hrm online quizzer :)

• Employee and labor relations, compensation, and employee development are all responsibilities of which of Brown's Businesses departments?

  A. Production

  B. Human resources

  C. Marketing

  D. Accounting

  B
• Suzie is tasked with reviewing the human capital of Mr. Brown's business; what should she be looking for?

  A. The specific skills related to the job the employee is doing.

  B. The educational level of every employee.

  C. The amount of training each employee has obtained since their hire date.

  D. The sum total of a person's knowledge and skills that the company can use to further its goals.

  D
• Replacing apprentices and journeymen with large factories is a characteristic of which of the following?

  A. Scientific management

  B. The human relations movement

  C. The industrial revolution

  D. The craft system

  C
• Which of the following is an example of strategic human resource management?

  A. The organization determines its long term vision and goals.

  B. HR develops a plan to support the company's strategy to open an additional production facility.

  C. HR anticipates the need for hiring more employees as older employees approach retirement.

  D. The HR department provides informational packets detailing new benefits.

  B
• Melissa is the CEO of a marketing company. She has noticed there has been some issues within the company. She has decided for teams to help brainstorm ways to help solve issues in the company. Which of the following is the type of team discussed in this scenario?

  A. Management by design

  B. Group think

  C. Candidate assessment

  D. Quality work circles

  D
• Which of the following is an example of characteristics for job design?

  A. Accomplishments

  B. All answers are correct.

  C. Behavior

  D. Personality

  B
• Which of the following best describes the re-engineering of a company?

  A. A company decides to keep all of its employees and all of the departments the same.

  B. A company decides to flatten their organization by combining some departments and re-evaluating roles and responsibilities.

  C. A company expands and buys another company to help keep the same products.

  D. A company decides to introduces new incentives into the organization to help employee morale.

  B
• Rachel is the new CEO of a manufacturing company. She wants each worker to write information about exactly what they do for the company. Which of the following did Rachel have her employees write?

  A. A job evaluation.

  B. A position description

  C. A point-factor rating.

  D. A job analysis.

  B
• Race, religion and gender are all protected rights under:

  A. The 27th Amendment of 1992

  B. Civil Rights Act of 1964

  C. Emancipation Proclaimation of 1863

  D. The Bill of Rights of 1791

  B
• PTO (paid time off) and FMLA (family medical leave) fall under an employer's _____ policy.

  A. worker's comp

  B. family flexibility

  C. absence and vacation

  D. affirmative action

  C
• The _____ protects an employee who requests a workplace accommodation due to a physical limitation.

  A. Labor Relations Association

  B. Disability Reform Act

  C. Americans with Disabilities Act

  D. Physical Accomodations Act

  C
• _____ is an exception to the employment-at-will doctrine.

  A. Union organizing activity

  B. A contract stating 'at will'

  C. A contract with termination date

  D. A state's employment law

  C
• When management assesses each employee through a formal process this is known as a _____.

  A. Performance management

  B. Peer review

  C. Performance appraisal

  D. All answers are correct.

  C
• Rachel works in the Human Resource department of a sales company. She has been asked to revise the performance appraisal system as a part of a performance management effort. Which of the following would be an example of performance management?

  A. Firing employees because they are calling out sick.

  B. Coming up with new processes which should improve employee efficiency.

  C. Allowing employees to do what they want because of good performance.

  D. Training all of your employees

  B
• John, Mary, and Eric, all work for The Marketing Corporation. All of them received average ratings on their performance reviews, along with other employees. Which of the following performance appraisal challenge is occurring in The Marketing Corporation?

  A. Central tendency error

  B. Similar-to-me error

  C. Leniency error

  D. Contrast error

  A
• Tools a company uses to manage employees are: A. HR activities

  B. HR practices

  C. HR challenges

  D. HR department

  B
• __________ 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

  A
• Which of the following factors state the importance of the Human Resource Planning?

  A. Creating highly talented personnel

  B. International strategies

  C. Resistance to change and move

  D. All of the above

  D
• A process that is used for identifying and developing internal people with the potential to fill key business leadership positions in the company is called ______.

  A. Highly talented personnel creation

  B. Investing in human resources

  C. Succession planning

  D. None of the above

  C
• State true or false:

  Human Resource Planning facilitates international expansion strategies

  A. True

  B. False

  A
• 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

  D
• The process of recruiting, hiring, training, evaluating, compensating, and laying off people is called: A.Selection B.Recruitment C.Human Resource Management D.Human Resource Planning

  C
• Which of the following is a written summary of the minimum qualifications required of a worker to fill a specific job? A.Job Description B.Job Analysis C.Job Specification D.Job Design

  C
• All of the following are sources of internal recruiting except: A.Transfers B.Promotion C.Advertisement D.Retrained Employees

  C
• McDonald’s makes use of which social media platform to target its young and tech-savvy recruits? A.Snapchat B.Instagram C.Facebook D.Hike

  A
• The process of interchanging from one job to another without any change in the rank and responsibilities is known as? A.Promotions B.Recruiting Former Employees C.Transfers D.Job Posting

  C
• Which of the following is not a recruitment tool? A.Gamification B.Applicant Tracking System C.Internet Sourcing D.None of the Above

  D
• Several members of HMT left to join Titan Watches and several pilots of Indian airlines left to join private air taxi operators. Such a method to raid rival firms for potential candidates is known as? A.Pilfering B.Peculating C.Poaching D.None of the above

  C
• ( ) is a recruitment marketing strategy where you proactively and continually attract candidates to make them choose you as their next employer. A.Outbound Recruiting B.Employer Branding C.Pooling of Talent D.Inbound Recruiting

  D
• Which among the following is a tool used by organizations to manage the referral process (Semi-automatic referrals)?

  A.Firstbird

  B.Soosr

  C.Happy2Refer

  D.All of the above

  D
• Which tests are designed to ensure the accuracy of the information given in the applications? A.Graphology B.Interest C.Grammatology D.Polygraph

  D
• Rearrange the following steps of Recruitment. I. Searching II. Evaluation and control III. Planning IV. Screening V. Strategy development A.III, II, I, V, IV B.III, V, I, IV, II C.IV, V, III, I, II D.II, I, IV, V, III

  B
• Internal recruitment method in which employers notify job openings to employees is classified as? A.Job Affirmation B.Job Analysis

  C.Job Posting D.Job Margin

  C
• Process of identifying, assessing, and developing leadership is called A.Employment Planning B.Human Resource Planning C.Succession planning D.All of the above

  C
• Which of the following is a constraint in recruitment? A.Image of the Company B.Recruitment cost C.Internal Organization Policy D.All of the above

  B
• A job __________ is a summary of the objectives of the job, the type of work to be done, the responsibilities and duties, the working conditions, and the relationships of the job to other functions. A.Specification B.Analysis C.Description D.Design

  C
• We use the STAR technique in the interview process. STAR stands for? A.Situation Task Action Result B.Situation Technique Action Response C.Story Task Action Result D.None of the above

  A
• Which of the following steps is the most critical? A.Physical Examination B.Selection Decision C.Reference and background checks D.Employment Reviews

  B
• _______ occurs when an interviewer judges an applicant's entire potential for job performance on the basis of a single trait, such as how the applicant dresses or talks. A.Stress producing B.Halo effect C.Unstructured D.None of the above

  B
• Some organizations that want to focus on their core functions, including small businesses that lack time or HR personnel, sometimes use outside firms for their recruiting functions. What is this process called?

  a. delegation of recruiting

  b. core function planning

  c. recruitment channelling

  d. recruiting process outsourcing

  D