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Workforce Intelligence Planning MCQ

Workforce Intelligence Planning MCQ

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

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Correct Answer: In the US and OECD countries

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

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Correct Answer: Strategic Human Resource Management

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

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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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4. Why has WIP been viewed mainly as consultancy?

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

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

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

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6. What is horizon planning?

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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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7. Why did workforce planning lose credibility?

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

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8. When did WIP emerge as a concept?

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

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Correct Answer: The HR directorate

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

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Correct Answer: A recognition of the cost of the workforce

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11. What type of plan does workforce intelligence inform?

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

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12. What is workforce intelligence planning (WIP)?

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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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