Recruitment Selection Set 2

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

(a) Job Description

(b) Job enlargement

(c) Job enrichment

(d) Downsizing

Answer

Answer: (a) Job Description

QN2. Which is not true regarding job analysis?

(a) It is a process of data collection

(b) It is a procedure through which facts are gathered for each job

(c) Information about the job is systematically discovered & noted

(d) It is a process of data dissemination

Answer

Answer: (d) It is a process of data dissemination

QN3. Job description does not consist of :

(a) Job summary

(b) Job evaluation

(c) Hazards involved

(d) Pay

Answer

Answer: (d) Pay

QN4. Who of the following is not the source of job information in connection with job analysis?

(a) Job holders

(b) Independent observers

(c) Interviews

(d) Pay Commission

Answer

Answer: (d) Pay Commission

QN5. Which is not true?

(a) HR planning is helpful in detailing the numbers and kind of personnel required.

(b) It spells out the qualification, skills and expertise of personnel required in all organizations.

(c) It gives lead time for recruitment, selection, training and development of personnel.

(d) HR planning integrates the employees into the organization.

Answer

Answer: (c) It gives lead time for recruitment, selection, training and development of personnel.

QN6. Which of the following is not a stage of the process of HR planning?

(a) Identifying objectives

(b) Developing manpower

(c) Assessing Business Plan

(d) Manpower audit

Answer

Answer: (d) Manpower audit

QN7. Which of the following is not the quantitative method of forecasting HR demand?

(a) Moving Average

(b) Exponential smoothing

(c) Delphi Technique

(d) Trend projections

Answer

Answer: (c) Delphi Technique

QN8. Which of the following is not involved in work-load analysis?

(a) Demand analysis

(b) Establishing work standards

(c) Nature and composition of existing workforce

(d) Turnover rate of employees

Answer

Answer: (a) Demand analysis

QN9. Which of the following is not a quantitative method of forecasting HR demand?

(a) Nominal Group Technique

(b) Simulations

(d) Regression

(e) Probability Matrixes

Answer

Answer: (d) Regression

QN10. Requirement is not:

(a) The process of searching for prospective candidates and stimulating them to apply for job in the organization.

(b) Attracting lot of potential for the company

(c) A positive concept

(d) Selecting the best candidate

Answer

Answer: (b) Attracting lot of potential for the company

QN11. Which of the following is not a stage in the process of selection?

(a) Advertisement

(b) Initial contract

(c) Screening

(d) Physical Examination

Answer

Answer: (b) Initial contract

QN12. Which is not a Psuedo way of selecting applicant?

(a) Astrology

(b) Phrenology

(c) Graphology

(d) Ecology

Answer

Answer: (a) Astrology

QN13. Which of the following is not a psychometric test?

(a) TAT

(b) MAT

(C) MBTI

(d) FIRO-B

Answer

Answer: (b) MAT

QN14. Which of the following is not a psychological test?

(a) Intelligence Test

(b) Written Test

(c) Objective Test

(d) Situation Test

Answer

Answer: (b) Written Test

QN15. Which of the following statement with regard to scientific methods of selection is not true?

(a) Scientific methods of selection reduce cost of selection, training & development.

(b) Scientific methods of selection reduce the need of interviewing the candidates.

(c) Scientific methods of selection boosts the image of the organization in the

external environment.

(d) Scientific methods of selection reduce cost of counselling and coaching.

Answer

Answer: (b) Scientific methods of selection reduce the need of interviewing the candidates.

QN16. Which of the following information is not sought through the Application Blank?

(a) Identifying information

(b) Job contents

(c) Education

(d) Physical Characteristics

Answer

Answer: (d) Physical Characteristics

QN17. Psychological tests are not used in the field of :

(a) Placement of personnel

(b) Performance appraisal

(c) Testing an individual’s socialibility.

(d) Selection of personnel

Answer

Answer: (b) Performance appraisal

QN18. Which of the following is not an approach to staffing in International Human Resource Management?

(a) Ethnocentric approach

(b) Multi-specific approach

(c) Polycentric Approach

(d) Geocentric Approach

Answer

Answer: (b) Multi-specific approach

QN19. In the paired comparison technique of performance appraisal, which of the following formulae is applied?

(a) No. of comparison = (N-(N-1) )/131

(b) No. of comparison = (N -(N-1) )/1

(c) No. of comparison = (N-(N-1) )/2

(d) No. of comparison = (N (N-1) )/2

Answer

Answer: (d) No. of comparison = (N (N-1) )/2

QN20. Which of the following is not one of the modern methods of performance appraisal?

(a) 3600 Technique

(b) Human resource accounting

(c) Descriptive evaluation

(d) BARS

Answer

Answer: (c) Descriptive evaluation

QN21. Which of the following statements regarding MBO is not true?

(a) MBO has emerged as a reaction to the traditional management practices

(b) MBO has a special provision for mutual goal setting

(c) There is no special provision in MBO for appraising of progress by both the appraiser and the appraisee.

(d) MBO is based on behavioural value of fundamental trust in the goodness of human beings.

Answer

Answer: (c) There is no special provision in MBO for appraising of progress by both the appraiser and the appraisee.

QN22. Which of the following methods that have not contributed to the weakening the meaning of job as a well defined and clearly delineated set of responsibilities?

(a) Flatter Organizations

(b) Work Teams

(c) Boundary less organizations

(d) Vertical organizations

Answer

Answer: (b) Work Teams

QN23. Decision theory is typically pursued by researchers who identify themselves as:

(a) Statisticians

(b) Economists

(c) Politicians

(d) Monks

Answer

Answer: (a) Statisticians

QN24. Which of the following is not a type of Internet Job Board?

(a) Resume Blaster

(b) Professional Association

(c) Target Applicants

(d) Weighted Application Blanks

Answer

Answer: (d) Weighted Application Blanks

QN25. Which of the following is not an intangible requirement of a job?

(a) Initiative

(b) Self -confidence

(c) Physical Appearance

(d) Responsiveness

Answer

Answer: (c) Physical Appearance

QN26. Which of the following is not one of the five stages of competency-based interviews?

(a) Rapport Building

(b) Confirmation

(c) Core

(d) Defence

Answer

Answer: (d) Defence

QN27. What percentage of Competency-based questions usually constitute an interview (supplemented by other types of questions)?

(a) 40%

(b) 50%

(c) 70%

(d) 80%

Answer

Answer: (c) 70%

QN28. Which of the following statement is not correct?

(a) A decision theory is falsified as a descriptive theory if a decision problem can be found in which most human subjects perform in contradiction to the theory.

(b) A decision theory is moderately falsified as a descriptive theory if a decision problem can be found in which most human subjects perform in accordance with the theory.

(c) A decision theory is weakly falsified as a normative theory if a decision problem can be found in which an agent can perform in contradiction with the theory without being irrational.

(d) A decision theory is strictly falsified as a normative theory if a decision problem can be found in which an agent who performs in accordance with the theory cannot be a rational agent.

Answer

Answer: (c) A decision theory is weakly falsified as a normative theory if a decision problem can be found in which an agent can perform in contradiction with the theory without being irrational.

QN29. Which, according to Simon, is not one of the phases in decision making?

(a) Designing

(b) Weaving

(c) Intelligence

(d) Choice

Answer

Answer: (b) Weaving

QN30. In which area FIRO-B does not measure your inter personal needs?

(a) Inclusion

(b) Exclusion

(c) Affection

(d) Control

Answer

Answer: (b) Exclusion

QN31. Which of the following is not an alternative to recruitment?

(a) Overtime

(b) Outsourcing

(c) Inside Moonlighting

(d) Temporary employment

Answer

Answer: (c) Inside Moonlighting

QN32. Which of the following is not a Big Five that describe behavioural traits that may explain 75 per cent of an individual’s personality?

(a) External appearance

(b) Extroversion

(c) Emotional stability

(d) Conscientiousness

Answer

Answer: (b) Extroversion

QN33. Which of the following is not a type of validity (in the context of Selection Criteria)?

(a) Content

(b) Phenomenon related

(c) Criterion-related

(d) Construct

Answer

Answer: (b) Phenomenon related

QN34. Which of the following is not a type of interview?

(a) Situational interview

(b) Behavioural description interview

(c) Unstructured interview

(d) Diagonal interview

Answer

Answer: (d) Diagonal interview

QN35. Which of the following is not a Cognitive Ability Test?

(a) Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

(b) O’Connor and Tweezer Dexterity Test

(c) California Test of Mental Maturity (Adult Level)

(d) Wonderlic Personnel Test

Answer

Answer: (b) O’Connor and Tweezer Dexterity Test

QN36. Which of the following qualities of an individual’s personality is not measured by the Myers-Briggs Type indicator?

(a) Introversion/ Extroversion

(b) Sensing / Intuition

(c) Thinking / Feeling

(d) Arguing / Aggression

Answer

Answer: (d) Arguing / Aggression

QN37. Some studies have not found strong support for:

(a) External consistency

(b) Construct validity

(c) Test-retest reliability

(d) Internal consistency

Answer

Answer: (c) Test-retest reliability

QN38. Briggs and Myers recognized that each of the cognitive functions cannot operate in the external world of :

(a) Behaviour

(b) Action

(c) People

(d) Reward

Answer

Answer: (a) Behaviour

QN39. TAT is not intended to evaluate a person’s:

(a) Patterns of thought

(b) Attitudes

(c) Observational capacity

(d) Introversion

Answer

Answer: (c) Observational capacity

QN40. In the case of TAT, the subject is asked to tell the examiner a story about each card that does not include:

(a) Event shown in the picture

(b) What has led upto it

(c) Merits and demerits of the event

(d) Outcome of event

Answer

Answer: (c) Merits and demerits of the event