Chapter 1, 2, 4

1. Who makes strategies of organization and what is the role of HR in strategy making
process of organization?
2. What is the role of outside environment and internal resources in strategy making?
3. To what extent lower managers and employees are participated in decision making?
4. What is the impact of stakeholders, competitors and societal forces (economy, laws) on
strategy formulation?
5. What kind of strategies are being followed in your organization (growth strategies or
cost-efficient strategies (mature defender)?
6. Is compensation based on incentives or employee performance or basic hierarchical wage
structure?
7. Whether hiring is done at entry level only or at all levels?
8. Are there any line manager and HR manager conflicts?
9. What are the reasons of that conflicts and how they are resolved?
10. Who does auditing in your organization? Consultant, internal staff or other?
11. Whether auditing is done specifically when you face any problem or generally to know
whether everything is going right?
12. Whether human resource planning is proactive or reactive?
13. Whether planning is done for some functions of HR or all functions of HR?
14. Whether planning is formally written or informally prescribed?
15. Whether HR planning is strictly integrated to organization’s strategic plan or not?
16. Whether HR planning is flexible (it has the ability to change according to environment)
or inflexible?
17. What is the role of economy and labor market on HR planning?
18. Is your organization effected by skills changes and labor shortages? If yes then how you
attract small number of skilled labor?
19. Do you use any kind of software to know about future HR needs in organization or trend
analysis?
20. What is the process of human resource planning in your organization?
21. What matric is used to know about benefits that employees are putting in organization
against cost spend on them? (HR costing)
22. What kind of Human resource information system is used in your organization and how
you deal with privacy issues?

Chapter 6, 7
23. To what extent employees can participant in the job analysis process?
24. Which method you used for the collection of the job analysis information (interview,
observation, and questionnaire)?
25. When a job analysis is conducted in your organization (job changed and job add)?
26. What is your procedure for conducting the job analysis?
27. Are you analyzed all the jobs after one year or only analyzed those jobs which are
changed?
28. Who is conducting the job analysis in your organization?
29. Whether you hired skilled workers or less skilled workers?
30. Which method you used for the recruitment of employees (Internal or External)?
31. Which method you mostly used for the internal recruitment of employees (job posting,
skills inventory or job bidding)?
32. Which method you used for the external recruitment (campus hiring, private agency,
public agency, or career website)?
33. Whether you hired employees on temporary, part-time and lease bases?
34. Whether you hired wrong employee due to negligent hiring?
35. What is your selection process for the new candidates?
36. Which type of selection test you used for the selection of new employees (personality
test, mental ability test, honesty test)?
37. Which type of interview you used for the selection of employees (structured, unstructured
or semi structured)?
38. Do you used assessment centers for the selection of new employees?
39. Do you have any computerized system for the screening of the resumes?
40. How you retain your potential employees for the long time?
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Training and development

41. Do you develop or hire developed people?

42. Improving vs replacing poor performance?

43. how orientation of employees is conducted? What information is provided to the employees in the
oreintaion.

44. how do you welcome your employees, what is the role of meeting a boss.

45. what is the training process of pkgs limited? Training responsibility

46. How do you evaluate training of employees pre test post test multiple pretest or post test.

47. Performance vs informal appraisal system?

48. objective vs subjective performance appraisal?

49. who conduct the performance appraisal the method could be 360 feedback.

50. how do you review performance.

51. role of perceptual errors in evaluation like stereotype, leniency/ strictness error.

52. what is the manager role in restructuring the firm at both the tie of downsizinfg and growth?

53. what kind of competitive strategy do you use eg; cost leadership or differentiation

54. what is management philosopy regarding employee and technology (Automation).

55. or apki layoff strategy kia hay.

41. Is the HR dept of pkg limited is fully developed. Does it include all functions of HR or perform few
functions.

42. what is HR scope in future especially in Pakistan, do you think it will shift towards automation.

43.