HRM Questions and Answers | Online Quiz for Practice

46. The difference between human resource management and personnel management is:

1. Insignificant
2. Marginal
3. Narrow
4. Wide

47. Which selection method remains the most used by organisations?

1. Interviews
2. Ability tests
3. References
4. A trial period

48. Which of the following is not a recruitment technique?

1. Interviews
2. performance appraisal
3. psychometric testing
4. ability tests

49. Which of the following is NOT true of the activity known as job analysis?

1. it aims to describe the purpose of a job and the conditions under which it is performed.
2. the job elements are rated in terms such as frequency of use or amount of time involved c.the rate of pay for the job is fixed
3. 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?

1. It becomes obsolete very quickly as change occurs so fast
2. It is biased towards western ideas
3. It tends to offer a highly idealised pe.rspective on strategy formulation
4. It fails to incorporate conflict

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