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Q. What strategies deployed by HR for attracting potential candidates to apply for vacancies might beseen to result in indirect discrimination?

a. Advert in local press.

b. Word of mouth.

c. Now recruiting banners/notices.

d. Agency or job centre.

  • b. Word of mouth.

Q. What does discipline mean in the context of the workplace?

a. Enforcing compliance and order.

b. A system of rules designed to improve and correct behaviour through teachingor training.

c. Punishment.

d. Exercising control.

  • d. Exercising control.

Q. Why can altruism as an approach to discipline be regarded as an essential element?

a. It is an essential requirement for survival.

b. To maintain good employee relations.

c. To demonstrate whose boss.

d. To re-establish a welfare approach to HR.

  • c. To demonstrate whose boss.

Q. What might be the reason for why HR are not often informed of incidents that could result in adisciplinary action being taken?

a. Those involved often agree to contain the incident.

b. Those involved would be concerned about reprisals.

c. Due to lenient managers.

d. It would impact on the relationships between subordinates and superiors.

  • d. It would impact on the relationships between subordinates and superiors.

Q. Which organization provides established guidelines for disciplinary procedures?

a. TUC.

b. ACAS.

c. CI

d. D. Employers.

  • b. ACAS.

Q. What is the meaning of the term 'gross misconduct' in the context of a company's disciplinaryprocedures?

a. Breaches of standards and rules that are serious and unacceptable in any circumstances.

b. Stealing company property.

c. Being repeatedly late for work

d. Absence without leave.

  • d. Absence without leave.

Q. Should confidentiality be guaranteed to people who report breaches of rules which could lead todisciplinary action taken on a fellow employee?

a. Depends on the circumstances.

b. It should not be guaranteed.

c. Management should attempt to guarantee confidentiality

d. It should be guarantee

  • c. Management should attempt to guarantee confidentiality

Q. Is it important to have two managers responsible for leading a disciplinary investigation because

a. Provides support for each other when dealing with stressful situations

b. It ensures a degree of impartiality.

c. It a requirement by tribunals

d. Provides cover in the event of absence through ill health.

  • d. Provides cover in the event of absence through ill health.

Q. What expresses the commitment management have made to embrace the concepts of equality anddiversity?

a. Investors in people.

b. Strategic HRM.

c. An 'equal opportunity employer'.

d. Diversity management

  • b. Strategic HRM.

Q. An equal opportunities approach to fairness at work is essentially about:

a. Taking a business perspective.

b. Taking a more strategic approach

c. Having a diverse workforce.

d. Compliance and maintaining minimum standard

  • b. Taking a more strategic approach

Q. A stereotype is a fixed idea or misconception about an individual or group of people. The basis ofstereo typingis:

a. Based on objective and rational considerations.

b. Seeing people as a group with similar characteristics rather than recognizing differences between people.

c. Gut reaction

d. Formed from personal experience of different groups of people.

  • c. Gut reaction

Q. Unreasonable adjustments in light of a person's disability might include:

a. Alterations to a persons working conditions

b. Acquiring or modifying equipment.

c. Building access ramps to buildings

d. Altering hours of work or duties.

  • c. Building access ramps to buildings

Q. Measures to reduce accidents occurring in the workplace, other than accident investigations wouldinclude:

a. Tyingy our shoe laces

b. Risk assessments of tasks and processes

c. Changes to job design to reduce repletion and boredom.

d. Improving the role of the HR specialist.

  • a. Tyingy our shoe laces

Q. IHRM is an area of academic study which focuses on:

a. Comparative research.

b. The movement of individuals across national boundaries.

c. The exchange of ideas and practices.

d. The policies and practices of MNC's

  • c. The exchange of ideas and practices.

Q. HR challenges which might be faced by internal companies include

a. The needs for a diverse work-force.

b. The relative underdevelopment of HR functions.

c. Knowledge of national employment law.

d. Knowledge of cultural norms and values.

  • a. The needs for a diverse work-force.
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