Dear Aspirants,
Q1. What is the term wherein the skill sets are listed in form of basic information on all the employees, like their education, experience, skills, age, sex, salary related data, job preference and special achievements?
(a) Job Specifications
(b) Job Inventory
(c) Job Analysis
(d) Job Description
(e) Job Enrichment
Answer. (b)
Q2. In relation to Quality circle, a statistical technique in decision-making used for the selection of a limited number of tasks that produce significant overall effect is-
(a) Exponential Smoothing
(b) Mean square weighted deviation
(c) Ishikawa cause and effect analysis
(d) Data Collection
(e) Pareto Analysis
Answer. (e)
Q3. In a scenario wherein there is an expectation of occurrence of surplus of employees, a logical step by an efficient Human Resource manager would be-
(a) Work present staff overtime
(b) Outsource an entire function
(c) Re-allocate people from elsewhere in the organisation
(d) Offer incentives for early retirement
(e) Re-engineer to reduce needs
Answer. (d)
Q4. Job enrichment implies increasing the contents of a job or the deliberate upgrading of responsibilty,scope and challenge in work. All of the following are a technique of job enrichment EXCEPT-
(a) give sufficient freedom to employees
(b) simply job by breaking down in fragments
(c) make the employee understand how tasks contribute to a finished product
(d) increase responsibility
(e) provide feedback to employees
Answer. (b)
Q5. Which of the following is a distinctive feature of Strategic Human Resource Management when compared to Traditional Human Resource Management?
(a) Focus on employee relations
(b) Ritualistic and reactive approach.
(c) Division of work specialisation and independent tasks constitutes job design.
(d) Permits employees to carry out job responsibilities in a free-flowing way
(e) Capital and products are critical resources
