MB 505 MCQ ON PEOPLE MANAGEMENT

1. Human Resource Management is the process of

A. Recruitment and selection
B. Analyzing the skills
C. Workforce utilization
D. None of the Above

2. Management in HRM refers to

A. Labour unions
B. Proper and maximum utilization of resources
C. Top management
D. Operations management

3. The core purpose of HRM is

A. Select the right person for the task
B. satisfaction of employee’s
C. safety of employees
D. Make efficient purpose of existing HR

4. You must treat your employees with respect and dignity – Quoted by
A. Dhirubai Ambani
B. Bill Gates
C. Warron Buffet
D. Narayana Moorthy

5. The resources by themselves

A. Have to be collected
B. Must be coordinated
C. Need to be organized
D. All the above

6. HRM is an
A. Department function
B. Individual function
C. Organization function
D. Environmental function

7. HRM includes
A. Planning personnel needs
B. Providing benefits and incentives
C. Appraising performance
D. All the above

8. The historical rule of the HRM is

A. One HR person for 100 employees
B. One HR person for 50 employees
C. One HR person for 25 employees
D. One HR person for 10 employees

9. OPM means
A. Office of personnel management
B. Office of performance management
C. Opinion of person in management
D. None of the above

10. The role of HR director is

A. solving the disputes
B. Extension of plan
C. Administration
D. Training and development
ANSWER: C
11. “Man of all the resources available to man, can grow and develop” quoted by
A. Peter Morrison
B. Peter.F. Drucker
C. Adam smith
D. Karl Marx
ANSWER: B
12. The prespective for the need of HR is
A. Select the legal employee
B. promote the skill employee
C. Distinguishing the features of employees
D. The right person for the right job
ANSWER: D

13. HRM is
A. Inter – related
B. Inter dependent
C. Interacting
D. All the above
ANSWER: D

14. The skill and talents of HR

A. Need an opportunity
B. Obtained by the management
C. Exemplified
D. Represented
ANSWER: C

15. HR management on procurement, development and cooperation targets

A. To accomplish social objectives
B. To obtain organizational objectives
C. Both A and B
D. Neither A nor B
ANSWER: C

16. HRM is concerned with the ——————- discussion in management

A. company
B. people
C. industry
D. society
ANSWER: B
17. HRM can be understood as a process of
A. Processing
B. Developing
C. Maintaining competent HR
D. All the above
ANSWER: C

18. HRM is an art of

A. Preparation of a task
B. coordinating middle management
C. Helping top management
D. Managing people
ANSWER: D

19. What should be the basic positive attitude among workers?

A. Do not join in labour unions
B. Reducing wastage and maximum use of resources
C. Educate others
D. Effective communication
ANSWER: B

20. HR policy makes employees

A. Train for future positions
B. A better person/workers
C. A knowledgeable person
D. All the above
ANSWER: A

21. Healthy HRM practices can help the organization

A. To reduce the disputes/ conflicts
B. To increase the promotional opportunities
C. To realize the employees
D. To maintain cordinal relationship unions
ANSWER: D

22. ——————practices teach individuals team work and adjustment

A. Personnel management
B. Effective Human Resource
C. Employee welfare
D. Healthy,safety and welfare
ANSWER: B

23. Employee training requires to meet

A. Job requirement
B. Job enhancement
C. Job Analysis
D. Job Enrichment
ANSWER: A

24. _____________ can be promoted for the future for the top level job
A. Potential employees
B. Legal employees
C. Skilled employees
D. Trained employees
ANSWER: A

25. When industrial development increased by HR, it also stimulates

A. Organizational modifications
B. Economy
C. Technology
D. Socio cultural change
ANSWER: B

26. HR also focuses on

A. Physical and emotional capital
B. The confidant of employees
C. Communication styles of the workers
D. Attitude of the worker
ANSWER: D

27. What is Harmonious relationship at workplace

A. Friendly in nature
B. Pleasing and consistent
C. cordial and available
D. All the above
ANSWER: D

28. Working condition activities refers with

A. Decision making of top management
B. Policy and procedure of a firm
C. Health, safety, welfare services
D. culture of the organization
ANSWER: C

29. Employee welfare is about

A. Determining employees real needs
B. Giving challengable work
C. Showing the path by right leadership
D. Salary benefits
ANSWER: A

30. ___________ is the art and science

A. Labour legislation
B. Union management relationship
C. Allotment of right job to right one
D. All of the above
ANSWER: B
31. The objective of the HRM span right from the
A. Manpower needs
B. Organizational needs
C. Social needs
D. Industry welfare
ANSWER: A

32. HRM is all about developing and managing

A. Knowledge
B. SKills
C. Creativity
D. All the above
ANSWER: D

33. Social objective of an organization

A. Minimize the profit
B. Minimize the negative impact
C. Maximize the No of employees
D. Minimize the risk
ANSWER: B
34. The exist of HRM department is to serve
A. Not to the labour unions
B. The labour unions
C. The rest of the organization
D. Only the department
ANSWER: C

35. HRM assists employees

A. To achieve the organizational goals
B. To achieve departmental goals
C. To accomplish organizational goals
D. To achieve personal goal
ANSWER: D
36. _________ cannot perform their job in vaccum
A. The top level executives
B. Middle level Managers
C. The personnel managers
D. Operation level people
ANSWER: C

37. The primary importance of HRM as for environmental influence

A. Economic conditions
B. Labour workers
C. Laws and regulations
D. All the above
ANSWER: D

38. _________separately of in continuation can influence the HRM function of any

organization
A. Personal factors
B. External factors
C. Internal factors
D. None of the above
ANSWER: B

39. Changes in the ___________ have profound impact on the personnel

A. external environment
B. Internal environment
C. Human factors
D. None of the above
ANSWER: A

40. Rapid _______________ stimulates the innovation

A. Technological changes
B. Economic changes
C. Political modifications
D. All of the above
ANSWER: A

41. _________________ are necessary to match the changing job requirements

A. Finance experts
B. Marketing experts
C. Technical skill personal
D. Legal experts
ANSWER: C

42. ____________ influence the financial wealth of the organization

A. Technological conditions
B. Social conditions
C. Political conditions
D. Economical conditions
ANSWER: D

43. __________________have strength to match the growth of industrialization

A. Govt organization
B. employees organization
C. Private organization
D. All the above
ANSWER: B

44. ______________ seek to organize with __________________ over the terms and
conditions of
employment for their members
A. Labour unions, Management
B. Employer, employee
C. Supervisor, subordinate
D. Leader, follower
ANSWER: A
45. Labour market deals with
A. Job enrichment
B. Job enlargement
C. Demand and supply of labour
D. Promotions and transfer
ANSWER: C

46. Organization undergoes changes consequent with

A. Alternation in the organizational management
B. Changes in demand of employees
C. Changes in the labour market
D. Modification in the job
ANSWER: B

47. __________ will help to cope up with the changes

A. confidence and motivations
B. communication styles
C. Attitude and aptitude
D. New skill and knowledge
ANSWER: C

48. _________ of Human Resource in the country influence the HRM function of any
organization
A. Structure
B. Values
C. Education
D. All the above
ANSWER: D

49. ____ is the major strategy of our country’s HR focused to face the foreign organization
A. Challenge the competition
B. Focus on product
C. Recruitment of employees from other countries
D. None of the above
ANSWER: A

50. The candidates are having good education and communication skills are getting more
chance
A. For the promotion and increment
B. For the Job market
C. For the organization
D. For the labour market
ANSWER: B

51. __________ practices will help to overcome the HR promotions

A. Employment
B. Economic
C. Innovative
D. Cultural changes
ANSWER: C

52. _____ is the big problem for every organization

A. recruiting and selecting
B. Attracting and retaining
C. Performance appraisal
D. Promotion and transfer
ANSWER: B

53. The company’s _____________ process ensures that it get’s people edge it needs
A. Recruitment
B. Motivation
C. Training
D. Development
ANSWER: A

54. Sending employees for higher studies

A. Process of appraisal
B. Process of selection
C. Motivation
D. Learning and development
ANSWER: D

55. No attendance monitoring is pertinent to

A. career appraisal
B. Performance appraisal
C. Compensation and benefits
D. selection of the employee
ANSWER: C

56. Leadership and development consists of

A. Flexi and part time workers
B. Employee empowerment
C. Feedback system
D. None of the above
ANSWER: B

57. The name of the facilitator in the HR department

A. People’s champion
B. Supervisor
C. Chief executive
D. Leader
ANSWER: A

58. _________ deals with orientation along with parents

A. Campus recruitment
B. Walk in interview
C. Employees training
D. All the above
ANSWER: A
59. What is the designation of the manager who energize the workplace with focus
A. Employee energized executive
B. Employee engagement manager
C. Chief executive officer
D. HR trainer
ANSWER: B

60. ___________ ensures talented employees retained by reassigning them to other groups
A. Employees Enrolment review committee
B. Association of job secured for employees
C. Work allotment committee
D. People movement management review committee
ANSWER: D

61. HRM policy is

A. Place of action
B. A decision making
C. Is a mission
D. All the above
ANSWER: A

62. HRM policies lies in

A. An organization value
B. Philosophy
C. Concepts and principles
D. All the above
ANSWER: D

63. ______ is a well Thought-out course of action

A. strategy
B. procedure
C. mission
D. Budgetary programme
ANSWER: B
64. The basic purpose of a procedure is
A. To identify the work
B. To understand the task
C. To spell out clearly the way
D. To execute the work
ANSWER: C

65. Human resource policies are

A. Mitigate the company’s risk of liability
B. Increase the benefit
C. Reduce the labour turnover
D. None of the above
ANSWER: A

66. What are all the three basic compensation strategies?

A. Retain, educate and motivate the employee
B. Complaisance, relationship, understand the unions
C. Secure, Satisfy and mitigate the jobs for employees
D. Market leader, competitive with market and below market
ANSWER: D

67. An organization structure which is composed of

A. Top management and middle management
B. Middle and operation
C. Line and staff people
D. None of them
ANSWER: C

68. The clearer the line of authority will be the clearer

A. The organizational function
B. The responsibility for decision making
C. Strategic action for future
D. None of the above
ANSWER: B

69. In line authority the superior exercises

A. Direct supervision
B. Informal relationship
C. Formal relationship
D. Dictatorship
ANSWER: A

70. What is the benefit of staff?

A. Handling complex managerial functions
B. Assisting in decision making
C. Reliving an over burden of top executives
D. All the above
ANSWER: D

71. _________ is responsible to run the organization according to a strategic plan

A. Staff authority
B. Organizational Hierarchy
C. Line authority
D. Organizational policy
ANSWER: C

72. HRD will develop the

A. Executive development
B. Strategic development
C. Planning and decision making
D. Organizational and personal skills
ANSWER: D

73. HRD deals with functions such as

A. career development
B. Performance development
C. Mentoring and coaching
D. All the above
ANSWER: D
74. Personnel management is mainly
A. Reactive
B. Proactive
C. Negative
D. Condition
ANSWER: A

75. __________emphasizes the strict observance of defined rules

A. preaction management
B. Human Resources Management
C. Production management
D. Personnel management
ANSWER: D

76. The personnel management employees get ______________ based on job evaluations
A. Promotion
B. Transfer
C. Uniform rewards
D. Incentives
ANSWER: C

77. ____________ is all about the way of individual behaviours

A. Rewards & awards
B. Motivation
C. Wages & salaries
D. Labour unions
ANSWER: B

78. Intrinsic factors are

A. Driven to excel and fear of failure
B. Money and valuation time
C. Maturity leave
D. None of the above
ANSWER: A
79. Example of instinct theory of motivation
A. Satisfaction test
B. Seasonal migration
C. Survivality test
D. All the above
ANSWER: B

80. The important role in incentive theory is

A. Behaviour patterns
B. Fear of failure
C. Design to be acknowledged
D. Monetary reward
ANSWER: D

81. _________ theories of motivation are based on the cognitive reasons

A. Humanistic theory
B. Arousal theory
C. Expectancy theory
D. Incentive theory
ANSWER: A

82. Love and Belongingness needs relate to the

A. Achivement
B. Independence
C. Friendship and family
D. Status
ANSWER: C

83. _________ impel a person to make creative or productive effects

A. Existence needs
B. Self actualization
C. Relationship
D. None of the above
ANSWER: B
84. According to McCelland achievement theory, achievers avoid _____________
A. Easily accomplished goals
B. Challenges of the firm
C. Individual performance
D. Low and High risk situation
ANSWER: D

85. TAT means

A. Thematic Apperception Test
B. Teaching and training
C. Technical aptitude test
D. None of the above
ANSWER: A

86. Which one of the following is dissatisfaction factor

A. Advancement
B. Growth
C. Work conditions
D. Responsibility
ANSWER: C

87. valence refers to

A. emotoional orientation
B. Physical orientation
C. Biological orientationa
D. All the above
ANSWER: A

88. ________ means the desires of employees are fulfilled

A. company ploicy
B. valence
C. Expectancy
D. instrumentality
ANSWER: D
89. _____________refers to the individual’s perception of the personality that different
rewards depend
upon different degrees of effort
A. Effort of employees
B. Value of reward
C. Perceived effort
D. None of the above
ANSWER: C

90. Ethnocentric means

A. continental based
B. Home country based
C. Global based
D. None of the above
ANSWER: B

91. The main changes required in labour competencies

A. Economical
B. Technical
C. Political
D. Socio cultural
ANSWER: B

92. ______ is the recognition and valorization of individual differences

A. Diversity management
B. Global HR management
C. International labour management
D. All the above
ANSWER: A

93. Human Resource planning is the process of

A. planning
B. organizing
C. Forecasting
D. Coordinating
ANSWER: C

94. __________Facilitates the realization of the company’s objectives

A. Human Resource Development
B. Labour Management
C. Organizational Planning
D. Human Resource Planning
ANSWER: D

95. The main objective of HR planning is

A. Forecast future requirements
B. Determine levels of recruitment and training
C. Facilitate productivity bargaining
D. All the above
ANSWER: D

96. Surplus or deficiency in _______ is the result of the absence of effective planning
A. staff strength
B. Labour strength
C. No. of executives
D. None of the above
ANSWER: A

97. HR managers are important facilitators of the

A. HR planning process
B. Strategic Planning process
C. Management process
D. HR process
ANSWER: B

98. Manpower planning provides essential information for _____________ Personnel

function
A. Organization policy
B. Strategic decision
C. Designing and implementation
D. Achieving the mission
ANSWER: C

99. From the updated HR information storage system the following can be analysed
A. No of employees
B. Employees capacity
C. Performance and potential
D. All the above

ANSWER: D
100. The HR required at different positions according to their ________ to the estimated
A. Department profile
B. Personal profile
C. Company profile
D. Job profile
ANSWER: D

MB 505 People Management (Short Answer & Very Short Answer Questions)
1. Define HRM? What are its functions and objectives?
2. Elaborate about the nature of HRM and its relevance in present scenario.
3. Explain the role of HR manager in HRM.
4. Explain the role of HR professional in human resource planning process in organizations.
5. Describe the various forecasting techniques and how these techniques are being used in
human resource planning.
6. Explain the barriers to HRP. Bring out the requisites for effective planning
7. What do you understand by job analysis? What is its importance in the management of
human resources?
8. What is job analysis? What steps are involved in the preparation of job analysis?
9. What are the by-products of job analysis? Discuss the techniques used for collecting data for
job analysis?
10. What is job description? How is it prepared?
11. Define job specification? How is it different from job description?
12. Define recruitment and identify the various factors which affect recruitment.
13. Discuss the steps of recruitment process. How will you reconcile the internal and external
sources of recruitment?
14. Discuss various sources of recruitment.
15. What is realistic job preview? How does it differ from traditional job preview?
16. What do you mean by recruitment policy? Explain the prerequisites of a good recruitment
policy.
17. What do you understand by selection process? Discuss various steps involved in it.
18. What is application blank? What purpose does it serve? Explain the contents of an
application blank.
19. Discuss the characteristics of a good test. Explain various types of tests used in the selection
process.
20. What is an interview? What purpose does it serve? Discuss various types of interviews.
21. Discuss various guidelines to be followed for an interview.
22. Explain various steps involved in the selection of personnel.
23. What do you understand by placement and orientation?
24. What do you mean by the importance of executive development?
25. Analyse the process involved in the designing and development programmes?
26. Explain the importance and process of career planning?
27. Briefly explain the advantages of career planning in detail?
28. Explain the methodologies of making the evaluation process more objective.
29. Discuss various guidelines to be followed for an interview.
30. Explain various steps involved in the selection of personnel.
31. What do you understand by placement and orientation?
32. Explain the term training and the need of training for organizations.
33. Distinguish between training and development.
34. Explain the methods and approaches to training.
35. Explain various on the job and off the job training methods in detail.