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Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
The first real attempts to improve manpower productivity were initiated by:
Henry Fayol
F.W. Taylor
Elton Mayo
Max Weber
Work simplification on assembly lines became popular in:
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
Peters and Waterman’s book In Search of Excellence was published in:
1978
1980
1982
1985
Estimation of HR needs is usually planned for:
1 year
3–5 years
10 years
No fixed time
Performance appraisal is concerned with:
Staff transfers
Systematic evaluation of employee strengths and weaknesses
Employee recruitment
Financial auditing
Modelling technique often uses which of the following methods?
Regression analysis
Delphi questioning
Job description
Personal interviews
Quality circles are a management style that originated in:
USA
Japan
UK
Germany
According to Peters and Waterman, the term that symbolised new-age HR practices was:
Empowerment
Excellence
Agility
Compliance
The concept of ‘Dyad’ in HRD relates to:
Two organisations collaborating
Team performance
Relationship between employee and supervisor
Union-management negotiation
What is the correct order in the planning process?
Training → Recruitment → Estimation
Selection → Induction → Planning
Estimation → Recruitment → Deployment
Policy → Selection → Planning
Who developed the concept of "Retroactive Ordinal Notation"?
S.R. Ranganathan
E.J. Coates
H.E. Bliss
C.A. Cutter
What material is used for encapsulation of fragile documents?
Cellophane
Polyester film (Mylar)
Plastic sheet
Paperboard
Which IFLA product provides a standard for metadata in libraries?
IFLA LRM (Library Reference Model)
MARC 21
ISBN
DOI
Which type of memory is non-volatile and used to store firmware?
RAM
ROM
Cache Memory
Register
Which of the following is a cloud-based archival storage solution?
Amazon S3 Glacier
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Google Docs
The term “Bibliographic Universe” was coined by:
Ranganathan
Shera
J.C. Rowley
B.C. Vickery
Debt-to-equity ratio is used to measure:
Liquidity
Leverage
Profitability
Efficiency
Metadata standard “METS” is used for:
Statistical analysis
Preservation metadata
Encoding digital library objects
Reference service
In knowledge management, “Tacit knowledge” refers to:
Codified knowledge in documents
Knowledge stored in databases
Personal, experience-based knowledge
Shared knowledge via OPAC
The FRBR model consists of how many user tasks?
2
3
4
5
The 1967 paper by Marron and de Maine focused on:
Library management
Automatic data compression
Information retrieval in libraries
Digital preservation
Deacidification of paper materials is done to:
Make the paper waterproof
Improve paper brightness
Neutralize acidity and extend life
Increase paper thickness
The file hosting service OneDrive is developed by:
Microsoft
Dropbox
Apple
Who suggested the term "Seminal Mnemonics" in 1951?
Ranganathan and Mills
B.I. Palmer and A.J. Wells
Hulme and Brown
Bliss and Cutter
Project MUSE is developed by which institution in 1993?
Harvard University Press
Oxford University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Cambridge University Press
