Lesson 3.6.1

3.6.1 Setting human resource objectives Quiz: AQA Business, Unit 6

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The 20 questions

  1. Which feature best describes a hard Human Resource Management approach?

    • Staff as costs
    • Employee empowerment
    • Staff as assets
    • High delegation

  2. Which feature best describes a soft Human Resource Management approach?

    • Minimal training
    • Strict supervision
    • Staff as assets
    • Staff as costs

  3. What term describes the degree of emotional commitment an employee has to their organisation?

    • Span of control
    • Work overload
    • Labour turnover
    • Employee engagement

  4. What is the primary purpose of talent development in an organisation?

    • Building employee skills
    • Reducing wage costs
    • Outsourcing HR roles
    • Maximising redundancy

  5. Which HR objective focuses on recruiting staff from a wide range of backgrounds?

    • Centralisation
    • Taylorism
    • Delayering
    • Diversity

  6. What occurs when staff personal beliefs match the core mission of an organisation?

    • Tall hierarchy
    • Soft redundancy
    • Labour turnover
    • Value alignment

  7. Which two broad approaches are used by businesses to achieve human resource objectives?

    • Soft and hard
    • Primary and secondary
    • Internal and external
    • Centralised and regional

  8. A business's objective is to increase staff commitment and enthusiasm for their work. Which HR objective is this?

    • Employee engagement
    • Diversity
    • Number of employees
    • Talent development

  9. A business plans to double its graduate intake to develop future managers. Which HR objective does this mainly serve?

    • Diversity
    • Talent development
    • Alignment of values
    • Reducing headcount

  10. A firm cuts staff numbers to the minimum and monitors output strictly. Which approach does this illustrate?

    • Soft HRM
    • Employee empowerment
    • Hard HRM
    • Team working

  11. A firm runs regular team briefings and asks staff for their ideas. Which approach is it using?

    • Soft HRM
    • Piece rate payment
    • Redundancy programme
    • Hard HRM

  12. What is a key benefit of aligning employee values with employer values?

    • Increased employee motivation
    • Reduced tax liability
    • Lower supplier costs
    • Decreased market demand

  13. Moving 200 jobs to a new region directly affects which human resource objective?

    • Talent development
    • Diversity targets
    • Location of employees
    • Employee engagement

  14. What is the primary reason for a business setting a workforce training objective?

    • To increase tax
    • To reduce output
    • To lower prices
    • To improve skills

  15. Setting a target for recruiting managers from under-represented groups aims to achieve which objective?

    • Workforce diversity
    • Unit cost reduction
    • Financial leverage
    • Labour productivity

  16. Which feature is a key advantage of adopting a soft HRM approach?

    • Maximum short-term output
    • Lower wage costs
    • Faster decision making
    • Higher staff retention

  17. A firm has 1,000 staff and aims to grow its workforce by 15% next year. How many staff will it need?

    • 1,500 staff
    • 1,150 staff
    • 1,015 staff
    • 1,100 staff

  18. Why might an objective of strict cultural value alignment conflict with workforce diversity?

    • It boosts output speed
    • It restricts perspectives
    • It increases pay rates
    • It extends holidays

  19. If staff engagement increases from 60% to 75%, what is the percentage point increase?

    • 25 percentage points
    • 15 percentage points
    • 15 per cent
    • 75 percentage points

  20. What is a major risk of setting HR objectives focused solely on reducing headcount?

    • Reduced fixed overheads
    • Higher profit margins
    • Loss of core skills
    • Lower recruitment costs

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