corporate website
3. Employee referral schemes
4. Commercial job boards

82. Human Resource Management function does not involve:

1. Recruitment
2. Selection
3. Cost control
4. Training

83. Identify which one is an added specific goal of human resource management:

1. Retraining
2. Learning
3. Unlearning
4. Separating

84. Who famously adopted Taylors Scientific Management approach?

1. Ronald McDonald
2. Ralph Lauren
3. Henry Ford
4. James Dyson

85. Human Resource Management is primarily concerned with:

1. Sales
2. Dimensions of people
3. External environment
4. Cost discipline

86. What is the most common form of organisational intervention designed to improve employee wellbeing?

1. Secondary and tertiary
2. Primary
3. Variable
4. Best-fit

87. To address the challenges and opportunities they face organisations engage in a process of strategic management. Strategic management is:

1. short-term focused and composed of organisational strategy, including strategy formulationand implementation
2. long-term focused and composed of the organisations mission, vision and value statements
3. long-term focused and composed of organisational strategy, including strategy formulation and implementation
4. short-term focused and composed of the organisations mission, vision and value statements

88. Which of the following aptly describes the role of line managers and staff advisors, namely HR professionals?

1. Staff advisors focus more on developing HR programmes while line managers are more involved in the implementation of those programmes.
2. Line managers are concerned more about developing HR programmes whereas staff advisors are more involved in implementing such programmes.
3. Staff advisors are solely responsible for developing, implementing and evaluating the HR programmes while line managers are not all involved in any matters concerning HR.
4. Line managers alone are responsible for developinq, implementing and evaluating the HR programmes while staff advisors are not all involved in any matters concerning HR.

89. Wright and Snell made important contribution to the growth of:

1. Strategic fit model
2. Strategic labour allocation process model
3. Business-oriented model
4. none of the above

90. Human resource management is the formal part of an organisation responsible for all of the following aspects of the management of human resources except:

1. strategy development and analysis
2. systems, processes, and procedures
3. policy making, implementation, and enforcement
4. management of the organisations finances

91. Which of the following techniques are not connected with human resource planning?

1. succession planning
2. management of change
3. simple linear regression
4. Markov matrix analysis

92. A marketing department that promises delivery quicker than the production departments ability toproduce is an example of a lack of understanding of the:

1. synergy of the business units.
2. need to maintain the reputation of the company.
3. organisational culture and leadership
4. interrelationships among functional areas and firm strategies

93. The competencies or skills that a firm employs to transform inputs into outputs are:

1. tangible resources
2. intangible resources
3. organisational capabilities
4. reputational resources

94. Selection is concerned with:

1. The activity to select a suitable pool of candidates.
2. Always being stimulated by the departure of an employee.
3. Always ascertaining a candidates personality to ensure a suitable fit.
4. Applying appropriate techniques and methods to select a candidate.

95. Which of the below is a form of interview used in candidate selection?

1. The appraisal interview
2. The competency based interview
3. The disciplinary interview
4. The return to work interview

96. The most pertinent criticism of the empowerment concept concerns

1. the balance between customers wishes and efficiency.
2. the limited evidence for any shift towards a substantially .more empowered workforce.
3. the over-empowerment of employees
4. the limited theorising of the concept.

97. One of the following attributes of potential employees is of heightened interest to employers when recruiting Which one is it?

1. The candidates physical health
2. The candidates ability to deal with customers
3. The candidates ability to prepare for and cope with an uncertain future
4. The candidates organisational abilities

98. Kochan and Baroccis (1985) model of HRM has three elements. These elements are:

1. the external environment, the internal environment and human resource management
2. HRM/lR system effectiveness, the external environment and the internal environment
3. human resource management, the internal environment and HRM/lR system effectiveness .
4. the external environment, human resource management and HRM/lR system effectiveness

99. Why do some commentators claim that it is unlikely that the UK economy will become a knowledge economy?

1. The lack of IT education in schools
2. Culturally low in intelligence.
3. Historically low levels of company investment into research and development
4. Unions try to prevent knowledge transfer from management level to the broader workforce.

100. The interview is used as a method for determining:

1. The personality of the candidate
2. The degree of fit between the applicant and the demands of the job.
3. His/her age.
4. Physical attributes