Executive Post Graduate Diploma In
Organizational Behavior and HRM
Level 1: Objective Type
1. The basis for performance standards is:-
(a) HR plans
(b) Employees
(c) Managers
(d) Compensation plans
(e) Job analysis
2. Which of the following is a future oriented appraisal technique?
(a) BARS
(b) Checklist
(c) MBO
(d) Field review method
(e) Rating scale
3. Which of the following technique is least suspectible to personal bias?
(a) BARS
(b) Forced choice
(c) Rating scales
(d) Checklists
(e) Critical incidents
4. Which of the following is an example of indirect compensation?
(a) Incentives
(b) Profit sharing
(c) Wages
(d) Pensions
(e) Salary
5. The most commonly used system of job evaluation is:-
(a) Job grading
(b) Point method
(c) Factor comparison
(d) Ranking method
(e) Job classification
6. Which of the following is not offered in a job analysis?
(a) Job descriptions
(b) Worker attributes
(c) Performance appraisals
(d) Job specifications
(e) Working conditions
7. Job descriptions should be reviewed by:-
(a) Supervisors
(b) Job incumbents
(c) HRD
(d) All of the above
(e) None of the above
8. Job analysis questionnaire should include all, but the following:-
(a) Job status
(b) Job duties
(c) Working conditions
(d) Performance standards
(e) Job evaluation
9. Which of the following is not an environmental challenge facing human resources?
(a) Environmental activities
(b) Global competition
(c) Competition for scarce resources
(d) Govt. policies
(e) Changing workers
10. Human resource professionals:-
(a) Should concentrate on developing expertise in HRM
(b) Should follow a business like approach
(c) Insists on the primacy of HR policies
(d) Realize that Line Managers share their point of view
(e) Try to get more authority over Line Managers
11. During a recession, organizations should not:-
(a) Consult the HR dept.
(b) Change their strategy and lose sight of objectives
(c) Cut managerial perquisites
(d) Consider cutting wages
(e) Lay-off workers immediately
12. Senior positions in foreign branches are generally filled up by:-
(a) Foreign nationals
(b) Failures from headquarters
(c) Those with the best technical ability
(d) Expatriates
(e) Locals with political clout
13. A formal research effort to evaluate the current state of personnel management in an organization is known as:-
(a) Personnel audit
(b) Personnel research
(c) Personnel database
(d) Personnel records
(e) None of the above
14. Which of the following is a type of a personnel record?
(a) HR surveys
(b) HR audit
(c) Research projects
(d) Attendance records
(e) None of the above
15. HRIS stands for the following:-
(a) Human Resource Information System
(b) Human Resource Induction System
(c) Human Recurring Inclination Set-up
(d) All of the above
(e) None of the above
16. What is voluntary arbitration?
(a) Voluntary give up
(b) Decision always taken in favour of the workers
(c) Use of third party for settling disputes
(d) Self imposed obligations
(e) A collective stoppage of work
17. The major objective of industrial relations is:-
(a) To maintain industrial democracy
(b) To exploit workers
(c) To combat govt. rules and regulations
(d) All of the above
(e) None of the above
18. Memberships in employee associations is:-