Personnel Planning and Recruitment

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

D. Deciding what positions to fill *

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

B. personnel planning *

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

________.

B. Succession planning 

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?

B. Trend analysis 

5. Newton Building Supplies hopes to generate an extra Php 4 million in sales next

year. A salesperson traditionally generates Php 800,000 in sales each year. Using

ratio analysis, how many new salespeople should Newton hire?

B. 5 *

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?

B. Skills inventories *

7. When managers need to determine which current employees are available for

promotion or transfer, they will most likely use ________.

B. Skills inventories *

8. All of the following are methods used by firms to develop high-potential

candidates for future positions EXCEPT________.

D. Developing skills inventories

9. Smith Industries is thinking of having another company take care of its benefits

management. This is called ________.

A. Outsourcing *

10. Recruiting is necessary to ________.

D. Develop an applicant pool *

11. Which one of the following is the primary disadvantage of using internal

sources of candidates to fill vacant positions in a firm?

B. Potential to lose employees who aren't promoted 

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:

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

13. Which one of the following is NOT a tool used by firms to recruit outside

candidates?

B. Intranet job postings *

14. Which one of the following factors plays the greatest role in determining the

best medium for a job advertisement?

A. Skills needed for the job *

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

________.

C. Fill a specific job opening quickly *

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 screened properly, so you should ________.

A. Provide the agency with an accurate job description *

17. Kate works as a nurse on temporary assignment for hospitals throughout the

region on an as-needed basis. Kate is most likely ________.

A. Working as a contingent worker *

18. What is an advantage of using employee referral campaigns?

B. Applicants have received realistic job previews. *

19. Publicizing an open job to current employees through a firm's intranet or

bulletin board is known as job posting.

True*