The following factor would be relatively low if supply of labour is higher than demand.

A. production
B. labour cost
C. wage
D. all of the above
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Wage factor would be relatively low if supply of labour is higher than demand. Wages are the price that workers receive for their labor in the form of salaries, bonuses, royalties, commissions, and fringe benefits, such as paid vacations, health insurance, and pensions.

The technique that have been used to evaluate an employee in comparison with other employees

A. Ranking
B. Forced choice
C. Essay evaluation
D. Critical incident technique
✅ The correct answer is option A.
The Ranking technique have been used to evaluate an employee in comparison with other employees. Ranking method is one of the simplest performance evaluation methods. In this method, employees are ranked from best to worst in a group. The simplicity of this method is overshadowed by the negative impact of assigning a ‘worst’ and a ‘best’ rating to an employee.

Which of the following is the area from which applicants can be recruited?

A. Employment Lines
B. Employees’ Association
C. Labour Market
D. Labour Schemes
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Labour Market is the area from which applicants can be recruited. A labour market is the place where workers and employees interact with each other. In the labour market, employers compete to hire the best, and the workers compete for the best satisfying job.

Which of the following is a key HR role

A. Personnel administrator
B. Business ally
C. Payroll advisor
D. Organisational geographer
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Business ally is a key HR role. The key functions an HR department include labor law compliance, recruiting, staff training and development, payroll, record keeping and employee relations.

The important objectives of a job evaluation programme

A. Establishment of sound wage differentials between jobs.
B. Maintenance of a consistent wage policy.
C. Installation of an effective means of wage control.
D. All of the above
✅ The correct answer is option D.
The important objectives of a job evaluation programme Establishment of sound wage differentials between jobs is maintenance of a consistent wage policy and installation of an effective means of wage control.

For forecasting the demand for manpower, the important techniques used are

A. Delphi Techniques
B. Statistical Techniques
C. Work Study Techniques
D. All of the above
✅ The correct answer is option D.
For forecasting the demand for manpower, the important techniques used are Delphi Techniques, Statistical Techniques and Work Study Techniques

The degree to which interviews, tests, and other selection procedures yield comparable data over time and alternative measures is best define by

A. Job sampling
B. Reliability
C. Validity
D. Organisational culture
✅ The correct answer is option B.
The degree to which interviews, tests, and other selection procedures yield comparable data over time and alternative measures is best define by reliability. Reliability can be referred as the ability to be dependent on or relied on, for the honesty, achievement or accuracy. It is the quality of being trustworthy and dependable. In the field of education, it is the ability to conduct an experiment or a test that gives the same results consistently whenever it is repeated.

Job identification is one of the components of

A. Job specification
B. Job design
C. Job description
D. Job evaluation
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Job identification is one of the components of Job design. Job design is the process of organizing work as group of tasks, arranging and defining the job process and structure at the workplace depending on the job analysis performed.

In which of the following methods Jobs can be arranged according to the relative difficulty in performing them.

A. Ranking method
B. Point method
C. Factor comparison method
D. Classification method
✅ The correct answer is option A.
In Ranking method Jobs can be arranged according to the relative difficulty in performing them. Ranking method is one of the simplest performance evaluation methods. In this method, employees are ranked from best to worst in a group. The simplicity of this method is overshadowed by the negative impact of assigning a ‘worst’ and a ‘best’ rating to an employee.