hrm quiz 4

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QUIZ NO. 4

Marks: 10

1. A process that significantly affects organizational success by having managers and employees work together to set expectations, review results, and reward performance.
   1. Management by Objectives
   2. Performance Appraisal
   3. Performance Management
   4. Organizational Planning

2. ________________ is solely responsible for managing individual's career.
   1. Individual
   2. Team
   3. Organization
   4. HR Manager

3. The evaluator uses a list of behavioral descriptions and checks off those behaviors that apply to the employee. This method of appraisal is called
   1. Forced-Choice Appraisal
   2. Forced Distribution Appraisal
   3. Checklist Appraisal
   4. Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scales

4. Any compensation method that ties pay to the quantity or quality of work the person produces is called
   1. Gain-sharing Plan
   2. Incentive Plan
   3. Compensation Plan
   4. Pay for performance Plan

5. Employee evaluations are directly affected by a "supervisor's perceptions of who is believed to be in control of the employee's performance – the employer or the manager." This theory is known as
   1. Attribution Theory
   2. Stereotype
   3. Halo Effect
   4. None of above options

6. Which has an impact on job pricing and the ultimate determination of an individual's financial compensation?
   1. The Organization
   2. The Job
   3. The Employee
   4. All of the above options

7. Office environment that contain harmful airborne chemicals, asbestos, or indoor pollution is referred to
   1. Homicide
   2. Sick Building
   3. Green Environment
   4. Environment pollution

8. Benefits offered to employees reflect many of the trends existing in our
   1. Country
   2. Environment
   3. Organization
   4. Labor Force

9. Recognition, positive reinforcement and employees' empowerment can be used to avoid the
   1. Turnover
   2. Conflict
   3. Accident
   4. Frustration

10. Not giving a compliment for a job done very well can cause
    1. Punishment
    2. Extinction
    3. Negative Reinforcement
    4. De-motivation

hrm quiz 7

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1. Following are the basic principles or conditions that facilitate learning except

1. Participation
2. Relevance
3. Feedback
4. Education

2. Career Development is:

1. A formal approach taken by an organization to help its people acquire the skills and experiences needed to perform current and future jobs.
2. An employee's progresses vertically upward in the organization from one specific job to the next.
3. Both a vertical sequence of jobs and a series of horizontal opportunities.
4. Self-understanding for future jobs. Then, the person is in a position to establish realistic goals and determine how to achieve these goals.

3. ___________ can provide an opportunity for the employee to share in decision making, to learn by watching others, and to investigate specific organizational problems.

1. Lectures & Seminars
2. Assistant to Position
3. Committee Assignments
4. Simulations:

4. ______ is a career-path method recognizing that technical specialists can and should be allowed to continue to contribute their expertise to a company without having become managers.

1. Demotion
2. Lateral skill path
3. Dual-career path
4. None of the given options
   Training instruction for a small group, which employs such techniques as role-playing or simulation etc. and encounters give and take sessions and problem-solving techniques is called:
   1. Career counseling
   2. Workshop
   3. Development Plan
   4. On the job training

5. Barriers to career advancement include:

1. Lack of time
2. Rigid job specifications
3. Short-term focus
4. All of the given options

6. The basic skills possessed by the individual that are required to give certain performance are termed as:

1. Ability
2. Motivation
3. Experience
4. Performance

7. Using the __________ approach, managers evaluate organizational effectiveness.

1. External resource
2. Internal systems
3. Technical
4. Systems

8. A career stage in which one begins to search for work and finds a first job is:

1. Exploration period
2. Establishment period
3. Middle stage
4. None of the given options

9. Without proper feedback about an employee's effort and its effect on performance, we run the risk of decreasing his/ her _________.

1. Salary
2. Experience
3. Motivation
4. Performance appraisal

hrm quiz 10

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1. A system used to acquire, store, manipulate, analyze, retrieve, and distributed information related to the company's human resources is called a(n) _______________
   1. HRIS
   2. Progressive discipline system
   3. IRS
   4. Contingent workforce system

2. Which of these is a major dimension of HRM practices contributing to company competitiveness?
   1. Compensating human resources
   2. Acquiring and preparing human resources
   3. Managing the human resource environment
   4. All of the given options

3. HRM has primary responsibility for all of these implementation variables except:

1. Task design
2. People
3. Reward systems
4. Organization structure

4. Which of these is the process of getting detailed information about jobs?

1. Job design
2. Job description
3. Job analysis
4. Job skills

5. In which of these steps, the HR manager attempts to ascertain the supply of and demand for various types of human resources?

1. Forecasting
2. Program implementation
3. Evaluation
4. Goal setting

6. Which of these is defined as any practice or activity carried on by the organization with the primary purpose of identifying and attracting potential employees?

1. A leading indicator analysis
2. Recruitment
3. Personnel policies
4. Selection

7. Scientific management was one of the earliest and best-known statements of the _____________ approach.

1. Biological
2. Motivational
3. Perceptual-Motor
4. Mechanistic

8. Most HR functions spend very little time on:

1. Traditional activities
2. Transactional activities
3. Transformational activities
4. Day-to-day operational activities

9. Playing the role of ____________ requires designing and delivering efficient and effective HR systems, processes, and practices.

1. Administrative Agent
2. Change Agent
3. Strategic Partner
4. Employee Advocate

10. Which of these refers to the degree to which decision-making authority resides at the top of the organizational chart?

1. Job design
2. Decentralization
3. Unity of command
4. Centralization

hrm quiz11

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1. One reason for falling union membership in recent years is that __________
   1. Legislation protects workers in a way that was once only offered by the unions
   2. Unions have been seen as largely ineffectual
   3. Union membership is too expensive
   4. Manufacturers will not hire union members
   5. Union members earn less on average compared to non-union members

2. All of the following types of organizations are covered by the Occupational Safety and Health Act except __________
   1. Federal agencies
   2. Hospitals
   3. Schools
   4. Self-employed persons
   5. Manufacturing facilities

3. There is fairly strong evidence that traits can predict _________ more accurately than leadership effectiveness
   1. Leadership emergence
   2. Extraversion in leaders
   3. Leadership awareness
   4. Leadership competence
   5. The conscientiousness of leaders

4. Which one of the following is not implied in the definition of power?
   1. Influence
   2. Potential
   3. Dependency
   4. Actualization
   5. Capacity

5. The conflict-handling intention of accommodating is ________
   1. assertive and uncooperative
   2. assertive and cooperative
   3. unassertive and uncooperative
   4. unassertive and cooperative
   5. reflective and emotional

6. Which department enforces the standards set out in the Occupational Safety and Health Act?
   1. Department of Health Services
   2. Department of Labor
   3. Department of Defense
   4. Department of Financial Services
   5. Economic Development Department

7. Family issues, economic problems, and personality characteristics are examples of the __________ factor of potential stress
   1. Social
   2. Environmental
   3. Personnel
   4. Psychological
   5. Personal

8. The ___________ form of union security means that it is up to the workers whether or not they join the union and only those who join must pay dues.
   1. Closed shop
   2. Union shop
   3. Agency shop
   4. Open shop
   5. Maintenance of agreement

9. The dimension of assertiveness refers to situations ________
   1. in which one party attempts to satisfy his/her own concerns
   2. in which there is an expression of competition
   3. involving a major behavior change
   4. that lead to conflict
   5. in which one party behaves generously

10. Which of the following benefits could be awarded as workers' compensation?
    1. Cash benefit
    2. Medical services
    3. Time off with pay
    4. Time off without pay
    5. a and b