Influences of external environment having direct/indirect influence on HRM includes which among the following?
A. Labour market conditions
B. HR culture
C. HR climate
D. Decreasing workforce diversity
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Which of the following is not consistent with employee engagement?
A. Emotional connection to work
B. Being committed to the job
C. A willingness to go above and beyond the call of duty
D. Taking sick days
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Which of the following statements indicates a good disciplinary system?
A. An employee must be reprimanded in public
B. An employee must not be reprimanded at all
C. An employee must be reprimanded in private
D. None of the above
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Manpower planning is compulsory for
A. reduction is industrial unrest through correct planning
B. to make the employee development plans eitective
C. to provide a solid base for recruitment
D. all of the above
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Which of the following is the key objective of job analysis?
A. What it takes to do a job
B. What an individual brings to the job
C. What the gaps (learning and development needs)
D. All of the above
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. . . . . . . . is a systematic procedure for collecting, storing, maintaining, retrieving and validating data needed by an organisation about its human resources.
A. Data collection
B. Human resource information system
C. Management information system
D. Maintenance of records
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Match the following selection errors
(List l) with their descriptions
(List II) .
List-I
List-II
a. True negative
1. Selection score is high, performance score is low
b. True positive
2. Both selection and performance scores are low
c. False negative
3. Selection score is low, performance score is high
d. False positive
4. Both selection and performance scores are high
A. a-2, b-3, c-4, d-1
B. a-2, b-4, c-3, d-1
C. a-4, b-1, c-2, d-3
D. a-3, b-2, c-4, d-1
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Which of the following is not a typically used procedure to reduce the total number of employees?
A. Layoff
B. Terminations
C. Downsizing
D. Early retirement inducements
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Which of the following is the key objective of performance management?
A. Goal oriented
B. Performance oriented
C. Sales oriented
D. None of the above
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A distinction can be made between hard and soft types of HRM. Soft HRM can be characterised by
A. seeing people as organisational asset
B. a quantitative approach to HRM
C. a mutual commitment of employees and employers to the goals of organisation
D. being driven by costs
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Which of the following is/are not gain sharing plan(s)?
1. Scanlon Plan
2. Rucker Plan
3. Employee Stock Option Plan
4. Improshare Plan
Select the correct answer:
A. Only 3
B. Only 4
C. Both 3 and 4
D. 2, 3 and 4
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Match the following.
List-I (Management Educationist)
List-II (Books)
a. William P. Anthony
1. The Human Resource Information System
b. Richond W. Woodman and John J. Sherwood
2. A comprehensive look at Job Design
c. Jean Jones and Thomas A. De
3. Job Analysis - National Survey Finding
d. Herbert G. Zollitsh and Adolph
4. Wages and Salary administration
A. a-1, b-2, c-4, d-3
B. a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4
C. a-3, b-1, c-2, d-4
D. a-4, b-2, c-1, d-3
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. . . . . . . . is the process of forecasting an organisations future demand for and supply of the right type of people in the right number.
A. Human resource planning
B. Recruitments
C. Human resource management
D. Human capital management
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Which of the following option is not the factor that hinders with the human resource planning process?
A. Type and quality of forecasting information
B. Time horizons
C. Environmental uncertainties
D. Unite the perspectives of line and staff managers
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In a recent survey, what was the top attraction for employees to jobs and organisations?
A. Holiday entitlement
B. Workplace culture
C. Location of work
D. Flexible working hours
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Wage and Salary Administration consists
A. Representative Role
B. Rate Determination
C. Creation of Post
D. All of the above
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Job specification consists of
A. physical efforts
B. emotional characteristics
C. judgement
D. all of these
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Match of the following.
List-I (Contents of Job Satisfaction)
List-II (Elements)
a. Physical features
1. Power
b. Psychological traits
2. Decision power
c. Responsibilities
3. Comparison
d. Personal characteristics
4. Ability
A. a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4
B. a-4, b-2, c-1, d-3
C. a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1
D. a-1, b-3, c-2, d-4
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An organisation that provides autonomy to its business units operating in other countries is called
A. Global corporation
B. International corporation
C. Multinational corporation
D. Transnational corporation
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Which of the following is not a basic feature of Scanlon Plan?
A. Philosophy of competition
B. Identity
C. Competence
D. Involvement system
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