Recruitment Selection Set 1

QN1. Once is job analysis undertaken, the data reviewed is:

a) Job specification

b) Job description

c) Both a & b

d) None of the above

Answer

Answer: b) Job description

QN2. Data cannot be collected through:

a) Personal observation

b) Personal interviews

c) Written narratives

d) Haggling

Answer

Answer: d) Haggling

QN3. Who of the following is not the source of job information?

a) State

b) Job holders

c) Interview

d) Independent observers

Answer

Answer: a) State

QN4. Job analysis is not useful in:

a) Selection

b) Dismissal

c) Human resource planning

d) Maintaining good industrial relations

Answer

Answer: b) Dismissal

QN5. Job specification does not includes:

a) Mental requirements

b) Educational requirements

c) Behavioral requirements

d) Material requirements

Answer

Answer: d) Material requirements

QN6. Job description does not include:

a) Compensation to be paid

b) Hazards summary

c) Physical disability permitted

d) Job summary

Answer

Answer: b) Hazards summary

QN7. Which of the following statements regarding job description is not true?

a) It describes the contents of a job.

b) It tells us, how it is done and why?

c) It is a broad statement about the scope of a job

d) None of the above

Answer

Answer: b) It tells us, how it is done and why?

QN8. Which of the following is not a step in the process of job analysis?

a) Data collection

b) Filling job description

c) Selection of the best alternative

d) Getting find approval

Answer

Answer: c) Selection of the best alternative

QN9. Job analysis does not provide information regarding:

a) Job identification

b) Job relationship

c) Motivation

d) Required personal attributes

Answer

Answer: c) Motivation

QN10. Recruitment is

a) A negative concept

b) A positive concept

c) Concerned with the integration in the organization

d) Concerned with the performance appraisal

Answer

Answer: b) A positive concept

QN11. Which of the following is not a psychological test?

a) Achievement test

b) Interest test

c) Academic test

d) Rorscach Bolt Test

Answer

Answer: a) Achievement test

QN12. Which of the following is not an external source of human resource supply?

a) Advertising

b) Recommendation of the present employees

c) Leasing

d) Demotion

Answer

Answer: d) Demotion

QN13. Which of the following statements regarding internal sources of human resources supply is not true?

a) They reduce rate of labour turnover

b) They motivate the present employees to prepare themselves for higher posts

c) They create the problem of people coming in by one door of the organization while highly is talent leaves by another.

d) They do not avoid the disadvantages of inbreeding.

Answer

Answer: a) They reduce rate of labour turnover

QN14. Which of the following is not a method of recruitment?

a) Individual method

b) Direct method

c) Third party method

d) Indirect method

Answer

Answer: a) Individual method

QN15. Direct method of recruitment does not include:

a) Intermediates

b) Sending recruiters to conference & seminars

c) Recruiting at the gate of factory

d) Campus interviews

Answer

Answer: c) Recruiting at the gate of factory

QN16. Which of the following is not a third party of recruitment method.

a) Advertising through television

b) Public employment agency

c) Casual applicants

d) Leasing

Answer

Answer: c) Casual applicants

QN17. Selection is a:

a) Subjective concept

b) Negative concept

c) Positive concept

d) Static concept

Answer

Answer: b) Negative concept

QN18. Which of the following is not a step in the process of selection?

a) Screening of applications

b) Advertisement

c) Preliminary interview

d) Application Blank

Answer

Answer: d) Application Blank

QN19. Psychological tests are not useful in:

a) Recruitment

b) Placement

c) Training & Development

d) Vocational guidance

Answer

Answer: a) Recruitment

QN20. Which of the following is not a reliability method?

a) Test-Retest method

b) Upward tests method

c) Parallel tests method

d) Sub-divided test method

Answer

Answer: b) Upward tests method

QN21. Which of the following is not a correct term in the context of validity?

a) Predictive validity

b) Context validity

c) Synthetic validity

d) Constraint validity

Answer

Answer: d) Constraint validity

QN22. To which of the following areas, Schutz had not extended the FIRO-B’s interpersonal-relationship components?

a) Behavior

b) Self-concept

c) Job

d) Training and development

Answer

Answer: b) Self-concept

QN23. Which of the following is not one of five basic personality dimensions (5 factor model of personality which underlines all others)?

a) Extraversion

b) Agreeableness

c) Consciousness

d) Openness to experience

e) Straightforwardness

Answer

Answer: e) Straightforwardness

QN24. Which of the following is not a characteristic features of Type A personality?

a) Feel impatient with the rate at which most events take place.

b) Can cope with leisure time

c) Strive to think or do two arrange things simultaneously

d) Is obsessed with numbers

Answer

Answer: b) Can cope with leisure time

QN25. Where of the following is not a characteristic feature of Type B personality?

a) Can relax without guilt

b) Feel no need to display their achievement

c) Suffer from a sense of time urgency

d) Play for fun and relaxation.

Answer

Answer: c) Suffer from a sense of time urgency

QN26. Which of the following statements is correct in respect of performance appraisal?

a) Performance appraisal and potential appraisal are one and the same thing

b) Reference appraisal and potential appraisal are two different things

c) The objective of performance appraisal and potential appraisal are common

d) Performance appraisal necessarily leads to immediate rise in the output of the

Answer

Answer: b) Reference appraisal and potential appraisal are two different things

QN27. Performance appraisal is not done for the purpose of

a) Determining promotion

b) Reviewing the employees work related behavior

c) Determining the potentially of the employee

d) Doing the career planning

Answer

Answer: b) Reviewing the employees work related behavior

QN28. Graphic rating scale

a) Aims at combining the benefits of narrative critical incidents and quantified ratings by anchoring a quantified SCALE with specific narrative examples of good and poor performance

b) Is similar to grading on a curve; pre-determined percentage of ratees are placed in various performance categories.

c) Lists a number of traits and a range of performance for each. The employee is then related by identifying the score that best describes his level of performance for each trait.

d) Ranks employees by making a check of all possible pairs of the employees for each trait and indicating which is the better employee of the pair.

Answer

Answer: c) Lists a number of traits and a range of performance for each. The employee is then related by identifying the score that best describes his level of performance for each trait.

QN29. Which of the following is not performance appraisal method?

a) Forced distribution method

b) Factor comparison method

c) Point system

d) Check-list method

Answer

Answer: b) Factor comparison method

QN30. In the process of BARS, which of the following steps is not included?

a) Generating of critical incidents

b) Developing performance dimension

c) Scaling incidents

d) Re-allocating performance dimension

e) Developing final instrument

Answer

Answer: a) Generating of critical incidents

QN31. Which of the following is not a step in the process of MBO programme?

a) Setting the organizations goals

b) Setting the departmental goals

c) Defining the expected results

d) Comparing the compensation paid for work

e) Measuring the results

Answer

Answer: d) Comparing the compensation paid for work

QN32. Which of the following types of questions are not the types of questions commonly used in structured interviews?

a) Situational questions

b) Worker requirements questions

c) Job knowledge questions

d) Physique concerned questions

Answer

Answer: d) Physique concerned questions

QN33. Performance appraisal does not includes:

a) Identification of the work area

b) Measurement of the actual performance

c) Rewarding the performance

d) Managing the performance appraisal

Answer

Answer: a) Identification of the work area

QN34. On which of the following types of performance data, performance measurement systems are not classified?

a) Trait data

b) Socio-economic data

c) Outcome data

d) Behavioral data

Answer

Answer: b) Socio-economic data

QN35. Which of the following statements with regard to performance appraisal from employee perspective is not correct

a) Improvement in performance does not require assessment

b) Performance feedback is needed and desired

c) Fairness requires that differences in performance levels across worker be measured

d) Evaluation and recognition of performance levels can be instrumental in making the workers more productive

Answer

Answer: a) Improvement in performance does not require assessment

QN36. Which of the following is not a challenge to effective performance?

a) Rate error and bias

b) Organizations politics

c) Legal issues

d) Economic issues

Answer

Answer: d) Economic issues

QN37. Which of the following is not a form of range restriction?

a) Leniency errors

b) Central tendency errors

c) Flexi errors

d) Severity errors

Answer

Answer: d) Severity errors

QN38. In performance appraisal, feedback of whom of the following is less or not important?

a) Peers

b) Subordinates

c) Clients

d) Self

Answer

Answer: d) Self

QN39. Which of the following types of employees should be retained by an organization

a) Employees having a retributory or get-even attitude

b) Employees having loner tendencies

c) Employees having paranoid tendencies

d) Employees having tendency not to over react to criticism

Answer

Answer: d) Employees having tendency not to over react to criticism

QN40. Job analysis is the procedure through which you do not determine:

a) What the job entails?

b) What kind of people to hire for the job?

c) What are the duties of the job and the characteristics of the people who should be hired for the job?

d) What will be the required output?

Answer

Answer: d) What will be the required output?