Staffing Question Bank
Q What is staffing?
Q What is the relationship of organization and staffing functions?
Q What is the importance of staffing?
Q What is the relationship between Staffing function and Human Resource Management?
Q What do you mean by Human Resource Management?
Q What are the main activities of Human Resource Management?
Q Explain the steps of staffing.
Q What is manpower planning?
Q What is job analysis?
Q What do you mean by recruitment?
Q What are the types of sources of Recruitment?
Q What is internal recruitment?
Q What is external recruitment?
Q Write the elements of recruitment process.
Q What is selection?
Q What are the steps in the process of selection of employees?
Q What are the two approaches of selection?
Q Define :placement, orientation, training, promotion, test, interview, development.
Q What is the purpose of interview?
Q What are the objectives of tests?
Q What is the need of training?
Q Differentiate between training and development.
Q What are the types of training methods: on-the-job methods and off-the-job methods?
Q What are the advantages and disadvantages of on-the-job training methods and off-the job training methods?
Q Define the terms: compensation, pay, benefits, Incentives, bonus and premium.
Q What are the main objectives of an incentive plan?
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Q Which function of management helps in obtaining right people and putting them on the right jobs?
Q It implies introducing the selected employees to other employees and familiarizing him with the rules and policies of the organization. Name it.
Q “Internal sources of recruitment are better than external sources of recruitment”.
Q Do you agree with this statement. Give any two reasons in support of your answer.
Q Hitesh is working as a supervisor in a company. Due to his hard work he is promoted to the post of Production Manager. Now the post of supervisor is vacant and no one can be transferred or promoted to this post. Name the source of recruitment the company will use to fill up this post. State any three advantages of using this source of recruitment.
Q Which source of requirement is needed to bring new blood in the organization? Explain any three advantages of this source.
Q It is the process of identifying and choosing the best person out of a number of prospective candidates for a job. Name it.
Q Which steps in the process of selection helps the manager to eliminate unqualified or unfit job seekers based on the information supplied in the application forms.
Q It is the process of increasing the knowledge and skills of an employee for doing a particular job. Which process is referring to here.
Q What helps the employees in improving their job knowledge and efficiency.
Q Which type of training is a joint programme of training in which educational institution and business firms cooperate?
Q Trainee is put under the guidance of a master worker to require a higher level of skill. For example, to become plumber, electrician etc. Which method of training is referred here.
Q In which type of training, employees learn their jobs on the equipment they will be using, but the training is conducted away from the actual work floor. Explain two other methods relating to this.
Q “There is no need of human resource planning as so many people are available in the market these days” do you agree with this statement? Give reasons.
Q “A newly appointed personnel manager is of the view that there is no need for training the workers”. Do you agree with his views? Give reasons in support of your answer.
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Write the values followed or ignored in the following cases:(Not in CBSE pattern now.)
Q A personnel manager while selecting new employees appoints only those persons who fulfills his personal requirement directly or indirectly.
Q In an organization the female employees are getting promotion late as compared to male employees.
Q An employee has been terminated due to a small mistake without hearing him, while the other one was not terminated on the same mistake.
Q An automobile Company runs a factory in a backward area. It has opened a training center to train the people.
Q An organization places an advertisement for employment mentioning some terms there in. those terms are not followed during selection of employee.
Q A production manager pays less than the minimum wages and gets their signatures on minimum wages.
Q While taking the interview, a manager in Human Resource management did not follow steps of selection process, as candidate was his cousin.
Q In selection process Human Resource management rejected 95 applications of candidates out of 100 applications and selected five most competent and suitable candidates for organization.
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Q In what ways ‘External Sources of Recruitment’ affects the social values of existing employees?
Q A company proposes a salary structure in its advertisement but later follows a completely different salary structure i.e. less than quoted. What kind of reactions will it evoke?
Q Transfer is used as a tool to threaten employees.
Q There is favoritism shown by some senior executives, in terms of promotion, hike in salary, granting of leave.
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MCQs from CBSE Sample Papers:
Choose the statement that correctly highlights the benefit of using external sources of recruitment.
- *Competitive spirit among the existing staff
- Reduction in employee turnover
- Helps in increasing employee satisfaction
- Develops a sense of security amongst employees
‘Joining a job marks the beginning of socialisation of employees at the workplace. The employee should be given a post for which he has been selected.’ Place the subsequent steps of staffing in a small organisation in the correct order:
- Training and development, promotion and career planning, performance appraisal, compensation
- Performance appraisal, training and development, promotion and career planning, compensation
- *Training and development, performance appraisal, promotion and career planning, compensation
- Training and development, performance appraisal, compensation, promotion and career planning
Shiwa kumar runs a legal consultancy firm in Chhattisgarh. Whenever the firm hires new employees, on the first day of joining, they are welcomed to the organisation and are given details about the dress code, lunch timings, introduction to daily operations and fellow colleagues. They are also familiarised with the organisational policies and procedures, emergency exits, evacuation procedure, etc. Name the type of training which is provided by Shiwa kumar in his firm.
- Apprenticeship training
- Vestibule training
- *Induction training
- Internship training
Case-based Question
Read the following text and answer the following questions on the basis of the same:
Mr. Vikas Goel is an H.R. Manager of “Khanduja Furniture Private Limited.” At the beginning of the new year he anticipated that the company will need 30 new additional persons to fill up different vacancies. He gave an advertisement in the newspaper inviting applications for filling up different vacant posts. As many as 120 applications were received. The same were scrutinized. Out of these, conditions of 15 applicants were not acceptable to the company. Letters of regret, giving reasons, were sent to them. Remaining candidates were called for preliminary interview. The candidates called for were asked to fill up blank application forms. Thereafter, they were given four tests. The objective of the first test was to find out how much interest the applicant takes in his work. The objective of the second test was to find out ‘specialization’ of the applicant in any particular area.
Third test aimed at making sure whether the applicant was capable of learning through training or not. The purpose of the fourth test was to find out how much capability a person has to mix-up with other persons, and whether he can influence other persons and get influenced by them.
Q.1 The purpose of the fourth test was to find out how much capability a person has to mix-up with other persons, and whether he can influence other persons and get influenced by them. Which test is indicated in this situation.
- *Personality Test
- Intelligent Tests
- Aptitude Test
- Trade Test
Q.2 At the beginning of the new year he anticipated that the company will need 30 new additional persons to fill up different vacancies. Identify the first step of staffing.
- Placement and Orientation
- Training and Development
- Recruitment
- *Estimating Manpower Requirement
Q.3 From the given lines, ‘Out of these, conditions of 15 applicants were not acceptable to the company.’ Letters of regret, giving reasons, were sent to them. Which aspect of staffing is highlighted in the statement?
- Recruitment
- *Selection
- Training
- Education
Q.4 The applicants were given four tests like intelligent test to interest test after filling up blank application form. Identify which step of selection process was followed by the management.
- Selection Decision
- *Selection Tests
- Job Offer
- Medical Examination
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MCQs from CBSE Question Papers:
Question:
‘V.K. Public School’ had a vacancy for an English teacher for Class XII. After preliminary screening of the applications, they shortlisted 10 candidates. Now, the school management asked the candidates to give a demonstration lesson related to the curriculum of Class XII. The purpose of these demonstration lessons was to measure the existing teaching skills of the candidates and proficiency in the area of profession. Identify the type of selection test used by ‘V.K. Public School’ in the above case:
- Aptitude test
- Intelligence test
- *Trade test
- Personality test
MCQs to Revise Business Studies Class 12
Staffing – Function of Management
Staffing – Keywords and Brief Notes
Recruitment
Staffing Function
Training