HRM Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

41. Creating an environment that facilitates a continuous and two-way exchange of information betweenthe superiors and the subordinates is the core of:

1. High involvement management model
2. High commitment management model
3. High performance management model
4. none of the above

42. Deployment of which resource is difficult to master

1. Human
2. Land
3. Capital
4. Natural

43. Which of the following statements most accurately defines human resource management?

1. human resource management contributes to business strategy and plays and important role inthe implementation of business strategy
2. human resource management is an approach to managing people
3. 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
4. human resource management focuses on people as the source of competitive advantage

44. Which of the following lists is comprised of support activities?

1. Human resource management, information systems, procurement, and firm infrastructure
2. Customer service, information systems, technology development, and procurement
3. Human resource management, technology development, customer service, and procurement
4. Human resource management, customer service, marketing and sales, and operations

45. Talent management is:

1. In essence about a contract between the organisation and the employee
2. Also taking into account other factors that unlock value in the business
3. 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)
4. all of the above

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