HRM -MINDTERM
  • 1. HRP focuses on:
A) Present needs only
B) Financial accounting
C) Past performance
D) Future workforce requirements
  • 2. Which is NOT an objective of HRP?

    Ensuring manpower availability
A) Supporting growth
B) Ensuring manpower availability
C) Eliminating all risks
D) Improving productivity
  • 3. Facilitating career development means:
A) Reducing workforce
B) Providing growth opportunities
C) Avoiding training
D) Promoting all employees
  • 4. HRP integrates:
A) Marketing and sales
B) Finance and accounting
C) Production only
D) Planning and forecasting
  • 5. HRP helps prevent
A) High profits
B) Employee satisfaction
C) Labor shortages and surpluses
D) Skills development
  • 6. HRP ensures:
A) Increased expenses
B) Adequate manpower
C) Equal salaries
D) No employee turnover
  • 7. The primary goal of HRP is to:

    Reduce costs only
A) Increase hiring
B) Reduce costs only
C) Ensure the right people are available at the right time
D) Eliminate turnover
  • 8. Which best reflects HRP effectiveness?
A) Overstaffing
B) Balanced workforce supply and demand
C) Understaffing
D) Frequent layoffs
  • 9. Human Resource Planning (HRP) is BEST defined as:
A) Forecasting and managing workforce needs
B) Training employees only
C) Hiring employees immediately
D) Evaluating employee performance
  • 10. Workforce productivity improves when:
A) Employees are randomly assigned
B) Training is ignored
C) Employees are placed in suitable roles
D) Hiring is limited
  • 11. Which concept is defined as the process of identifying and developing employees to fill key positions in the future?
A) Workforce Analysis
B) Manpower Planning
C) Staffing
D) Succession Planning
  • 12. Labor cost control is achieved when:
A) Training is avoided
B) Workforce supply matches demand
C) Workforce is unmanaged
D) Hiring is unlimited
  • 13. Which term refers to the systematic process of analyzing current human resources and forecasting future workforce needs to achieve organizational goals?
A) Performance Appraisal
B) Human Resource Planning
C) Recruitment
D) Job Analysis
  • 14. Which situation shows effective workforce planning?
A) Ignoring workforce gaps
B) Planned recruitment before expansion
C) Sudden hiring due to shortages
D) Random employee placement
  • 15. Which is a result of poor HRP?

    High productivity
A) Increased labor costs
B) Balanced workforce
C) Efficient operations
D) High productivity
  • 16. A company reduces overtime expenses through proper workforce planning. This demonstrates HRP's role in:
A) Productivity
B) Cost reduction
C) Training
D) Recruitment
  • 17. HRP helps organizations respond to change by:
A) Reducing flexibility
B) Maintaining status quo
C) Ignoring trends
D) Adapting workforce plans
  • 18. HRP ensures continuity of operations by:
A) Avoiding promotions
B) Ignoring employee turnover
C) Planning replacements in advance
D) Reducing workforce
  • 19. Which reflects effective HRP in a growing organization?
A) Timely hiring of qualified staff
B) Frequent labor shortages
C) Lack of training
D) Excess workforce
  • 20. An organization fails to adapt to technological change due to lack of skilled employees. This indicates failure in:
A) HR planning
B) Production
C) Recruitment
D) Marketing
  • 21. HRP helps improve employee utilization by:
A) Reducing workforce
B) Assigning random tasks
C) Ignoring competencies
D) Matching skills with job roles
  • 22. HRP improves efficiency by:
A) Random hiring
B) Optimal workforce allocation
C) Reducing planning
D) Overstaffing
  • 23. Which BEST summarizes the importance of HRP?
A) Hiring employees only
B) Reducing employees
C) Managing workforce needs systematically for organizational success
D) Training workers only
  • 24. A company experiences high turnover due to lack of career growth. Which HRP importance was neglected?
A) Workforce supply
B) Career development
C) Cost reduction
D) Demand forecasting
  • 25. HRP helps avoid labor surplus by:

    Monitoring workforce needs
A) Ignoring supply
B) Reducing planning
C) Over hiring
D) Monitoring workforce needs
  • 26. A company experiences high turnover due to lack of career growth. Which HRP importance was neglected?
A) Demand forecasting
B) Cost reduction
C) Workforce supply
D) Career development
  • 27. Which HR function focuses on improving employees' skills and knowledge?
A) Selection
B) Training and Development
C) Compensation
D) Recruitment
  • 28. Which HR function involves choosing the most qualified applicant from a pool of candidates?
A) Selection
B) Training
C) Recruitment
D) Appraisal
  • 29. Which concept involves maintaining positive relationships between employees and management?

    Labor Relations
A) Selection
B) job design
C) Recruitment
D) Labor Relations
  • 30. Which concept involves identifying job duties, responsibilities, and required qualifications?
A) Job Analysis
B) Recruitment
C) Job Evaluation
D) Training
  • 31. Which term refers to the process of attracting qualified candidates to apply for a job?
A) Orientation
B) Placement
C) Selection
D) Recruitment
  • 32. Which term refers to the overall process of managing people in an organization, including recruitment, training, and performance management?
A) Workforce Analysis
B) Human Resource Planning
C) Organizational Development
D) Human Resource Management
  • 33. Which term refers to the systematic evaluation of employee performance?
A) Placement
B) Recruitment
C) Job Analysis
D) Performance Appraisal
  • 34. Which term refers to the total rewards given to employees, including salary, benefits, and incentives?
A) Motivation
B) Compensation
C) Evaluation
D) Training
  • 35. Which process introduces newly hired employees to the organization, its policies, and their roles?
A) Training
B) Recruitment
C) Evaluation
D) Orientation
  • 36. Which term refers to designing jobs to improve efficiency and employee satisfaction?
A) Job Analysis
B) Workforce Planning
C) Job Evaluation
D) Job Design
  • 37. Team-building activities enhance:
A) Costs
B) Conflict
C) Cooperation
D) Turnover
  • 38. HRP helps organizations respond to change by:
A) Adapting workforce plans
B) Maintaining status quo
C) Reducing flexibility
D) Ignoring trends
  • 39. The use of structured interviews primarily aims to:
A) Improve payroll accuracy
B) Ensure fairness and consistency
C) Reduce training costs
D) Increase turnover
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