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UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT
SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
(2019 Admn. onwards)
V Semester
B B A – (HRM) SPECIALISATION
HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING &
DEVELOPMENT
Question BAnK & AnsweR KeY
Choose the correct Answer from the bracket.
1. ……..is the process of forecasting an organisations future demand for, and supply of, the right type of
people in the right number.
a. Human Resource Planning
b. Recruitments
c. Human Resource Management
d. Human Capital Management
2. Which of the following factors state the importance of the Human Resource Planning?
a. Creating highly talented personnel
b. International strategies
c. Resistance to change and move
d. All of the above
3. A process that is used for identifying and developing internal people with the potential to fill key
business leadership positions in the company is called
a. Highly talented personnel creation
b. Investing in human resources
c. Succession planning
d. None of the above
4. What is the major issue faced while doing personal planning?
a. Type of information which should be used in making forecasts
b. Types of people to be hired
c. Multiple positions to be filled
d. All of the above
5. …….refers to the manpower /employees working in an organisation at different levels.
a. Dealers

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b. Clients
c. Personnel
d. Rival
6. . Human Resource Planning refers to the process of estimating manpower needs.
a. Past
b. Current
c. Obsolete
d. Future
7. Job Specification & Job Description are the components of
a. Job Search
b. Job Design
c. Job skill
d. Job Analysis
8. A statement of minimum acceptable human qualities necessary to perform a job is referred as
a. Job design
b. Recruitment
c. Selection
d. Job specification
9. …..is the process of increasing the scope of the job by adding two or more jobsinto a single one.
a. Attrition
b. Job enlargement
c. Job enrichment
d. Selection
10. ……represents the first contact that company makes with potential employees.
a. Training
b. Selection
c. Appraisals
d. Recruitment
11. Human Resource Planning refers to the process of estimating manpower needs
a. Past
b. Current
c. Obsolete
d. Future
12. …..may be defined as a process of increasing knowledge, skills & capabilities of people at work
a. Performance appraisal
b. Selection
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c. Human resource development

d. Human resource planning
13. ….stands for the forward looking employment policies of the organisation.
a. Layoff
b. Career planning
c. Attrition
d. None
14….. is a process by which individuals are scanned to pass on the leadership role within a company
a. Career planning
b. Manpower planning
c. Succession planning
d. None
15. This gives details about the name of the job, qualification, qualities required and work conditions etc
a. Job Analysis
b. Job selection
c. Job specification
d. Job description
16. The human resource planning is done based on the
a. Market condition
b. Financial condition
c. External environment
d. Organisational Plan
5. 17. Resistance from employees is __________ to HRP
a. Objective
b. advantage
c. scope
d. Disadvantage
6. 18. Which one of the following is not a part of Process of Human resource planning
a. Analyzing existing HR
b. Implementation of HR plan
c. recruitment
d. Analysing organisational objective
19. __________ involves a collection of job related information
a. Job Description
b. Job analysis
c. Job designing
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d. None of the above

20. Job Description doesn’t contain detail about
a. Educational qualification
b. Job summary
c. Location
d. Working Condition
21. Job Description includes information regarding supervision
a. Given
b. Received
c. Both A & B
d. Neither A nor B
22. …….. Accounting helps in creating goodwill for an organisation.
a. Valuation of goodwill
b. Financial accounting.
c. IPR accounting
d. HR accounting
23. In TQM suppliers are treated as ……..
a. Enemies
b. Partners
c. Managers
d. Outside parties

24. Which method of job analysis is more suitable for the middle and top level management jobs
and not for the lower level jobs?
a. Position analysis questionnaire
b. Functional job analysis
c. Critical incident technique
d. Diary method
25. Which of the following are uses of job analysis
a. Organization audit
b. Promotion and transfer
c. Health and safety
d. All of the above
26. The three main costs incurred under ……cost approach are acquisition cost, trainig / learning cost
and seperation cost
a. Value added approach
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b. Historical cost approach

c. Repalcement cost approach
d. Opportunity cost appraoch
27. A good recruitment policy
a. Is flexible enough to accommodate changes in the organization
b. Has its own policies and does not comply with government policy on hiring
c. Requires more investment for the organization
d. Ensures short term employment opportunities for its employees
28. Quality Circle is a part of…….?
a. TQM
b. HRIS
c. SHRM
d. None of them
29. All except one of the following are the different aspects of HRD
a. Job evaluation
b. Training
c. Career planning
d. Performance appraisal
30. All of the following are innovative methods to improve the quality of worklife except

a. Flexi time
b. Job enrichment
c. Job rotation
d. Demotion
31. When the management conducts QWL programs in association with the union, it;
a. Leads to effective negotiations that enable designing contracts that satisfy both the parties
b. Improves the efficiency of the management and strengthens employee organizations
c. Encourages participative management and involves employees in decision making
d. All of the above
32. The extent to which employees are aware of their interests, skills, strengths and
weaknesses regarding their career goals is termed
a. Career motivation
b. Career resilience
c. Career insight
d. Career identity
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33. Career planning and development programs for employees

a. Increase employee frustration
b. Promote only a lucky few
c. Increase the employee turnover rate
d. Ensure future availability of resources
34. As an auditor, the HR professional
a. Ensures that all managers of the organization perform their respective roles
b. Conducts training and development activities
c. Solve employee grievances
d. Provides support to other departments in conducting appraisals
35. Which method of Human Resouce Accounting states that only scarce people comprise the value of
human resouce?
a. Replacement cost method
b. Historical cost method
c. Opportunity cost method
d. Economic value method
36. Human Resource Management aims to maximize employees as well as organizational
a. Effectiveness
b. Economy
c. Efficiency
d. Planning
37. is a process of developing skills, competencies and knowledge of employees.
a. Human Relations Management
b. Human Resource Development
c. Human Resource Accounting
d. Human Resource Planning
38. is a process of identifying and developing new leaders to replace old leaders when they leave or retire
a. Leadership planning
b. Succession Deed
c. Succession Planning
d. Career Planning
39. In the process of mentoring, the experienced and senior person is known as
a. Trainee
b. Trainer
c. Mentor
d. Mentee
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40. Fixing the value of an employee depending upon his productivity, promotability, transferability and
retainability is the core of the
a. Certainty equivalent model
b. Human asset multiplier model
c. Present value of future earnings model
d. Stochastic Reward Valuation model
41. When the cost incurred on recruiting, training and developing the employees is considered for
determining the value of employees, it is called
a. The replacement cost approach
b. The historical cost approach
c. The opportunity cost approach
d. None of the above
42. The amount to be incurred in replacing the existing employee for the new one is known as --------------
------approachunder Human Resource Accounting.
a. Value added Approach
b. Replacement Cost Approach
c. Opportunity Cost Approach
d. Historical Cost Approach
43. Brumetand Pyle developed ----------------approach of Human Resource Accounting
a. Historical Cost Approach
b. Present value of future earnings method
c. Present value of future services method
d. Value added
44. ------Accounting helps in creating goodwill for an organization.
a. IPR Accounting
b. Valuation of Goodwill
c. Human Resource Accounting
d. Financial Accounting
45. The basic premises of Human Resource Accounting ----------------------
a. Human is a valuable resource, and its development expenditure is a valuable Investment
b. Human beings are skillful and their development is an additional expenditure.
c. Investment of human resource is valuable
d. Initiation of human resource is valuable
46. ------------decision can be made based on Human Resource Accounting
a. Communication and coordination
b. Pricing, marketing and promotion
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c. Marketing and promortion

d. Planning, training, controlling and developing
47. HRD is related to
a. Work improvement
b. Error
c. Profit
d. Pricing
48. A personnel plan requires forecast of

a. Personnel needs

b. Supply of inside candidates

c. Supply of outside candidates

d. All of the above

49. The process which consists how and what positions are to be filled is called…
a. Employment planning
b. Human resource planning
c. Succession planning
d. All of the above
50. ……….is a systematic procedure for collecting, storing, maintaining, retrieving and validating data
needed by an organisation about its human resources.
a. Data collection
b. Human Resource Information System
c. Management Information System
d. Maintenance of records
51. What techniques are used while analysing the internal supply?
a. Inflows and outflows
b. Turnover rate
c. Conditions of work and absenteeism
d. All of the above
52. What are the pre- requisites for successful human resource planning?
a. Backing of top management
b. Personal records must be complete
c. Techniques of planning should be the best
d. All of the above

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53. Which of the following is requisite for a typical succession planning?

a. Career counselling
b. Performance appraisal
c. Compensation plan
d. Employees quitting
54. In traditional focus, providing opportunities for learning is the part of..
a. Training and Development
b. Performance Appraisal
c. Recruiting and Placement
d. Human resource planning
55. In career development focus, the information about individual interest and performance is a part of..
a. Training and Development
b. Performance Appraisal
c. Recruiting and Placement
d. Human resource planning
56. In career development focus, providing support in employees development plans, is regarded as..
a. Individual role
b. Managerial role
c. Employer role
d. Line manager’s role
57. Cost of quality is given by costs of
a. prevention + appraisal +internal failure +external failure

b. prevention + appraisal

c. internal failure + external failure

d. appraisal + internal failure

58. Customer perception on quality contains

a. performance

b. features

c. service

d. all the above

59. PDCA cycle stands for

a. plan do check act

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b. plan did check act

c. process do check act

d. process did check acknowledge

60. Organizational culture is similar to an individual’s:

a. skill

b. personality

c. motivation

d. ability

61. …………….is the ongoing process of identifying future leaders in an organisation

a. Career planning
b. Manpower planning
c. Succession planning
d. Staffing
62. Traditionally succession planning was more or less treated as………which is currently not seen so.
a. Replacement planning
b. Career planning
c. Manpower planning
d. Strategic planning
63. Which method of Human Resource Accounting states that only scarce people should comprise the
value of human resources?

a. Replacement Cost Method

b. Historical Cost Method
c. Opportunity Cost Method
d. Economic Value Method

64. HR Accounting is a systematic method of

a. Identifying cost involved in HR

b. Value of HR

c. Worth of HR

d. All of the above

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65. The role of the organisation in career planning is to introduce & strengthen systems to ensure
________ of employees
a. Career progression
b. Self development
c. Economical Development
d. Skill enhancement

Answer key:
1 A 16 D 31 D 46 D 61 C
2 D 17 D 32 C 47 A 62 A
3 C 18 C 33 D 48 D 63 C
4 A 19 B 34 A 49 D 64 D
5 C 20 A 35 C 50 B 65 A
6 D 21 C 36 A 51 D
7 D 22 D 37 B 52 D
8 D 23 B 38 C 53 A
9 B 24 D 39 C 54 A
10 D 25 D 40 D 55 D
11 D 26 C 41 B 56 B
12 C 27 A 42 B 57 A
13 B 28 A 43 A 58 D
14 C 29 A 44 C 59 A
15 A 30 D 45 A 60 B

Prepared By
Dr. P Siddeeque Melmuri
Assistant Professor of BBA
School of Distance Education
University of Calicut

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