All Free Management Sciences MCQs with Answers

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  • A. situational test
  • B. reasoning test
  • C. video simulation test
  • D. miniature job trainingTraining & Certification

Explanation: Miniature job training gives applicants a short version of the actual training and then evaluates how well they perform the job tasks.

Correct answer: miniature job trainingTraining & Certification
  • A. situational test
  • B. reasoning test
  • C. video simulation test
  • D. job training

Explanation: A situational test asks examinees to respond to realistic situations that represent the duties and problems of a job.

Correct answer: situational test
  • A. administer the tests
  • B. choose the tests
  • C. analyze the job
  • D. Relate test scores

Explanation: The first validation step is to analyze the job and identify the knowledge, skills and abilities required for successful performance.

Correct answer: analyze the job
  • A. content validity
  • B. predictive validity
  • C. criterion validity
  • D. concurrent validity

Explanation: Concurrent validity is tested by comparing current employees' test scores with their present job-performance measures.

Correct answer: concurrent validity
  • A. talent management
  • B. preretirement counseling
  • C. phased retirement
  • D. modifying selection procedure

Explanation: Talent management integrates systems for learning, recruitment, and compensation so an organization can attract, develop, and retain…

Correct answer: talent management
  • A. phased retirement
  • B. honoring experience
  • C. flexible work
  • D. modifying selection procedurePakMcqs App Subscription

Explanation: Recruiting retired army officers for real estate work uses and respects their accumulated experience, discipline, and leadership skills.

Correct answer: honoring experience
  • A. career
  • B. career management
  • C. career planning
  • D. career development

Explanation: Career planning begins with self-assessment, through which a person identifies abilities, interests, and motivation before selecting…

Correct answer: career planning
  • A. exploration stage
  • B. growth stage
  • C. midcareer crisis sub stage
  • D. decline stageJobs

Explanation: In the decline stage, employees often adjust to reduced career activity by taking on supportive roles, such as advising or guiding younger…

Correct answer: decline stageJobs
  • A. things after employee's job
  • B. things before the employee's job
  • C. things during the employee's job
  • D. interviewing for appraisals

Explanation: Antecedents are conditions or events that occur before the behaviour or outcome being studied, so reviewing them means examining what…

Correct answer: things before the employee's job
  • A. realistic orientation
  • B. investigative orientation
  • C. social orientation
  • D. artistic orientation

Explanation: Social orientation describes people who prefer helping, teaching, counselling, and other occupations involving frequent interpersonal…

Correct answer: social orientation
  • A. artistic
  • B. investigative
  • C. realistic
  • D. enterprising

Explanation: Investment managers persuade, lead, negotiate, and manage financial resources, which fits Holland's enterprising personality orientation.

Correct answer: enterprising
  • A. conventional personality
  • B. investigative personality
  • C. non-conventional personality
  • D. non investigative personalityPhysical Asset Management

Explanation: Medicine requires diagnosing problems, scientific reasoning, and systematic investigation, so it is commonly classified under the…

Correct answer: investigative personality
  • A. exploration stage
  • B. establishment stage
  • C. growth stage
  • D. maintenance stage

Explanation: During the growth stage, a person develops a basic self-concept, including an understanding of abilities, interests, and values.

Correct answer: growth stage
  • A. employee developmentSubmit Mcqs Platform
  • B. appraisal performance
  • C. employee training
  • D. appraisal feedback

Explanation: Appraisal feedback tells an employee how current performance compares with expectations and helps connect that information with future…

Correct answer: appraisal feedback
  • A. career
  • B. career management
  • C. career planning
  • D. career development

Explanation: Career development covers the continuing activities through which a person establishes, fulfils and advances a career.

Correct answer: career development
  • A. social orientation
  • B. investigative orientation
  • C. realistic orientation
  • D. artistic orientationStrategic Planning

Explanation: Foreign-service work involves dealing with people, communication and social interaction, so it is placed under the social orientation in…

Correct answer: social orientation
  • A. exploration stage
  • B. maintenance stage
  • C. midcareer crisis sub stage
  • D. growth stage

Explanation: The maintenance stage follows the establishment of a career and is concerned with preserving an achieved position, skills and status.

Correct answer: maintenance stage
  • A. succession planning
  • B. compensation management
  • C. e-recruiting
  • D. learning management systems

Explanation: Performance management identifies performance gaps and development needs, which feed into learning management systems for training and…

Correct answer: learning management systems
  • A. talent management
  • B. preretirement counseling
  • C. phased retirement
  • D. modifying selection procedure

Explanation: Using an information-technology system to identify, monitor and prepare successors is a talent-management activity.

Correct answer: talent management
  • A. longer span of time
  • B. shorter span of time
  • C. resetting salary schedules
  • D. self-managing teams

Explanation: Coaching is usually a short-term, job-focused process in which a manager teaches or improves specific work skills.

Correct answer: shorter span of time