Personnel Planning and Recruitment

Question 1

What is the first step in the recruitment and selection process?

Answer 1

Deciding what positions to fill

Question 2

Marcus, an HR manager for Samsung, must decide what positions the firm should fill in the next six months, which means Marcus is currently working on

Answer 2

Personnel planning

Question 3

The process of deciding how to fill executive positions at a firm is known as

Answer 3

Succession planning

Question 4

Which one of the following terms refers to studying a firm’s past employment needs over a period of years to predict future needs?

Answer 4

Trend analysis

Question 5

Newton Building Supplies hopes to generate an extra Php 4 million in sales next years. A salesperson traditionally generates Php 800,00 in sales each year. Using ratio analysis, how many new salespeople should Newton hire?

Answer 5

5

Question 6

Which one of the following contains data regarding employees’ education, career development, and special skills and is used by managers when selecting inside candidates for promotion?

Answer 6

Skills inventories

Question 7

When managers need to determine which current employees are available for promotion or transfer, they will most likely use ___

Answer 7

Skills inventories

Question 8

All of the following are methods used by firms to develop high-potential candidates for future positions EXCEPT __

Answer 8

Developing skills inventories

Question 9

Smith industries is thinking of having another company take care of its benefits management. This is called __

Answer 9

Outsourcing

Question 10

Recruiting is necessary to ___

Answer 10

Develop an applicant pool

Question 11

Which one of the following is the primary disadvantage of using internal sources of candidates to fill vacant positions in a firm?

Answer 11

Potential to lose employees who aren’t promoted

Question 12

Maria Boyd has been hired by Barnum Hotels to manage staffing for the
regional hotel chain. Barnum intends to open two new hotels within the next three
years and will have many job positions to fill. Historically, employee turnover is
high at Barnum as employees remain with the company for one or two years
before quitting. Maria realizes that Barnum needs to make significant changes in
its personnel strategy in order to meet the company’s goals for the future and
improve employee retention rates. All of the following questions are relevant to
Mari’s decision to fill top positions at the new hotels with internal candidates
EXCEPT:

Answer 12

What percentage of employers in the service industry use succession planning?

Question 13

Which one the following is NOT a tool used by firms to recruit outside candidates?

Answer 13

Intranet job postings

Question 14

Which one of the following factors plays the greatest role in determining the best medium for a job advertisement?

Answer 14

Skills needed for the job

Question 15

An employer will most likely use a private employment agency in order to __

Answer 15

Fill a specific job opening quickly

Question 16

Newton Manufacturing is using a private employment agency to recruit individuals for management positions. As the HR manager at Newton, you need to ensure that applicants are screen properly, so you should __

Answer 16

Provide the agency with an accurate job description

Question 17

Kate works as a nurse on temporary assignment for hospitals throughout the region on an as-needed basis. Kate is most likely ___

Answer 17

Working as a contingent worker

Question 18

What is an advantage of using employee referral campaigns?

Answer 18

Applicants have received realistic job previews

Question 19

Publicizing an open job to current employees through a firm’s intranet or bulletin is known as job posting

Answer 19

True