Quiz

Quizzes are available to test your understanding of the key concepts covered in each chapter.

1. Which of the following is not a means of assessing labour turnover

  1. wastage analysis
  2. cohort analysis
  3. stability analysis
  4. transfer analysis

Ans: D

2. Which of the following is not associated with a humanist approach to job design

  1. job enlargementob rotation
  2. job enrichment
  3. job specification

Ans: D

3. Those employees left in an organisation following a redundancy programme are often referred to as

  1. remainders
  2. survivors
  3. perishers
  4. lucky

Ans: B

4. HR planning is often argued to be most appropriate in environments characterised by which of the following characteristics

  1. unpredictability
  2. stability
  3. complexity
  4. change

Ans: B

5. HR planning is argued by Taylor (2008) to be particularly appropriate for which of the following types of organisation

  1. public sector organisations
  2. small to medium-sized enterprises
  3. multinationals
  4. knowledge-intensive firms

Ans: A