[Business Studies MCQs, Staffing, AHSEC, CBSE, Class 12, Objective Questions and Answers]
Business Studies Class 12 MCQs
Chapter 6: Staffing
Multiple Choice Questions and Answers
Objective
Questions (1 Mark):
1. What is
staffing?
Ans: It is the process of management which is
concerned with obtaining and maintaining a satisfactory and satisfied work
force. It involves finding the right person for the right job having the right
qualification, doing the right job at the right time.
2. Mention
various components of staffing.
Ans: a) Recruitment b) Selection c) Training.
3. What do
you mean by Selection?
Ans: Selection: Selection can be defined as
discovering most promising and most suitable candidate to fill the vacant job
position in the organisation. The selection starts after candidates for jobs
have submitted their application.
4. What is
meant by recruitment?
Ans: It is a
process of inducing or attracting the people to apply for the vacant jobs in
the organisation. Simply, it means search for candidates who can perform the
vacant roles and induce them to apply.
5. Define
Training.
Ans: Training means equipping the employees
with the required skill to perform the job. The candidates are sent for
training so that they can perform the job in the expected manner.
6. Why
internal sources of recruitment considered to be more economical?
Ans: Time and costs of training will be low
because employees remain familiar with the organisation and its policies.
7. Why recruitment is regarded as a Positive
Process and selection is a negative
process? 2009,
2011
Ans: Recruitment
is Positive Process because it is concerned with attracting qualified and
competent individuals to apply for a job while selection is choosing the best
among them and rejecting the unsuitable candidates.
8. Name
the sources of recruitment used by company.
Ans: Internal Sources and External Sources
9.
“Training is a life-long necessity for employees because it helps them to earn
better performance.” Comment.
Ans: Benefits of Training:
1) Helps in increasing productivity of workers and thus leads to
increase in profit.
2) Employs become more efficient in handling machine and thus chances
of accidents are minimized.
10. Give
the serial order of ‘staffing’ as a function of management.
Ans: It is the 3rd function of
management.
11. Is
human asset mentioned in the balance sheet?
Ans: No, it is not mentioned in the balance
sheet.
12.
Staffing in an organization is an estimation of manpower requirement. Comment.
Ans: Manpower
planning – It is the very first step of the staffing function. It involves
forecasting and determining the future manpower needs of the organization. It
is the estimation of the required manpower keeping in view the present and
future needs of the organization.
13. State
the first step of process of staffing.
Ans: Enumerating man power requirement
14. Name
the training method in which the knowledge of many department is important.
Ans: Apprenticeship programme/training
15. Name
the function by which managers build an organization through the recruitment,
selection and development of individual as capable employees.
Ans: Staffing
16.
Which source of recruitment is suitable for a newly established business –
internal or external?
Ans: External Recruitment
17.
Which function of management helps in obtaining right people and putting them
on the right jobs?
Ans:
Staffing.
18.
Name the process concerned with searching for prospective candidates for
various jobs in an organization.
Ans:
Recruitment
19.
Name the process concerned with searching for prospective candidates for vacant
job position. 2012
Ans:
Recruitment
20.
Mention the elements of staffing in appropriate
sequence.
2009
Ans: 1.
Recruitment 2. Selection 3. Placement.
21.
State the internal sources of
Recruitment?
2009, 2010
Ans: (i) Transfer
(ii) Promotion
22.
Under what source of recruitment employees get motivated?
Ans: Internal Source
23. What
is job description?
Ans: It is the document describing task,
responsibilities and relation of one job with other job.
24. What
is job specificati3on?
Ans: It refers to the process of streamlining
the attributes of a person required to do a job.
25. What
is pre-requisite to selection?
Ans: The pre-requisite to selection is
recruitment.
26. State
one limitation of incorrect placement.
Ans: Wastage of material, time, effort and
energy, resulting in lower productivity and poor quality of product, dissatisfaction
among the employees.
27. Any
two duties of Human resource management.
Ans: (i) Recruitment i.e., search for
qualified people. (ii) Training & Development of employees.
28. Who
was looked down by both the workers and the owners?
Ans: Labour welfare officer.
29. Why
the importance of employee training has increased?
Ans: When jobs have become more complex.
30. State
the step in the process of staffing related with the remuneration given to the
employees for the services rendered by them?
Ans: Compensation.
31. What
is called the vertical shifting of employees (upward)?
Ans: Promotion
32. Give
any one benefit of promotion as sources of recruitment?
Ans: It improves loyalty and satisfaction
level of employees.
33. What
is an inherent part of human resource management?
Ans: Staffing.
34. What
is both a line as-well as a staff activity?
Ans: Staffing.
35. If you
wish to plan for a lifetime what is required
Ans: Develop people.
36. Training is a systematic learning process. True
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