HRM MCQs with Answers – Human Resource Management – Page 20

Question 381 Performance Management and Appraisal

A lower appraisal rating caused by gender discrimination is an example of what?

Correct answer A. Bias

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Question 382 Training and Developing Employees

At which stage of Lewin’s change process does the manager ensure the organisation does not slip back into past practices?

Correct answer D. Refreezing stage

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Question 383 Performance Management and Appraisal

What is the situation called when subordinates collude to give each other high ratings?

Correct answer B. Logrolling

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Question 384 Training and Developing Employees

What is training employees while they are doing their job called?

Correct answer B. On the job training

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Question 385 Performance Management and Appraisal

What is the advantage of the BARS system?

Correct answer D. Providing behavioural anchors

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Question 386 Training and Developing Employees

Behaving ethically is included in which category of competencies?

Correct answer A. Personal competencies

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Question 387 Performance Management and Appraisal

In the basic approach to appraisal, an employee’s current performance is compared with what?

Correct answer C. Set standards

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Question 388 Training and Developing Employees

For what is the controlled experimentation technique used?

Correct answer C. Designing of evaluation

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Question 389 Performance Management and Appraisal

What is one aim of performance appraisal?

Correct answer B. Motivate the employee

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Question 390 Training and Developing Employees

What is a single diagram summarising the knowledge, skills and behaviours needed for a job called?

Correct answer B. Competency model

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Question 391 Performance Management and Appraisal

What is performance management always?

Correct answer B. Goal oriented

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Question 392 Training and Developing Employees

Work design is an example of which type of intervention?

Correct answer B. Techno structural interventions

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Question 393 Performance Management and Appraisal

The alternation ranking method is usually classified under which appraisal question?

Correct answer A. “How you are measuring performance”

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Question 394 Training and Developing Employees

Survey research is an example of what?

Correct answer D. Human process intervention

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Question 395 Training and Developing Employees

What is the basis of organisational development?

Correct answer D. Action research

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Question 396 Performance Management and Appraisal

What is the disadvantage of the management by objectives (MBO) method?

Correct answer D. Time consuming

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Question 397 Performance Management and Appraisal

What is evaluating an employee’s performance against set standards called?

Correct answer C. Performance appraisal

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Question 398 Performance Management and Appraisal

Which type of appraisal interview typically involves offering an occasional ‘well done’ to maintain performance?

Correct answer A. Satisfactory-not promotable interview

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Question 399 Performance Management and Appraisal

According to management guru W. Edwards Deming, what is an employee’s performance the result of?

Correct answer D. Both A and B

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Question 400 Performance Management and Appraisal

What is the advantage of the graphic rating scale method?

Correct answer A. Simple to use

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