HRM MCQ Multiple Choice Questions Answers - Page 2 for Practice
31. Human Resource Management aims to maximise employees as well as organisational
Correct Answer is: Effectiveness
32. Which of the following is closely associated with strategic human resource management?
Correct Answer is: All of the above
33. The human resource management functions aim at
Correct Answer is: helping the organisation deal with its employees in different stages of employment
34. Demand for human resources and management is created by
Correct Answer is: Expansion of industry
35. How does the selection of an international assignee usually take place?
Correct Answer is: Informal discussion based on chance conversations with internal staff.
36. Which activities are not associated with workforce planning?
Correct Answer is: Time keeping
37. Strategic management process usually consists of ……………… steps
Correct Answer is: Five
38. Which of the following is NOT a common criticism of using personality tests in selection?
Correct Answer is: There are no reliable instruments with which to assess personality
39. One of the components of corporate level strategy is:
Correct Answer is: all of the above
40. Treating employees as precious human resources is the basis of the approach.
Correct Answer is: soft HRM
41. Creating an environment that facilitates a continuous and two-way exchange of information betweenthe superiors and the subordinates is the core of:
Correct Answer is: High involvement management model
42. Deployment of which resource is difficult to master
Correct Answer is: Human
43. Which of the following statements most accurately defines human resource management?
Correct Answer is: human resource management seeks to achieve competitive advantage through the strategicdeployment of a highly committed and capable workforce, using an integrated array ofcultural, structural and personnel techniques
44. Which of the following lists is comprised of support activities?
Correct Answer is: Human resource management, information systems, procurement, and firm infrastructure
45. Talent management is:
Correct Answer is: A combination of hard and soft issues (including the psycho-social contract) and taking the
new economy into account (i.e. the knowledqe-based economy)
46. The difference between human resource management and personnel management is:
Correct Answer is: Wide
47. Which selection method remains the most used by organisations?
Correct Answer is: Interviews
48. Which of the following is not a recruitment technique?
Correct Answer is: performance appraisal
49. Which of the following is NOT true of the activity known as job analysis?
Correct Answer is: jobs are broken into elements such as information or relations with other people
50. What is the major problem with the theorizing of strategic IHRM?
Correct Answer is: It tends to offer a highly idealised pe.rspective on strategy formulation
51. What is the main disadvantage of off-the-job learning?
Correct Answer is: It isnt always directly related to real organisational issues and needs
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
Correct Answer is: Just-In-Time (JIT)
53. What do rational processes to recruitment and selection typically ignore?
Correct Answer is: The use of power and micropolitics by managers
54. What are the ideas underpinning soft, e commitment, or high-road HRM practices?
Correct Answer is: Labour needs to be treated as an asset to be invested in
55. What is the main reason employers give why employees are not fully proficient?
Correct Answer is: Lack of experience
56. Which one of the following becomes a creative factor in production?
Correct Answer is: Human Resources
57. Identify the top most goal of human resource management?
Correct Answer is: Productivity
58. Which items below are forms of perceptual errors made during the selection process?
Correct Answer is: Like-me judgements
59. Chases study (1997) identified what issue as being the biggest obstacle to creating aknowledgecreating company?
Correct Answer is: Organisational culture
60. A companys ability to meet its short-term financial obligations is measured by which of the following categories?
