ASRB NET and ARS / SMS / STO recruitment Human Resource Management: practice questions

1 · Job analysis, job description and job specification · easy

The two main written products of job analysis are:

1. Job evaluation and merit rating
2. Job description and job specification
3. Job enlargement and job enrichment
4. Appointment letter and induction manual

2 · Recruitment and selection, including e-recruitment · medium

Which selection method has the weakest record of predicting job performance in meta-analytic research?

1. Structured interviews (behavioural)
2. Work-sample tests
3. General mental ability tests
4. Graphology (handwriting analysis)

3 · Induction and training · easy

Training employees on replicated equipment set up in a separate area away from the production floor is called:

1. Apprenticeship training
2. Sensitivity training
3. Vestibule training
4. Understudy training

4 · Performance appraisal · medium

In the forced-choice method of appraisal, the rater:

1. Must place fixed percentages of staff in each rating category, for example 10% top and 10% bottom
2. Picks from statements that look equally favourable but differ in how well they discriminate performance
3. Records specific examples of effective and ineffective behaviour observed during the whole review period
4. Compares each employee with every other employee

5 · Compensation, job evaluation and incentives · easy

An employee earns 45,000 a month in a grade whose range midpoint is 50,000. What is the compa-ratio?

1. 0.9
2. 1.11
3. 0.10
4. 90

6 · Compensation, job evaluation and incentives · medium

A harvest worker picks 60 kg at a piece rate of 4 per kg. The applicable minimum daily wage is 300, and the law requires piece-rate earnings to be topped up to the minimum for time worked. What must the worker be paid for the day?

1. 240
2. 540
3. 300
4. 60

7 · Compensation, job evaluation and incentives · easy

Which theorist described Theory X and Theory Y?

1. William Ouchi
2. Abraham Maslow
3. Douglas McGregor
4. Victor Vroom

8 · Trade unions and collective bargaining · medium

Selig Perlman's theory of the labour movement holds that workers' unions are primarily:

1. Instruments of class revolution
2. Job-conscious, seeking control over scarce job opportunities
3. Agents of employers' welfare policy
4. Political parties in disguise

9 · Worker participation in management · easy

Small groups of employees who meet voluntarily and regularly to identify and solve work-related problems are called:

1. Statutory works councils
2. Joint management councils
3. Board-level worker directors
4. Quality circles

10 · Grievance handling · easy

McGregor's 'hot-stove rule' says discipline should be:

1. Delayed until the annual appraisal
2. Applied more strictly to new employees
3. Kept secret from the employee
4. Immediate, with warning, consistent and impersonal