Human Resource Management (Skill Development) MCQ Questions Answers

1. Three types of inattentional blindness include all of the following except __________.

2. Evidence shows that in manufacturing, _____ is positively correlated with hourly wage level.

3. A passive job seeker is one who _____.

4. Project management _____ describe the key competencies that project managers must develop.

5. One way to think of management is ___.

6. Marketing, engineering, and manufacturing departments are examples of __________ organizations.

7. Jargon can be very useful for communication ________.

8. In a(n) _____ organization, important decisions usually are made at the top.

9. Frederick taylor proposed ____.

10. Enterprise incentive management systems enable firms to ________.

11. Decentralization ____.

12. Control and _____ have been called the siamese twins of management.

13. A(n) ____ is responsible for coordinating the activities of several departments.

14. The u. s. federal government's pay structure is based upon _____ job evaluation system.

15. A job task is a(n)________.

16. Trade Blocs refers to groups of countries that form an association for the purpose of facilitating _____ across national borders.

17. Parochialism is a narrow-minded view of the world with an ability to recognize individual differences.

18. The process of hiring another organization to do work that was previously done within the host organization is known as Outsourcing.

19. The process of shuttering operations in other countries and not bringing work back to the home country is known as Onshoring.

20. An employee who leaves their home country to go work in another country is known as_____

21. Electronic Performance Monitoring is the process of observing ongoing employee actions using _____

22. Our basic concepts of good and bad, or right and wrong are known as_____

23. Sustainability means _____

24. The obligation to answer for something or someone—the duty to carry out an assignment to a satisfactory conclusion is known as_____

25. Principles are the Basic application of our_____

26. Innovation is the act of creating useful processes or products based on _____ thought processes.

27. Glass Ceiling is the thought that there are invisible barriers to advancement in business to _____

28. Ethics is the application of a set of _____ in order to make the right, or good, choice.

29. The existence of differences—in HRM, is known as_____

30. The ability to find many possible solutions to a particular problem, including ______

31. Creativity is a basic ability to think in ______ ways and apply those thought processes to existing problems.

32. The concept that organizations have a duty to all societal stakeholders to operate in a manner that takes each of their needs into account is known as Corporate Social Responsibility.

33. The act of being opposed to another is known as_____

34. An intent and desire for group members to stick together in their actions is known as_____

35. Authority is the right to _____and commit resources toward completing organizational goals.

36. Affirmative Action is a series of _____ that have been instituted by various entities within both government and the private sector that are designed to prefer hiring of individuals from protected groups in certain circumstances in an attempt to mitigate past discrimination.

37. The personal duty to someone else for the effective use of resources to complete an assignment is known as_____

38. Workplace Security is the management of _____ in order to protect them.

39. The physical protection of people from injury or illness while on the job is known as_____

40. Stressors are the factors that may, if extreme, cause people to feel overwhelmed by _____

41. The body’s reaction to environmental demands is known as_____

42. Safety Data Sheets are the documents that provide information on_____

43. EWPs are the plans designed to cater to the employee’s psychological, instead of physical, welfare through education and training programs.

44. According to OSHA, “the science of fitting workplace conditions and job demands to the capabilities of the working population” is called Ergonomics.

45. Employee Health is the state of_____ wellness in the workforce.

46. EAP is a set of counseling and other services provided to employees that help them to resolve _____ issues that may affect their work.

47. Cybersecurity is the use of tools and processes to protect organizational _____

48. Burnout is the constant lack of _____ to perform one’s job.

49. Worker’s Compensation is an insurance program designed to provide medical treatment and temporary payments to employees who cannot work because of _____

50. Vesting is a maximum amount of time beyond which the employee will have unfettered access to their _____ funds.

51. A review of the cost of a program and comparison of program costs with the rate of the program’s usage by the members of the company is known as_____

52. Insurance that provides workers who lose their jobs with continuing subsistence payments from their state for a specified period of time is called as Unemployment Insurance.

53. Traditional Health Care Plans are the plans that cover a set percentage of fees for medical services—for _____

54. Serious Health Condition is an illness, injury, impairment, or physical or mental condition that involves either inpatient care or continuing care for at least _____ consecutive days.

55. Primary Care Physician is the first point of contact for _____

56. PPOS is a kind of hybrid between traditional fee-for-service plans and _____

57. PBGC is a governmental corporation established within the _____ whose purpose is to insure retirement funds from failure.

58. HSA is a plan allowing the employer and employee to fund a medical savings account from which the employee can pay medical expenses each year with _____ dollars.

59. HMO is a health care plan that provides_____as part of the plan.

60. _____ is a “major medical” insurance plan that protects against catastrophic health care costs and, in most cases, is paid for by the employer.

61. Experience Rating is a measure of how often claims are made against an _____ policy.

62. Individuals who are not legally married but who are in a one-to-one living arrangement similar to marriage are called as Domestic Partners.

63. Defined-Contribution Plan is a plan providing only the amount of funds that will go into a retirement account,and what the employee will receive upon retirement.

64. A plan providing the retiree with a specific amount and type of benefits that will be available when the individual retires is known as_____

65. COBRA is a law that requires employers to offer to maintain _____ on individuals who leave their employment.

66. Variable Pay is the compensation that depends on _____ in order to be awarded.

67. Social Loafers are the individuals who _____ in group settings.

68. Programs that provide a portion of company proceeds over a specific period of time that is_____

69. Prerequisites are extra _____ benefits usually provided to top employees in many businesses.

70. Merit Pay is a program to reward top performers with increases in their _____ wage that carry over from year to year.

71. Individual Incentives are the incentives that reinforce performance of a single person or a group.

72. Group Incentives are the incentives that provide reinforcement for actions of one individual within the organization.

73. Golden Parachutes refers to provision for _____ who are dismissed from a merged or acquired firm of typically large lump-sum payments on dismissal.

74. Valued returns to the individual in exchange for doing something that the organization desires of the employee refers to _____

75. Something that the employee feels they have a right to receive from the company is known as_____

76. A payment typically provided to a salesperson for selling an item to a customer is known as______

77. A lump-sum payment, typically given to an individual at the end of a time period is known as_____

78. When new employees require _____ starting pay than the historical norm it is called Wage Compression.

79. Rate Range is the_____ of pay for a certain group of jobs.

80. Pay Structure is _____ within the organization.

81. Overtime is higher-than-minimum, federally mandated wage required for _____ if they work more than a certain number of hours in a week.

82. The lowest _____ rate of pay generally permissible by federal law is called as Minimum Wage.

83. The process of determining the worth of each position relative to the other positions within the organization is known as_____

84. Expectancy Theory is the theory proposing that employees are motivated when they believe they can accomplish a task and that the rewards for doing so are worth the effort.

85. Theory that employees are motivated when the ratio of their perceived outcomes to inputs is at least roughly equal to that of other referent individuals is known as_____

86. Delayering is the process of changing the company structure to get rid of some of the_____ in an organization.

87. Anything that an employee may value and desire and that the employer is willing and able to offer in exchange is known as Compensation System.

88. Compensation is the total of an employee’s_____

89. Combining multiple pay levels into one is known as_____

90. Wrongful Discharge means terminating an individual employee for an illegal reason, due to violation in _____

91. Whistle-Blower is an individual who tells an authoritative organization outside the individual’s own company about actions within the company that the individual believes to be illegal.

92. Trust means faith in the _____ of another.

93. Strike is a collective work stoppage by members of a union that is intended to put pressure on _____

94. Paraphrasing is the process of restating a message back to the original sender in the _____

95. A process in which two or more parties in conflict attempt to come to an agreement is known as_____

96. Mediator is a neutral third party who helps resolve a conflict and has authority to impose a solution to the conflict.

97. Labor Relations are the interactions between management and _____

98. Grievance is a formal complaint concerning _____

99. Information provided by the receiver that verifies that a message was transmitted successfully is known as_____

100. Communication is the process of transmitting _____