HRM Objective Questions Answers for Practice

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