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Workforce Intelligence Planning MCQ

Where has the term Strategic Workforce Planning been most commonly used?

In the US and OECD countries

In the UK

In China

In Russia

Answer

Correct Answer: In the US and OECD countries

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Which academic discipline is WIP most likely to be located in?

Marketing

Sociology

Strategic Human Resource Management

Answer

Correct Answer: Strategic Human Resource Management

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What major difficulty have HR directorates encountered when they have been told to implement WIP?

They have not been adequately trained to work on a system that is integrated with Business and Finance plans

They have not been given access to IT systems

They only want to work on recruitment related issues

They are not interested in the strategic aims of the organisation

Answer

Correct Answer: They have not been adequately trained to work on a system that is integrated with Business and Finance plans

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Why has WIP been viewed mainly as consultancy?

Consultants are employed to implement WIP in organisations

The implementation of WIP is very easy

WIP has lacked an academic base of evidence-based research studies and robust evaluation methodology

Organisations do not work with academics to plan their workforce

Answer

Correct Answer: WIP has lacked an academic base of evidence-based research studies and robust evaluation methodology

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. What types of workforce behaviours are very important to the successful implementation of WIP?

Union participation

Senior and middle management leadership support, staff engagement and staff motivation*

Poor participation of staff

Poor leadership support

Answer

Correct Answer: Senior and middle management leadership support, staff engagement and staff motivation*

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What is horizon planning?

Planning for expansion

Evaluating a plan that has been implemented

Planning for a workforce by using search engines and internal/external intelligence to understand workforce demographics, skill and behavioural needs, workforce trends and changes in society

Mapping occasions on the horizon

Answer

Correct Answer: Planning for a workforce by using search engines and internal/external intelligence to understand workforce demographics, skill and behavioural needs, workforce trends and changes in society

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Why did workforce planning lose credibility?

The numbers were calculated incorrectly

It failed to predict the economic downturn of the 1980s

Organisations lost interest in planning for their workforce

Organisations did not have staff with the right skills to work on number crunching exercises

Answer

Correct Answer: It failed to predict the economic downturn of the 1980s

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When did WIP emerge as a concept?

Prior to workforce planning

At the same time as workforce planning

As a development to workforce planning to show the importance of behaviours as well as skills, and intelligence planning

In conjunction with manpower planning

Answer

Correct Answer: As a development to workforce planning to show the importance of behaviours as well as skills, and intelligence planning

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. Which part of the organisation is most likely to deliver WIP?

The sales team

The finance department

The HR directorate

The production team

Answer

Correct Answer: The HR directorate

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. What does strategic workforce planning (SWP) add to the concept of WIP?

A recognition of the cost of the workforce

A design of new uniforms

A service delivery package

A new work station design

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Correct Answer: A recognition of the cost of the workforce

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What type of plan does workforce intelligence inform?

The organisation’s strategic business and finance plan

A local planner’s document

A plan of offices

A consultancy plan

Answer

Correct Answer: The organisation’s strategic business and finance plan

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What is workforce intelligence planning (WIP)?

A manpower planning design

A business planning system for organisations to have the right people, with the right skills and behaviours, in the right place at the right time

A number crunching exercise

A building design in organisations

Answer

Correct Answer: A business planning system for organisations to have the right people, with the right skills and behaviours, in the right place at the right time

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