Contemporary Quotient

Though your job is dependent on the knowledge of your area of functional expertise, it is the interaction with Human Resource Department that really clinches the deal. So, one needs to be contemporary with HR concepts and trends.

1. One of the training techniques is

(a) Role playing

(b) Goal setting

(c) Climbing the rocks

(d) None of the above

2. Rewarding employees for safety is

(a) A great strategy

(b) A business strategy

(c) An expensive method

(d) None of the above

3. Making employees in charge of what they do is

(a) Ownership

(b) Empowerment

(c) Efficiency

(d) Effectiveness

4. Situations that define right or wrong

(a) Ethical dilemma

(b) Conflicting values

(c) Ethnocentric views

(d) None

5. Knowledge is a component of

(a)Intelligence capital

(b) Human capital

(c) Renewal capital

(d) Relationship capital

6. The first step in creative problem solving is

(a) Selection

(b) Exploration

(c) Alternate solutions

(d) Implementation

7. An appraisal system is effective when it is

(a) Uncontaminated

(b) Sufficient

(c) Relevant

(d) All of the above

8. The three-fold leader-manager commitment has

(a) Task, team and individual

(b) Team, performance and task

(c) Task, individual and performance

(d) Performance, team and individual

9. This is a characteristic of an effective presentation

(a) Lengthy eulogy

(b) Open behaviour

(c) No questions

(d) No illustrations

10. This is a combination of case study and survey method

(a) Case survey method

(b) Participant observation

(c) Secondary source

(d) Multi source