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WorksheetsChp. 8: Recruitment, Selection & Training of Workers
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 4mins
It occurs when the employee is asked to leave the business because they are not able to do the job. The job still exists and the employee is replaced.
Dismissal
Redundancy
Resignation
Retirement
It occurs when the business no longer needs the job and so the employee doing that work is asked to leave.
Redundancy
Resignation
Retirement
Dismissal
A compensation for an employee paid by the business after asking such employee to leave as the business no longer needs the job.
(a)
The managers want to make the business smaller and more efficient, therefore reducing the need for jobs.
Downsizing
Closure
Automation
External events
‘Where the employee is asked to leave because their behaviour is unreasonable or because they cannot do the job.’ What is this sentence defining?
Dismissal
Resignation
Retirement
Redundancy
Ankit works as a dyer for a textile manufacturer in Udaipur, India. He has been told that he is being made redundant. The factory is investing in new machinery, which can dye four times as much cloth as Ankit can by hand. What is the reason for Ankit’s redundancy? (Give a one-word answer.)
(a)
Which of the following is not a factor to consider when making a specific employee redundant?
The amount of profit the business has made
The employee’s history in the business
The skills that would be needed by the business
The cost of the employee’s wages/salary
The Sec3 Café has decided that it needs to make one of its supervisors redundant to save costs. There are three supervisors: Nicole, Deven and Cheysar.
Nicole has worked for the Sec3 Café since it opened eight years ago and has never had a day off sick. However, because of her experience she does have the highest salary.
Deven has been working for the café for just over one year, and he has taken around 25 sick days in that time. He has the lowest salary of all three employees.
Cheysar has been working for the café for three years and has taken eight sick days. He does have the middle salary but he is willing to take a pay cut.
Which supervisor should be made redundant?
Deven
Nicole
Cheysar
Ankit
Either the whole business closes (due to bankruptcy, for example) or the manager closes part of the business to save costs.
Closure
Downsizing
Automation
External events
Managers decide to replace people with machinery to reduce costs or improve efficiency.
Automation
Closure
Downsizing
External events
