Match the following.
List-I (Types of Interview) List-II (Examples)
a. Patterned interview
1. Hard work on structuring
b. Non-directive interview
2. Subjective questions
c. Exit interview
3. Supervision knowledge
d. Board interview
4. Group pannel
A. a-1, b-3, c-4, d-2
B. a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4
C. a-1, b-2, c-4, d-3
D. a-4, b-1, c-2, d-3
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Which one of the following represents a state of a career development cycle?
A. Freedom and independence
B. Decline stage
C. Three time frames
D. Growth and development of employees
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Which of the following statement is true?
A. The code of discipline, requiring employers and workers to utilise the existing machinery for the settlement of disputes and avoiding direct action, was evolved at the Indian Labour conference in 1958
B. In the highest form of discipline, all are self-regulated and all are free
C. Industrial relations are as old as industry itself
D. All of the above
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In which city did the United Trade Union Committee meet again to form a new union under the name of United Trade Union Congress?
A. Calcutta
B. Bombay
C. Delhi
D. Coimbatore
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Which of the following statements are false?
A. HRM is a strategic, managernent function
B. HRM treats employee as a resource
C. HRM function is treated as only an auxiliary function
D. HRM is the management of talent pool
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Organisational elements of job design are concerned with
A. Cost Techniques
B. Organisational Efficiency
C. Firm
D. Cost Approach
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Rearrange the following steps involved in feedback system in proper order.
A. 3, 2, 1, 4
B. 3, 2, 4, 1
C. 1, 2, 3, 4
D. 3, 4, 2, 1
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Match the following.
List-I (Concepts) List-II (Terms)
a. An ongoing and formalised effort that focuses on developing enriched and more capable workers.
1. Direction phase
b. A career development activity in which managers make decision regarding the advancement potential of subordinates.
2. Career development
c. A career development activity that focuses on preparing people to fill executive positions.
3. Promotability forecast
d. Determining the type of career that employees want and the steps they must take to realise their career goals.
4. Succession planning
A. a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4
B. a-2, b-3, c-4, d-1
C. a-2, b-3, c-1, d-4
D. a-1, b-3, c-2, d-4
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Do HR activities have an effect on employee and managerial behaviour?
A. Yes, but these effects can be negative as well as positive
B. HR has limited impact on either employee behaviour or managerial
C. HR impacts on employee behaviour but not on managerial
D. No, it is managerial behaviour which impact on HR
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Successful career planning and development requires action from
A. the organisation, the employees immediate manager and the employee himself
B. the employee and his/her immediate manager
C. a variety of source both internal and external to the organisation
D. the employee with some assistance/guidance from his or her immediate manager
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As a result of recent studies in OD, number of views are now being developed, one of the most important concept on which the OD is constructed is that of
A. a normative value for culture and change
B. individual leadership
C. both A and B
D. none of the above
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A process that is used for identifying and developing internal people with the potential to fill key business leadership positions is called . . . . . . . .
A. succession planning
B. investment in hunan resource
C. highly talented personnel creation
D. none of the above
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Match the following.
List-I (Management Educationist) List-II (Books)
a. Bruce H. Johnson, Gegory Moorhead and Rick W. Girffin
1. The empirical dimensionality of the job characteristic inventory.
b. J.L. Piere and Randall
2. Task Design
c. Edward. E. Lawler
3. Job Attitudes and Employee Motivation
d. Freedrick Herzberg, Bernard Musner and Barbara Synderman
4. The Motivation to work
5. Job
A. a-2, b-1, c-3, d-4
B. a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4
C. a-3, b-1, c-4, d-2
D. a-5, b-1, c-4, d-3
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Assertion (A) Performance appraisal cannot be error free and unbiased.Reason (R) The appraisal methods are covertly influenced by human judgement, which may be vitiated by inter-personal discriminatory impulses.
A. (A) is true, but (R) is false
B. (A) is false, but (R) is true
C. (R) does not subscribe to the (A)
D. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) validate (A)
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Match the following.
List-I List-II
a. Telecommuting
1. Ways to manage stress
b. Compressed week
2. No work schedule
c. Employee counselling
3. Work from home
d. Flexitime
4. Lesser number of working hours
A. a-1, b-4, c-3, d-2
B. a-3, b-4, c-2, d-1
C. a-3, b-4, c-1, d-2
D. a-3, b-2, c-1, d-4
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In house development centres usually
A. combine class-room learning with, in-basket exercises
B. combine class-room training with behaviour modeling
C. combine behaviour modeling with in-basket exercises
D. none of the above
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Knowledge workers require which of the following?
A. Powerful graphics
B. Analytical tools
C. External databases
D. All of these
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. . . . . . . . is a medium through which both employees and the company mutually cooperate to achieve more production through high morale which after all is economic purpose of all business and industries.
A. Job
B. Human relations
C. Industrial relations
D. Executive Development Programme
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Assertion (A) With most of the allowances, etc linked to wages and the courts ruling 'no work no wage' principle, workers are not usually prepared to lose earnings due to strikes.Reason (R) It is usually difficult to go on a legal strike due to restrictions on strikes in the form of notice and prohibition during the pendency of conciliation, adjudication etc.
A. Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
B. Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
C. (A) is correct, but (R) is not correct
D. (R) is correct, but (A) is not correct
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Which article lays down that a directive principle of state policy that "That state shall endeavour to secure . . . . . . . . to all workers a living wages, conditions of work ensuring decent standard of life, full employment social and cultural opportunities."
A. Article 43
B. Article 70
C. Article 46
D. Article 23
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