HRM Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

61. Which of the following is not a limitation of SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunity, Threats) analysis?

1. Organisational strengths may not lead to competitive advantage
2. SWOT gives a one-shot view of a moving target
3. SWOTs focus on the external environment is too broad and integrative
4. SWOT overemphasises a single dimension of strategy

62. Which of the following is a key HR role as defined by Ulrich et al (2009)?

1. Personnel administrator
2. Business ally
3. Payroll adviser
4. Organisational geographer

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:

1. physical uniqueness
2. path dependency
3. social complexity
4. tangible resources

64. Which of the following is an example of operative function of HR managers?

1. Planning
2. Organising
3. Procurement
4. Controlling

65. Strategic human resource management involves:

1. planning, foresight and analytical decision making
2. setting employment standards and policies
3. linking human resources with strategic objectives to improve performance
4. all of the above

66. Strategic human resource management aims to achieve competitive advantage in the market through

1. Price
2. Product
3. People
4. Process

67. Which consulting company is associated with the concept of talent management?

1. Price Waterhouse Coopers
2. Boston Consulting Group
3. Deloitte
4. McKinsey

68. Human resource management is normally in nature

1. Proactive
2. Reactive
3. Combative
4. none of the above

69. Identify the managerial function out of the following functions of HR managers

1. Procurement
2. Development
3. Organizing
4. performance appraisal

70. The scope of human resource management includes

1. Procurement
2. Development
3. Compensation
4. all of the above