[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, unsatisfaction 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.
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35. If you wish to plan for a lifetime
what is required
Ans: Develop people.
36. Training is a systematic learning
process. True