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CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF
PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT OF NIGERIA
PROFESSIONAL EXAMINATIONS

FEBRUARY 2019
CIPM/PE1/004: ADVANCED HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT I (Regular)
Instructions to Candidates: Answer all questions in Section A, Question 2 and any other
three complete questions of your choice in Section B.

Time Allowed: 3 hours

SECTION A

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

Choose the correct answer from the list of options provided:

1. In training and development functions emphasis is mostly focused on all of the

following but one:

(A) Knowledge
(B) Skill
(C) Experience
(D) Attitude

2. The following are key attributes of human being which makes him uniquely different
from other factors of productions except one:
(A) Ageing
(B) Intelligent
(C) Attitude
(D) Contentment

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3. Personnel Management has been defined in various ways. What is central however, is
that it is the process of carrying out the following in a workplace but one:

(A) Predicting a satisfied workforce

(B) Obtaining a satisfied workforce
(C) Maintaining a satisfied workforce
(D) Sustaining a satisfied workforce

4. In the work environment in Nigeria, employees workgroup is predominantly found

within ____________ bracket.

(A) 18 to 60 years age

(B) 15 to 60 years age
(C) 25 to 55 years age
(D) 20 to 60 years age

5. The current minimum contributory rate into the Pension Scheme is:

(A) Employer 10% and Employee 8% of Total Emolument

(B) Employer 7.5% and Employee 7.5% of Total Emolument
(C) Employer 12% and Employee 8% of Total Emolument
(D) None of the above

6. Employee Compensation Act, 2010 was promulgated to replace one of the following:

(A) Workmen Compensation Act

(B) Industrial Disputes Act
(C) Pension Reforms Act, 2000
(D) National Insurance Commission Act

7. Personnel Management excludes one of the underlisted from its coverage:

(A) Employee resourcing & off boarding

(B) Compensation management
(C) Staff transfer and Talent Management
(D) Generational divide and career progression

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8. The scope of human resource management includes one of the following:

(A) Compensation Management
(B) Training and Succession Planning
(C) Career Pathing and Compensation
(D) Hiring and Firing

9. The argument rages that one of the following remains the key resource of an
organization because of its creativity, which one of these?

(A) Labour and Materials

(B) People
(C) Competent and qualified human resource
(D) Capital and Management

10. When employees’ activities are considered good and value adding to the
organisation’s goals and objectives, they are mostly appreciated through a process of:

(A) Promotion Administration

(B) Reward Management
(C) Compensation Management
(D) Reward Policy

11. A Management style within which employees feel dignified and honoured to take part
and volunteer opinions in decision making is called:

(A) Participative Management

(B) Employees Relationship Management
(C) Collaborative Management
(D) None of the above

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12. A method to identify and analyze manpower needs in an organisation is a feature

commonly found in:

(A) Organization’s workforce audit

(B) Career Management Process
(C) Performance Management
(D) Talent Management Process

13. A feature in Career Management Process that is very key to its success is:
(A) Talent Audit
(B) Goal Setting
(C) Reliability Check
(D) Identifying training needs

14. Change in organisation may take one of the following forms:

(A) Review/Redesigning/Implementing new policies
(B) Review/redefining/implementing steps
(C) Review/redefining/implementing procedures
(D) None of the above

15. All these are features of Project Management except:

(A) Initiating and Planning

(B) Initiating and Constructing
(C) Executing and Monitoring
(D) Monitoring and evaluation

16. Change Management principles require enabling environment for it to succeed. One
of the following is not among the features that can guarantee such enabling
environment:
(A) Create a sense of urgency, form a coalition and create a vision for change.
(B) Create a sense of urgency, communicate the vision and create a vision for
change.
(C) Create a sense of urgency and from a coalition
(D) Create a sense of urgency and create a vision for change

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17. The following are elements of Human Resource Management processes except one:

(A) Human Resource Planning

(B) Workforce Forecast
(C) Delphi Technique
(D) Human resource forecasting

18. These are key elements of Human Resource Management except:

I. Transfer
II. Personnel Management
III. On-boarding
IV. Workforce forecasts

(A) I & II
(B) IV
(C) I, II, & III
(D) II & III

19. Learning and development are key instrument in organisation renewal strategy.
Which of the following are common types of Training:

(A) On-the-job and off-the job

(B) Teaching and Lecturing
(C) Discussion and in-plant
(D) Opening and closing

20. In most organisations, the document that keeps members aware of the content and
direction of change is

(A) Change Management Policy

(B) Performance Management Policy
(C) Organizational Renewal Strategic document
(D) Successional Planning Implementation Policy
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SECTION B

Answer Question 2 and any other three Questions of

your choice from this section.

QUESTION 2 (Compulsory)

CASE STUDY

Read the following case carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Iskilu is a Student mobilization officer of a second-generation school in Gbagada area of

Lagos State. His sessional performance target is to bring in a minimum of 40 students in
every term of the session. A session consists of three terms. At the end of the session, he was
able to bring in 50 students. The performance target set for him is 75 students. The Proprietor
of the school was not happy with his recent performance. As a student of human resource
management attempt the following:

Required
(a) What is his annual performance target?
(b) What percentage of performance his Iskilu met?
(c) List three (3) remedial actions that could be taken to address Iskilu’s performance
shortfall.

QUESTION 3
A group of Human Resource Management students recently visited your office on excursion.
In the course of feeding questions from them, one of them asked for the key procedure to
follow in planning a good learning and development programme in any organisation.

Required
List five of these and briefly state how important each of them is to the collective effort in
planning a good learning and development programme.

QUESTION 4
You have been invited to an induction ceremony of young graduates who have decided to
take up a career in the Human Resource Management profession. You are to speak on ‘the
objectives of good wages and salary administration in an organization.’

Required
Give highlights on what you would speak on.

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QUESTION 5
You have been requested to explain to a group of Human Resources Management students
who recently visited your office about the key principles that guide Wages and Salary
Administration in an organisation.

Required
List and explain briefly four of these principles.

QUESTION 6
During a Divisional Heads meeting in your oganisation, each Head of Division was asked to
justify the need to include their department in a discussion to be held by the company’s
Strategic Business Focus Group.

During your turn for presentation, your CEO asked you to list five critical areas of the scope
of your activities that could convince him that Human Resource Department should be
included in this new Focus Group.

Required
Give a highlight of the presentation.

QUESTION 7
In Performance Management, the issue of setting objective/target is very key. A famous
acronym under this topic is ‘SMARTER.’

Required:

Explain what each of the letters stands for and its signficance in objective setting in an
organization.

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