HRM-20

LIST OF ATTEMPTED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS


True/False
Question Successful HR departments will focus on motivational performance .
Correct Answer False
Your Answer False


True/False
Question Under point method, common factors to all the jobs are identified.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True


Match The Following
Question Correct Answer Your Answer

The monitoring stage The firm checks the new system against strategy. The firm checks the new system against strategy.

The clarification stage The firm identifies and confirms the overall business direction. The firm identifies and confirms the overall business direction.

The assessment stage The firm calculates the cost of investment on the human capital and the value placed by employees on this investment. The firm calculates the cost of investment on the human capital and the value placed by employees on this investment.

The design stage The firm plans the proposed changes into practice. The firm plans the proposed changes into practice.



True/False
Question The Asian Institute of Management have introduced a unique course called "Managerial Walkabout". The idea of the course came from Prof. M. Gibbons of Simon Fraser University, British Columbia.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True


Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question Which of the following statements defines Dr. Joseph Juran's philosophy on TQM -
Correct Answer 80% of all quality problems originate from poor management.
Your Answer 80% of all quality problems originate from poor management.


Select The Blank
Question ________ and retaintion of qualified employees is a common goal shared by many employers.
Correct Answer Recruitment
Your Answer Recruitment


Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question The traditional methods of performance appraisal lay emphasis on the ratings of individual's personality traits such as -
Correct Answer Initiative , Drive , Creativity
Your Answer Initiative , Drive , Creativity


True/False
Question The job falling under the same grade get different wage scale.
Correct Answer False
Your Answer False


Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question Name the appropriate method for forecasting demand which will be best suited to organisation:
Correct Answer Time frame , Resources available
Your Answer Time frame , Resources available , Stability


Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question What are the published literature of the company which help in assessing the strengths and weakness of HRD
Correct Answer Manual reports , Marked Handouts , Personal Manual
Your Answer Manual reports , Marked Handouts , Newspaper


Match The Following
Question Correct Answer Your Answer

Job analysis It is one of the job evaluation process which finds out relevant facts. It is one of the job evaluation process which finds out relevant facts.

Non-quantitative job evaluation category. Simple ranking and grading are palced under such category. Simple ranking and grading are palced under such category.

Quantitative job evaluation Point system and factor comparison methods are placed under such category. Point system and factor comparison methods are placed under such category.

The beneficiaries to business firms by job evaluation It enables Cos. to get data in local wage surveys to establish job classification. It enables Cos. to get data in local wage surveys to establish job classification.



Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question Mention the objectives of Job evaluation
Correct Answer To maintain complete descriptopn of each occupation in the entire plant , To promote accurate consideration of all employees for advancement and transfer , To promote information for work organisation, employees section etc.
Your Answer To maintain complete descriptopn of each occupation in the entire plant , To promote accurate consideration of all employees for advancement and transfer , To promote information for work organisation, employees section etc.


Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question What are the objectives of inspection?
Correct Answer Removing defects , Consumer satisfaction , Quality product
Your Answer Removing defects , Consumer satisfaction , Quality product


Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question Name the process of 360 degree appraisal which can be broken into three stages or levels -
Correct Answer Planning , Implementation , Result
Your Answer Planning , Implementation , Result


Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question At a certain stage the upword mobility stops for many employees.This phenomenon ideally takes place around the age of
Correct Answer 40
Your Answer 40


True/False
Question The main focus of attention today is the employee.
Correct Answer False
Your Answer True


Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question Through the BPR Programme an experience a sense of ownership in a company only if the organisation believes in :
Correct Answer Caring ( honest & open communication & mutual support) , Sharing (with teams having a common objectives) , Daring (encouraging enterpreneuial adaptation capabilities)
Your Answer Caring ( honest & open communication & mutual support) , Sharing (with teams having a common objectives) , Daring (encouraging enterpreneuial adaptation capabilities)


Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question What is an essential ingredient for a successful benchmarking programme?
Correct Answer Focus on critical success factors.
Your Answer To identify appropriate internal & external benchmarking.


Select The Blank
Question ________ means every employee is an active participant in goal attainment.
Correct Answer Employee involerment
Your Answer Employee involerment


Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question Name the technique used by the point system and factor comparison system to list the job.
Correct Answer Quantitative
Your Answer Quantitative


Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question What is the primary objective behind SSL?
Correct Answer To not only measure training supervisors by comparing their performance with that of several thousand supervisors in other Cos.
Your Answer To not only measure training supervisors by comparing their performance with that of several thousand supervisors in other Cos.


Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question Name the situation where a person takes the necessary steps at the right moment of time
Correct Answer Action
Your Answer Action


Select The Blank
Question Federation & union at all levels are managed on the lines of management of ________
Correct Answer A political body
Your Answer A political body


True/False
Question Majority of the disputes in industries are related to the problem of wages, salaries & benefits
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True


Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question Experience has shown HRD audit has tremendous impact on business in areas like:
Correct Answer strategic Planning , role clarity , Streamlining practices
Your Answer strategic Planning , role clarity , Streamlining practices


Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question At a certain stage the upword mobility stops for many employees. This is inescapable in view of pyramid organisation structure. This phenomenon is called :
Correct Answer Plateauing
Your Answer Plateauing


Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question Training programmes conducted by dividing the total group of participants into teams who are assigned to complete the task within a time limit are called -
Correct Answer SSL Technology , Grid Seminars
Your Answer SSL Technology , Grid Seminars


Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question The TQM philosophy was evolved or theorised by -
Correct Answer Demming
Your Answer Demming


Select The Blank
Question ________ is indicated by work effort and it should be continuous.
Correct Answer Commitment
Your Answer Commitment


Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question Leadership is difficult to define but easy to appreciate. Name some of the leadership qualities.
Correct Answer Personal Integrity , Technical ability , Motivator
Your Answer Personal Integrity , Technical ability , Motivator


Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question Why is it that management should take extra care while framing personnel policies, especially where an employees organisation does exist?
Correct Answer Federations are eveready to challenge management action, particularly with respect to promotions, transfers, seniority
Your Answer Federations are eveready to challenge management action, particularly with respect to promotions, transfers, seniority


Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question The concept of quality control as a distinct discipline emerged in the United States in the early -
Correct Answer 1920's
Your Answer 1920's


True/False
Question The process of 360 Degree appraisal is broken into two stages - planning, implementation.
Correct Answer False
Your Answer False


Select The Blank
Question In some cases, individual and group interviews are substituted by ________
Correct Answer LSIP
Your Answer LSIP


Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question During the pre-reform period what was the industrial growth during the 1950-60 period essentially
Correct Answer 7% to 9%
Your Answer 7% to 9%


Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question Besides rasing prices, consumers are also victmized by the producess & trades by way of
Correct Answer adulteration , poisoning , under weightage
Your Answer adulteration , poisoning , under weightage


True/False
Question Federation & unions at few levels are managed on the lines of management of a political body
Correct Answer False
Your Answer False


Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question The role of which manager must parallel the needs of his changing organisation.
Correct Answer HR
Your Answer HR


True/False
Question When individual job description and grade description do not match well, the evaluators classify the job using their subjective judgement.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True


Select The Blank
Question ________ is a difficult exercise, therefore it should be done with care.
Correct Answer Potential appraisal
Your Answer Performance appraisal


Select The Blank
Question Expenses incurred by a firm on recruitment , training & devlopment of employees are treated as ________
Correct Answer Current costs
Your Answer Current costs


True/False
Question Factor comparison system consists of selection of key jobs.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True


True/False
Question The degree to which an individual possess the innate quality of breath of mind is the most direct indication of the individual's ultimate potential.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True


Select The Blank
Question Business re-engineering often shift the power base, changing the 'command - and - control' approach to ________.
Correct Answer 'Mobilised -and - enable'
Your Answer 'Mobilised -and - enable'


Multiple Choice Single Answer
Question In the career development cycle, which stage ideally starts when a new emploee joins an organisation and finds a big gap between what the ideal organisation should be and what it is?
Correct Answer Exporatory stage
Your Answer Exporatory stage


True/False
Question In the orientation phase, all participants are to submit a list of appraisers by whom they would like to be assessed.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True


Select The Blank
Question A strategy based on superior service is very powerful as the ________ is high
Correct Answer value added
Your Answer value added