BHR20403/BHR21303

Which of the following statements most accurately defines human resource management?

• An approach to managing people in the organization.

• Focuses on people as the source of competitive advantage.

• Contributes to business strategy and plays and important role in the implementation of business strategy.

• Seeks to achieve competitive advantage through the strategic deployment of a highly committed and capable workforce.

Various studies have concluded that an organization’s human resources can be a significant source of ____________.

• competitive advantage

• problems for management

• frustration for employees

• high-performance work practices

Human resources management includes all of the following steps EXCEPT ____________.

• job analysis and design

• employee recruitment

• industrial engineering

• performance planning and evaluation

Which of the following is NOT true of the activity known as job analysis?

• It aims to describe the purpose of a job and the conditions under which it is performed.

• The job elements are rated in terms such as frequency of use or amount of time involved.

• The rate of pay for the job is fixed.

• Jobs are broken into elements such as information or relations

  with other people.

The term human resource implies that ____________ have the capabilities that drive business performance.

• money

• materials

• people

• information

The system of ranking jobs in a firm on the basis of the relevant characteristics, duties, and responsibilities is known as ____________.

• job evaluation

• job design

• job specification

• job description

Job analysis has often been called the building block of human resource management. Which of the following items would most probably not be affected or influenced by information acquired through job analysis?

• Defined benefit plans

• Job evaluation

• Career planning

• Selection and training

An assessment that defines the jobs and behaviors necessary to perform the job is known as a ____________.

• Job description

• Job specification

• Goal-oriented job definition

• Job analysis

Manpower planning is advantageous to the organization in following manner EXCEPT ____________.

• helps to identify the available talents in a concern and accordingly training programmes can be written out to develop those talents

• helps in human resources available and how they can be utilized in the best manner

• helps to identify the best rewards system for the employees in organization

• helps the organization to realize the importance of manpower management which ultimately helps in the stability of a concern

If human resource planning shows a surplus of employees, management may want to reduce the organization’s workforce through ______________.

• recruitment

• downsizings

• expansion

• temporary workers