HR Questionnaire
HR Questionnaire
1. Does your company have a traditional structure in its HR dept. with the dpt. being led by
one head and separate specizing units each with its own leader?
2. Does your company have a contemporary structure in place that has the HR unit focus
on people and strategy? Does HR serve the role of a business partner? If not, how is the
HR dept. structured and how would you best describe it?
Job Analysis
1. Does the company follow a specific preset of techniques for job analysis or the company
had to build techniques based on the specific needs of the jobs at the company?
2. What are the steps in the job analysis process used by your company?
3. Are qualitative methods or quantitative used most in analyzing jobs? What exactly are
these tools?
4. How are the performance standards set?
5. Does your company use judgement or statistical analysis to determine job
specifications?
6. How much importance is placed on job specifications?
Selection
1. What sort of tests are administered on the applicants? (Cognitive, Motor and Physical
abilities, Personality and interests, Achievement, Work sampling, Situational judgement
tests, Management assessment centres, Video-based simulation)
2. What tests are most important for entry level managerial positions?
3. How is the reliability and validity of the tests measured and ensured before administering
them on the applicants?
4. Do the tests take into account minority issues so that they are fair to all applicants? State
an example.
5. If there is any incident of negligent hiring, how does the company deal with it?
6. Does the company look for any unique characteristic(s) while selection? If yes, why?
How does that help the company at its tasks?
Appraisal
1. Are ranking methods or absolute standard methods used the most? What are these
methods?
2. How do you provide feedback and mitigate the deficiencies while reinforcing strengths?
3. Are peer appraisals, rating committees, self-rating, subordinate appraisal and
360-degree appraisal methods used or is appraisal by immediate supervisor enough?
Compensation
1. What sorts of policies does your company have with regards to compensation? For
example- do you pay for performance or for seniority? What is your policy for paid and
unpaid leave etc.
2. In determining pay rates, how much do you take into account competitor strategies?
3. How do you ensure external equity and internal equity? Do your use surveys or some
other tool to analyze the industry pay rates?
4. How do you ensure procedural equity?
5. If due to any negligence in your pay plan someone is overcompensated, how do you
correct that?
6. How are the jobs evaluated for pay purposes?
7. Are there any retirement benefits? (pension plan)