Dated 04th October, 2000

THOUGH YOUR job is dependent on the knowledge of your area of functional expertise, remember that the Human Resource Department of the organization is the one that will handle your recruitment! It pays for every professional to know HR concepts that will impress and influence your interviewer! Being contemporary in HR is what will get you hired! Takes this test to find out how contemporary you are and ensure yourself a place in the sun!

1. Job monotony and fatigue can be effectively reduced by:

a. Job rotation,

b. Multi-tasking,

c. Innovative methods introduced in the existing job,

d. Increasing rest intervals.

2. Which of the following enhances employee motivation:

a. Increase in responsibility,

b. Working for a reputed organization,

c. Mutual trust,

d. Fair treatment and acknowledgment of individual contributions through a system of rewards and recognitions.

3. The concept of organizational health comprises of two factors:

a. Training and development,

b. Performance of organization and worker health,

c. Improvement in sales and customer service,

d. Profitability and productivity.

4. Mentoring dates back to 800 BC and refers to:

a. Donald S. Perkins,

b. Son of kind Odysseus,

c. Homer,

d. A character in Homer's Odyssey.

5. An effective way of resolving a conflict between counselor and counselee is by:

a. Bringing in an outside consultant,

b. Having a discussion with the concerned parties,

c. Appointing a person of authority and respect to act as a buffer,

d. Serving them with a written memo.

6. Potential of team performance is limited mostly by:

a. Lack of faith and trust in colleagues,

b. Having false expectations from a team,

c. Lack of management support,

d. Disruptive communication channels

7. This is not a variable for designing, developing and implementing 360 degrees appraisal system:

a. In house technology,

b. Questionnaire,

c. Interpretation,

d. Validation

8. A TQM movement will succeed only if:

a. Companies try to transplant their manufacturing based tools to non-manufacturing processes,

b. Employees are involved in the various businesses possessed in an organization,

c. Employees are empowered,

d. Companies try to fit quality tools to their work.

9. In online recruiting,

IRT stands for:

a. International recruiting technology,

b. Institute of research and technology,

c. Indian recruitment technology,

d. Internet recruitment technology.

10. The most common recruitment tool used to measure a candidate's behaviour:

a. Psychometric tests,

b. Job analysis,

c. Group discussions, d. Online interviews.

Empower yourself.

Stay Contemporary.

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Key to the Contemporary Quotient quiz

1-a, 2-d, 3-b, 4-d, 5-c, 6-b, 7-d, 8-b, 9-d, 10-a