Personnel Planning and Recruiting

Jan must decide what positions the company should fill in the next six months, What activity is Jan working on?

• Recruitment

• Selection

• Personnel Planning

• Interviewing

When a company decides on how to fill top executive positions, the process is called ........

• employment planning

• succession planning

• selection

• testing

When planning for employment requirements, what must be forecasted?

• personnel needs

• supply of inside candidates

• supply of outside candidates

• all of the above

Which term below means studying variations in a company's employment levels over time?

• ratio analysis

• trend analysis

• graphical analysis

• computer analysis

Trend analysis is limited in its usefulness, because ........

• it considers time but not other changes such as productivity

• it considers too many possible influences

• it only provides an initial estimate

• it assumes constant increases in productivity

The process of making forecasts based on the ration between some causal factor like sales volume and the number of employees required is called ........

• ratio analysis

• trend analysis

• graphical analysis

• computer analysis

What type of data is needed to use computerized forecasts for estimating future personnel requirements?

• labor hours required to produce one unit of product

• minimum sales projection

• maximum sales projection

• probable sales projection

Qualifications inventories can be tracked and maintained by using ........

• personnel inventories

• replacement charts

• position replacement cards

• computerized information systems

Which tool below can be used in databases to protect the information?

• passwords

• encryption

• access matrices

• work experience codes

Job posting refers to all of the following except.

• publicizing the open job to employees

• listing the job's attributes

• listing the job's pay rate

• listing the number of desired applicants