Human Resource Management Functions Questions and Answers

Answer: C

The ethnocentric orientation is home country oriented (iii); the polycentric is outward oriented, following “when in Rome, do as the Romans” (iv); the regiocentric adopts synergistic strategies across a geographic region (i); and the geocentric creates an integrated system with a world-wide approach (ii). The code is iii, iv, i, ii.

The other codes mismatch the descriptions: for example the first gives the ethnocentric organisation the integrated world-wide approach, which belongs to the geocentric one.

Answer: B

Job evaluation methods are ranking, grading (classification), the point method and factor comparison. Forced distribution is a method of performance appraisal, in which employees are placed in fixed performance categories, so it is not a job evaluation method. The other three options are standard methods of job evaluation.

Answer: C

Outsourcing means contracting out work, which was done within the organisation, to other organisations that specialise in it. It does not mean retrenching surplus employees, offering voluntary retirement or slowing production. So contracting out the work to other organisations is the correct meaning.

Answer: C

The five steps of BARS are: collect critical incidents (b), identify the performance dimensions (a), re-classify the incidents (d), rate the incidents (c), and develop the final instrument (e). The order is b, a, d, c, e, the third option. The other orders start with re-classification or rating before the dimensions are identified, which is not how the scale is built.