Answer ALL the questions. Each question carries one (1) mark.
Choose the best alternative answer.
1. A staff management strategy that hires management from home country to manage a nonhome
country operation is known as the ______________.
a) Ethnocentric Approach
b) Geocentric Approach
c) Polycentric Approach
d) Nationalistic Approach
2. The following are basic components of an organisation except_____________.
a) People
b) Purpose
c) Structure
d) Infrastructure
3. Performance Appraisal is a primary HRM process that links employees and organizations
and provides input for other processes through the following: ___________.
a) Assessment, Direction, Development
b) Identification, Measurement, Management
c) Recruitment, Selection, On boarding
d) Skill, Effort, Responsibility
4. Groups can be rewarded in a “Pay for Performance” plan in all of the following ways
except__________________.
a) Gain sharing
b) Bonus
c) Merit
d) Awards
5. Protections and privileges negotiated for, and provided by, a legal and binding contract
(e.g., union contract, employment contract, etc) for employees are called____________.
a) Statutory Rights
b) Privileged Rights
c) Psychological Contracts
d) Contractual Rights
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6. Phase of Career Development which is focused on helping employees to identify strengths
and weaknesses that may affect future performance is the_____________.
a) Direction Phase
b) Assessment Phase
c) Development Phase
d) Training Phase
7. Pay-For-Performance System _______________________.
a) Seeks to acknowledge differences in employee or group contributions
b) Responds to the fact that organizational performance is a function of individual or group
performance
c) Uses pay to attract, retain and motivate employees relative to their performance and
contribution
d) All of the Above
8. A cultural dimension that affects the success of HRM practices in most countries where
relative emphasis is on hierarchical status is called_____________.
a) Individualism
b) Power Distance
c) Uncertainty Avoidance
d) Masculinity/Feminity
9. Which of the following may affect the quality of performance measurement results in a
performance appraisal?
a) Rater error and bias (halo, range restriction, personal bias, and comparability)
b) Influence of”liking”
c) Organizational politics
d) All of the above
10. All of the following are ways for information dissemination to occur except__________.
a) Employee Handbooks
b) Employee Websites
c) Employee Attitude Surveys
d) HR Websites
1. a) Ethnocentric Approach
2. d) Infrastructure
3. b) Identification, Measurement, Management
4. c) Merit
5. d) Contractual Rights
6. b) Assessment Phase
7. d) All of the Above
8. b) Power Distance
9. d) All of the above
10. c) Employee Attitude Surveys