Pre - Assessment Test

The Trends Shaping Human Resource Management

1. In HRM, performance appraisal of an employee.

A. Should be based on an employee’s self assessment
B. Should be handled at host country
C. Should be a mutual decision of both the home as well as the host
country
D. Should be taken care of by the home country

2. The process of locating and encouraging potential applicants to

apply for an existing or an anticipated job openings is
called_________.
A. Selection
B. Placement
C. Recruitment
D. Induction

3.  What are the factors responsible for the growth of HRM?

A. Development of scientific management and awakened sense of social
responsibility.
B. The problem of how the available human resource could effectively
minimise the cost and maximise the production.
C. Technical factors, awakening amongst workers, attitude of the
government, cultural and social system.
D. All the above.

4. Whom does Human relation approach refer to?

A. Worker, who should be given humanly treatment at work.
B. Mutual cooperation between employer and employee in solving the
common problems.
C. Integration of people into a work situation that motivates them to
work together to achieve productivity and also economic,
psychological and social satisfaction.
D. None of the above.

5. To calculate the need for manpower on the basis of the average loss
of manpower due to leave, retirement, death, transfer, discharge, etc.
is known as____________.
A. Work load analysis
B. Workforce analysis
C. Job analysis
D. Forecasting

6. What are the current trends affecting human resources?

7. What are the most important workplace trends affecting HR
today?
8. What trends will shape human resource departments over the next
five years?
9. What are some future trends and challenges for human resource
HR management?
10. How globalization is changing the trends of HRM?