Human Resource Management Objective Set 8

Q1. Division of Labour was invented in the 19th century

Yes

No

Answer

Answer: No

Q2. Modern business is uniquely complex

Yes

No

Answer

Answer: No

Q3. Tips on supervision are recorded in a 5,000-year-old document

Yes

No

Answer

Answer: Yes

Q4. Professional managers were introduced during the 19th century

Yes

No

Answer

Answer: Yes

Q5. Personnel Management dates from the 1890’s in the USA

Yes

No

Answer

Answer: Yes

Q6. Management education first appeared in Britain and the Commonwealth

Yes

No

Answer

Answer: No

Q7. Scientific Management was invented by Schmidt

Yes

No

Answer

Answer: No

Q8. Mass production was first used by Henry Ford

Yes

No

Answer

Answer: Yes

Q9. The ideas of F.W Taylor and Henry Ford have no influence on management today

Yes

No

Answer

Answer: No

Q10. ‘Therblig’ was a measure of work

Yes

No

Answer

Answer: Yes

Q11. Elton Mayo was responsible for the famous Hawthorne experiments

Yes

No

Answer

Answer: No

Q12. Basically, HRM is just Human Relations

Yes

No

Answer

Answer: No

Q13. HRM is one of a number of management fashions that have developed over the last few decades

Yes

No

Answer

Answer: Yes

Q14. HRM has a unitarist tradition in the USA

Yes

No

Answer

Answer: Yes

Q15. HRM has a unitarist tradition in Europe and Australasia

Yes

No

Answer

Answer: No

Q16. Traditional personnel managers had high status compared to managers in other business functions

Yes

No

Answer

Answer: No

Q17. The Japanese role model is a mixture of racial stereotyping, myth and reality

Yes

No

Answer

Answer: Yes

Q18. ‘Just-in-time’ and continuous improvement were developed in the USA

Yes

No

Answer

Answer: No

Q19. Introduction of HRM on the Harvard MBA had a significant impact on the subject

Yes

No

Answer

Answer: Yes

Q20. HRM has been portrayed as a proactive approach to people management

Yes

No

Answer

Answer: Yes

Q21. ______ 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.

a. Demotion

b. Lateral skill path

c. Dual-career path

d. None of the given options

Answer

Answer: c. Dual-career path

Q22. _____ can provide an opportunity for the employee to share in decision making, to learn by watching others, and to investigate specific organizational problems.

a. Lectures & Seminars

b. Assistant to Position

c. Committee Assignments

d. Simulations:

Answer

Answer: b. Assistant to Position

Q23. Which of these refers to the degree to which decision-making authority resides at the top of the organizational chart?

a. Job design

b. Decentralization

c. Unity of command

d. Centralization

Answer

Answer: d. Centralization

Q24. Playing the role of ______ requires designing and delivering efficient and effective HR systems, processes, and practices.

a. Administrative Agent

b. Change Agent

c. Strategic Partner

d. Employee Advocate

Answer

Answer: c. Strategic Partner

Q25. Most HR functions spend very little time on:

a. Traditional activities

b. Transactional activities

c. Transformational activities

d. Day-to-day operational activities

Answer

Answer: a. Traditional activities

Q26. Scientific management was one of the earliest and best-known statements of the _______ approach.

a. Biological

b. Motivational

c. Perceptual-Motor

d. Mechanistic

Answer

Answer: d. Mechanistic

Q27. 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?

a. A leading indicator analysis

b. Recruitment

c. Personnel policies

d. Selection

Answer

Answer: b. Recruitment

Q28. In which of these steps, the HR manager attempts to ascertain the supply of and demand for various types of human resources?

a. Forecasting

b. Program implementation

c. Evaluation

d. Goal setting

Answer

Answer: a. Forecasting

Q29. Which of these is the process of getting detailed information about jobs?

a. Job design

b. Job description

c. Job analysis

d. Job skills

Answer

Answer: c. Job analysis

Q30. HRM has primary responsibility for all of these implementation variables except:

a. Task design

b. People

c. Reward systems

d. Organization structure

Answer

Answer: d. Organization structure

Q31. Which of these is a major dimension of HRM practices contributing to company competitiveness?

a. Compensating human resources

b. Acquiring and preparing human resources

c. Managing the human resource environment

d. All of the given options

Answer

Answer: d. All of the given options

Q32. A system used to acquire, store, manipulate, analyze, retrieve, and distributed information related to the company’s human resources is called a(n) ___

a. HRIS

b. Progressive discipline system

c. IRS

d. Contingent workforce system

Answer

Answer: a. HRIS

Q33. Which one is not basic component of OB (Organizational Behavior) Model?

a. Organization

b. Group

c. Team

d. Individual

Answer

Answer: c. Team

Q34. Setting standards should be left to the employee rather than organization leads to self controlling because:

a. It follows the management by objective approach.

b. It increases the productivity of the worker

c. It increases the confidence of workers

d. Workers come up to the high standard since they have no pressure from his superiors.

Answer

Answer: d. Workers come up to the high standard since they have no pressure from his superiors.

Q35. Virtual teams can contribute to better coordination among the team members because:

a. Technology brings them together on a forum.

b. Team members meet physically with each other

c. Team members share views among themselves via communication links.

d. Team members have the real time environment for interaction.

Answer

Answer: a. Technology brings them together on a forum.

Q36. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts is known as:

a. Efficiency

b. Effectiveness

c. Productivity

d. Synergy

Answer

Answer: d. Synergy

Q37. Essential component of an organization is:

a. Team

b. Structure

c. Individual

d. None of the given options

Answer

Answer: b. Structure

Q38. Process of working with different resources to accomplish organizational goals is known as:

a. Strategic management

b. Human Resource management

c. Management

d. Team work

Answer

Answer: c. Management

Q39. Hawthorne studies depict the effects of work environment on:

a. Human Behavior

b. Human Performance

c. Human Satisfaction

d. All the given options

Answer

Answer: a. Human Behavior

Q40. Appraisal of a worker’s performance can be described as:

a. Planning Activity

b. Organizing Activity

c. Controlling Activity

d. Leading Activity

Answer

Answer: c. Controlling Activity