HRM Mcqs - Set 1

1)   The meaning of the acronym HRM is ______________?

a. Human Relations Management
b. Humanistic Resource Management
c. Human Resource Management
d. Human Resourceful Management
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Human Resource Management

Explanation:
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2)   The term used before the language of modern HRM was ___________?

a. Labour Relations
b. Personnel Management
c. Industrial Management
d. All of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: All of the above

Explanation:
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3)   Which of the following is not a function normally performed by HR department?

a. Accounting
b. Recruitment and Selection
c. Pay and Reward
d. Employee Relations
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Accounting

Explanation:
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4)   Which of the following statements is false?

a. Organizations are now less hierarchical in nature
b. Organizations are now generally focusing upon domestic rather than international matters
c. Organizations have adopted more flexible norms
d. Organizations have been subject to a raft of organizational change programs
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Organizations are now generally focusing upon domestic rather than international matters

Explanation:
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5)   Human Resource Management is______________?

a. Employee oriented
b. Employer oriented
c. Legally oriented
d. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Employee oriented

Explanation:
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6)   Scope of the HRM includes ______________?

a. Retirement and separation of employees
b. HR training and development
c. Industrial relations
d. All of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: All of the above

Explanation:
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7)   Human Resource Management (HRM) is_________?

a. A Staff function
b. A line function
c. A staff function, line function and accounting function
d. All of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: A Staff function

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8)   The objectives of HRM are categorized as _____________?

a. Personal objectives
b. Functional objectives
c. Organisational and social objectives
d. All of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: All of the above

Explanation:
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9)   The scope of HRM does not include ____________?

a. Retirement of employees
b. Manpower planning
c. Training of employees
d. Maintenance of accounts
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Maintenance of accounts

Explanation:
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10)   The meaning of the acronym ‘SHRM’ is ____________?

a. Short-term Human Resource Management
b. Strategic Human Resource Management
c. Strategestic Human Resource Management
d. Strategic Humane Resource Management
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Strategic Human Resource Management

Explanation:
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11)   Recruitment is widely viewed as a ______________?

a. positive process
b. negative process
c. positive as well as negative process
d. none of the above processes
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: positive process

Explanation:
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12)   Recruitment policy usually highlights need for establishing ____________?

a. job specification
b. job analysis
c. job description
d. none of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: job specification

Explanation:
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13)   The process of developing the applicant’s pool for job openings in an organization is called___________?

a. Hiring
b. Recruitment
c. Selection
d. Retention
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Recruitment

Explanation:
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14)   A brief write-up of what the job is all about is ____________?

a. job finding
b. job summary
c. job analysis
d. job specification
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: job summary

Explanation:
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15)   A job specification is one of the areas of ___________?

a. job analysis
b. job design
c. job description
d. job summary
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: job analysis

Explanation:
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16)   The division of the total task to be performed into a manageable and efficient unit is____________?

a. a job design
b. a job specification
c. a job analysis
d. a job description
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: a job design

Explanation:
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17)   Which of the following is the area from which applicants can be recruited?

a. Employment Lines
b. Employees’ Association
c. Labour Market
d. Labour Schemes
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Labour Market

Explanation:
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18)   For forecasting the demand for manpower, the important techniques used are_____________?

a. Delphi Techniques
b. Statistical Techniques
c. Work Study Techniques
d. All of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: All of the above

Explanation:
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19)   Selection of the candidates is done out of______________?

a. Target population
b. internal sources
c. external sources
d. internal as well as external sources
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Target population

Explanation:
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20)   HRM is considered as____________?

a. a reactive function
b. a proactive function
c. an auxiliary function
d. an auxo-reactive function
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: a proactive function

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!