HRM Final Exam (None Exam Center) - Attempt Review

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Question 1
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Which of the following is an external recruitment method?
Select one:
A. Agencies
B. Job posting
C. Transfer
D. Promotions
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Your answer is incorrect.
The correct answer is:

Agencies
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Question 2
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One of the following is not true about Human Resource Management:
Select one:
A. Think strategically and consider people as a key resource.
B. It is people aspect of management.
C. It is integrated into the business strategy and also contributes to it
D. It is a reactive rather than proactive approach 
Your answer is correct.

It is a reactive rather than proactive approach
Question 3
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Which one is not the Internal Demand forecasting influential factor?
Select one:
A. Competition environment 
B. Organizational structure
C. Production levels
D. New products and services
E. Employee separation

Competition environment
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Question 4
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Which of the following isn’t given as an advantage of external recruiting?
Select one:
A. Motivational force
B. Long term benefits
C. Injection of fresh blood
D. Shorter adjustment or orientation time 
E. Wide choice

Shorter adjustment or orientation time
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Question 5
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Consider the numbers against each problem listed below to answer the questions.

1. Perceptual differences
2. Primacy effect
3. Recency effect
4. Rater’s personal bias

5. Leniency
6. harshness
7. Central tendency error
8. Halo effect
9. Contrast error
10. Status Effect
__________ occurs when a manager or rater rates an employee high or low on all items because of one characteristic.
Select one:
A. 8 
B. 9
C. 7
D. 6

8
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Question 6
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Tesfaye is a teller in one branch of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia; currently he has been assigned additional task of
helping customers with paper works for opening saving accounts. This is an example of:
Select one:
A. Job enlargement 
B. Job rotation
C. Job Enrichment
D. Job simplification

Job enlargement
Question 7
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If the organization commit personnel mistakes they will encounter one of the following mistakes:
Select one:
A. Experience high turnover 
B. Get More Competent People
C. Higher Work-commitment and job Involvement
D. More Team-work
E. Create a better image

Experience high turnover
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Question 8
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What is the total of knowledge, skills, creative abilities, talents & aptitudes of an organization’s workforce as well as the
values, attitudes & beliefs of the individual involved
Select one:
A. Human resource management 
B. Resource Management
C. Human Resource
D. Human

Human resource management
Question 9
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Which of the following is among human resource management activity used to determine the duties associated with job
positions and the characteristics of the people to be employed for those positions?
Select one:
A. Job description 
B. Job context
C. Job specification
D. Job analysis

Job analysis
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Question 10
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Assume, the General Manager in your organization wants you to advise him on how to develop fair and equitable
compensation plan in the organization. What do you think should be done first?
Select one:
A. Job evaluation
B. Job grading
C. Job integration
D. Employee appraisal 

Job evaluation
Question 11
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The organization where you are working gives priority for internal staff whenever vacant position is created in the
organization. What do you think is NOT necessary for the estimates of internal supply in your organization?
Select one:
A. Succession planning
B. Future employees to be hired from employment agencies
C. Human resource inventory
D. Recruitment from college graduates 

Future employees to be hired from employment agencies
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Question 12
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The followings are the external environmental factors affecting human resource management, Except:
Select one:
A. Strategic Plan of the organization 
B. Socio-Cultural environments of the organization
C. Political and Legal Issues of the country
D. Economic Resource and Employment opportunities available

Strategic Plan of the organization
Question 13
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All are HR actions must be taken to avoid surpluses of employees in the organization But one,
Select one:
A. Use sabbaticals 
B. Encourage early retirements
C. Use temporary workers
D. Freeze hiring

Use temporary workers
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Question 14
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Organizations conduct job analysis among others to come up with all of the following, except:
Select one:
A. Job description
B. Job specification
C. Market need and want analysis 
D. Performance standards

Market need and want analysis
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Question 15
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2. Primacy effect
3. Recency effect

5. Leniency
6. harshness
8. Halo effect
9. Contrast error
10. Status Effect
_________ is a problem that occurs when the rater gives greater weight to recent occurrences when appraising an
individual’s performance.
Select one:
A. 6
B. 5 
C. 8
D. 2
E. 3

3
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Question 16
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How will manage Human Resource Surplus?
Select one:
A. Use overtime
B. Attrition and Hiring Freezes 
C. Outsource work
D. Reduce turnover
E. Bring back recent retirees

Attrition and Hiring Freezes
Question 17
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Which one of the following is among objectives of Employee training?
Select one:
A. To minimize operational errors 
B. Prepare employees for only existing assignments
C. To demote skills and increase obsolescence
D. To create recreational opportunities to employees

To minimize operational errors
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Question 18
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The process of generating a pool of qualified applicants for organization jobs is called
Select one:
A. Recruiting
B. Analyzing
C. Acquiring
D. Selecting
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Recruiting
Question 19
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Assume that your organization wants to plan its manpower requirement for the upcoming year. What will be your first
step to determine the number of employee needed?
Select one:
A. Conducting industrial relation
B. Developing recruitment plan
C. Analyzing compensation plan for coming year 
D. Conducting human-power audit

Conducting human-power audit
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Question 20
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Delta Hotel consultancy firm gives employees an annual raise. After Destanesh has been passed over for a raise three
years in a row, she discovers that the company consistently gives raises to all male employees, and only to male
employees. Fisseha has been employed at Cement Manufacturing for 28 years, and has steadily risen through the
ranks to his current position as a senior line supervisor. Although Fisseha started working at the company for
minimum wage, raises through the years ensure he has a very comfortable salary now. The company is going through
some financial difficulties, and the board of directors decides that it would be good ideas to let some of the most senior
employees go, as their salaries are a large drain on the payroll. For this purpose, Cement Manufacturing institutes a
mandatory retirement age of 65, which will leave 67-year old Fisseha out in the cold.
Uffayse’s new employer, during her orientation, explained that all of the employees meet in the large break room before
the start of the workday, for group prayer. The next day, when Uffayse tried to thank her supervisor for the
opportunity, and said she would prefer not to participate, she was told that the pre-workday group prayer is required of
all employees.
A law firm has a single open position for a lawyer specializing in financial cases, to which they intend to promote an
existing employee. One of the candidates is a white man, Mr. Johnson, with a bachelor’s degree in accounting, who has
advised the firm on such cases for four years. The other candidate is an African-American employee, Mr. Feyissa, who
has a master’s degree in accounting, and a law degree. The firm promotes the white male candidate, altering the
position to allow a junior attorney to work together with him.
Delta Hotel consultancy firm is committing _______ based discrimination
Select one:
A. Gender

B. Age
C. Religion
D. Race

Gender
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Question 21
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Assume that you are hired as a human resource management expert and your role is to consult the General Manager on
the reason for recruitment. Which of the following do you think is NOT the reasons for recruitment?
Select one:
A. More administrative support is needed
B. Demand for expansion in the existing organization
C. Work overload among the existing employees
D. When there is human resource surplus exists 
E. Employee with new skill is required because of new technology adopted

When there is human resource surplus exists
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Question 22
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2. Primacy effect
3. Recency effect

5. Leniency
6. harshness

8. Halo effect
9. Contrast error
10. Status Effect
________ occurs when rater sees everything as bad and gives low scores on all dimensions
Select one:
A. 3
B. 4 
C. 5
D. 6

6
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Question 23
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Which one is not about strategic transformation of human resource management is more manifested in the form of:
Select one:
A. Measuring human resource with metrics
B. Developing and revising policies and procedures
C. Identifying organizational training needs
D. Complying with laws, policies and procedures 

Complying with laws, policies and procedures
Question 24
Correct
The advantage of recruiting internally include
Select one:
A. Inefficiency
B. Inbreeding
C. Infighting
D. cheaper and faster 
E. Limited choice

cheaper and faster
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Question 25
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Which one of the following is among objectives of strategic human resource management?
Select one:
A. Balancing the needs of the organization and the needs of its employees
B. Achieving vertical alignment of HR strategies with business strategies and the horizontal integration of HR
strategies
C. Being reactive rather than proactive in HR Planning
D. Contributing to the formulation of business strategy 

Being reactive rather than proactive in HR Planning
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11/10/22, 9:44 PM FINAL EXAM (NONE EXAM CENTER ): Attempt review

Started on Thursday, 27 October 2022, 4:20 PM

Mark 0.00 out of 2.00

Which of the following is an external recruitment method?

Your answer is incorrect.

The correct answer is:

Mark 2.00 out of 2.00

One of the following is not true about Human Resource Management:

B. It is people aspect of management.

C. It is integrated into the business strategy and also contributes to it

D. It is a reactive rather than proactive approach 

Your answer is correct.

Mark 2.00 out of 2.00

Which one is not the Internal Demand forecasting influential factor?

D. New products and services

Your answer is correct.

Mark 2.00 out of 2.00

Which of the following isn’t given as an advantage of external recruiting?

B. Long term benefits

C. Injection of fresh blood

D. Shorter adjustment or orientation time 

Your answer is correct.

Mark 2.00 out of 2.00

4. Rater’s personal bias

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is:

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Your answer is correct.

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B. Get More Competent People

C. Higher Work-commitment and job Involvement

E. Create a better image

Your answer is correct.

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Your answer is incorrect.

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B. Future employees to be hired from employment agencies

C. Human resource inventory

D. Recruitment from college graduates 

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B. Socio-Cultural environments of the organization

C. Political and Legal Issues of the country

D. Economic Resource and Employment opportunities available

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B. Encourage early retirements

C. Use temporary workers

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C. Market need and want analysis 

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4. Rater’s personal bias

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How will manage Human Resource Surplus?