HRM MCQ Multiple Choice Questions Answers - Page 3 for Practice
61. Which of the following is not a limitation of SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunity, Threats) analysis?
Correct Answer is: SWOTs focus on the external environment is too broad and integrative
62. Which of the following is a key HR role as defined by Ulrich et al (2009)?
Correct Answer is: Business ally
63. 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:
Correct Answer is: social complexity
64. Which of the following is an example of operative function of HR managers?
Correct Answer is: Procurement
65. Strategic human resource management involves:
Correct Answer is: all of the above
66. Strategic human resource management aims to achieve competitive advantage in the market through
Correct Answer is: People
67. Which consulting company is associated with the concept of talent management?
Correct Answer is: McKinsey
68. Human resource management is normally in nature
Correct Answer is: Proactive
69. Identify the managerial function out of the following functions of HR managers
Correct Answer is: Organizing
70. The scope of human resource management includes
Correct Answer is: all of the above
71. Quality goals require alignment with:
Correct Answer is: Human Resources
72. Human resource management helps improve
Correct Answer is: Productivity
73. The amount of quality output for amount of input means
Correct Answer is: Productivity
74. Responding to employees and involving them in decision making is referred to as:
Correct Answer is: Quality of worklife
75. Which is the most popular method of recruiting applicants to jobs?
Correct Answer is: Corporate website
76. Human Resource Management function does not involve:
Correct Answer is: Cost control
77. Identify which one is an added specific goal of human resource management:
Correct Answer is: Retraining
78. Who famously adopted Taylors Scientific Management approach?
Correct Answer is: Henry Ford
79. Human Resource Management is primarily concerned with:
Correct Answer is: Dimensions of people
80. What is the most common form of organisational intervention designed to improve employee wellbeing?
Correct Answer is: Secondary and tertiary
81. To address the challenges and opportunities they face organisations engage in a process of strategic management. Strategic management is:
Correct Answer is: long-term focused and composed of organisational strategy, including strategy formulation and implementation
82. Which of the following aptly describes the role of line managers and staff advisors, namely HR professionals?
Correct Answer is: Staff advisors focus more on developing HR programmes while line managers are more involved in the implementation of those programmes.
83. Wright and Snell made important contribution to the growth of:
Correct Answer is: Business-oriented model
84. Human resource management is the formal part of an organisation responsible for all of the following aspects of the management of human resources except:
Correct Answer is: management of the organisations finances
85. Which of the following techniques are not connected with human resource planning?
Correct Answer is: management of change
86. A marketing department that promises delivery quicker than the production departments ability toproduce is an example of a lack of understanding of the:
Correct Answer is: interrelationships among functional areas and firm strategies
87. The competencies or skills that a firm employs to transform inputs into outputs are:
Correct Answer is: organisational capabilities
88. Selection is concerned with:
Correct Answer is: Applying appropriate techniques and methods to select a candidate.
89. Which of the below is a form of interview used in candidate selection?
Correct Answer is: The competency based interview
90. The most pertinent criticism of the empowerment concept concerns
Correct Answer is: the limited evidence for any shift towards a substantially .more empowered workforce.
