HRM Questions and Answers | Online Quiz for Practice

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. jobs are broken into elements such as information or relations with other people
2. it aims to describe the purpose of a job and the conditions under which it is performed.
3. 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

50. What is the major problem with the theorizing of strategic IHRM?

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

51. What is the main disadvantage of off-the-job learning?

1. Accessibility for those training
2. Long term costs
3. It isnt always directly related to real organisational issues and needs
4. The time needed to set up

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. First In, First Out (FIFO)
2. Highly mechanized
3. Just-In-Time (JIT)
4. Last In, First Out (UFO)

53. What do rational processes to recruitment and selection typically ignore?

1. The time it takes to get to work
2. The use of power and micropolitics by managers
3. Labour market demand
4. Wages

54. What are the ideas underpinning soft, e commitment, or high-road HRM practices?

1. A lack of mutuality existing between employer and employee
2. A disregard for unlocking discretionary effort
3. Labour needs to be treated as an asset to be invested in
4. Employees are a cost which should be minimized

55. What is the main reason employers give why employees are not fully proficient?

1. Lack of numeracy skills
2. Lack of literacy skills
3. Lack of experience
4. Over qualified

56. Which one of the following becomes a creative factor in production?

1. Consumers
2. Human Resources
3. Land
4. Capital

57. Identify the top most goal of human resource management?

1. Work force adaptability
2. Productivity
3. Legal compliance
4. Competitive edge

58. Which items below are forms of perceptual errors made during the selection process?

1. The interview setting
2. The time of day
3. Like-me judgements
4. A candidates time-keeping

59. Chases study (1997) identified what issue as being the biggest obstacle to creating aknowledgecreating company?

1. Failure of management
2. Inability to access learning material
3. Limited resources for training and development
4. Organisational culture

60. A companys ability to meet its short-term financial obligations is measured by which of the following categories?

1. Activity ratios
2. Leverage ratios
3. Liquidity ratios
4. Profitability ratios