Chapter 8: Recruitment & Training

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All of the following are tasks of the Human Resources Department (Personnel) except: induction training of new staff, advise managers on the best pay and salary systems for staff, disciplining staff who break company rules.

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allocating jobs on the production line

Front

In recruiting and selecting new staff, which is the correct order of tasks? Options: job specification, job adverts, interviews, selection

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job specification, job adverts, interviews, selection

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Which of the following will not appear on a job description? title of the job, main duties of the job, qualifications needed, department the job is in

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qualifications needed

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Which of the following is a claimed disadvantage of internal recruitment for a management job? Options: It saves time and money compared to external recruitment., No new ideas or experience is brought into the business., The recruit will already know how the firm operates., Workers are motivated by an opportunity for a promotion

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No new ideas or experience is brought into the business.

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Each of the following is a method of external recruitment except: notice on staffroom noticeboard, local newspaper advertisement, recruitment agencies, advert in a specialist magazine.

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notice on staffroom noticeboard

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When advertising a job vacancy, it is usual to include all of the following information except: the wage rate for the job, duties to be carried out by the person appointed, conditions of employment.

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the name of the chief executive

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One of the advantages of using a recruitment agency is that: agencies only send suitable candidates for interview

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agencies only send suitable candidates for interview

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All of the following methods are likely to be used to help select a new worker except: asking them to write their own reference, interviewing the applicants, asking for a curriculum vitae (CV), asking all applicants to perform tests to check ability

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asking them to write their own reference

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Which of the following is one reason for a business using induction training for new workers? Options: to see who is staying and who is leaving the business, to check the standard of work of all workers, to help select the workers that to be employed by the firm, to explain the firm’s procedures and methods of working

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to explain the firm’s procedures and methods of working

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Training for existing workers is often used for which of the following reasons? to keep skills up-to-date and to improve efficiency, to check to see which workers should be made redundant, to explain the firm’s procedures and methods of working, to increase the level of supervision needed

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to keep skills up-to-date and to improve efficiency