Job Analysis, Design, and Employment Forecasting MCQ
Job Analysis, Design, and Employment Forecasting MCQ
1. ______ analysis is the process of reviewing historical data and calculating specific proportions between a business factor (such as production) and the number of employees needed.
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Ratio
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2. ______ utilizes mathematics to forecast future events based on historical data.
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Quantitative forecast
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3. ______ identifies the estimated supply and demand for the different types of human resources in the organization over some future period, based on the analysis of past and present demand.
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HR forecasting
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4. ______ is the process of eliminating or combining tasks and/or changing the work sequence to improve performance.
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Job simplification
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5. Caleb, Mike, and Owen share one whole job, including the workload and benefits of the job. This arrangement is referred to as ______-sharing.
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Work (or job)
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6. Lily plans to give her employees more discretion to make decisions in planning, organizing, and controlling their tasks. Which aspect of the job characteristics model is Lily trying to change for her employees?
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Autonomy
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7. A ______ is a conceptual framework for designing or enriching jobs based on core job characteristics.
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Job characteristics model
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8. ______ refers to designing jobs by focusing on the job characteristics that affect the psychological meaning and motivational potential of the job; this approach views attitudinal variables as the most important outcomes of job design.
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Motivational job design
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9. ______ refers to designing jobs around the concepts of task specialization, skill simplification, and repetition.
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Mechanistic job design
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10. ______ identifies the major tasks, duties, and responsibilities that are components of a job.
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Job description
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11. Oliver gives Addison, who has held the position of loan counselor for 12 years, a questionnaire to complete as part of a job analysis. In this scenario, Addison is the ______.
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Incumbent
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12. ______ analysis is the process used to identify the work performed and the working conditions for each of the jobs within our organizations.
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Job
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13. ______ would be found in a job specification.
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Knowledge required to do the job
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14. Numbers and types of employees, monetary requirements, materials, and equipment make up the ______ in a workflow analysis.
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Resource inputs
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15. produce a product or service.
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Workflow
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16. Workflow analysis use to identify what has to be done within the organization to produce a product or service
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True
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17. A process of reviewing historical items such as revenues and relating changes in those items to some business factor to form a predictive chart is known as
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Trend analysis
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18. Which technique identifies the relationship between a series of variable data points for use in forecasting future variables?
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Regression analysis
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19. The process of reviewing historical data and calculating specific proportions between a business factor and the number of employees needed is known as
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Ratio analysis
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20. Utilizing mathematics to forecast future events based on historical data.this statement related to
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Quantitative forecast
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21. Qualitative forecasting uses _______ to forecast the future, usually based on the knowledge of a pool of experts in a subject or an industry.
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Non quantitative methods
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22. Define Perceptual-motor job design
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Designing jobs with tasks that remain within the worker’s normal mental capabilities and limitations.
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23. Designing jobs by focusing on the job characteristics that affect the psychological meaning and motivational potential of the job is known as
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Motivational job design
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24. Designing jobs around the concepts of task specialization, skill simplification, and repetition is known as
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Mechanistic job design
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25. Layoff is a process of terminating a group of employees with intent to improve organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
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True
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26. Identification of the qualifications of a person who should be capable of doing the job tasks noted in the job description is known as
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Job specification
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27. Job simplification is the process of ______ and/or changing the work sequence to improve performance.
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Eliminating or combining tasks
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28. The process of making jobs broader, with less repetition. Jobs can be expanded through rotation, enlargement, and enrichment is known as
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Job expansion
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29. The process of identifying tasks that each employee is responsible for completing, as well as identifying how those tasks will be accomplished is known as
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Job design
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30. Which job identifies the major tasks, duties, and responsibilities that are components of a job?
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Job analysis
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31. A conceptual framework for designing or enriching jobs based on core job characteristics is known as
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Job characteristics model
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32. _______ process used to identify the work performed and the working conditions for each of the jobs within our organizations.
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Job analysis
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33. HR forecasting Identifying the estimated supply and demand for the different types of human resources in the organization over some future period, based on analysis of past and present demand.
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True
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34. In which designing jobs focusing on minimizing the physical strain on the worker by structuring the physical work environment around the way the body works
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Biological job design
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