Answer ALL questions. Each question carries ONE (1) mark.
State whether each of the following statements is TRUE or FALSE.
1) Supply forecasting involves obtaining information on anticipated changes in the supply of
staff, by taking into account-anticipated losses of existing staff.
2) Human resources plans involve making action plans to deal with forecast deficits or
surpluses.
3) Right sizing through lateral transfers and re-deployments deals with staff shortages.
4) Recruitment, which is a process which involves identifying and attracting applicants for
current and future jobs, is relevant to human resources planning in several ways.
5) One – on – one interviews are widely used in private and public organisations.
6) Job knowledge questions are questions that approximate the content of the job.
7) Halo effect involves interviewers who allow limited information about an applicant to bias
their evaluation of the candidate.
8) Once the hiring decision is made, managers and the HR department should help the new
employee to fit by familiarizing the employee with his or her new role, the organisation,
its policies and other employees.
9) Reliability refers to the extent to which a process or result can be replicated.
10) Quantification is the extent to which an analysis measures what it was designed to measure.
1) TRUE
2) TRUE
3) FALSE
4) TRUE
5) TRUE
6) TRUE
7) TRUE
8) TRUE
9) TRUE
10) TRUE