Aspects of staffing - class-XII

A comprehensive quiz covering various aspects of Human Resource Management including HR functions, personnel management, strategic HRM, job specifications, HR planning, employee relations, and organizational human resource concepts for Class XII students.

24 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

HRM is concerned with?

  1. Workers
  2. Managers
  3. Field staff
  4. All employees
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which one of the following responsibilities are specifically associated with the HR function of employee relations?

  1. Conducting attitude surveys
  2. Work analysis
  3. HR information systems
  4. Job design
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

HR Managers are generally

  1. Staff Managers
  2. Line Manager
  3. Operational Manager
  4. Top Executive
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

  1. price
  2. product
  3. people
  4. process
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A job specification is defined as ______________.

  1. scientific vocational selection
  2. catalogue of various qualities which a person doing a job should possess
  3. the right type of men should be put on different positions in a concern
  4. none of the above
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

HR Department maintains ________ records.

  1. Employee
  2. Sales
  3. Production
  4. Inventory
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Why might there be some difficulty in identifying and applying the best-practice approach to HRM in organizations?

  1. Because the best-practice approach tends to be resource-intensive
  2. Because there are many variations in the literature and empirical research as to what constitutes best-practice
  3. Because the best-practice approach would not fit the cost-reduction driven strategies favoured by many short term economies.
  4. Because the best-practice approach does not emphasize the individual business context.
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Out of these which is not a function normally performed by the HR department? 

  1. Recruitment and selection
  2. Pay and reward
  3. Accounting
  4. Employee relations
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The human resources in an organization are best described as the ones who ______.

  1. justify their pay and benefits
  2. design and deliver products and services to customers
  3. are hard to quantify in terms of costs and benefits
  4. usually regarded as expenses by financial managers
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The human resource approach to people management utilized a number of principles that differentiated it from other approaches. Which principles are considered the basis for the human resource approach?

  1. Employees are investments that if effectively managed and developed can provide long term rewards to a company.
  2. Policies, programmes and practices must be created that satisfy both the economic and emotional needs of employees
  3. A working environment must be created that encourages employees to develop and utilize their skills
  4. All of the above
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Personnel department is concerned with _________.

  1. manpower planning
  2. development of the organization
  3. training of employees
  4. both a & c
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The demerits of HRM are __________.

  1. process due to surplus
  2. process being time consuming
  3. percussive function
  4. both a & b
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

HRM is concerned with ___________.

  1. people at work
  2. interpersonal relations within enterprise
  3. safety need of indviduals
  4. all of the above
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Human Resource Management is that part of management which is concerned with__________ and their relationship with an enterprise.

  1. board directors
  2. society at large
  3. regulators
  4. the employees.
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Personnel Management is the recruitment; selection; development; utilisation; compensation; motivation of human resource by the organisation " this definition is given by ________.

  1. Peter F Drucker
  2. French Wendell
  3. Edwin B. Flippo
  4. Dirks
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Human Resource planning is compulsory for _________.

  1. effective employee development programme
  2. base for recruitment
  3. base for selection policy
  4. all of these
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Human resource departments are ________.

  1. line departments
  2. authority department
  3. service department
  4. functional department
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Quality-oriented organisation primary concern centers around __________.

  1. coordination
  2. communication
  3. human resources
  4. discipline
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Human Resource Management function does not involve ___________.

  1. recruitment
  2. placement
  3. cost control
  4. deployment
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Match List-I (Early Model of Motivation) with List-II (Person) and select the answer using the code.

List-I (Early Model of Motivation) List-II (Person)
A. Traditional Model 1. Douglas McGregor
B. Human Relations 2. Frederick Taylor
C. Human Resource Model 3. Elton Mayo
  1. A-1, B-2, C-3
  2. A-2, B-3, C-1
  3. A-1, B-3, C-2
  4. A-2, B-1, C-3
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Quality goals require alignment with ____________.

  1. production
  2. human resources
  3. finance
  4. purchase
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Process of forecasting, developing and controlling human resource in an ante known as ____________.

  1. HR Audit
  2. Budgeting
  3. HR Evaluation
  4. HR Planning
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Scope of ethics in business is no which area (s)___________.

  1. Compliance
  2. Finance & HR
  3. Marketing and production
  4. All of the above
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is included in formulating HR's basic challenges in formulating strategies?

  1. Need to support corporate productivity and performance improvement efforts.
  2. Employees do not play any role in performance improvement efforts.
  3. Not being involved in designing the company's strategic plan.
  4. Management agendas.