Strategic human resource management
MCQs
(1) ________ Strategies include turnaround, captive, divestment and liquidation strategies
(A) Conglomerate diversification
(B) Joint venture
(C) Retrenchment
(D) Horizontal integration
(2) _______ is the organizational strategy normally found in the _______ Stage of organizational life cycle.
(A) Value creation ; Growth
(B) Value accumulation ; Inception
(C) Value maintenance ; Growth
(D) none of the above
(3) Find the odd one out
(A) Economic policies
(B) Wage levels
(C) National income
(D) Executive
(4) _______ is derived from _______.
(A) Objectives, goals
(B) Goals, objective
(C) Objective, vision
(D) None of the above
(5) Enterprise Software System include
(A) People soft
(B) SAP
(C) Oracle
(D) All of the above
(6) _______ is owned by line management and _______ by human resource department.
(A) Performance appraisal, performance management
(B) Performance review, performance management
(C) Performance management, performance appraisal
(D)Performance management, performance review
(7) The performance management process gained popularity in the _______ with the advent of _______ programmes
(A) 1990's ; Kaizen
(B) 1980's ; TQM
(C) 1980's ; Kaizen
(D) 1990's ; TQM
(8) Identify the best HR strategy/ies to retain skilled employees in the organization.
(I) Job rotation
(II) Outsourcing of specific skills
(III) Job enrichment
(A) (I), (II) and (III)
(B) Only (I) and (IIII)
(C) Only (I) and (II)
(D) Only (II) and (III)
(9) Find the odd one out
(A) Suppliers
(B) Shareholders
(C) Technology
(D) Customers
(10) Flexibility in routine schedules, outsourcing and customisation in today's organisation is due to
(A) shifts in labour laws
(B) shift in employee attitudes
(C) shifts in marketing
(D) shift in none of the above
(11) Corporate level strategies are _______ applicable to entire company
(A) Ethics
(B) Strategic alternatives
(C) Values
(D) None of the above
(12) Read the following statements and select the correct option :
(I) Increase in formal education has not led to stagnancy in attitude of employees but progress
(II) In-House training resources include formal sessions by consultants
(A) Only Statement (II) is true
(B) Both the statements are true
(C) Only Statement (I) is true
(D) Both the statements are false
(13) _______ is achieved through increasing the fim's production capacity, employees and sales.
(A) Internal growth
(B) Inorganic growth
(C) External growth
(D) None of the above
(14) In Growth stage of organization life cycle, HR strategy focuses on _______
(A) Matching the Balance scorecard with competencies
(B) Preparing for employees performance appraisal
(C) Orienting the employees
(D) Utilizing employee competencies.
(15) Mergers fall under _______ type of strategy
(A) Growth
(B) Retrenchment
(C) Stability
(D) None of the above
(16) _______ Relates that people provide competitive advantage to company when their skills, knowledge and abilities are not available to the competitors.
(A) HR as valuable
(B) HR as rare
(C) HR as difficult to imitate
(D) HR as organised
(17) Kirloskar states, "We enrich the lives", This is a
(A) Mission statement
(B) Vision statement
(C) Objective statement
(D) Goal statement
(18) Kaplan and Norton in _______ year published about the Balance scorecard.
(A) 1996
(B) 1994
(C) 1992
(D) None of the above
(19) Growth stage is characterized by a very strong status of competitive advantage.
(A) False
(B) Partially true
(C) Irrelevant statement
(D) True
(20) _______ Measures the effectiveness of strategy implementation.
(A) Balance scorecard
(B) Reports
(C) Audit
(D) Assessment
(21) Organizational cultural choices include creation and maintenance of _______ or single culture.
(A) Ethics
(B) Multi culture
(C) Code of conduct
(D) Norms
(22) Internal environmental analysis involves assessing
(A) Strengths and threats
(B) Strengths and weaknesses
(C) Opportunities and threats
(D) Opportunities and weaknesses
(23) One of the most logical reasons as to why there is an influx of more women employees constituting a part of the workforce is because _______
(A) Women becoming acclimatised to the working climate and higher level of commitment
(B) Of their opportunity to make the best out of their time
(C) Of social reasons like divorce and alienation
(D) None of the above
(24) In which stage HR strategy should focus on utilizing employee competencies?
(A) Maturity
(B) Decline
(C) Inception
(D)Growth
(25) ________ refers to what employee does or does not do on the job.
(A) Process
(B) Creativity
(C) Activity
(D) Performance
(26) _______ has brought significant shifts in Hrm via enhancing and broadening the operations of MNC's
(A) Globalisation
(B) International HRM
(C) Offshoring
(D) None of the above
(27) Strategies are formulated for each subsystem of SBU consistent with _______ strategies.
(A) Generic
(B) Corporate lovel
(C) Product differentiation
(D) SBU level
(28) A company focusing its efforts on a limited combination o customer groups, customer functions and alternate technologies is known to be adopting _______ strategy.
(A) turnaround
(B) Internal growth
(C) concentration
(D) none of the above
(29) The _______ strategy involves an attempt of the company to produce product or render services different from its competitors.
(A) differentiation
(B) low cost leadership
(C) Concentration
(D) None of the above
(30) Read the following statements and state whether they are TRUE (T) or FALSE (F).
(I) Performance appraisal is a continuous review with one or more formal reviews in a year
(II) Performance management is future focused.
(A) (I) : T ::: (II) : T
(B) (I) : T ::: (II) : F
(C) (I) : F ::: (II) : F
(D) None of the above
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